• What I Read in January

    January was a great month, and set the tone for lots of reading in 2025. I read 12 books, and really loved a lot of them. Let’s dive in! 1. Solitaire by Alice Oseman While I haven’t read the Heartstopper series, I love the Netflix show. Solitaire offers a compelling view into Tori’s life, Charlie’s…

  • 101 Books: A Year in Reading Ranked Through Genres

    How Many Books Did I Read? I read 101 books this year! This was a personal record that was really exciting to achieve. I listened to many books as audiobooks, which made reading more accessible to me when life got busy. Let’s take a look at the main genres I read and my top books…

  • Chanel Miller’s Know My Name: An Unflinching Truth (Book Review) 

    Chanel Miller’s memoir, Know My Name, is the most powerful memoir I’ve read. Not only is her story so important and vulnerable, she wrote it phenomenally. Her victim statement, released in 2016 by BuzzFeed and reprinted by other major news sources, reached a wide audience. It was viewed by eleven million people within four days,…

  • The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Book Review)

    Introduction The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline is a YA Indigenous, futuristic, dystopian novel. The text delves into an assortment of themes including humanity, dreams, community, and fear. It is a coming of age novel that follows Frenchie, an Indigenous teenager on the run from the recruiters, or Marrow Thieves. Despite the title, the novel…