Words in the Wind
book blog
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It’s starting to feel like summer again, so exciting! The erratic spring weather is starting to calm a bit as the sun starts to shine. For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, the prompt was May Flowers, I decided to take this as books with heavy nature influences, or books with the prettiest flower covers. Top…
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April in Books: While I didn’t read a lot of books this month, the ones I did were all really long. It wasn’t the greatest month for me, I got sick and was just not feeling the best, but oh well. Thief of Swords: 4 stars I finished the Riyria Revelations Series, which I might…
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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish, and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is Top Ten Petty Reasons I’ve DNF’d a Book or Lowered its Rating. Many of the books I DNF are good books that I just wasn’t in the mood for in the…
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This month I’ve been reading a lot, and I can feel myself entering a sort of reading slump. To help avoid this I decided to read something different, so many of the books I read were set in the same places, written by white authors. So, I wanted to diversify my reading a bit more.…
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I love fashion, and I love books. I wanted to make outfits inspired by popular YA books to combine both. I’m starting off with one of my favorite series of all time, The Folk of the Air by Holly Black. I absolutely love Jude, there’re very few MCs that I love as much as her.…
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Spring is finally here, and though it’s not my favorite season personally, I love books that remind me of Spring. Childhood classics, nature-inspired books, and comfort reads are all included in this short list. “March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March…
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I wanted to try to curate a list of books related to Women’s History month from different genres so there’s something for everyone, from fun, light-hearted historical fiction, to gripping memoirs and heartbreaking stories. Here’s a list of eleven books from various genres that I think do a good job of capturing the experiences, voices,…
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“Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father’s love life leads to tragic consequences. Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding…
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As the sun starts to shine more, and the days get longer and warmer, I imagine myself curled in the grass for hours with a good book. Here’s some suggestions for books inspired by spring, whether they’re more nature themed, or just have a spring vibe to them. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava…
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“The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch…
Words in the Wind 