This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine! I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Emergency Contact in this stunning story of first love, familial expectations, the power of food, and finding where you belong.As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always…
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish and is now run by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she will post a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join. This week’s topic is: Top 10 Books that Should be Adapted Into Netflix Shows/Movies! -I would LOVE to see…
E-Audio, 10:00:48Narrated by: Ione Butler Release Date: June 23, 2020Published by: HarperAudio Read from: August 12-15, 2020The Brown Sisters, #2Source: Library (Overdrive)TW: Panic Attack, Talk of Depression, Loss of family members (not on page)For fans of: Contemporary Romance, Adult, Diverse Authors, Own Voices, LOL, POC MC, POC on Cover, Body Positive, Multiple POVs, LOL, LGBTQIAP+, Neurodiverse,…
This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what all we borrowed, bought, and received for review. It’s hosted over at Tynga’s Reviews. From the Library: If you know me, you know that watching Scooby Doo helps calm my anxiety spirals, so I have been looking forward to this movie for what feels like SO. LONG. I finally got…
E-Audio, 09:42:00Narrated by: Je Nie FlemingRelease Date: June 16, 2020Published by: Hachette Audio Read from: August 7-10, 2020The Boyfriend Project, #1Source: Library (Overdrive)TW: For fans of: Contemporary Romance, Adult, Coding, Diverse Authors, Own Voices, LOL, POC MC, POC on Cover Samiah Brooks never thought she would be “that” girl. But a live tweet…
How often do you visit your local library? My LOCAL library? I don’t know the last time I did with this COVID situation so crazy. But as a librarian, I go to a library almost every day now, besides Mondays when I work from home. It’s not my “local” one, so I didn’t really count…
ARC, 359 pages Release Date: August 4, 2020Published by: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers Read from: August 5-10, 2020Stand-aloneSource: Won from the Publisher (I received a copy of this book from the Publisher in a giveaway. This did nothing to influence my review.) TW: Racism, Use of the n-word, police brutality, murder, mention of lynching,…
This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine! In this riveting, keenly emotional debut fantasy, a Black teen from Houston has her world upended when she learns about her godly ancestry—and with evil sinking its claws into humans…
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish and is now run by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she will post a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join. This week’s topic is: Top 10 Books I Loved but Never Reviewed! This one was a bit hard for…
With this month being Romance Awareness Month, I wanted to touch on something that I didn’t realize was an issue until I became a librarian. I’m a YA librarian, but since I’m 1 of 2 people at my branch that actually read, and the ONLY one who actually reads romance, I have to do the…
