This is my first read of the year, and the first of my Christmas haul. If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio was in my top three favorite books last year, so naturally I checked to see if she had written anything else. A book about five insomniacs meeting up in a graveyard instantly […]
As this year comes to a close, I realized that I read more books this year than I have in a while. I’m definitely not one of those 100-books-a-year BookTokers, so I’m personally very happy with myself for just breaking the average of how many Americans read a year, with thirteen books finished this year. […]
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” So this was one of the best books I’ve read this year. Probably one of the best books I’ve ever read. Though I’ve seen it on every dark academia book list this autumn, I can say with certainty that it is not just a seasonal […]
In my typical fashion, I started reading Holly Black books out of order. It’s not that I wasn’t interested in reading the Cruel Prince series (I have the first one sitting in my room as we speak) it’s just that I found this one on the shelves at B&N and picked it up, not even […]
My latest read was The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. There were references to it in The Library of Borrowed Hearts, and I already knew that I loved Shirley Jackson after reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle a few years ago. The Haunting of Hill House is defined as gothic psychological […]