5 Books that will Emotionally Break You

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”  ― Helen Keller We are just going to ignore the fact that I haven't written a blog post for over a month and even the previous month's felt a bit mediocre. My posting schedule …

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Classics: A Beginners Guide (Where to Begin and Ones I want to tackle)

Classics /ˈklæsɪks/ plural noun 1. the classics, a body of literature regarded as great or lasting. adjective 2. serving as a standard or model of its kind; definitive “All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”  ― John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies Hello, Friends it definitely feels good to sit down and write a blog post after days of procrastinating. Hope you are well and welcome to this weeks …

5 Books to Reread in 2018

"...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again." Welcome to another post Friends 😊 Today will dive into 5 books that need to be reread in 2018. As much as I love new books …

Recent Reads, Updates and Currently Reading ( Mini- Book Reviews)

Hello Friends, Hope you are well and positive... January has been a bit of an interesting month, reading-wise as well as my personal life. I was bogged down and felt a little uninspired so I took a 5 day no internet break to reconnect with books and my loved ones and I feel more comfortable …

5 Things I’ve learned from 2 years of blogging

Welcome Friends to a very special post, as of today I have been regurgitating musings on books for 2 years on this platform. In short, it's my 2 year anniversary as a book blogger. I never thought I would commit this long, so glad I stuck with it through the good and the bad.  I would …

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Book Review (Short Post)

Click Here for more info… 259 pages  Viking Genre: Historical > Historical Fiction, Glbt, War, Literary Fiction “Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at …

5 Best Books of 2017 (Kenyan Library)

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,  Whispering 'it will be happier'...”  We have arrived at this glorious moment friends, glad you've decided to celebrate my love for these reads in today's blog post. Welcome! Before we get to the list, I would like to tell you what constitutes as my "favourite" book. …

5 Disappointing Reads of 2017

Hello, Friends, It's that time of the year where everyone and their dog will be posting about the most impactful books of 2017. I always look forward to this time of year, it brings together book lovers, shouting out loud their favourite books and speak passionately about them. Before we get to that positive note let's discuss some books that were in a sense a disappointment

New Used Book Haul

Hey Friends, hope you are well it's been a minute since we talked about thrift books. I recently visited the bookstore and found some amazing titles so without too much rumbling... Tell me if you've read any of them. P.S. All the book info will be linked down below The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de …

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Short Book Review)

" Click Here for more… 632 pages Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical, "Sci-fi" "Fantasy" "What if you could live again and again until you got it right? " On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. …