books & lifestyle
![Twice in a Blue Moon [REVIEW]](https://uponthepages.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/img_0310.jpg?w=720)
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it… Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation [...]
![the Testaments [MINI REVIEW]](https://uponthepages.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/image1.jpeg?w=720)
“More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as [...]
I've been a bookseller for about a year now at two different bookstores (a chain and an indie) and there's so many things I've heard that I wish I didn't. As a bookseller, you learn a lot about your customers based on what they read and the endless conversations you have with them about these [...]
“A poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting, story in the tradition of The Perks of Being a Wallflower about three friends coming-of-age in the early 1980s as they struggle to forge their own paths in the face of fear of the unknown. Michael is content to live in the shadow of his best friends, James, an enigmatic [...]
![We Are Lost and Found [REVIEW]](https://uponthepages.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/img_9575.jpg?w=720)
"A poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting, story in the tradition of The Perks of Being a Wallflower about three friends coming-of-age in the early 1980s as they struggle to forge their own paths in the face of fear of the unknown. Michael is content to live in the shadow of his best friends, James, an enigmatic [...]
I have no idea if someone has already done this. I tried to check but didn't see anything. So, here it is! A book tag based on Taylor Swift's new album, Lover! If you end up doing this tag, please tag me. I want to see your answers! Here are questions with no answers: I [...]
School is back in session and I'm so thankfully not attending high school ever again! I decided I would talk about some of the required reading that I loved in high school because it seems as if most people hated the books they read in high school. For me, some of these books became my [...]
"Desire as we’ve never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it’s all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as [...]
Here's a list of the upcoming August YA releases! Which ones are you most excited for? House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig [August 6th, 2019] "In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. [...]
Hello everyone! These are all the ARCs I have to read into 2020. I will be posting a review for all of them and I hope to meet each of the deadlines I gave myself. I obviously might not post on each of these days but I plan to. As you might've noticed, most of [...]
