We got a good mix of cold/rainy and warm/sunny days while we were in Maine, but I have to say the cold and rainy were my favorite. It was the perfect setting for this book! Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips is told through interlinking but separate stories over the course of one year. Starting from … More Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Set in the late 1980s following Eve Rosen, a recent literature grad, who dreams of one day becoming a writer and starts as an editor’s assistant at a publishing house in NYC. She becomes acquainted with a memoir writer, Henry Grey, and snags an invitation to their family’s beach house in Truro near Cape Cod. … More The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess
When you read YA as an adult, it can be easy to give unfair criticism because it wasn’t, after all, written for you. This was one of those books that I had to remind myself again and again THIS IS YA. It reads like YA, it feels like YA, it is YA. It was my … More When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Since this is not an #ownvoices review for me, I’ll keep my thoughts to a minimum. There is a great review by @reads.and.reveries on Instagram. I will say this was one of my favorite books to read so far this year! To all of those reviews that said you didn’t like the book because it … More Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
I adored this! Jojo Moyes has yet to let me down. She’s one of my all time favorite authors. If you’ve only read Me Before You, I highly encourage you to read other books of hers. I loved Me Before You, but it’s nowhere near my favorite. I had it with me at the doctor, … More The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes
The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber is set in Utah, 1888, in a remote small Latterday Saints Mormon community that is now known as Capital Reef National Park. Deborah’s husband is a wheel repairman, and he travels from town to town leaving Deborah home alone in the middle of winter. She gets a knock on her … More The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
Holy smokes! This book is a must-must-must-must-must read. Please, fellow white people, pick this up. It doesn’t matter if you believe with your whole heart you are not racist, you are. It doesn’t matter if you believe racism is a thing of the past, it isn’t. Racism does not have to be intentional. We all … More White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
I finished this book last night! Who likes that I increased my reading goal by a lot this year and I’ve only read 7 books so far. 😂🙌🏻 #winning If y’all are wondering why my mug is full of slime in this pic it’s because I’ve been working matcha lattes into rotation. 🍵 It’s taken … More The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
Before I get into this, I want to say that nutrition and skincare are so individual and subjective. I’m only writing what has helped me. I spent a lot of time doing a lot of research and learning from professionals (doctors, nutritionists, dermatologists, and estheticians), and I hope what I’ve learned can help you. I do … More How I healed my adult hormonal acne
Ok, January has definitely been ten years long. What the hell is happening. The loooooongest month of all time. This book also took me ten years to read. 😂 But not in a bad way, I promise. . The Lake House by Kate Morton is a mystery set in Cornwall. A child goes missing in … More The Lake House by Kate Morton
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