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;an incomprehensive list of badass fictional mothers
It is almost Mother’s Day here in Malaysia, and I figured I’d make a list – I keep making lists!* – of fictional Moms that are awesome! *Lists are so easy to do and so much fun, but is anybody getting tired of them because maybe I should stop… So, as the title suggests, this is NOT A COMPLETE LIST because I’m definitely going to wind up forgetting someone and people might definitely not agree, and I might run out of Moms to gush about. Oh, who am I kidding, with the ‘absent parents’ trend in YA, I might definitely run out of Moms to talk about, but I refuse…
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;five books for rainy days
I’ve been stumped on what to write for this month, I’m going to be honest. I’ve been doing a lot of last minute blog post writing and a lot of last minute everything, and I can’t seem to drag myself out of this procrastination and this slump. But apparently yelling into the Void (i.e. Twitter) helps, because one of my friends suggested writing something about books for the summer. The weather we’ve been having here in Malaysia has been more rainy than summer-y, so instead, here’s a little list of books that are, in my opinion, fun to read when it’s raining outside and you’ve got a mug of something…
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unboxing; blu’s bookish bag, april 2018
Twice in one year! This year has really been a ‘treat your self’ kind of year. Or ‘treat yo’ shelf’, if I’m more accurate. Okay, shameless plug to my bookmarks shop over. When I heard the theme for the April Blu’s Bookish Bag, I could not resist. I was already planning to get another bag after January – and am probably getting another one later this year? – and the April theme just caught my attention. The bag arrived some time last week, and this time, I waited till my daughter was napping to open it and take photos. Can we say ‘lesson learned’? SPOILERS AHOY! The theme this time…
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handle with care; the tropes edition
More tropes! I’m not going to lie, I sort of imagined myself throwing some confetti in the air while shouting this. I don’t know why, but it is possibly because I’m running on a little sleep and nothing but coffee in my stomach. In the last post, I talked about tropes that I will always read – and sometimes be disappointed by, of course that happens. But in this post, I will talk about tropes that might be over-done, but sometimes? Can be written in a fresh way that I find myself enjoying them. And surprisingly, this time all the tropes are not romantically inclined! Just – most of them.…
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SPOTLIGHT; time to educate yourselves
We interrupt our regular schedule to bring you this post. This is not my usual type of SPOTLIGHT posts. Not even close. But I am tired, you guys. I am so tired. How many times do we – readers of colour – have to remind other readers that you can educate yourselves? How many times do we have to inform you about things you feel entitled to knowing by, what? Reading a book by an author of colour? How many times do we have to point out that authors of colour aren’t there to educate you, but to tell stories? Sometimes those stories include a little bit of the things…
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;ten books that have been on my TBR forever
I was trying to think of something that I had not written about before when I found myself on Goodreads. I started wondering why my TBR was so big, and whether I had maybe forgotten to move books about when I had read them, and then I realised that some of these books I don’t remember adding to my TBR. Anyone else have that problem? Anyway, I thought putting the first ten books I added to my TBR – excluding books from the same series’ – would be a fun list to make so here we are! I’m listing the books in the order they were added to Goodreads, from…
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the girl behind the book blog; a BLOGVERSARY post
If we are being completely accurate, my blogversary was yesterday! And I had actually planned this post for next week before I realised it was my blogversary this month. Yes, I am very good at what I do, clearly. In my first year of blogging here on WordPress, I had a much slower schedule, and then I disappeared for a while after finding out I was pregnant. Since then, I like to think I’ve gotten a little better? But we’re not here to talk about my blogging habits or my stats (which could be better, but hey, I’ve got a nice community of blogger and writer friends, so what do…
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instant to-read; the tropes edition
When I set up this blog, I made a note to myself that I was going to write a post about tropes in books. What exactly that post would be eludes me – my notes are scattered in various notebooks as this was the pre-bujo era – but finally, finally, I am sitting down to write a post on tropes. Because tropes, love them or hate them, exist. Tropes are fun. I tend to lean more towards loving them in some cases. There are certain tropes that I will pick up almost immediately when they are advertised in the blurb of the book. These are the tropes I search for…
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;why you might be in a bookstagram slump
If you follow me on bookstagram, you may have noticed that I have not been very active in the last few months. That is because I ran out of photos, and then I lost the motivation to take more! Bookstagram slumps, am I right? Now we all can probably agree that breaks are necessary. But sometimes short hiatus’ turn into longer ones because we start second-guessing ourselves, our photos, our entire existence – so let’s think on why we might have fallen into a slump, and see if there is a way to crawl out of it. Note: I may be writing this post to try and pull myself out…
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;how to turn your baby into a bookworm
Alternatively titled; 12 Types Of Books To Get Babies Interested In Reading, which was kind of a mouthful, so I went with the first. Which sounds like a self-help post for mommy bookworms who don’t want to feel guilty for wanting to spend time with her books instead of her baby. No, I’m not projecting my issues, what do you mean? A N Y W H O. I’m one of the few Mommy Book Bloggers I know, but I feel like this is good if you’re baby-sitting, or something along those lines too. It’s never too early to get someone interested in reading. I’m going to be honest, I chose…