In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. For those of us who celebrate Christmas, December is a magical (and somewhat stressful) month of sweet treats and shopping and music and decorating and, ideally, laughter. It's also obviously the last month of the year, …
Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2018
Happy New Year!! I know this was technically last week's topic, but shhh! I'm going to do it anyways because I didn't get a chance to do it yet. I ended up reading way more books than I expected to in 2018, so picking just ten was actually pretty difficult. In the order that I read them, …
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Top Ten Tuesday: Best 10 of 2018 {So Far}
Happy Tuesday!! Can you believe that we're already over half way through 2018 already?! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share the best 10 books we've read so far in 2018. I've already read far more than I expected to this year--mostly due to my sprawling required …
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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Character Names {For Plants}
Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is supposed to be Best Character Names; however, as per usual I've decided to put my own spin on it. A few years ago I made a Top Ten Tuesday list of Characters I'd Name My Plants After, which was a blast. …
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LES MISERABLES by Victor Hugo | Review
Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them in a battle between good and evil, and carries them to the barricades …
