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 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 […]
On August 3, an explosion in Beirut killed at least fifty and injured thousands. If you have the ability, donate to the Lebanese Red Cross to help with relief efforts. —In […]
Coming up on the 2020 election, I’ll be including an action that you can take to make a difference at the top of every post. Today, I encourage you all […]
Since I didn’t blog nearly as much I would’ve liked to this year, I thought I’d use my yearly wrap-up to talk a bit about the last decade. This’ll be […]
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 […]
It’s almost 2019. Wow, it feels weird saying that (and yes, I do know I say this every single year). READING RECAP I read a lot in 2018 (more than any other […]
I got a lot of reading done this summer (almost 30 books!) so while that means I won’t be writing in-depth reviews of all the books I read, I’m choosing […]
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 […]
This book is brilliant. I’m a huge fan of Irish mystery writer Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad books, which each center on a different murder detective’s journey to solve a mystery […]
I’ve been reading a lot this summer, and I love it. I don’t get the chance to read a lot during the academic year, and many times, that carries over into […]
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’ve been reading a lot during the break! Specifically, it seems, books about war and spies. Reading more of these books is one of my goals for 2018, since I love […]
It’s 2018. Wow, it feels weird to say that. Last year I did a post of 6 books to read in 2017, and according to magical blog stats, you liked […]
A lot of things happened in 2017! So, as per my usual yearly recap, I’d like to share some of the exciting stuff that happened in 2017 with you guys, and […]
Every year, Bryant Park puts on a holiday winter market. I went on November 12 and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s unlike anything I’ve seen before. Because of my hometown’s ideal […]
I recently realized that it’s been over two months since I’ve written for this blog(!!). That is possibly the longest I’ve ever gone without hitting the “Publish” button on Books and […]
The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. With enemy fire […]
In a little over five months, I’ll be headed off to college, probably with under five physical books and a Kindle in tow. Looking at my bookshelf (or my entire […]
I didn’t blog a lot about reading in 2016, but I did read 28 books! Here are some of my favorite books of the past year (that you should read, too). […]
This blog was never supposed to be a book blog, but somehow, it turned into one. Because of this, I know a majority of my readers are book nerds, who […]
2016 was an unusual, unexpected year. Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. Icons in art, music, and film unexpectedly passed away from the first days of January to […]
Written April 5, 2016. Proceed with caution: cheesy post ahead. I’m graduating in a year. Which is absolutely ridiculously crazy, because I am 99.8% sure that I just entered high school about […]
4.28.1926 – 2.19.2016 “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” IN MEMORY OF HARPER LEE. *** While I will never […]
It’s kind of hard to believe that 2015 will be over in just a few short hours. It feels like the kind of year that should have lasted longer, that […]
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 […]
Bookish Barkings is back and so am I! Well, for now. I know I’ve been absolutely AWFUL at blogging and replying to comments of late (I’m very sorry to all of […]
Simon Snow is the worst chosen one who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but […]
Tomorrow I will turn sixteen. No, scratch that. In approximately twenty-four hours, I will turn sixteen. I like to count down to the very minute, the very second. Only then am I […]
Welcome to Bookish Barkings, edition two! First up some bloggish announcements. Um… I have the best followers ever?! I don’t know. Right now, I kind of want to be LAZY and sit here […]
I’ve missed you, my little barklings (yes, I have finally come up with a name for you lovely creatures)! I really have! But school has kept me so very busy and I’m […]
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 […]
Welcome to Mini Book Reviews! Since I read faster than I can write reviews, I have decided to do mini-reviews for some of the books I’ve read over the summer. Want to […]
First off, TRIGGER WARNING for suicide, depression, and other related forms of mental illness. These feature greatly in the review and in the book itself (like featuring IN THE NEXT […]
Well, today is apparently my second blogoversary with Books and Bark! That snuck up on me. FAST. But I still can’t believe that I’ve been blogging (consistently) on Books and Bark […]
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 […]
If I’m not very much mistaken, this year’s Camp NaNoWriMo marks my tenth “win” in the NaNoWriMo program. Yet… in my entire three years with the program, I have only produced […]
Sometimes, I just want to walk up my MC and go BECAUSE I LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS PERSON IN MY BRAIN IS OR WHAT THEY WANT FROM ME. One […]
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 […]
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her […]
When I write my books, there normally isn’t any romance in them. At all! I mean, I guess if you really wanted two characters to end up being together, you could stretch it (a lot), but for the most part, the relationships in my books are completely […]
More and more frequently, I find myself reading blogs claiming that a certain genre aren’t “real books” or “real literature.” Young Adult is probably the most frequent recipient of what I’ve […]
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 […]
Sometimes, I wonder. I wonder about my future. My past. How my life would be different if things had not happened the way they happened. I wonder about my books, my […]
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 […]