Tag: The Raven Boys

Dishonor on You, Dishonor on your Cow, and Also HI! It’s the Disney Sidekick Tag!

You know, I have a lot of saved tags in my drafts, and they’re all super fun, so I feel like it’s time to do more than one tag a month. 🙂 For my readers in the United States, I hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July last week! We didn’t do anything much (we usually don’t) but it’s always lovely to have a day off! The only thing I miss about the Fourth of July celebrations in my childhood is the fireworks, but alas, personal fireworks are illegal in the state of Massachusetts, so…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Today’s tag comes from […]

Posted July 8, 2019 in Tags // 6 Comments //

“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” Books – #Top5Tuesday

I think everyone has books they devour. These are the books that light you up inside and even if you have to pause in your reading to go adulting or to school or whatever, your brain is still where with the characters and following the plot down different possible paths and you simply cannot shake yourself from the world. That, mes chers, is what makes an excellent book. These are definitely the types of books that cause reading slumps because when you come out of them, your head is still spinning and life feels meaningless and how can another book ever add up?! […]

Posted May 21, 2019 in Memes // 16 Comments //

Anti-Valentines Day Book Tag

Lots of people love Valentines Day. They love the chocolate candies and fluttering candles and dew drop roses. They love the batting eyelashes and sultry hushed voices over red wine. I am so, so happy for those people… but I’ve never really been a Valentines Day person. Don’t get me wrong. I will always accept chocolate. But there’s a lot of pressure on this holiday on romantic gestures, and I just don’t want my relationship with my husband to hinge on that sort of pressure. Neither of us are romantics, so both Valentines and our anniversary pass with a shrug […]

Posted February 5, 2019 in Tags // 5 Comments //

2018: My Year In Books

Annual round up time! I like this time of year because it’s like this amazing gallery of all the different worlds I’ve visited and the people I’ve meant. Okay, so granted, all these people and places are fictional, but books are still the sort of thing that make me happy, so taking a brief revisit is always fun. As I predicted last year, 2018 was so much better than 2017 in regards to my personal life, travel, reading, everything! I’m so grateful for this upturn, and I’m sure 2019 will bring whole new slew of joy and surprises. I started my […]

Posted January 1, 2019 in Bookish Things // 9 Comments //

Turkey Coma: My November Wrap Up

Here in New England, fall danced a little in October, teasing us with early smells of woodsmoke and pumpkin pie – then BAM! We went straight into wintery cold. As I’m typing this wrap up, it is a horrifying 0F outside, which is dastardly cold in my personal opinion. Really, I will never be happy with the extremely in my neck of the woods. But some positives wit cold weather come holidays, time spent with friends and family, and of course, the ideal climate to curl up with a good book and a mug of cocoa. I went absolutely book […]

Posted November 26, 2018 in Checking In // 9 Comments //

Psychiatric Hospitals Really Aren’t Torture Chambers: A Smol Rant

Major spinoff from this week’s Book Blogger Hop topic, but it reminded me of this huge pet peeve I have in a few books I’ve read in the last two years. That is to say – what is up with some of these representations of psychiatric hospitals?! In the modern world, there is still a lot of stigma around poor mental health and asking for help. While I agree that we have made leaps and bounds in the last couple decades to breathe understanding and tolerance and the truth into the world, that doesn’t make it any easier. So it really doesn’t help when YA novels […]

Posted November 23, 2018 in Memes // 10 Comments //