With the last week of this school semester coming to an end, I realize I have had many moments that led me to where I am today, from pursuing a design degree to writing this very post on my site. I wanted to relish some memories that books were able to create for me and wanted to share them with you.
Continue reading “Fond Reading Memories”A Reading Slump That Lasted Years
Even though I had been reading many novels since I was little, borrowing books from the library and reading multiple books every year, there was a time when reading just disappeared from my life.
Continue reading “A Reading Slump That Lasted Years”Ambitious 2023 Reading Goal
At the beginning of 2023, I had a goal to read 22 books. These 22 books included the following:
Continue reading “Ambitious 2023 Reading Goal”Favourite Graphic Novel
I am sure that I am not the only one who has had Scholastic book fairs that happened in their elementary school. It was one of the most exhilarating events to occur (even if I didn’t have any money to spend).
Continue reading “Favourite Graphic Novel”How I Annotate Books
There are many different types of readers in the book community, readers who will only read a book once, readers who will read the book multiple times, ones who annotate, and ones who dog-ear the pages, just to name a few. I fall into many categories but some being the reader who re-reads books and one who annotates their books.
Continue reading “How I Annotate Books”Confusion Around Dance of Thieves
For a while BookTok (a community on TikTok that revolves around books) has been recommending Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson, understandably so as it’s an amazing story! But with what I’ve seen with readers in the comments, they are split into two different categories, one being that they loved the book, whereas the others think it’s confusing and not worth the hype. For a while, I wondered why people had found Dance of Thieves confusing and then I soon realized the cause of this confusion.
Continue reading “Confusion Around Dance of Thieves”Reading Journal
I am not one to start multiple series at once, I am usually a person who needs to finish the book/series I am currently reading to be able to start a new book. However, I am interested in starting multiple books and reading them interchangeably.
Continue reading “Reading Journal”Dust Jackets
As a reader with multiple hardcover books, one thing I love about hardcovers is the dust jacket. What is a dust jacket, you may ask? A dust jacket is the outer cover of a book that is detachable. Most hardcover books come with a simple design that mimics that of the paperback version. But I have recently found a couple of small businesses that do custom dust jackets.
Continue reading “Dust Jackets”Lively Bookshelves
As much as I love my bookshelf, there are many times when I wish it felt more alive, where it felt like there were little cities or worlds in between the books. I had found that I wasn’t the only one feeling that way as I delved deeper into making bookshelves feel like your own.
Continue reading “Lively Bookshelves”Top Ergodic Literature Beginner Recommendations
For those of you who haven’t heard of ergodic literature, it’s “a term borrowed from physics to describe open, dynamic texts such as the I Ching or Apollinaire’s calligrams, with which the reader must perform specific actions to generate a literary sequence. ” – Goodreads
In other words, ergodic literature makes you do more work than just reading text on a page. It usually involves puzzles, re-reading twice over, mirroring text, jumping to random pages, and much more to fully uncover the story that is being told.
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