Book Lists

Mental health is a topic of prime concern these days, especially for kids and teens who may have spent much of the last year in isolation, cut off from peers and in-person school. Reading a book with a protagonist struggling …

Spring is creeping in, book friends, and I don’t know if I’ve ever been happier to see it. After a pretty solid 3.5 cold winter months of keeping my 2-year-old busy primarily indoors, spring looks like salvation. Here’s to fresh …

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is Books on my Spring 2021 TBR and I’ve done a thorough spring clean of my TBR list. Now that the weather is starting to get a bit milder and the days are getting longer, …

The following is a guest post, written for Literary Quicksand by Sonia Ahmed. Find her bio beneath the article. Pakistan is a land blessed with world-class writers, who, with their cultural diversity and English language’s vibrancy, portrayed their nation’s mindsets …

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is, as the title suggests, books that made me laugh out loud. Now, I’m a notoriously hard nut to crack in terms of laughing out loud. My husband actually makes fun of me because I …

It has been BITTERLY cold here in Minnesota for a good week. We’re getting close to better weather but man, it’s not fun being both stuck inside and stuck at home every day! Come oonnn warmer weather! At least it’s …

Hey hey Tuesday! This is my very first Tuesday taking part in Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly blog prompt that a lot of my fellow bloggers take on. It’s hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is books written …

Historical fiction fans, get excited. 2021 was a year of awesome new releases to feed your historical fiction craving! From accomplished authors like Colson Whitehead, Kristin Hannah, and Kate Quinn to promising debut authors, this year was a doozy for …

This past fall, I took a deep dive into several books that somehow drew on witchcraft, the Salem Witch Trials, and rumors of witches in early America. Starting with Alice Hoffman’s The Rules of Magic, I then jumped into a …

Happy New Year, bookish people! I am writing this after our relief at 2020 being over swiftly turned into….well, mayhem. I (Joli) tend to turn to books at a time like this for escape from our present reality, so I’ve …