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Sending you so many hugs.
Oh friends, it has been a month hasn’t it? Full transparency, I write my posts for the next week on Friday evenings most times, to kind of get ahead so I can enjoy a weekend of reset. So when I wrote my Monday post on Friday evening I was in a much different headspace than when the weekend was over. I haven’t been around here to post because my mental health has admittedly been terrible this week. If that’s you too, I’m sending you the biggest hugs ever. Today the majority of my city is shutdown for the nationwide boycott…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (1/26/26)
Happy Monday bookish people! I blinked and it’s nearly the end of January. Somehow this month has simultaneously felt endless and so short at the same time. Probably because I’m trying to balance doing things I enjoy (reading, puzzles, etc.) and staying updated with the goings-on in the world. It’s a wild rollercoaster for sure. Still, here we are at the end of the month! I’m pretty proud of how I did too. Let’s see how things are shaping up! Read Last Week: In my quest to complete NetGalley books I’ve neglected for too long, I borrowed The Nobody People…
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Graphic Novel Review: My Life As An Internet Novel, Volume 2
Dani is a fan of cliche-filled internet novels of melodramatic school romance, then wakes up one day to find the world around her has become one! Just as she's getting used to this tropey world, she suddenly finds herself back in her old, ordinary one. What happened to all her new friends? A gorgeous heroine, handsome boys vying for her attention, and a best friend at the heroine’s side. Dani, an ordinary student and avid reader of internet novels, is all too familiar with these tropes. But she never imagined that she’d wake up at the center of one right…
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Book Blitz: To Hell and Back by Bill Blume 💙📚
Bookish friends, gather around. It’s time for another fabulous book blitz! This time we have one doozy of a book synopsis paired, of course, with a chance for you to win a copy of the book. To Hell and Back has it all. Love overcoming all odds, badass demon hunting, and even a loyal canine companion. You’re not alone if you think this book sounds like something you’d love. I agree. For one pair of swordfighters, their marriage is worth going to Hell and back. Ty and Dani are a modern-day, swordfighting husband-and-wife duo who help with exorcisms until a…
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Do I Revisit Analog Life?
As the country feels more and more like it’s on fire, I find myself yearning for the simpler times. I was born in the early 1980s. I got my first computer when I was around 11, and I didn’t get a cell phone until I was 17 and left for college. My first foray into coding was learning how to write html so that I could style my MySpace account, and then my Facebook account when it was still college students only. Yeah, I had a LiveJournal. But the one constant throughout my life was that I always had analog…
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Graphic Novel Review: Plague House by Michael W. Conrad and Dave Chisholm
Thirteen years ago, Orin McCabe was a family man living a privileged life in the California suburbs. Today, he's condemned to death row for murdering his entire family in an unexpected fit of hammer-wielding brutality. In the aftermath of his heinous crime, it's fallen to a trio of eclectic, but dedicated, ghost hunters—Jacob, the holy man; Holland, the skeptic; and their leader, Del, a true believer in the occult and worlds beyond—to surveil the abandoned McCabe home in search of proof for the existence of the undead . . . and whatever supernatural source may have possibly fueled McCabe’s inhuman…
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Book Review: Good Spirits by B.K. Borison
He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She’s not exactly Scrooge. Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future. Harriet York has no idea why she’s being haunted. She’s a good person—or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to…
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Back to the old grind
Ah, January. I know everyone sees it a fresh start. New year, new me, and all that. To me though, January is still a month of cold, wet weather and a feeling of stagnancy. I want to be bundled up in blankets, paw through story books, and take long weekend naps. Self improvement is so far off in the future in my mind still. It’s a season of rest, and healing. My “better self” can wait until March. Our work has also called everyone back into the office three days a week, so we’re still hybrid but just going in…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (1/4/26)
Happy Monday bookish people! It’s the first real feeling week after two weeks of work limbo. I didn’t take any extra time off so I didn’t descend quite as deeply into questioning my existence as most of my friends, but even having those two Thursdays off in a row kind of threw off my entire schedule. I swore Saturday was Sunday for the majority of the day, and so all of Sunday felt like an extra blessing. So very nice, time to catch and to read! Without further ado, let’s get into the first update of the year! Read Last…
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2026 – My Bookish Resolutions
It feels a little wrong that the new year started on a Thursday, doesn’t it? Like, the weekend approaches and yet we are expected to buckle down and set goals for the year. So I’ve decided to postpone my personal goals until the new week starts! It’s always good time for bookish resolutions though. Especially since I have a week off coming up to just rest, relax and catch up on things. Bookish Resolutions for 2026: I’m feeling confident that these are things that I can accomplish, and that makes me feel really good! It’s been a tough time finding…
