these violent delights | chloe gong

I started this book sometime last summer, but as always it became overdue and I had to return it before I could finish it. Such is the way of a bookworm's life. It was definitely a book that I wanted to get back to -- I found myself thinking about it constantly lol. Then came...

ninth house by leigh bardugo

Hello everyone! Long time no see. 🙂 Just a quick little update on my life before we get into the bookish content. 😛 First off, I have finished my junior year of undergrad! One year left, and then on to my PhD. Eek. In even more exciting news, I GOT MARRIED!! Just over a week...

The Raven Boys | review | Maggie Stiefvater

Good morning, everyone! I hope you all have a desk plant - or fake desk plant - to keep you happy this Tuesday! 😁 I would like to start off with saying, wow. I have read The Raven Boys multiple times (over many years) and I've never review it?? I have failed as a bookworm....

Books With a Dark Academia Feel

This is sort of a "if you like this, then maybe you'll like this" kind of thing. But not. These books all seem kind of unrelated, but, to me, they give off the same vibes. So ... I really have no idea how to encapsulate this feeling I get when reading these books into words,...

Emergency Contact | review | Mary HK Choi

Hi! First off, sorry for kind of disappearing for literally forever. Literally. This summer has had many high points, but also loads of low ones. So life's been crazy. (also prepping for college is insane) And! Internet sucks. Like, I've tried to binge-watch The Office, but have only gotten through season three. Hopefully, though, our...

Neverworld Wake | review | Marisha Pessl

Hey guys! So. I was at my local library (where I spend a reasonable amount of time there, ie all of my time) and I just randomly picked this book up: Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl. It is a magical realism mystery book and oh my stars, is it fantastic. I don't know how many...

Books I Don’t Talk Enough About

Hey fam! Wassup??? Anyways! Today is a post that I know you are all DYING for. Why? Because I wrote it. So. Obviously. You can most likely tell from the title that these are books I don't talk about near enough. Funnily enough, all of them except for one are from my 2016 reading year....

If We Were Villains | review | ML Rio

Hiya, fam! You know those books that you're, like, hey, you have a nice cover; cool synopsis ... but don't know if you will ever read? Yeah, that was me with M.L. Rio's If We Were Villains. And then, somehow, I ended up reading it. Loving it, rather. It's a mystery/contemporary set in the 90s,...

PS I Still Love You |review| Jenny Han

Haha, I was just going through ANOTHER reread of Jenny Han's To All the Boys trilogy and realized that I hadn't yet reviewed books two and three. So here we are! This is a review for PS I Still Love You, which is book two. It's also getting a movie in 2020 (they just finished...

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Matthew Quick)

Happy end of April, folks! Wow. Can you believe that it's already May? (I assume that by the time that you read this, it will be May lmfao) I'm kinda having difficult wrapping my brain around it. 😆 Anyways. Today's review is a book that is particularly close to my heart. I kind of go...