Reading and Reviewing Books With Low Average Ratings

Hello friends! It's Vera here today, with a post about novels with low average ratings. I've always felt like my biggest flaw as a reader / blogger is that I pay close attention to books' goodreads average rating. Despite knowing full well that I won't necessarily agree with the majority of readers, I tend to…

Fourteen Compelling Opening Lines from Books

Hello friends! In my experience, a lot of the times it takes a few pages - or even a few chapters - for a book to truly catch my attention and make me fully engaged in its story. It's much rarer, as well as special, when a book immediately piques my interest with its very…

Recommending Books Based on My Favorite Musicals

Hello friends! A someone that loves the theater and musicals in general, I've long wanted to share my favorite musicals with you on here. However, I'm aware that most of you are hear for bookish content, so I decided to pair the two together. For today's post, I picked five musicals I really enjoyed, pairing…

Recommending Some of My Favorite Atmospheric Books

Hello friends! One thing you should know about me is that I'm the kind of reader that can go through a novel without having a clear vision of the characters or the settings described in the novel. I'd say that I barely, if at all, visualize the characters, while I usually have a vague idea…

Recommending Books Based On My Favorite Albums

Hello friends, Vera here. As I was working on our folklore blog post, I thought about all the other albums I adore and how I've never had the chance to showcase them on here. I wanted to change that and thus the idea for this post was born. Unlike in our folklore post, I won't…

30 Marvelous Mystery-Thriller Book Recommendations

Hello and welcome to the first Spooky October post of 2020! 🎃 Those of you who have been with us for more than a year are likely already familiar with Spooky October, but for everyone else, I think an introduction to this Halloween goodness is in order. Spooky October was created back in 2015 -…

2019 December Wrap Up… I Guess the Decade is Over!?

Hello friends! I'm still going strong with these wrap ups, and I'm enjoying them more and more! For today, I switched up the format a bit, and I have to say, I really like how it turned out. The beginning of my December revolved around The Phantom of the Opera ...and no one is more…