Category: Bookish

• THE BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2021

  Happy 2022! It’s been a while–just over an entire year since I last posted. But I couldn’t resist popping in for a classic “best books I read last year” list. Needless to say, 2021 was yet another tumultuous, topsy-turvy year. Thankfully, reading continued to be an incredible outlet for escape, release, comfort, and growth. I […]

  holly

  January 7, 2022

  Bookish

  Best Books of 2021, books, Dune, How to Do Nothing, literature, The Anthropocene Reviewed, The Grapes of Wrath, Ulysses

• Reading Rush 2020 TBR

  Get excited!! It’s that time of year again–the Reading Rush is here!! The Reading Rush is a weeklong readathon hosted by Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay. This year the Reading Rush is taking place from July 20 to July 26. Check out their website for more information. I’ve been participating in the Reading Rush (formerly […]

  holly

  July 19, 2020

  Bookish, Read-A-Thons

  Ariel Bissett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Joan Didion, Readathon, Reading Rush, Truman Capote, Zadie Smith

• Are our bookshelves a reflection of us? | Discussion

  Listening to The High Low podcast by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes has been one of the highlights of my week for ages. I always look forward to their insightful perspectives on current events, books, and pop culture in general. Each time I listen to an episode I come away from it with a new […]

  holly

  July 12, 2020

  Bookish, Discussion

  bookish, Bookshelf, Bookshelves, Discussion, Dolly Alderton, Pandora Sykes, Podcast, The High Low

• 5 Classics for July

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. When I think of July, I think of summer adventures, sparklers on the Fourth of July, hot afternoons, a lot of time with family, sitting by the campfire, and looking at fireflies at the edge of […]

  holly

  July 5, 2020

  Bookish, Recommendations

  books, Classic, Classic Literature, Huckleberry Finn, July, Recommendations, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Sound and the Fury, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island

• 5 Classics for June

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. June has always struck me as a strange mix of peace and chaos, of beauty and discomfort, of consistency and change. I think this past month has definitely embodied those contradictions, as flowers bloom in the […]

  holly

  June 21, 2020

  Bookish, Recommendations

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, books, Classic, Classic Literature, Gulliver’s Travels, June, Mrs. Dalloway, Recommendations, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Importance of Being Earnest

• 5 Classics for May

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. You know what they say: April showers bring May flowers. That has certainly been true where I live thus far this month–so many flowers in the garden have begun to bloom and it’s so lovely to […]

  holly

  May 17, 2020

  Bookish, Recommendations

  As You Like It, books, Classic, Classic Literature, May, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pride and Prejudice, Recommendations, The Great Gatsby, The Picture of Dorian Gray

• #stayhomereadingrush TBR

  I adore the Reading Rush. I participate in this week-long readathon every summer and it’s so much fun to be part of such a large online community of bookworms all reading at the same time. Fortunately, the Reading Rush folks have decided to set up another readathon while so many of us are social-distancing at […]

  holly

  April 15, 2020

  Bookish, Read-A-Thons

  Readathon, Reading Rush, stayhomereadingrush

• 5 Classics for April

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. Where I live, April is a solid month of rain, interspersed with some light springy days that tempt you with promises of sunny May. Accordingly, the theme for this month’s classic recommendations is going to be […]

  holly

  April 12, 2020

  Bookish, Recommendations

  A Room of One’s Own, A Room with a View, April, books, Classic, Classic Literature, O Pioneers!, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Recommendations, The Awakening

• 5 Classics for March

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. For March I’ve decided to focus on a theme of change. Not only is the weather changing this time of year where I live, allowing our frozen bones to thaw, but unfortunate circumstances around the world […]

  holly

  March 15, 2020

  Bookish

  As I Lay Dying, Chinua Achebe, Classic, Classic Literature, Great Expectations, March, My Antonia, Recommendations

• 5 Classics for February

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. For the month of February, I thought I would highlight some of my favorite classic romance novels, most of them from the Victorian Era. What’s better than a little Jane Austin at this time of year? […]

  holly

  February 28, 2020

  Bookish

  Classic, Classic Literature, Far from the Madding Crowd, February, I Capture the Castle, Middlemarch, North and South, Pride and Prejudice, Recommendations