Audiobook Review: All Boys Aren’t Blue

Hello everyone! 🙂 Today's blogpost is a review for my twenty-fourth book of 2020, which is All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. I hope you enjoy... "In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From …

Book Review: Becoming

Hello everyone! 🙂 Today's blogpost is a review for my twenty-third book of 2020, which is Becoming by Michelle Obama. I hope you enjoy it... "In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United …

Book Review: The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House

Hello everyone! 🙂 Today's blogpost is a review for my twenty-first read of 2020, which is The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House by Audre Lorde. I hope you enjoy it... "Audre Lorde was writer, feminist and civil rights activist- or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.' Born in …

August 2020 Wrap-Up

Hello everyone! 🙂 Wow, August has gone extremely quick, and has definitely been a busy month. I had my birthday at the beginning of the month, and I have been spending a lot of my time with friends and family as I am going back to work at the beginning of next month (yay!). Therefore, …

Audiobook Review: Lovely War

Hello everyone! 🙂 Today's post is a review for my twentieth read of 2020, which was Lovely War by Julie Berry. I hope you enjoy it... "It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. She's a shy and talented …

Book Review: Annie On My Mind

Hello everyone! 🙂 Today's blogpost is a review for my nineteenth read of 2020, which was Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden. I hope you enjoy... "This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise …

Book Review: The Bedlam Stacks

Hello everyone! 🙂 Today's blog post is a review for my eighteenth read of 2020, which is The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley. I hope you enjoy... "In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg and something is wrong; …

July 2020 Wrap-Up

Hello everyone! 🙂 Today's blog post is a wrap-up for the books I read in July 2020. July has gone incredibly quickly for me, and being furloughed from work has allowed me to read a few more books than I usually do. This month I have read 5 books, one less than last month, but …

Book Review: The Romanovs- The Final Chapter

Hello everyone! 🙂 I hope you are all well. Today's post is a review for my seventeenth read of 2020, which is The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie. I hope you enjoy... "In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave in Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the …

ARC Review: My Darling from the Lions

Hello everyone! 🙂 I hope you are all well and staying safe. Today's blog post is a review for an ARC I received on NetGalley, and it is one of my most recent reads of 2020. It is called My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long. I hope you enjoy it... "Shortlisted for the …