Need to start posting here again. Let's Speak English was short and cute! I liked it :) Just little experiences while living abroad teaching English in Japan. No real narrative, just slice of life.

I love this stupid series 💕

Comfort reading this entire trilogy rn 💕

Loved it in high school, love it still.

It was okay. Some good stories but mostly felt kinda disconnected and just overall uninteresting.

A reporter goes into North Korea undercover as a teacher. The subject matter and the stories she shares are heartbreaking, but she manages to write in such a way that I could keep reading without having to take breathers. Great book.

It started out really compelling, with this great thread of what happiness is "supposed" to look like for women versus what might make an individual woman happy, but then it went all Lifetime Original Film circa 1996 which was ultimately disappointing. Not a terrible book, but I felt let down.

This comic is so cute and fun. I was reading it in single issues so I didn't know what made up the first volume. A nice and gentle introduction to Kamala and her life and her powers and her family. The comic only gets better from here. Love it 💕

Second in the Divine Cities series. Real talk I will read this author's grocery list. I am not a particularly impartial reviewer here. One of my favorite current authors.

By the time the potentially interesting story showed up I was already so uninvested in the characters that I just couldn't get into it.

By the time the potentially interesting story showed up I was already so uninvested in the characters that I just couldn't get into it.

Book took 180 pages to ask this question. If it wasn't for a challenge, I probably would have bailed.

I mean a good book but wooowwwwww I did not remember it having that many racial epithets.

Nine of the ten books I read in August. International travel makes for lots of dedicated reading time 📚👀

I wanted to like this book but "I'm not like other girls" makes me roll my eyes. The only girl who wasn't mocked or villainized in this book was the bff. Bleh.

So now when people reference Handmaid's Tale when talking about reproductive rights, now I'll understand the reference. Great book, if terrifying.

So now when people reference Handmaid's Tale when talking about reproductive rights, now I'll understand the reference. Great book, if terrifying.

Murder Mystery book for the Popsugar challenge. I liked these books as a kid because, well, cats. But wow it does not hold up. Ten year old me was easily impressed.

I feel like the ending was a little abrupt. Not that it was the wrong ending, it just wasn't delivered well. The book itself was fine, a solid debut, but I wanted a little more finesse.

I really enjoyed this book about a girl who is deeply unlikeable (although tbh I like her a lot) trying to write a novel as her "hook" to get into Stanford. No spoilers but I enjoyed how it played out and the way it ended.

If you have read or are considering reading Memoirs of a Geisha, read this instead. Mineko Iwasaki narrates her life as a geisha and clears up a lot of the misconceptions of what a geisha is. Plus she sounds like kind of a baller.

What a cute sweet contemporary romance. Perfect for laying in bed on a Sunday morning, sipping coffee and listening to Iron and Wine.

I loved this book in high school but wow certain aspects have not held up... Read for Popsugar Reading Challenge "a book you haven't read since high school."

For the 600+ page challenge (Popsugar Reading Challenge). It was... fine. Entertaining enough. Very "dude" though which made it less interesting. Skimmable, at least.

I just don't hate myself enough.

June reads for the popsugar reading challenge.

10% done with the Popsugar Reading Challenge item "a book longer than 600 pages." I can't tell yet if I like it or not.

I enjoyed it, I liked Magnolia in the previous book and was glad to have a whole book of her. Hold Me was stronger, but this was still fun.

Downside of ebooks: can't take stylish pictures of the cover! A picture of last month's Taylor Swift Vogue should hopefully be a sufficient substitute for Tiffany Schmidt's Break Me Like a Promise 🌟

Well written, skillfully done, and the reveal was good (though maybe dragged a bit at points near the end).

I see what it wanted to do but it was a lot more telling than showing. Lacked finesse. Not bad but not great.

I would so rather be reading and snuggling my cat but noooOOOOoooOOooo I have to edit still...

Hilarious! I absolutely lost it at the Cormac McCarthy bit 😄

Incredible. Heartbreaking. He writes as if every paragraph is the last thing he might say to his son. This book should be required reading.

"... the club of criminal justice has either failed at enforcing its good intentions or has succeeded at something much darker."

It's like if American Psycho and back issues of Vogue got together and hated you.

Cheap cliffhanger ending had put me off from continuing the series. It's just aggravating. Why can't they just trust that their world and characters are compelling enough to make people come back for more?