It’s been a minute since I’ve done a tag post, so I was thrilled when Jess from Comfort Reads tagged me in this holiday-themed, Christmas Stocking Tag. If you’re like me and like to choose your reads according to the season, you’ll enjoy this tag because the seven questions essentially translate to seven wintry book recommendations. Thanks for tagging me, Jess 😁!
Continue reading “The Christmas Stocking Tag”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”
Title: When Dimple Met Rishi
Author: Sandhya Menon
Published: May 3, 2017
Pages: 380
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary
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Goodreads Description: Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.
The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?
Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
If I had to summarize in two words why I picked this book up, it’d be just that: Indian American Protagonists.
Being half Indian myself, this book immediately sparked my attention when it blew up in the blogosphere last year and people were celebrating it for being a refreshing young adult novel. Because I grew up in such a diverse community with many unique Indian Americans, I was personally keen to see how they would be portrayed in the story. On top of that, I hoped that I could learn something new about the Indian side of my blood—particularly arranged marriages. Maybe it’s my fault for placing so much on the book, but I didn’t love When Dimple Met Rishi.
Continue reading “Book Review: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon // an okay book with Indian-American representation”This mess all boils down to how unexpectedly busy this first semester of school has been for me. Thankfully, I have few to no academic-related responsibilities this upcoming week, so I can play catch up on my reading goal for this year—again. I’m *trying* to be extra ambitious (but realistic) this read-a-thon since I don’t know when I’ll get another chance to read for recreation this semester 😢.
And with that, let’s begin! Continue reading “My Post-Midyear Freak Out Read-a-thon”
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)”
It’s largely because I rarely read physical books, and hauls are something I associate with tangible objects (although I know people do book hauls with their ebooks 🙂). However, I visited a giant book sale yesterday and managed to find ✨three✨ books that interested me.
Since I haven’t post in over a month (school is much more hectic this semester than I expected) and have no spare mental energy to write one of my backed-up reviews (school is also requiring more of my dwindling brain power this semester than I expected), I thought a haul post would suffice. In no particular order, here’s what I picked up:
Continue reading “My First Book Haul”
I’ve had my fair share of tags, but none have ever been the award type. I’ve seen this particular award around quite a bit—The Sunshine Blogger Award seems almost like a rite of passage into the bookish community. So, thank you, Book Orbit, for nominating me! She’s relatively new to the blogging scene so do drop by her blog and say “hi” 😊.
Continue reading “The Sunshine Blogger Award”With the season of unrelenting heat and inevitable death by radiation sun, beaches, and travel fast approaching, I find it odd that I’m no longer reaching for fluffy contemporary romances. After all, they usually make the perfect read for those indulgent summer days spent lounging around the house. They also tend to be easier to comprehend and therefore mindlessly read while I’m dying of dehydration fun.
While I’ve found solace enjoyment in other genres for now, I know that some of you may be hopelessly searching for a distraction from your pain FUN. Luckily for you, I’m due for a few reviews of books that I’d constitute as summer romances—and some are definitely more mindless than the others. Continue reading “Summer Romance Mini Book Reviews”
Title: Warcross
Author: Marie Lu
Published: September 12, 2017
Pages: 353
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction
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For some reason, I went into Warcross thinking that it’s a standalone, BUT IT’S NOT‼️ And now it has ended in a cliffhanger and I can’t binge-read the series because the second book doesn’t come out until September 😤.
Honestly, I brought this upon myself because I kept thinking to myself that the book seemed so predictable and would need a good plot twist to spice it up. Little did I know that I DID NOT WANT THIS PLOT TWIST.
Anyways, let’s see what I thought about the book until the last twenty pages.
Continue reading “Book Review: Warcross by Marie Lu // a solid YA, sci-fi book”For the first time this year, I’ve fallen behind on my Goodreads Reading Challenge—and not just by one book, but by two whole books *faints*.
All drama aside though, I need to get back to where I was two months ago when I was three books ahead of my goal. I don’t like playing catch up, especially because I’m already such a slow reader. It’s been a while since I posted, so I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone by //live// blogging my attempt to make some type of progress in my life reading goal. I’m aiming to finally finish The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey and knock out some other book I’ll choose later (spoiler alert: it’s Warcross by Marie Lu) in 24 hours.
And with that, Let’s begin! Continue reading “My 24 Hour Read-a-thon”
Belle Can Read 