Want a book recommendation or discuss all things bookish? You’re in the right place. I’m not as bookish as I used to be, but I’m always open to great recommendations. Send them my way, or use the recommendations on GoodReads. That’s also where you’ll see what I’m currently reading.

What I’m reading – the May edition

May 28, 2023May 28, 2023

What I’ve been reading – June 2022 edition

June 19, 2022June 19, 2022

Hello, Cruel Heart: a new Maureen Johnson story

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021

Master Class by Christina Dalcher – Book Review

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

Before the round table with Cursed by Thomas Wheeler

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021

The Last Wish – starting The Witcher series

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

Meeting Karou in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

Book Review: The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall

December 22, 2020December 23, 2020

Deathless Divide: a perfect sequel by Justina Ireland

December 14, 2020December 18, 2020

An alternative Jack the Ripper story in People of Abandoned Character

October 25, 2020December 18, 2020

Ending the story with The Pretenders

September 15, 2020December 18, 2020

Cloud and Wallfish: in East Germany

August 24, 2020December 24, 2020

Welcome to the blog tour: Lobizona by Romina Garber

August 5, 2020December 18, 2020

My review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

July 24, 2020December 18, 2020

Quidditch is a real sport in the Muggle world

April 1, 2020December 18, 2020

My Long List of Impossible Things that can’t be done after a war

March 2, 2020December 18, 2020

Book Review: Fauna and a mother’s love for her experimental baby

February 2, 2020January 13, 2021

The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

January 4, 2020December 18, 2020

Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse? Highway Bodies by Alison Evans

December 22, 2019December 21, 2020

Choosing a book for Jólabókaflóð – the Book Flood

December 22, 2019

Two best friends in Skylarking by Kate Mildenhall

November 11, 2019

Book Review: Dear Martin by Nic Stone

November 3, 2019December 21, 2020

You Are Awesome… and this book will make you more awesome

October 28, 2019January 20, 2021

The Boy Who Steals Houses – and stole my heart

September 9, 2019

Dread Nation: I’d say zombies and Post-Civil War but it’s so much more

July 29, 2019June 7, 2020

Why Wizards Unite isn’t for Harry Potter fans

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019

A semester of reading. Fluffy, non-academic reading

July 13, 2019January 13, 2021

The end of the world is on Saturday in Good Omens

June 1, 2019December 24, 2020

Producing babies at The Farm

May 6, 2019December 31, 2020

Someday Is Not a Day in the Week – new book review

March 11, 2019January 20, 2021

Wise Guy: wisdom and learnings from Guy Kawasaki

February 26, 2019December 24, 2020

Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic—a memoir from a comedian with autism

February 18, 2019December 24, 2020

Living with your family in a van in Roam by CH Armstrong

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019

The Girls at 17 Swann Street

February 4, 2019December 31, 2020

A Decadent 1889 Paris Fantasy in The Gilded Wolves

January 27, 2019January 13, 2021

A World Where Women Can Only Use 100 Words per Day in Vox by Christina Dalcher

January 16, 2019December 31, 2020

Admiring The Tales of Beedle the Bard – the Collector’s Edition

January 13, 2019January 2, 2021

Would you attend boarding school with your clone? The Similars by Rebecca Hanover

January 4, 2019September 13, 2020

Life Tips I Learned Reading The End of Procrastination by Petr Ludwig

December 31, 2018January 20, 2021

Bookish Naughty or Nice Tag

December 24, 2018December 24, 2018

A return to Weep in the Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

December 17, 2018December 20, 2018

A Self-Help Book that’s Actually Useful – Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields

December 8, 2018January 20, 2021

The Little Sugar Mouse

November 18, 2018November 25, 2018

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen

November 12, 2018December 24, 2020

Deogratias: a Hutu boy in the Rwandan genocide

November 10, 2018November 10, 2018

Not Quite a Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

October 23, 2018August 26, 2020

How I’ve read 103 books this year and only paid for three

October 19, 2018

Dear Evan Hansen: the Novel

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018

Time traveling in The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

October 2, 2018January 13, 2021

Reading Eleanor & Park for Banned Books Week

September 25, 2018September 23, 2018

Why We Must Read Banned Books

September 24, 2018

Switching Places in The Pretender with Katie Ward

September 18, 2018November 4, 2019

Living in a divided Germany in The House of a Thousand Eyes

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018

A Key to Treehouse Living

September 4, 2018December 30, 2020

I’d Rather Be Reading – Blog Tour

September 4, 2018January 2, 2021

How to Write Personal Essays Using The Byline Bible

August 28, 2018January 2, 2021

What I Learned Reading Darius the Great is Not Okay

August 20, 2018September 20, 2018

Strange the Dreamer – My new favorite fantasy novel

August 15, 2018May 28, 2023

Children of Blood and Bone: I don’t understand the hype

August 8, 2018December 21, 2020

I Read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Need Some Answers

July 25, 2018December 21, 2020

Fire Song: I read another beautifully written but brutally tragic novel

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018

Family, piano, and expectations in A Thousand Perfect Notes

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018

Questions I have from the Harry Potter series

July 9, 2018July 28, 2018

The adorable Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda

July 2, 2018July 11, 2018

Building a new society in Aftermath by Meiling Colorado

June 26, 2018January 13, 2021

Call Me American – A Somali man’s story of growing up in a war zone

June 18, 2018December 24, 2020

Can science win them back? Chemistry Lessons by Meredith Goldstein

June 18, 2018June 22, 2018

Paper Towns, population: sometimes one.

June 18, 2018June 22, 2018

A beautifully told tragic tale: The Book of Essie

June 11, 2018December 30, 2020

Never under-estimate determined Widows

June 8, 2018December 24, 2020

First love and first loss with green cows in The History of Jane Doe

May 29, 2018June 18, 2018

The Good Girl: a story of abuse and incels packaged as a romantic thriller.

May 22, 2018December 31, 2020

Choosing between what’s right and what’s easy: How I Resist

May 15, 2018January 2, 2021

A Friendship Divided by a Century in The Boy from Tomorrow

May 9, 2018December 24, 2020

Returning to fantasy novels with The Smoke Thieves

May 1, 2018December 24, 2020

Touring Bellingham for Independent Bookstore Day

April 28, 2018April 20, 2023

Deleted Scenes From Turtles All The Way Down

April 27, 2018May 26, 2018

My Unanswered Questions from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

April 22, 2018December 21, 2020

A Crime-Fighting Baby Elephant – The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

April 18, 2018December 24, 2020

National Library Week: Not Just Books Anymore

April 10, 2018May 26, 2018

What’s Entertaining Me in April

April 8, 2018May 25, 2018

Can we please stop judging readers by the size of their library?

April 4, 2018May 26, 2018

An Abundance of Katherines – how can one date so many Katherines so quickly?

March 28, 2018May 17, 2018

5 Unanswered Questions from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

March 23, 2018April 27, 2023

The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Giveaway

March 20, 2018May 17, 2018

After the Shot Drops, friendship, and the consequences of change

March 7, 2018December 21, 2020

Jane Tennison’s early years

March 6, 2018December 24, 2020

My Unanswered Questions from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

February 28, 2018December 21, 2020

One More Moon: leaving Mussolini-controlled Italy

February 28, 2018December 24, 2020

An Interview with Ralph Webster: author of One More Moon

February 28, 2018June 1, 2018

Can your DNA confirm they’re The One?

February 21, 2018January 13, 2021

Who is donor 806? His three kids are going to find out

February 17, 2018May 17, 2018

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – Read it NOW!

February 14, 2018May 17, 2018

Boy Meets Boy – A utopianly sweet love story

February 8, 2018December 17, 2020

I read some self-help books so you don’t need to

February 7, 2018January 20, 2021

You’ve Read the Harry Potter Series, What’s Next?

January 31, 2018January 2, 2021

What I Learned Reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

January 17, 2018January 20, 2021

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

January 10, 2018December 24, 2020

The Story of Happy Liu, Trash Picker – Book Review: Happy Dreams

January 3, 2018December 31, 2020

Turning the Page into 2018

December 30, 2017May 26, 2018

PS from Paris – a book review of a predictable and fluffy romance

December 26, 2017January 13, 2021

Let It Snow this Christmas – Book Review

December 19, 2017May 17, 2018

Living on the International Space Station with Scott Kelly in Endurance

December 13, 2017December 24, 2020

Ginny Moon: not approximately, but exactly

December 6, 2017December 31, 2020

Subtly Not Giving a F*ck – The Book Version

November 29, 2017January 20, 2021

The Wedding Date – Finding Love in an Elevator

November 18, 2017January 13, 2021

So Many Books to Read

November 11, 2017July 6, 2018

Turtles ALL The Way Down

November 4, 2017June 1, 2018

Harry Potter: Tag You’re It

September 23, 2017May 26, 2018

Thank You, JK Rowling. You Changed My Life

July 22, 2017July 31, 2018

Recommended Books for a Young Girl

May 28, 2017May 26, 2018

2013 Banned Book Reading Challenge

January 4, 2013May 26, 2018

Book Review: the Inheritance Series by Christopher Paolini

November 20, 2011December 24, 2020