"The bakery lay silent and dark in the small hours of the morning, lit only by the faint glow of embers from the hearth."First line in In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan Wyrd and Wonder is over 😢. But what a month! I had such a great time reading everyone's posts and even found a… Continue reading May 2021 Reading Wrap-Up (Wyrd and Wonder)
Category: Wrap up
April 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
"It was strange and novel to have a human body again."First line in Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare Hello, lovely readers. It's the end of the month so here you have my wrap-up for April. I had a bit of an anxiety-filled start to the month as I had been preparing posts for Wyrd… Continue reading April 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
March 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
"I'm pretty much fucked."First line in The Martian by Andy Weir March is over! Thank god. Personally, this March felt longer than March 2020. Not that anything particularly bad happened. It's more that nothing at all happened, so I'm glad that month is finally over. April is definitely going to be better. But anyway, the… Continue reading March 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
February 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
"Darkness was a beautiful thing."The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson Hi, everyone. I hope you've all had a manageable February. My own was pretty uneventful, even though I had some time off work this month. It's quite hard to have an exciting vacation in lockdown, but I still enjoyed sleeping in. You would… Continue reading February 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
January 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
"Waves as monuments: huge and uncaring, crowned in furious white."First line in Call of the Bone Ships by RJ Barker Somehow it's already February, and that means I need to post my wrap-up for January, so here we are. In terms of my personal life, January was a month I would very much like to… Continue reading January 2021 Reading Wrap-Up
December 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
"A girl is running for her life."First line in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab Somehow 2020 has ended, although I'm still checking the calendar quite often just to be sure. Not that 2021 is just magically going to solve everything right away, but it feels like we're closer to an… Continue reading December 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
November 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
"It's easy to think that nobody could really arrange the world like clockwork."First line in The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley IT'S DECEMBER!! We've finally reached the best month of the year! I love the Christmas feeling of December, but it's also always a month of stress. I happen to work for the… Continue reading November 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
October 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
"The Home Office telegraphy department always smelled of tea."First line in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley Just a heads up: This is going to be a very pitiful wrap-up. And there aren't any spooky books in it either, although those seem like mandatory reading in October. Truth be told, I don't really… Continue reading October 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
September 2020 Reading Wrap Up
Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.First line in The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson I'm here with another wrap up because somehow September ended. It was a weird month for me blogging-wise. I haven't had a lot of motivation to write anything deep… Continue reading September 2020 Reading Wrap Up
August 2020 Reading Wrap Up
"Oh dear," said Linus Baker, wiping sweat from his brow.First line in The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune We've completed another month this year (yay), and so it's time for my reading wrap up for August. This is where I share mini-reviews for the books I read this past month and… Continue reading August 2020 Reading Wrap Up
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