An Update

Hello everyone and happy new year! I hope you all had wonderful holidays if you celebrated and I do hope you're all doing well. Since 2020 started, I wanted to post a little bit of an update on that hiatus I've been on since August. As you may have realised, it has been going on …

July Wrap-up

Hello everyone, so July was... a thing. I remember going into this month thinking I'd wrap up the #PrideLibrary19 challenge and using at least one of the two weeks of holiday I had to read a lot. And then... I did none of that. I just spent most of the month feeling exhausted. Even that …

Review: Delay of Game by Tracey Richardson

This post is part of the #PrideLibrary19 challenge. Day 18: F/F Romance Women's hockey players Niki and Eva ended their relationship twelve years ago before they competed against each other on the biggest stage of Women's hockey, the Olympics. Now Niki coaches Team Canada, while Eva is preparing for her last Olympic Games as a player for …

#PrideLibrary19: Five Favourite Intersectional Queer Reads

Hello everyone! The prompt for day 16 of the #PrideLibrary19 challenge is Diverse Books. Now I do think that intersectionality is super important, but to my own embarrassment I have to admit that when I started looking through my library for books for this post, I had to realise that my list ended up only having racial …

June Wrap-up and #PrideLibrary19 Check-in

Hello everyone! June ends today so it is time for my monthly wrap-up. June was a good month for reading. I actually managed to read nine books this month, which honestly is a lot for me these days. I haven't quite managed to keep up with my blogging challenge, but more on that later. I …

#PrideLibrary19: Five Books With Bi Characters

Hello everyone! The prompt for Day 14 of #PrideLibrary19 is Bi Flag, so I decided to do a post on some of my favourite books with bi MCs. Also I didn't intend this but I think i can almost form the bi flag  with the covers. Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat Review I know …

#PrideLibrary19: Five Favourite Queer Couples

Hello everyone, Day 13 of the #PrideLibrary19 challenge is Queer Couples, and well, what better use of this prompt than talking about some of my favourite queer couples in literature (though I cannot promise to be very eolquent about it)? Achilles and Patroclus - The Song of Achilles Goodreads Will I ever be over them? The answer is …

Review: I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver

This post is part of the #PrideLibrary19 challenge. Day 12: Trans/Nonbinary MC Ben gets thrown out by their parents after coming out as nonbinary, and moves in with their estranged older sister and her husband. Between struggling with an anxiety disorder and being the new kid at their school they try to keep a low profile during …

#PrideLibrary19: Five Favourite wlw books

Hello everyone! The #PrideLibrary19 prompt for day 11 is Lesbian Flag, so I decided I'd talk about five of my favourite wlw books. All of these have at least one Lesbian MC (if me and my tag spreadsheet aren't misremembering anything), but since that's not always true for both of the members of the romantic …

Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

This post is part of the #PrideLibrary19 challenge. Day 10: Authors of Colour Frances is a seamstress in Paris with big dreams, but her life changes when she becomes the personal seamstress and best friend of Prince Sebastian. Because Prince Sebastian roams the nights of Paris as the  beautiful Lady Crystallia. But since Lady Crystallia is a …