Our good friends at the Library of Congress recently made a digital collection of classic children's books available for free online. "The collection includes classic works that are still read by children today, and lesser-known treasures drawn from the Library's extensive collection of historically significant children's books." Everything available in the collection is from 1924... Continue Reading →
Inquiring minds would love to know! What are you reading this weekend? I just started The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee. It's the second book in The Thousandth Floor trilogy and I can already tell it's going to be good. I have a stack of books to read next just in case I happen to... Continue Reading →
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to... Continue Reading →
Synopsis "In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's theme is Page to Screen Adaptations.... Continue Reading →
Confession time... I own a lot of books. A lot. Of. Books. And yet... I haven't read many of them. I actually haven't read most of them. Over time I seem to have amassed a good chunk of books that I simply haven't gotten around to reading yet. The bookshelves in my living room and... Continue Reading →
If you haven't yet had the pleasure of reading My Mom Style Icon by Piper Weiss, I cannot recommend it enough. It is the coolest book for anyone who's into fashion, photography, family histories, and more. My original post on this book from way back when can be found here. Fun fact: brunching and eating... Continue Reading →
Synopsis "Three years ago, Alison disappeared after a slumber party, not to be seen since. Her friends at the elite Pennsylvania school mourned her, but they also breathed secret sighs of relief. Each of them guarded a secret that only Alison had known. Now they have other dirty little secrets, secrets that could sink them... Continue Reading →
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to... Continue Reading →
