Such a classic novel, but needs a careful mindet to get into it. Read my thoughts at ilayreading.com

#newpost #blogpost #classics #literature #mentalillness

This picture may not have turned out as well as I wanted, but the book sure did! Review is up on ilayreading.com today!

#summerreads #blogpost #newpost #botm

If summer reminds you of old time boardwalks, you should add this to your pool bag. Head to ilayreading.com for my full review!

#summerreads #beachreads #review #blogpost

Major mixed feelings about this one. Find out why today on ilayreading.com. what did you think of this book?

#review #blogpost #summerreads #literaryfiction

Not as good as the first one, but just as addicting. My full review is up on ilayreading.com today!

#blogpost #review #series #summerreads #ireadya #youngadult

I am having such mixed feelings about this book. How did you feel about it? Love it? Hate it? Why?

#currentlyreading #qotd #literaryfiction #summerreads

"And husbands who double as life rafts don't last very long. Who loves a life raft?"

#quote #hogarth #summerreads

Such a good illustration of a nighttime panic attack.
#anxiety #panic #mentalillness #quote

Loved the second book as much as the first! Review isnup on ilayreading.com today!

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This one is going to win awards. If you haven't put it on your list yet, why? My review is up today!

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#mustread #blogpost #review

"What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy."

I read this book a few months ago and fell in love with Patrick Ness. He writes with such incredible feeling. You can checkout my review at ilayreading.com

#throwbackthursday #tbt #youngadult

This just arrived from Hogarth Books! I've seennso many people talking about it, can't wait to pick it up!

#bookmail #summerreads #hogarth #fiction

I almost forgot to read this ARC! It comes out next week! Whoops!

#currentlyreading #captainhook #fairytales #retelling

Did you know I named my blog after a book I had never read?? I finally read Faulkner a few months ago and it was...not what I expected.
You should definitely go read that post at
http://ilayreading.com/2017/06/02/william-faulkner-as-i-lay-dying/

#blogpost #review #fiction #classics

I thought HagSeed was pretty weird, so I was hesitant to read New Boy. It kind of blew me away though. Definitely one to put in your list!

Check out my full review at ilayreading.com today!

#newpost #review #fiction #blogpost #shakespeare

"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct. What we like is to be a man's last romance."
--Mrs. Allonby

#quote #plays #romance #classics

It's only appropriate that on #harrypotter20 anniversary I would post a series that has so much in common with it. I am in love with this series, and my review is a lot of screaming. You've been warned, but you should also go read it.
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It's very surreal to read this while the new health bill stuff is going on. To see everyone panicking about losing coverage while reading how the poor has been shut out over and over...my review in this book is going to be more of an essay I think.

#poetry #quote #mondaymotivation #inspiration #politics #currentlyreading #nonfiction #sociology

I was afraid this would be terribly racist but so far it is throwing ALL the shade on American history and I'm loving it.
#nonfiction #history #america #dogs #sundayfunday

This book was really well intentioned, but there were several things characters I felt needed more development. Check out ilayreading.com today for more.
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"It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one's own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding."

#quote #ARC #journal

Next up on my Oscar Wilde Luncheon Read.

#oscarwilde #plays #throwbackthursday

Box 4 of at least 10. I've collected so many books just in the year we've been here.

#moving #shelfie #packing

And, even better, now I get to start the ARC of the third book. I can't put this series down, ya'll.
@penguinusa @PenguinPublishing

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Hooray for #bookmail!
Thanks @penguinusa !

This is such a bizarre little play. I've known shallow people before, but to only love someone because of their name? Whyyyy?

Rise! Though we die, though our stories are lost and never placed on the shelves of the Great Library, though we lose our lives and our very nation, we will never give up one great truth: a life is worth more than a book.

All things live. That which begins inorganic becomes organic though the divine power of quintessence. And so we must learn to control this unknowable element, to discover how to make metals, minerals, the organic and inorganic alike transmute and transfigure, above and below the earth.

Let's head off on a bookish adventure together! What's your favorite author quest?

New post up on ilayreading.com today!

#travel #nonfiction #summerreads

The chaos of the weekend finally caught up with me, so glad my boss made me take today off too. Designated day of reading. #summerreads #youngadult #fiction