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Book Review: Fly, Butterfly
Summer time and the ongoing pandemic is the perfect time to read Annicken R. Day’s novel, Fly, Butterfly. The novel doesn’t only take place in the summer, in face it takes places over the course of multiple years. It also doesn’t have anything to do with a pandemic, but we’ll get to why it’s a good read during all the craziness. Fly, Butterfly follows Maya, a VP of sales at a tech company in New York City. She is in her early 40s and has spent years building her career and trying to be taken seriously as a woman in the corporate world. But is a successful career enough for a…
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Book Review: Trapeze
I’m embarrassingly behind on my tbr list as you all know. I got this book, Trapeze, by Leigh Ansell months and months ago but I just got to read it over the past week. Another Wattpad writer to support and get inspiration from! On a side note – funnily enough I got one of those notifications on Facebook yesterday of what I was doing however many years ago and it was a video of me at a trapeze class in New York City! Trapeze follows a 17-year old girl named Corey who has grown up in the circus. She has lived with her Aunt Shelby, touring the country and training to…
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Book Review: The Forgetting Flower
Last week I read the novel, The Forgetting Flower, by Karen Hugg. The premise is really interesting. Renia Baranezka and her twin sister have loved plants and flowers their whole life. Growing up in Krakow, they dream of one day living in Paris. Prior to the beginning of the book Renia’s sister, Estera’s, boss – an old rich guy – crossbred some flowers to create a one of a kind, but dangerous plant called Violet Smoke. The scent of the flower has the ability to put people to sleep and cause temporary amnesia allowing for people in the know to erase memories and plant new ones in people. Estera gets involved…
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Book Review: The Summer of ’98
If you’ve been following my newly embarked writing journey/adventure, you know that one of the writers who inspired me to start writing myself is Tay Marley. Months ago I wrote a book review for her first published book, The QB Bad Boy and Me. I absolutely loved the book. It was so fun to read and I couldn’t stop reading it. It was one of those instances where you can’t stop because you want to know what happens, but you don’t want it to end so you force yourself to stop to draw out the experience. Following the huge success of The QB Bad Boy and Me, Tay’s second published book is going to…
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Book Review: The Middle Sister
I’m back with a book review and this time it’s a mystery/detective story. The Middle Sister by Jesse Miles is part of a series about private investigator Jack Salvo. This is the only one in the series that I’ve read so they don’t need to be read in order. In this installment of the Jack Salvo books, Salvo is hired by a wealthy family to find their daughter/sister, Lillie Manning. The mother hires him after her daughter has been missing for a week, but then we don’t really see or hear from her again. Her daughters Zara and Arden – Lillie’s older and younger sisters respectively – are Salvo’s points of contact.…
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Book Review: The View from Apartment Four
Happy Friday! This was one of those weeks where I’m not sure if it went by fast or slow. It was also one of those weeks that I couldn’t remember what day of the week it was. During my lunch breaks while working form home I’ve been getting a lot of my reading done. My most recent read has been on my tbr list for months, The View from Apartment Four: On Loving and Leaving New York by Skip Rozin. In this book, Skip Rozin tells of his life experiences, professional and personal, from the 1960s to the 2010s all while his apartment on the Upper West Side of New York…
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Book Review: The Wondrous & Tragic Life of Ivan & Ivana
New book alert! The Wonderful and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana has recently been translated into English and will be released on May 5! I was lucky enough to be sent an advanced copy (digital because of everything going on) to read. The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It is so hard to describe because it is so unique! The novel follows twins Ivan and Ivana from childhood to young adulthood. They are born in Guadeloupe to a single mother. Their father was a traveling musician from Mali. From birth the twins have an otherworldly bond, which grows from a…
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April 2020 Favorites
Another month over, can you believe it? I can’t believe we’ve been in quarantine for about 6 weeks already. Sometimes it feels like the time has gone by really fast and other times it feels like forever. It is hard to believe that the whole month of April has gone by though. For this month’s favorites, I have a lot of tv related things since I’m watching a lot more these days. First, I was obsessed with the Food Network Tournament of Champions. It was so fun to watch! It’s like March Madness but with famous chefs. Next, I have been watching Hawaii Five-O for the past 10 years and early…
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Book Review: Ever Alice
If you’re a fan of Alice in Wonderland then Ever Alice may be worth checking out. This take on the famous story follows Alice after the original story. Alice is now 15 and everyone thinks she’s crazy (or mad!) because she can’t stop talking about Wonderland. The novel begins with Alice in a psychiatric hospital in fact, because her parents don’t believe her and don’t know what to do with her. Feeling like her family has abandoned her, she will do anything to just get out of there and go home. Her doctor takes her to Switzerland, I believe it was, to meet with another doctor who has a new experimental treatment and…
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Book Review: Spin the Dawn
I have been getting extra reading in since we’ve been quarantined, which is one of the good things out of all of this. I have so many books on my tbr (to be read) list. Today, I’m sharing my book review of Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim, because I haven’t shared it yet and the sequel is coming out this summer! If you’ve been following me on here since last summer then the book might seem familiar. It’s because I was invited to the book launch party in New York City! It was Sip & Sew where we got to eat, drink, mingle, and sew pouches along with author, Elizabeth…
