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Books I Missed in 2021
Inevitably, every year I get to the last month and realize that there were so many books on my radar that I just never got to. It’s a fact! I mean, so many amazing stories come out month after month. I’d need to be immortal to give them all of the love they deserve. However, there are always a few books that I was SO EXCITED for and then things got busy or I had too many review books to read, and they just vanished into the ether. This is a post to honor the top 5 of these books.…
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Book Review: If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrech
Eighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. Along with their bandmates, Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. But privately, cracks are starting to form: their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and Ruben confides in Zach that he’s feeling smothered by management’s pressure to stay in the closet. On a whirlwind tour through Europe, with both an unrelenting schedule and minimal supervision, Ruben and Zach come to rely on each other…
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2021 Wrap Up Time!
It’s the beginning of December, and that means it’s wrap up month! You can expect to see various posts this month talking about this last year on the blog, and what we hope to see coming up in the new year! To say that 2021 was a weird year would be an understatement. It was almost worse than 2020, mainly because I kept having so many feelings about whether things would get better or not. I sent the bar low on my reading goal, because I knew (from a whole year of experience) that my attention span wouldn’t be great.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Bookish Memories (11/30/21)
Happy Tuesday friends! Getting back into the blogging groove again. Now that Thanksgiving is over, and with it the stress of get togethers, it’s time to focus on Christmas! My favorite time of year! I feel like my batteries have been recharged, and I’m so happy about it. It helps that I just realized that I am only one book finished away from reading 52 for the year. That’s so exciting! Anyway, on to the prompt shall we? Top Ten Bookish Memories In no particular order, here are some of the things that I remember most vividly throughout my lifetime!…
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Bookish Spotlight: Tiena from tlovesallthebooks
Welcome to a new post series here on Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile! Back when I first started this blog, I used to interview other bloggers and share their content. I’ve missed doing that so much! It was a great way to get to know others who share the same passion, and give some much deserved love to amazing creators. So, it’s time to do that again! Check this space every other Saturday for a new spotlight, and click here if you’d like to sign up to be a spotlight yourself! Our spotlight today is Tiena from tlovesallthebooks! Instagram In keeping with…
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Book Spotlight: Erin from CTBookGirl
Welcome to a new post series here on Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile! Back when I first started this blog, I used to interview other bloggers and share their content. I’ve missed doing that so much! It was a great way to get to know others who share the same passion, and give some much deserved love to amazing creators. So, it’s time to do that again! Check this space every other Saturday for a new spotlight, and click here if you’d like to sign up to be a spotlight yourself! Our spotlight today is Erin from CTBookGirl! Instagram | Goodreads |…
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Book Review: Trashlands by Alison Stine
A resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we love A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless…
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Bookish Spotlight: Rita from Rita Reads Trash
Welcome to a new post series here on Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile! Back when I first started this blog, I used to interview other bloggers and share their content. I’ve missed doing that so much! It was a great way to get to know others who share the same passion, and give some much deserved love to amazing creators. So, it’s time to do that again! Check this space every other Saturday for a new spotlight, and click here if you’d like to sign up to be a spotlight yourself! Our spotlight today is Rita from Rita Reads Trash! Instagram |…
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It’s been pretty quiet so far this month, right?
Perhaps you’re wondering, where did Jessica go? Last month was so full of updates, and she has all but disappeared. If you were curious, my coworker (read: the only person who I directly work with on all our tasks) has been on vacation for the last 10 days. Hahaha. So essentially the answer is that I have been so swamped in work, that being on the computer outside of work hours sounds awful. So my apologies for the quietness around here! I have been reading, and I do have more reviews to share! I just need my other half to…
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Book Review: Dust & Grim by Chuck Wendig
Miss Peregrine meets The Graveyard Book in this middle grade adventure about rival siblings running a monster mortuary—written by bestselling author Chuck Wendig. Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn’t know how she got the short end of the stick—being raised by her neglectful father—while Dustin, the older brother she’s never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are both orphaned, she’s come home for her inheritance, and if Dustin won’t welcome her into the family business, then she’ll happily take her half in cash. There’s just one problem: the family business is a mortuary for…
