Despite being a person that is deeply pragmatic and unromantic, I kind of can’t help but enjoy Valentine’s Day, especially now that I’m in a great relationship (that started very close to Valentine’s Day several years ago). I’m not going to be writing a Valentine’s Day review this year specifically because I reviewed so many great romances last month. However, That Artsy Reader Girl has an open-ended prompt this week, so I decided to showcase some of my favorite books with ‘Heart’ in the title. I hope you enjoy! 1. My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones 2. … Continue reading 10 Great Books with ‘Heart’ in the Title

This week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt from That Artsy Reader Girl is books with character names in the title. I’ll be honest, I tend to steer away from these books (unless they have an especially pretty cover) because it never really tells me much about what the book is about. However, here is a list of books I did end up picking up for various reasons, and they’re all pretty great! Let me know if you’ve read any of them, and if you enjoyed them. 1. Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram 2. Libertie by Kaitlyn Greendridge … Continue reading 10 Books with Character Names In the Titles

This week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt from That Artsy Reader Girl is “New-to-Me Authors I discovered in 2021”, and I found this one particularly difficult because I had a slightly different focus last year. Normally I try to stay on top of new releases and do usually try to find new authors. Last year, though, I really tried to get through some of my ever-increasing TBR, especially books that I already had on my shelf. For that reason, I ended up not finding many new authors, because if it was already on my TBR then I already had discovered them … Continue reading 5 New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2021

There were so, so many great new releases last year that I can’t believe I missed! Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl’s top 10 prompt this week, here are 10 books that were on my TBR but I missed. Hopefully I’ll get to them pretty quick this year! 1. A Shot in the Moonlight by Ben Montgomery This is a non-fiction book about a freed slave who partners with a former Confederate soldier in 1899 to fight for justice against Jim Crow in the South. I intended to read more non-fiction in 2021 but I ended up spending all of … Continue reading 10 2021 Releases I was Excited to Read But Didn’t Get To

Well, the holiday season is over for me, and I made out like a bandit this year in terms of books for sure. My partner found out about the competition between myself and my sister (we send pictures to each other of the stacks of books we got for the holidays), and he decided I needed to win, so between Christmas and two separate book shopping sprees, I should have plenty to read for the upcoming year. Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt, here are the 10 newest additions to my book collection. 1. The Four … Continue reading The 10 Most Recent Additions to my Book Collection