I recently got an email from a wonderful person who runs an online shop selling book-ish gifts called Literary Book Gifts! I, personally, have already bought two things from her shop to check it out and give you a sizing review (as each place can be ever so slightly different). […]
22 Summary “When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both witches! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watchng magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself […]
1 I don’t know about you, but I know that I am always so excited when I get book mail. But what if you could get someone else’s favorite book – not receiving something you chose? I’ve been seeing this amazing thing going around the internet recently and I’m currently a […]
1 First lines are what get a readers attention. It’s one of the first things you see when you open the book so it needs to draw the reader in. For me, besides the cover, it can really turn me off from a book. So a strong first line starts me, […]
A new upcoming book to movie is The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs has me soooooo excited! So first, it’s a book! I’m reading through that currently! Check it out here. It’s a young YA kind of book, but honestly as an adult, I’m still absolutely […]
This post contains affiliate links. Summary “Victor Simone, head of a hit man organization, murdered Belle McBain’s corrupt father. Following in her dad’s career footsteps, Belle becomes an attorney, but she can’t seem to move beyond the whispers of her crooked father’s corruption or his failures to his family. Instead […]
I feel that the idea of banned books, or censoring books, is something attributed to the 80’s. But, it may not be so far into our pasts. Police Officers in South Carolina are trying to get two books removed off of a summer reading list because they feel it displays […]
I’ve recently realized that the NY Times Best Seller list is one of the most important, and widely recognized, lists out there. But because a lot of people don’t subscribe, it can count as one of your 5 article views. So I figured I’d share it as often as I […]
With everything going on in the United States currently, I feel like this is an appropriate time that this event is happening (although it’s in the U.K.). What is it? “Launched in 1988, Refugee Week is a nationwide programme of events and activities that recognise the contribution of refugees to […]
If you’re anything like me, and a lot of other people, it’s hard to choose what to read during the summer. Unlike in the winter when you can curl up inside and remove a lot of distractions from your point of view, summer reading is harder. You go and sit […]
You know those summer days when you just want to stay in and do absolutely nothing. You just want to curl up with a good book, maybe some tea (or wine, no judgement) and do literally nothing! That’s great! Do that! But do it outside! Go and sit outside. Smell […]
We’re all guilty now of using our phones too much. We surreptitiously check it under the table when it vibrates silently in our lap, we turn on post notifications so we don’t even need to unlock our phone and type in that pass-code to see what social media update we […]
Summary “Twenty-something bartender Jason Bishop’s world is shattered when his estranged father commits suicide, but the greater shock comes when he learns his father was a secret agent in the employ of the Invisible Hand; an ancient society of spies wielding magic in a centuries-spanning war. Now the Golden Dawn―the […]
So PBS is having this awesome thing where 100 books, which were chosen by the public, are going to be highlighted on PBS TV starting May 22, a.k.a. tomorrow (only just realized it’s tomorrow when I was typing this – summer puts you in a frozen time zone). This is […]
Contain affiliated links. Purchase from B&N or Amazon! Summary “A companion tale to the #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series that takes place several months after the explosive events of A Court of Wings and Ruin Narrated by Feyre and Rhysand, this story bridges the events in A Court of Wings […]
April 8 – 14 is National Library Week which is an event to note and celebrate all of the contributions that are made to our lives by libraries and librarians. This is where you get your books, have homework help, find all the information you can ever need (and more that […]
This post contains affiliated links for your convenience. Summary “James Patterson presents a bold new heroine—a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow’s West. Seventeen-year-old Serendipity “Pity” Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She’s […]
So first off, I haven’t seen Fantastic Beasts 1 because I never read the book. That is the first thing I’m going to need to do. But can we just discuss this trailer?! I’m screaming because it looks so good. But what is up with that fashion from Dumbledore?! Thoughts? […]
I know that this is a book blog, but as a book blogger, we don’t really make any money or get a ton of traffic (except for you wonderful people who stuck with me over the years). The new way to drive traffic to your site is to use Instagram. […]
Tell me in the comments who your favorite female character is, either from a book or a movie! Mine is either Wonder Woman or Lorraine from Atomic Blonde. From books it would be either Elena from Guild Hunters of Feyre from ACOTAR! A post shared by 𝓐𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓰𝓻𝓪 (@mylibrarycardworeout) on Mar […]
