Resuscitating My Love for Reading This post may contain affiliate links and as an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Bear with Me, I’m a Newbie I promise I’m working on other bookish blog posts. While they are in the works, please bear with me as I work on the aesthetics and overall functional layout of this blog. With time everything will fall into place, so for now please appreciate the blank canvas and foresee its potential.  I didn’t want to hold off on blogging due to my writing process and initially was…

This short story collection evokes laughter, inspiration, and reflection, and cause pause and ponder as one considers conjuring the sheer amount of drive needed to emphatically say Angola is Wherever I Plant My Field.

Garlic is warm, cozy, and fully embraces being wholesomely cute. It’s sure to be a family favorite.

Title: Where the Crawdads Sing Author: Delia Owns Book Edition Read: Kindle Table of contents Quick Overview Characters Considered Pacing Plot Prose Favorite Quotes and Chapters New Vocabulary Final Verdict Questions of the Day Readerly Gists This post may contain affiliate links and as a Bookshop.org Affiliate, we earn a commission from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Quick Overview Two young boys find a dead body in the marsh off the North Carolina coast, a large and secluded area where nature prevails. The sheriff is alerted and the first and only person suspected of committing…

Meeting at a bar and connecting over books is exciting and sweet. My nerdy heart fluttered and Gemini and Calvin’s romantic encounter made me bite my lip and blush. These legs are swinging with giddiness.

D. W. Brooks’s Homecoming Chaos is as its name implies. It’s a homecoming full of chaos that culminates into a story worth reading. I thoroughly enjoyed this romantic suspense and look forward to reading more from this author.

Happy Hump Day! It’s Wednesday, and in an effort to be more active in sharing and seeing what everyone else is up to in their reading, I am participating in this week’s WWW Wednesday. WWW Wednesday  is a weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words, where bloggers share the books that answer these three questions (the Three Ws): What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? If you want to participate and you have a blog, answer the three questions above and leave a link to your post…

The Devil Won’t Keep Us Apart by Shane T. Clark is a suspense novel and revenge story crafted around a father-son relationship between an elderly man, Elmer Ray, and his next-door neighbor, Adrian Franklin. I received a gifted copy of the book in exchange for an honest review from the author via Booktasters, and here it is. 🙂

If you are in the mood for an informative, reflective, and fast-paced read, I implore you to please pick up this book. The content of Wash Day Diaries was very relatable. I felt seen and uplifted.

I promise I’ve been reading. I’m a reader 😉. And…I have book reviews in my head. I just need to type and publish them to the blog. 😬 🤭 Bear with me, y’all. As a reminder of my presence, I thought to share a quote I came across while watching a new favorite TV show. I’m on episode 6 of The Last of Us, and although I’ve heard many good lines, this one stood out the most to me and I’ve been ruminating on it. Be careful who you put your faith in. The only people that can betray us,…

In October 2022 I managed to read 4 books. I say ‘managed’ because I traded my reading time for setting up my blog. It was important to me that I establish what I wanted the blog aesthetics to be before posting content more frequently. That and my sanity only allowed me to get through 2 picture books, a graphic novel, and an adult fiction novel. Book blogging is new for me and deciding what I want to post has been a constant back and forth. Thankfully I approach most things with the goal in mind to accomplish whatever’s at hand…

The Jot Down – December 17, 2022 Happy Saturday y’all! Phew! This week was a myriad of things. If I had to give it a title, it would be “Different: The Scripted and Unscripted.” I didn’t get around to posting a WWW Wednesday this week because I had some extraneous tasks outside of my normally scheduled program to tend to. One of them being a stressful journey running errands on Fannin at UTHealth Houston and another being a task that took longer than expected. By the time I finished both, Wednesday was gone. It would’ve been fruitless of me to…