I don’t go out of my way to hide it from people—I’ll admit to having one if someone asks—but it’s also something I don’t advertise. It’s not that I’m ashamed of it, I just prefer to keep it on the DL. I’ve narrowed my reasons for keeping my blog a ~leetle~ secret down to two, quick points that maybe you can relate to:
Continue reading “Is Your Blog A Secret?”I’m sure some of you have also caught yourself in the same loop. You’re searching for a new book to read, watch some book recommendation videos, find a book to read (!!), and… continue to watch booktube videos.
The cycle is inevitable.
Anyways, here are some of my favorite booktubers to watch while I procrastinate 🎉:
Continue reading “My Favorite Booktubers”Drug abuse and recovery was one controversial problem the book touched upon. In my recent post, Why I Don’t Always Review A Book, I expressed that I tend to shy away from discussing books that cover topics that I feel like aren’t my place to input my views or that I’m not completely informed about. Addiction seemed like one of those topics I would usually steer away from. However, drug abuse—specifically rehabilitation—was the subject matter of my undergraduate research and is something that I feel very passionate about.
I wanted to relate my knowledge to the drug abuse element of On the Come Up to offer you all a different perspective on addiction and its treatment.
Continue reading “A Short Discussion on On the Come Up by Angie Thomas and Drug Addiction”If you saw my recent post, /Modified/ Mini Book Reviews, you might remember that I’m REALLY behind on book reviews. In it, I quickly ticked off one reason (which I’ll re-enumerate in this post) for this setback. However, I know I can’t be the only book blogger with this problem and wanted to further investigate how this issue arose. So, here are some reasons I don’t always review a book:
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I barely managed to finish my yearly reading goal of 50 books. I resorted to reading comics and short stories on the last few days of the year—which is fine—but also felt like I was cheating. Honestly, I blame the end-of-the-year reading hustle on the cluster-fudge that was my second semester of school (shush mom, I don’t want to take responsibility). Luckily, the frantic read-a-thons this year were not for naught, and I discovered some new favorites this year: Continue reading “My Favorite Books of 2018”
I got tired about moaning about being in a book slump and complaining about how far behind I was on my reading goals. Around that time, booktuber Ariel Bissett released a video entitled “i tried reading before bed every day for a week” where she conducted an “experiment” with three rules:
She claimed that she had “forgot how to read consistently” and hoped that following the three rules for a week would help her develop that habit again. Watching the video and hearing about her positive results from the experiment inspired me to recreate it for myself. I ended up taking the trial a step further by adding a fourth rule:
4. Instead of using social media to pass time when I was killing time (i.e. standing in line, waiting for a teacher to show up, etc.), I had to read.
By the end of the week, I successfully achieved the objective of reading consistently every night, but not without making a few adjustments.
Continue reading “The Reading After 10 P.M. Experiment”ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜɪs sᴇʀɪᴇs: There are certain topics, tropes, and types of characters that make me gravitate towards a book. In this series, I’ll share those items with you all in hopes that an author will come across these posts and answer my pleas for more books about these things. Here’s to screaming into the void
(because let’s be real, this series is futile.):
Continue reading “Dear Authors, Please Write More About… (Part 2)”
I personally have a number silly habits when it comes to reading and blog-hopping that I thought would be fun to share:
Continue reading “My Bookish Quirks”The Holocaust is one of the most notorious and tragic human rights violations recorded in history. Approximately 6 million Jews were murdered and another 17 million people were victimized including Soviets, Non-Jewish Polish civilians, Serbs, people with disabilities, Romas, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Many pieces of literature recounting the horrors of the Holocaust exist, but many stories will remain unheard and many more untold due to the massive impact of the incident on Europe during WWII. There is a need to remember these stories more than ever as we live in a world where the disappointing reality is that Neo-Nazis actually exist and are even permitted to protest.
Seeing as January 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I thought I’d share a little bit about a story I recently finished that was set during that time: Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly. Continue reading “Remembering the Ravensbrück Rabbits in Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly”
This post is a year late, but when have I ever been good at keeping to my schedules?
It’s too bad though because I had plenty of holiday-slash-end-of-the-year-themed posts that I never got the chance to make. I had to at least crank out this post though since My Favorite Books of 2017 (Part One) post is floating in the cybernet already (so lonely, so cold).
I completed my Goodreads Reading Challenge by reading fifty-two books, two more than the fifty I pledged (wowow. what an over-achiever.). Here are the books from the second half of 2017 that stuck out to me:
Belle Can Read 