Title: Dread Nation Author: Justina Ireland Type: Fiction Genre: YA, Historical, Fantasy, Horror Publisher: Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins) Published: April 3, 2018 A physical copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher, in exchange for an honest review. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg… Read More Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (ARC Review)
Happy Monday everyone! And also happy #ARCstravaganza day! My choice for this week is a book that I have been looking forward to quite a bit! I am about 15% through it now (planning to finish it this week), and I am so hooked! It’s very very good, and I’m eager to see how the… Read More #ARCstravaganza #39: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Welcome to my monthly TBR pile post. This month’s pile is quite big because I fell behind on my reading in March. I fell behind due to birthdays and then also went into a YA reading slump near the end of the month. Sigh. I’m hoping the slump will pass soon so that I can… Read More April 2018 TBR
It’s April! Just kidding! It’s still March! No … it’s actually April, and I’m awful at pranking people, haha. But where did March go? And February? And January?! Seriously. What is going on with 2018? How am I already writing a wrap-up post for March? I feel like it’ll be 2019 in no time … which… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (March 2018)
Happy Tuesday, and happy Top Ten Tuesday day, everyone! This week it’s all about the books that surprised us. I’m sure that every reader is both pleasantly, and unpleasantly, surprised by many books throughout their lifetimes. Here are the top ten that come to my mind. Some surprised me in the best of ways, while… Read More Top Ten Tuesday #44: Top Ten Books That Surprised Me
Another month has just flown by! This year is going by quite fast, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. One good thing about it being March tomorrow, though, is that it’ll be my birthday month! I’m not too happy about getting older (haha), but it’s not too bad, plus it’ll be getting… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (February 2018)
Happy Tuesday, and happy Top Ten Tuesday day, everyone! I know that some parts of the US are (or were) getting some snow, but here in Canada it’s starting to feel like spring! It’s 12 degrees Celsius right now, and I’m just tempted to go out for a walk! Maybe my birthday will actually be a… Read More Top Ten Tuesday #42: Top 10 Books That I Could Re-read Forever
New year, new me! And yes, I’m one of the people who says that, and tries to become better and better every year. Haha. I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with that! If you’re curious about some of my reading goals, I talked about them in my December 2017 wrap up, and as for… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (January 2018)
Title: The Shape of Water Type: Fiction Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller Rating: Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language. Release Date: December 8, 2017 Running Time: 123 minutes Directed by: Guillermo del Toro Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro, and Vanessa Taylor Music: Alexandre Desplat Cinematography: Dan Laustsen Edited by: Sidney… Read More The Shape of Water (2017) (Review)
I cannot believe that 2017 is almost over! Ahhh! Where did the months go. It’s as if it was just yesterday that January 2017 had just happened, and we were all setting new goals for the year (reading, and not reading related). Now it’s just … over. Due to this being the last monthly wrap-up… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (December 2017)