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August month-by-month // Rest, reading, tennis

In summary What do you mean it’s September now. I’m being completely serious when I say that it’s as if my brain hasn’t processed anything that’s happened since I saw Holly Humberstone in mid-May. In all honesty, there’s not a lot to report on in August, at least for the first three weeks or so; I was sick and stayed at home for pretty much all that time. The past week, I’ve been in New York…

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Vilest Things (Review) // Adventure, high stakes, 'they deserve better'

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes the thrilling sequel to Immortal Longings, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra. Calla Tuoleimi has succeeded in the impossible. Despite the odds, she has won San-Er’s bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She serves now as royal advisor to Kasa’s adopted son, August Shenzhi, who…

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Their Vicious Games (Review) // Fast-paced, exciting, one-of-a-kind

A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes aren’t just high, they’re deadly, in this searing thriller that’s Ace of Spades meets Squid Game with a sprinkling of The Bachelor. You must work twice as hard to get half as much. Adina Walker has known this the entire time she’s been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater…

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Valley Verified (Review) // For the fashion x tech girlies

When a fashion writer dives headfirst into the cutthroat Silicon Valley tech world, her future threatens to unravel in this addictive novel by Kyla Zhao, author of The Fraud Squad. On paper, Zoe Zeng has made it in New York’s fashion world. After a string of unpaid internships, she’s now a fashion columnist at Chic, lives in a quaint apartment in Manhattan, and gets invited to exclusive industry…

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July month-by-month // Conference, final days in Europe, home

In summary July absolutely flew by, I’m still in disbelief that it’s now August. I’m also hoping August goes a little slower because it’s the last month of ‘summer’, that is, the last month of holidays. Despite me saying that July went by super fast, it was also a month where a lot happened? I spent the first nine days in Paris, where I attended my second ever conference and my first big…

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Vertigo (Album Review)

Hi! I was going to post a book review today but, in typical me fashion, I haven’t actually finished writing the review yet so… I decided why not take this opportunity to instead write about some of the music that I’ve been discussing in my monthly wrap-ups? As for what to write about, well, I’ve talked about a lot of music during the past few months that I truly adore, but it only feels right to…

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Known to the Victim (Review)

From nationally bestselling author K.L. Armstrong comes a new heartstopping, propulsive, race-against-the-clock thriller. How far will you go to protect the only family you have? When Amy Gibson’s mother is brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Amy’s world is completely undone. Overcome with grief and heartache, she withdraws from everything around her—college, her friends, her entire life. Until…

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June month-by-month // Qualifying exam, limbo, travel

In summary I’m writing this on the train to Paris, at the end of the first part of my trip to Europe, though I don’t know when I’ll be able to post it; in any case I wanted to get this part of the post completed now, at minimum, because otherwise it’s going to be contaminated from first week of July thoughts! Read on to hear about how my life got better after my exam was over… or did…

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Dear Wendy (Review)

Hello! I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting in the next few weeks as I am traveling soon but I have *many* reviews to catch up on, as in, write and post so I’ll be trying to pop in and get the ball rolling. First up: Dear Wendy! Continue reading Dear Wendy (Review)

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May month-by-month // Goodbyes for the summer, Toronto, exam study

In summary It’s the evening of May 30 and I honestly wasn’t going to post this until next week at least, but I have a little moment so I thought, why not get into it? Especially since I might just end up disappearing for the next two weeks, oops, but we’ll see. Buckle up, this might be a long one. May is my birthday month (I’m a May Day girlie!) and one of my favorite times of year… As for the…

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OUT OF THE BLUE (Album Review)

Hi! I haven’t done an album review here in soo long (my last one was Griff’s Mixtape One Foot In Front Of The Other, all the way back in January 2022), but it felt absolutely necessary to do one for this album, which I discussed briefly in my February 2024 wrap-up promising a full review. Continue reading OUT OF THE BLUE (Album��Review)

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April month-by-month // Up and down, busy busy busy, wrapping up the semester

In summary I think, overall, April was better than March by far, but it was still a rollercoaster of a month. I had two intense batches of presentations, clumped at the start and end of the month with a brief reprieve in the middle. That part in the middle was also when I started feeling better, but unsurprisingly it went a bit downhill toward the end of the month again. Even looking at my…

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How To Find A Missing Girl (Review) // Teenage drama, murder mysteries, small town intrigue

For fans of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sapphic detective agency as they seek the truth behind a growing trail of missing girls in small-town Louisiana.  A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off…

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March month-by-month // Spring is coming (kinda), on and on and on, the same yet also different

In summary I’m writing this sooo late in April but still wanting to post this to not break my streak (or, also, my supposed commitment to myself to actually post each month this year), but, honestly, there’s not that much to say about March? It was a weird month. The first half was just gearing up toward spring break, which was good (at least, the two or so days that I truly had as a holiday,…

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February month-by-month // Chinese New Year, a black hole, leap day

In summary I wrote a bunch of stuff in the last week of February just before things got a bit chaotic again, but I’m going to push that down/rewrite it and instead start here by saying that on leap day, I thought my evening would be deciding whether I should finish a book before the month ended or finish this wrap-up in time to post the next day, but instead I sat and stared at the pile of…

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I Hope This Doesn't Find You (Review) // Striving for perfection, enemies to lovers,

Popping in here just to say hello, yes I’ve been meaning to write and post this review for the longest time so finally, here we are! Read this book, read this book, read this book. Continue reading I Hope This Doesn’t Find You (Review) // Striving for perfection, enemies to lovers,

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Lone Wolf (Review) // Another fantastic instalment in the Orphan X series

Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful men in the world and even brought down a…