Summer is right around the corner! Can you believe it? I’m beyond excited because Pacific NW in the summertime is BEAUTIFUL. I also am excited because better weather means backpacking season is back! I can’t wait to get back out there and check out new hikes and locations! Do you all have any summer plans whether it be travel or just a summer TBR plan? Favorite Things in May: I ran the Snohomish Women’s Half Marathon at the beginning of […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme now hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl! I’ve always wondered how authors come up with unique names in the fantasy genre! I decided to narrow this TTT topic of top character names down to names in fantasy books because there are just so many interesting names when it comes to fantasy! Here are some of my favorites! Alosa: Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller Froi: Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta […]
My Thoughts: The cover is really cute and the premise sounds fun and adorable. Unfortunately this one completely missed the mark for me and I really struggled to finish the book. There are two timelines, junior year and senior year, that alternate through out the book. Something happened junior year that screwed up Macy’s friendships and the alternating timelines are supposed to reveal the story. Unfortunately… both timelines came off really dull to me — both are wholly encompassed by homecoming […]
It’s been ages since a cafe chat post! I mean… literally, ages. I think it’s just due to the fact I’ve had so much less time writing blog posts! It makes me sad but I AM actively working on making time for that! 🙂 Anyway, gather round, grab that mug of whatever you want to drink while we chat (or maybe a cold glass instead given the topic?) Today I wanted to talk about seasonal genre reading! I don’t know […]
Why Did I Read? Oh the hype was huge for this one! The cover is gorgeous! Dark fairytales! It sounded fascinating and JUST like my sort of thing! My Thoughts: Spoiler alert: I was such a black sheep on this one. The premise is really intriguing. Alice has spent her whole life moving around with her mom because bad luck always seems to find them. Her grandmother is sort of famous for writing a book of dark fairy tales — a […]