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Book Review: My Life As An Internet Novel (Volume 1)
What happens when you're thrown into a fictional world...not as the main character, but as the main character's best friend? This Korean manhwa puts a twist on romance and proves that falling in love is more than just a trope. Every internet novel has the usual cast: a gorgeous heroine, handsome boys vying for her attention, and a unremarkable best friend at the heroine’s side. Dani, an ordinary student and avid reader, is all too familiar with these tropes. But she never imagined that one day she’d wake up in one herself! But how did she get here? Her new…
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As cooler weather approaches, life is good.
Last time I posted, I mentioned how rough it has been to balance mental health in today’s world. That still, unfortunately, stands true. Still things have slowly been getting a little easier, bit by bit. Mainly because I’ve been disconnecting as much when time allows. Ditching my phone, in favor of reading on the couch. Spending a Saturday with a best friend, where we just watch movies and hang out together. Basically I’m planning out little bits of joy to keep myself going. And it’s working! Anime has always been one of my favorite escapes, but especially lately! So many…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (9/29/25)
Happy Monday bookish people! This morning started with a doctor’s visit and some updated vaccines, so I’m feeling a bit sluggish today. I’m at home though, so I’m able to work from my bed and drink plenty of tea. So it’s all good! I actually had a really relaxing weekend, with ample time to read books. As the weather cools down, I become more and more myself. Want to see what I’ve been reading? Let’s go! Read Last Week: After having Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson on my shelf since approximately 6 months before it actually released, I finally read…
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Book Review: Heartwood by Amity Gage
Heartwood takes you on a journey as a search and rescue team race against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine. In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2025 To-Read List
Hello friends, and happy Tuesday! I’ve been excited about this prompt since I saw it a few weeks ago, because Fall is my heaviest reading season. Things settle down, the weather cools, and it’s finally nice enough to throw open the windows and cozy up underneath a blanket to read. I simply can’t wait to dive into my spooky season reading! (Clicking the covers will take you to the GR pages.) Books on My Fall 2025 To-Read List I’ve been meaning to reread this short story collection for a while, if I’m being honest. It’s one of those that has…
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Attempts at Some Calm
Oh man friends, oh man. If you’ve been around here for any length of time you probably know that last year I was battling with my mental health pretty dang hard. That was a rough go, but I learned a lot of really healthy coping mechanisms and also was actually able to get really in touch with my emotions. Which was exhausting, but so nice. As this year has progressed though, I’m having to pull out those coping mechanisms more and more often. If you live the US right now, specifically in a big city like I do, I’m pretty…
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The Night Birds by Christopher Golden
The next gripping, atmospheric horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden, set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, TX. Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak, they never expected to see each other again, but when terror enters Ruby’s life, Charlie Book is the only safe harbor she can believe in. In his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book has been living aboard and studying the Christabel, a 19th century freighter that lies half-sunken in Gulf waters, just off the shore of Galveston. Over many…
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Book Review: The Seven O’Clock Club by Amelia Ireland
Four strangers are brought together to participate in an experimental treatment designed to heal broken hearts in this surprising and heartfelt debut novel from author Amelia Ireland. In a perfectly ordinary building, four strangers who couldn't be more different meet for the first time. Their skepticism of this new kind of grief therapy—and the unnervingly perceptive group leader—means they're all wary, but as the weeks go by, they find themselves returning again and again, pulled to work toward healing, even if it means first facing the pain head-on. A sharp-tongued lawyer who has no intention of letting down her walls,…
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Book Blitz: Mr. Not Your Savior! by Alina Jacobs
Hello friends, it’s time for another book blitz! This time we have a book that feels very much up my alley, our classic enemies to lovers story. A book that has a granny with a flamethrower and a happily ever after? Sign me up! Make sure to check out the excerpt below, and enter to win a copy at the end of this post! When your mean boss asks you if you’re ready to admit defeat—and move out of his car…you wonder where you went wrong in life.Two weeks ago, I was an optimistic office girl with a Pinterest vision…
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It’s all about that summer sunshine
Happy Monday awesome people! This is the first week in a few months that the temps have started climbing again, which is actually out of the ordinary. Usually by now we’re up into at least the mid 80’s consistently but the weather has actually been really mild and lovely. I am not complaining, trust me. It’s been so nice to be able to have the windows open more often, and honestly to be able to go for walks in other parts of the day besides just the early morning or evening. Plus this weather is conducive to me going outside…
