My 2023 Retrospective

While there’s no actual deadline, timeline or expectation when it comes to sharing my retrospectives, I do prefer sharing them at the very end of the calendar year. But that clearly did not happen last year, so here I am, sharing this retrospective over a month later than I originally planned. And …

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My 2022 Retrospective

If you’re reading this blog post, you’re likely thinking to yourself, “Is that title a typo? Alexa does know it’s 2024 and that last year was 2023, right?” This title is, in fact, not a typo – I’m writing up a retrospective for 2022 because 1) I can do whatever I want to on this blog since 2) it’s …

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2024

I truly didn’t mean to disappear from this online space of mine for months on end yet again in 2023. I had the best of intentions to pick up where I’d left off until I slowly found the momentum to be a consistent blogger… except that totally didn’t end up being the case and anyone who’s popped over…

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Buddy (Re)Reads: Daisy Jones and the Six (+TV Show Review)

My best friend Rachel & I love teaming up for collaborations, and this year, our brainchild collaboration is a series of Buddy (Re)reads . We put our heads together and picked out one book or series to reread together quarterly during this year. Our first pick was Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylo…

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FairyLoot Buddy Reads - Reviews #1: Violet Made of Thorns, Belladonna + This Vicious Grace

It’s been about a month since I first posted about how Kristin & I planned to buddy read a few of our FairyLoot special edition books , and I’m proud to report that we’ve already made it halfway through our list! The three titles that we read are Belladonna by Adalyn Grace , This Vicious Grace by…

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