hello everyone and welcome back!! HAPPY NEW YEAR i hope you and your loved ones have been enjoying a restful and joyful holiday season i did it again—i disappeared off the face of the planet between my academic woes (the worries i expressed in august were fulfilled hundredfold) and my plans for the future that were unexpectedly foiled and had to be remade, it’s been a rough few months. my mental health has not been great, but God has been guiding me through it every step of the way all of which to say, i’ve unfortunately needed to put blogging on hold and i suspect there might be more shor ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back! in the time since i last posted, summer has long taken its leave and fall is now officially in full swing to mark the occasion, i wanted to write something celebrating my favorite season. fall, for me, is the season of new beginnings, the accompanying self-doubt, shedding leaves, beautiful colors of nature, crisp winds, and cozy reading time. i wanted to ramble about my fall-specific book, music, and k-drama recommendations with you all, which is how i ended up writing this autumn almanac for my equator and southern hemisphere friends, this post may not be en ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back!! i hope august has been treating you all well how are we already halfway through the month of living for the hope of it all and never needing anything more?? as for me, I’ve been spending my days commuting back and forth from the city for my internship, agonizing over my personal statement, and trying to keep myself out of a reading slump by bouncing between two books—namely, Les misérables (fahnestock & macafee translation) and happy place. both are going splendidly, although only the former is living up to its title but today, i’m back with some bookis ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back!! giving myself a pat on the back for posting three times this july today, i’m back with a very special post, because it’s that time of the year again—disability pride month!! i posted my original list of ya books with disability rep exactly two years ago, and the sheer amount of love i received on that post made me 1) want to cry and 2) realize that there’s nothing more effective for spreading awareness in this community than giving book recommendations so here i am again!! disability pride: accepting, acknowledging, and celebrating the uniqueness that ever ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back!! we are officially halfway through july and it is a cruel(ly hot) summer here where i live on the east coast i’ve been trying to sneak in a bit of reading in between doing my internship and procrastinating on drafting my personal statement (someone please hold me accountable ), and i’ve already had some amazing reads this month! today, i wanted to talk a bit more about my favorite books of the year so far with the mid-year book freak out tag—thank you so much to the lovely eleanor for tagging me a couple of weeks ago as of writing this, i’ve read exactly 20 b ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back! hope everyone’s been doing well and enjoying their summer/winter today i’m back with the long-delayed part two to this post, where i rambled on and on about the taylor swift songs that i associate with my fave fictional couples i’ve been living vicariously through youtube videos of eras tour footage for the past couple of months and i’m super excited for speak now (taylor’s version) coming out july 7th but until then, i’ll be sticking to fantasizing about random book quote-song lyric connections—which is my official transition into part two the quotes i inc ..read more

hi everyone! how have you all been? long time no see life has been so hectic these past few months and i’m so glad i finally have the time to write something. thank you all for your sweet comments on my blogiversary post—i haven’t had the chance to respond to them, but rest assured that i have read (and tried not to cry over) them but for today, i have five months’ worth of reading to update you all on!! i considered just saving the massive wrap-up for the middle of the year, but i was in a rambling kind of mood, so here we are books “i have a dream” by dr. martin luther king, jr. start ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back—i hope you’ve all been well! i really had the audacity in january to say that i was going to post every month this year, huh what can i say, march was a long haul of a month and time just kind of ran away with me hanging on for dear life i’m currently on spring break (happy belated easter to those who celebrate!!), which is still kind of stressful because it marks the official dawn of ap studying season, but i’m so glad that i have the time to pop back in here and write something!! that brings us to the topic of the post today: this month marks beyond the read ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back!! someone tell me how it’s possible we’re already through february and no i did not forget about my january (or february) wrap-ups, contrary to my previous track record! it’s just that i’ve been dealing with a book hangover of the highest degree and quite literally cannot bring myself to do anything but wallow in my emotions. so today, i’ve decided i might as well wallow online with you all! you’ve all read the title: the books in question are the poppy war trilogy by r. f. kuang i’ll talk more about the books themselves in a moment, but the whole point is th ..read more

hello everyone and welcome back!! how have you all been? i hope you had an amazing new year’s day and have been enjoying your january! i am finally here with my 2022 wrap-up, fashionably late as usual, with everything that i loved this past year—bookish and non-bookish alike—as well as my resolutions for 2023 i’m going to keep this intro as short as possible because this post is already horrendously long so without further ado, here’s the yearly wrap!! quick stats for 2022 i read 34 books this year! it’s not as many as i would have liked to have read, but it’s more than my total last year ..read more