I know, I know. I said I’d keep to a blogging schedule and have failed, once again. It’s not that I’m not well meaning! I am! I mean well, I swear it! I’m just awfully busy, especially for the last month or two. I picked up a second job in addition to working my normalContinue reading “Introducing: The Let’s Get Galactic Art Shop on Etsy!”
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Book Review – The Ritual by Adam Nevill
Title: The Ritual Author: Adam Nevill Edition: Paperback Page Count: 448 pages Rating: 5 / ✨✨✨✨✨ Book Summary: Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle. No longer young men, they have little left in common and tensions rise as they struggle to connect. Frustrated and tired they take a shortcutContinue reading “Book Review – The Ritual by Adam Nevill”
Book Review – Elevation by Stephen King
Title: Elevation Author: Stephen King Edition: Hardcover Page Count: 146 pages Rating: 3 / ✨✨✨ Book Summary: Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be pokedContinue reading “Book Review – Elevation by Stephen King”
Monthly Recap: August
I’m going on vacation in less than a week and I feel like the last month has been a ridiculously busy rush of me trying to get ready to go out of the country (my further trip from home ever!), working, and trying to get through my intensely large stack of library books (that allContinue reading “Monthly Recap: August”
Mini Book Reviews #3: Sky in the Deep, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Sour Candy
✨ Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young (Vikings, YA, Fantasy) Summary: Marketed as being part Wonder Woman, part ‘Vikings’, Sky in the Deep is about seventeen-year-old Eelyn, a fierce warrior and member of the Aska tribe. She has a deep sense of honor and pride, and most of her actions and thoughts are fueled by these things. The AskaContinue reading “Mini Book Reviews #3: Sky in the Deep, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Sour Candy”
Mini Book Reviews #2: Rolling in the Deep, Lock In, What Girls Are Made Of
✨ Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant (Sci-Fi, Horror, Mermaids!!) Summary: This is a short story that counts as 0.5 in the “Rolling in the Deep” series. The author also writes books under another name – Seanan McGuire – although when I picked this up, I hadn’t read anything else by her. I wasn’t sure of whatContinue reading “Mini Book Reviews #2: Rolling in the Deep, Lock In, What Girls Are Made Of”
Mini Book Reviews #1: Girls Made of Snow and Glass, A Man Called Ove, Brain on Fire
✨ Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (Fantasy, YA, Fairy Tales) Summary: Girls is advertised as a feminist retelling of Snow White, which immediately grabbed my attention – I’m a sucker for fairy tale retellings! The main characters are Lynet (Snow White) and Mina (the Evil Queen), and the book alternates between the two to tell theirContinue reading “Mini Book Reviews #1: Girls Made of Snow and Glass, A Man Called Ove, Brain on Fire”
Top 10 Book Favorites of 2017
I love reading – everything about it! Stories, worlds, characters, bookstores, new book smell, finding written notes on old pages, rereading something and it hitting me the same way it did the very first time — I’ve learned so much from books and have been an avid reader my entire life. My favorite genres haveContinue reading “Top 10 Book Favorites of 2017”
Book Review – Divergent by Veronica Roth
Title: Divergent Author: Veronica Roth Publisher: HarperCollins, 2012 Pages: Paperback Edition, 487 pages Rating: 4.5/5 I’ve been on a reading kick lately, and I’ve been revisiting my favorite genre in life – YA Fiction. I’m not ashamed to admit that the pretty covers draw me in, or that the easy to follow plots and angsty, emotionally turbulent characters have me speed-reading through myContinue reading “Book Review – Divergent by Veronica Roth”
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