There was sooo much 80’s pop culture in this book! I did get excited about the music references, but honestly most of it was over my head because it was things I wasn’t interested in (particularly 80’s video games, I never had any gaming consoles growing up sadly). I don’t know much about video games from that era because I was never that big into gaming. So a lot of those references had little to no meaning to me. But […]
Books I got this week Gifted: Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman AHHHH I CAN’T EVEN *squeals* THANK YOU OCTAVIA!!! You are the BEST! <3333 Weekly Recap Posts on the blog: Blog news: I’m hoping that with normalcy returning to my life, I’ll have more time to start visiting blogs again and commenting regularly! Does anyone know of any upcoming readathons? I’m getting really behind on reading and have been dying for a readathon! What I’ve been up […]
I’m going to be honest, this is a book I would never have picked up on my own. The cover just screams “contemporary” and I’m not a big contemp reader. I also wouldn’t have pegged it as YA. Not to mention the average Goodreads rating is only 3.53, which typically scares me away from reading. But, I got the companion/sequel novel, Off the Page, from the publisher for review and everyone told me that I should read this one first. […]
I’m not really sure how I felt about this book, to be honest. Rating it was very difficult! On one hand, the idea was interesting and unique. Brilliant, really. On the other hand, the prose was horribly sophomoric and I felt a massive disconnect because it was so dry. I kinda wish this had been required reading when I was in high school. I probably would have loved it if I’d read it when I was much younger. But the […]
Books I got this week I probably won’t be able to afford buying any more new books for a very, very long time. So I’m kind of on a mandatory book buying ban against my will :( I’ll probably still do some hauls from the library, though! Weekly Recap Posts on the blog: Blog news: If you miss Life of a Blogger, check out Karen’s new feature called Beyond the Books over at KissinBlueKaren, inspired by my old feature! […]
Most of you know that I’m not a fan of classics because I hate historical. I would normally never pick up a classic by choice (except for 1984 or Fahrenheit 451), but my mind was in kind of a dark place when I picked this up so I was looking for something dark about mental health. I was kind of surprised that this one held my interest at all, honestly. But it did! Even though there was nothing happening, Plath’s […]