Hello, friends! As the holidays fast approach, I know firsthand how hard it can be finding the perfect gift for a loved one. So, I thought, why not make a holiday gift guide for all the book lovers in your life? These are some easy, affordable ideas that can make your life easier when present buying, and will make your book lover’s experience even better. Let’s get on with the list!
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Hi, hello friends! I’m so excited to be back posting regularly – thank you so much for your patience during my leave of absence! With university now over, I can focus on my four loves: ice skating, animal crossing, content creation and, of course, reading! During my time off from posting, I managed to reach my Goodreads goal of 80 books! I’ve read some wonderful books during this time, so I thought it would be a lot of fun to showcase my top 5! Think of this as a mini end of year wrap up – but here’s hoping more books get read before the end of December! Without further adieu, and in no particular order, let’s go!
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Hi, hello friends! I’m so excited to be bringing you this post today, in collaboration with lovely Luce from Coffee, Cups and Books! We’ve decided it would be a lot of fun to pair some of our favourite books with different tea flavours, and you can find her post here. Seeing as our blog name is teatimelit, I am incredibly excited to bring you this post today. Without further ado, let’s get started.
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Read moreA girl full of heart
A thief touched by darkness
A boy with a fiery temper
An unwitting servant of evil
The era of magic was once thought to be a myth, but after the Reemergence ushered forces both dark and light into the mundane world, it has since become a harsh reality. Now those affected by this strange power—a specialized group of Empowered called Jokers, known collectively as Cardplay—must protect their world from the darkness that threatens to consume it, all the while fighting for equality in a society clinging to normalcy.
But the Reemergence was only the beginning.
When another influx occurs on the seventh anniversary of that fateful event, an unfortunate encounter at ground zero lands Iori Ryone, a teenage boy in possession of a corrupt and legendary magic, in the care of recent Joker graduate Ellen Amelia Jane. From him, she learns the Reemergence may not have been the inevitable natural disaster it first seemed.
Someone is trying to tear down the barrier that separates the magical realms from the mundane. The question is, can Cardplay stop them before it’s too late?
Hi, hello friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend, and are ready for another week of blog posts and reading. Today, I’m very incredibly excited to be interviewing Brittany M. Willows, author of Bloody Spade. A full review of Bloody Spade will be coming to the blog very soon, but continue reading to see what we chatted about!
A girl full of heart
A thief touched by darkness
A boy with a fiery temper
An unwitting servant of evilThe era of magic was once thought to be a myth, but after the Reemergence ushered forces both dark and light into the mundane world, it has since become a harsh reality. Now those affected by this strange power—a specialized group of Empowered called Jokers, known collectively as Cardplay—must protect their world from the darkness that threatens to consume it, all the while fighting for equality in a society clinging to normalcy.
But the Reemergence was only the beginning.
When another influx occurs on the seventh anniversary of that fateful event, an unfortunate encounter at ground zero lands Iori Ryone, a teenage boy in possession of a corrupt and legendary magic, in the care of recent Joker graduate Ellen Amelia Jane. From him, she learns the Reemergence may not have been the inevitable natural disaster it first seemed.
Someone is trying to tear down the barrier that separates the magical realms from the mundane. The question is, can Cardplay stop them before it’s too late?
Bloody Spade is the first installment in an urban fantasy duology that follows a cat-eared thief and a spirited girl as they try to navigate his wild magic, her hotheaded brother, a sinister plot, and the feelings they’re developing for each other.
Links for Bloody Spade: Goodreads | TheStoryGraph | Bookshop | Indiebound
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Read moreA teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.
La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.
This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World–and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey’s best friend, disappeared six months earlier.
Grey can’t believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something – her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.
When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou – a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town’s bloody history – Grey realizes that La Cachette’s past is far more present and dangerous than she’d ever understood. Suddenly, she doesn’t know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent–and La Cachette’s dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart
Hi, friends! I thought this week it would be fun to spotlight my current audiobook read: Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam. Despite not being very far into this book, so far it’s absolutely fantastic! Written in verse, this book is compelling from the start, and you will find yourself utterly entranced by the poetry. Centred around Amal, a teenage boy convicted and imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, this book explores the systematic racism in the justice system in an impactful and devastatingly beautiful way. And I tell you what, I cannot wait to finish it and write a full review for the blog.
Here’s the full synopsis!
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.
The story that I thought
was my life
didn’t start on the day
I was born
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white.
The story that I think
will be my life
starts today
Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it?
With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.
Like I said, I cannot wait to finish this book. I can just tell it’s going to be a five-star read. What are you currently reading? Be sure to let me know in the comments below!
Links for Punching the Air: Goodreads | TheStoryGraph | Bookshop | IndieBound
So, admittedly nobody tagged me to do this challenge, but after googling some book tags this one seemed like so much fun! This post from paperfury inspired this post, and I took all the tag questions from there. I’ll be tagging some blogs to participate too, so who knows, maybe we’ll get this tag cycling again! Let’s get on with the questions!
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Hi, hello friends! For those who may not have known, I was just in a production of Picnic at Hanging Rock, a play based on the Australian classic novel. The show was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed the book a lot, so I thought what better way to celebrate the end of the show than with a blog post spotlighting the book. Published in 1967, this book is set in the 1900s and follows a group of girls from a private college who go on a picnic to the mysterious Hanging Rock. A group of them go, but three of them do not return. Here’s the full book summary!
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred.
Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared.
They never returned.
Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.
Be sure to let me know if you end up reading this wonderful mystery! I’d love to know what you think, and what your theory is about what happened to the girls on the hanging rock.
Links to Picnic at Hanging Rock: Goodreads | TheStoryGraph | Bookshop | Indiebound
It’s well into winter here in Australia, and more often than not I have found myself curled up under a blanket devouring book after book. There’s something so calming about reading while it’s raining, and I thought I’d share today some of my favourite picks for reading in this weather. So, keep reading if you want to know my five rainy day read recommendations!
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