Author: Wendy

Mini Reviews: The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley, Tell the Wind and Fire by Sarah Rees Brennan

Posted January 31, 2018 by Wendy in Mini Reviews, Reviews / 0 Comments

My Thoughts: The Bedlam Stacks is something I thought I’d really enjoy! I had seen good reviews and it sounded like a really beautiful fantasy story. Unfortunately this one missed the mark for me. The writing is good, I will say that. The descriptions are beautiful and the world is unique. However, I felt zero connection to the main character and as a result, honestly didn’t care about his journey or mission. In fact, I quickly got bored and really […]

The Red Rising Saga Superlatives!

Posted January 16, 2018 by Wendy in Misc / 4 Comments

Iron Gold was pushed back from Fall 2017 and at the time, that seemed like SO FAR AWAY. Well guess what. TODAY IS THAT DAY. Buckle up your seat belts, boyo, the ride continues! In celebration of Iron Gold releasing today, Rebecca and I teamed up to do something fun for release day! We love this series and all its characters so much and thought it’d be fun to come up with yearbook style superlatives for the characters from the series! […]

End of Year Survey: 2017 Edition!

Posted January 12, 2018 by Wendy in recap / 1 Comment

I love doing Jamie’s end of year survey every year! It gives me a chance to look back on my year of reading. I always wait until the year is completely over though because I’m usually reading until the very end! Number Of Books You Read: 132 Number of Re-Reads: 16 Genre You Read The Most From: Contemporary at 47, fantasy at 42, historical fiction at 16 1. Best Book You Read In 2017? (If you have to cheat […]

TTT: Top Ten Books I Totally Meant To Read in 2017…And Will In 2018!

Posted January 9, 2018 by Wendy in Top Ten Tuesday / 8 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! This is actually the last week the meme is being hosted by The Broke and the Bookish before being moved to Jana’s blog, That Artsy Reader Girl! This week we are talking about those 2017 books we TOTALLY meant to read… well, last year. But never got to. Story of my life! Here are the top 10 books I meant to read last year but […]

2018: New Year, New Resolutions!

Posted January 8, 2018 by Wendy in Personal / 2 Comments

Can you believe it’s the new year? 2017 was, well, ya know, lots of terrible things happened. However, let’s focus on the good as we start off a new year! The good things: I became way more involved and actually voted in local elections, became more aware of things going on locally and nationally, and donated and supported important organizations and causes. My mom underwent some scary health problems but is recovering better than anyone could have predicted — we […]