Two-Sentence Reviews | Ten Most Recent Reads
Hello all! Lately my attention has been focused on my #bookstagram (find me @booksandbark!), but today I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday to review my ten latest reads. I’ve […]
Hello all! Lately my attention has been focused on my #bookstagram (find me @booksandbark!), but today I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday to review my ten latest reads. I’ve […]
I attended my college’s commencement ceremony this week. A combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and my school’s lack of emphasis on winter grads (I officially earned my diploma back in […]
I know I say this every year, but: I really never thought I’d be writing this post for 2021. For newcomers, my “6 Books to Read in [Insert Next Year]” has […]
It’s getting colder, holiday lights are coming up, and I’m scrolling through gift lists online, which can only mean one thing: finals are coming up. For me, a social science […]
New decade, same six-story feature. Well, not quite. The past ten years have seen my taste in literature transform itself in myriad ways. I’ve been writing these posts for the […]
I started this feature back in 2017 and have always had fun writing it. Since I discovered a lot of favorite books and authors in 2018, I decided to write yet […]
Introducing a new feature: bookstore reviews! Book reviewing slows down quite a bit for me during the school year, since I don’t really have time to read (I’ve been perusing The Godfather since […]
I read a lot of books this summer. By that, I mean nearly thirty books in a little over three months (a record for me!). This summer, I’ve both discovered more […]
As a brown woman, I’m constantly struck by the ways in which nonwhite characters are exoticized and othered in works of writing. It’s really, really difficult to read a supposedly #diverse […]
Hello friends! I know I’ve been absent from this blog for quite a while now. I’ve been out of school since the end of May, but I’ve been spending my time […]
I read a total of 58 books and 18,617 pages in 2015. That’s an amazingly large number of books, considering I had my first AP class and AP test at […]
I HAVE VERY MIXED FEELINGS ON BOOKSHELVES. I realized this this morning when I woke up and found myself looking at my bookshelf (it has been placed near the foot […]
Look at that! Is it already time for another Top Ten Tuesday? This week’s theme is DIVERSITY and books that celebrate such things. Now, I am quite diverse myself (well, not […]
I found this really cool Diversity Bingo Chart on Tumblr a while back and decided to give it a whirl with some of the bestselling YA books of today! I’ll only […]
AHHH I LOVE Top Ten Tuesday! I just discovered it last week, but it’s pretty amazing and I love the prompts and the community. Plus, all of my bookish blogger friends […]
So, YES: I am finally hopping onto this bandwagon and participating in Top Ten Tuesday! (Mostly because I have NO IDEA what else to write about and every other blogger I know […]
A Goth girl with an attitude problem, Elizabeth Davis must learn to control her anger before it destroys her. Emily Delgado appears to be a smart, sweet girl, with a […]
Happy penultimate day of 2014, everybody! Now, I’m not a big fan of recap posts full of blog stats and the like, but I’ve decided to do a (short… hopefully) recap […]
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it! I was planning on writing a Christmas post, but, um, I have time management issues. And feels. So […]
I sadly didn’t jump on the bandwagon with Top Ten Tuesday last week because of finals, but I still wanted to share my top books of 2014! Considering I’ve only read […]
If you hadn’t caught on, I’m using finals as an excuse to finish up the bookish tags I’ve been, um, tagged in. I was tagged in this one by Engie @ Musings […]
In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With […]
Hello friends! Of late, I have been neglecting the posts I’ve been tagged in. Well, I strive to change that. Three months ago in September (three months ago?!) Engie @ […]
Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as long as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing […]
Okay, okay. I admit it. Quit pointing the gun at me. *sigh* Yes, I do dog-ear books. It’s not an addiction, no. It’s just sort of a… habit. Hi Sabrina, […]
Alone at home, twelve-year-old Grayson Sender glows, immersed in beautiful thoughts and dreams. But at school, Grayson grasps at shadows, determined to fly under the radar. Because Grayson has been […]
For Cather, life is pretty much about Simon Snow. Cath, and her twin sister, Wren, have been writing Simon Snow fan fiction for just about as long as they can […]
I present to you Books and Bark’s first official guest blogger and author, Megan Crewe! This (awesome) guest post is part of the blog tour of Megan’s new YA sci-fi […]
In the future, humans live in citylike spaceships orbiting far above Earth’s toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced […]
Well, this is my first time trying out Loony Blurbs with Emily over at the Loony Teen Writer. Basically, you make up book blurbs based on titles! 😀 This is going […]
Okay, guys. It’s Confession Time. Book blogger confession time. This is serious. Caution: post not as long as it seems. Contains awesome GIFs and bookgirl feels. Sort of. Which book most recently did you […]
There are three rules to staying an assassin at the corporation of Covert Operatives: (1) your parents must be deceased, (2) your contracts must remain confidential, and (3) you must […]
This book is so sad. Because you know stories about animal friendships are always sad. But because of that, it was quite amazing. Let me tell you why. (Caution: photographs […]
The cover of this book is pretty much amazing. And I loved the premise. A lot of the reviews on Goodreads have been bipolar, and while I don’t think the […]
Well, now you guys get to hear all about my amazing (and really large and messy) bookshelf! Desiree B tagged me, and since I have probably overloaded you guys with book […]
I am reading so many good books lately. Yes, I liked this book. A lot. And you might think it’s easy to please me, because What’s Left of Me, which I reviewed […]
If I had to sum up What’s Left of Me in one word, it would be this: FANTASTIC. It was one of the first good books I have read in a long time. […]
The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances releases today! I’m very excited, seeing as I reviewed the book, and gave it 4 out of 5 wagging tails. I’m even […]
Evie wants to leave her old life behind. Her ugly family life, her ex-boyfriend, the drugs. So she applies to The Sanctuary, a dog rescue center high up in the […]
Well, I am a horrible procrastinator, so instead of writing my review for The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, I decided to go through and make a list […]