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i’m anticipating Jem and the Search for Home

Y’all. I am so excited!! One of my favorite middle-grade authors, Lillian Keith, is releasing her next book, Jem and the Search for Home, this month, and I get to share the cover with you! 😉 But first, a bit about the book… “He wanted a family again. He wanted a place to belong…” When […]

a spark of inspiration

I’m constantly reading–stuffing my mind with books beautiful and wonderful and weird and badly done and non-fiction and serious fiction and fluff fiction. Right now, one of the books I’m reading is a collection of C.S. Lewis essays about writing. In one of them, he talks about how when he writes for children, he doesn’t […]

One Must Die was everything I wanted

Instead of sharing regular reviews here (that will stay on my Goodreads), I’ve decided to highlight my most favoritest of favorite books this year. 😉 I’ve already covered a few, which you can find by clicking the “Favorites” tag. The pinnacle of mystery fiction I still remember the first time I read The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, […]

currently reading: Warcross

I’m constantly reading something new, and I thought it would be fun to take some time once a week to share my thoughts about what I’m currently reading. (For more real-time updates, check out my Goodreads.) Please note, I do not endorse any of these books until I’ve finished reading them. 😉 Ever since I read my […]

Collection // a short story

Here’s the short story I mentioned. 😉 It came from an idea that originally wanted to be a novel but the actual plot never materialized, so I refashioned it into a short story with some new ideas and themes. I hope you enjoy reading it! Ally had been assigned the “poor cases” for her first […]

July: milk frother, DNFs, and writing projects

July weather is no joke, but I’ve still been stubbornly drinking Chai, and I only got it blended once. 😉 Speaking of tea, I did the most millennial thing possible and bought myself an electric milk frother. J also got us a teapot with a tea diffuser that goes with it, so our tea game […]

3 reasons I love Doctor Who so much

Besides the reason of the show being important to J and my relationship, I wanted to share some of the reasons Doctor Who is one of my favorite shows. 😉 1. It’s so creative From the very first episode (of the reboot) when a trash can makes a plastic copy of someone to the latest […]

currently reading: puzzles and thieves

I’m constantly reading something new, and I thought it would be fun to take some time once a week to share my thoughts about what I’m currently reading. (For more real-time updates, check out my Goodreads.) Please note, I do not endorse any of these books until I’ve finished reading them. 😉 I’m unintentionally reading another wintery, […]

a conversation with Nathaniel Luscombe

Hello, Nathaniel, and thank you so much for agreeing to join me on my blog! Thank you for having me! When I first saw the concept of your upcoming book, I was very intrigued. Can you tell us more about it? My Roots Can’t Leave the Ground is a poetry collection I wrote to reflect […]

three days of kitten

She was meowing her head off when I stepped outside. I had Nugget with me but fortunately she’s pretty cat-neutral, so I moved closer to her. She was an adolescent cat, gray-white, and she let me pet her immediately. I spent some time outside with her, asking neighbors if they knew who she belonged to […]