June 2017 (+ June Flights of Fantasy Linky)

I seriously can't believe that today is the last day of June! We're halfway through 2017 already, if you can believe it, and only have six months left until the start of another new year. It really is incredible how quickly time flies - especially when you're having fun. Hope you'v…

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Transformation Begins With a Word • Year of Yes

Year of Yes  is another non-fiction read (yes, I read two in a month, and no, that's not normal for me), this time chronicling the year that Shonda Rhimes spent saying yes  to all the opportunities that came her way instead of the no she normally parroted. Shonda gets personal with her readers, s…

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We'll Always Have Senior Year • Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Lara Jean Song Covey is having the best senior year. She’s come into her own, she’s in love with her boyfriend Peter, her father is also in love and getting remarried, her sister Margot is coming home and she’s about to graduate and head on off to college. The future looks very bright! But the tru…

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A Call to Creativity • Big Magic

Big Magic  is a non-fiction book by author Elizabeth Gilbert that centers around one thing: creativity. It is Gilbert's belief that all people have creativity within them, and that it is possible to tap into and embrace that creativity in whatever form of expression it might take - anything from…

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Dance! Dance! Dance! • Three Nights at the Ballet

I love going to the ballet! Rachel & I once again secured season tickets for the American Ballet Theatre's performances at the Metropolitan opera this year. (You can check out last year's post if you're curious!) We chose our three shows - Giselle, Swan Lake and Onegin  - based on t…

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A Cold Coast Werewolf in Lyssia • Macky Reads The Wereworld Series

This series was fun. It was fast paced, and creative in ways where you think the author is going to go for one trope, but then follows up with a totally different one. I appreciate that. Not because I’m snooty about tropes, but because I know how difficult it is to blend just the right elements of…

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I Want Your Ugly • Bad Romance

All Grace wants is to escape – her messed up home life, her small California town, her current circumstances. And when Gavin, talented, sweet, adoring Gavin, shows up, and they fall head over heels in love, things seem to be looking up. But the truth is that Gavin is more dangerous than he seems, …

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Abbreviations #34 | February-May Minis

It's been too  long since I've posted a set of mini-reviews for your perusal! Granted, it's taken me some time to get back into the swing of things when it comes to blogging. But this is progress, right? Anyway, check out my thoughts on a couple of the books that I read from February to…

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Apps & Attraction • When Dimple Met Rishi

I am all about YA contemporaries that read like romantic comedies, and When Dimple Met Rishi is one of the best that I have ever read. It’s about two teens – Dimple Shah, who aspires to be in web and app development and doesn’t need to hear her Mamma’s nagging about finding the perfect Indian husb…

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Sci-Fi Loving, Part 2: Macky Reads Gemina

(If you  haven't  read the first book,  check out Macky's Illuminae review !) This Illuminae series. This second book, Gemina . How to even begin… I personally think there’s no in-betweens for Gemina . There is no fence. There's only a line that is drawn; on one side, there are those who ado…

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FOF Book Club: Alphabet of Thorn

It's time to talk about our second pick for this year's quarterly Flights of Fantasy Book Club ! For the second quarter, we decided to tackle Alphabet of Thorn . I'm not sure where we first heard of this novel, but we both found the synopsis intriguing and neither of us had read anything…

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Mabuhay! Of Food and Fiction (Table for Two #6: Kuma Inn)

Happy Philippine Independence Day! I'm thrilled that Rachel & I are once again sharing a post for Mabuhay , a feature where we celebrate Filipino culture and literature in our own small way. Both of us really enjoy getting the chance to share a little of our cultural experience, as well as …

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