The Lady of Ink

Review for Ava Reid’s The Wolf and the Woodsman

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. Description “In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut— inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology—follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a…

I saw this Top Ten Tuesday prompt on That Artsy Reader Girl and I ran with it! I’ve paired books with specific artists whose music captures the essence of the stories and depicted the main characters as band members. I had a lot of fun using ummmmandy’s picrewto recreate some of the main characters from the books I chose (I want to clarify that I did not draw these images and all credit goes to…

Does being cooped up in your house all day make you want to travel the world as soon as it’s safe again? If that’s the case, these books can satisfy your wanderlust until it’s safe to travel!

Loveboat, Taipei (Abigail Hing Wen) The FANTASTIC book trailer made by EpicReads for Loveboat, Taipei!

“As I lunge and whirl my bo…

I saw this tag on Words About Words and I thought it was really interesting and decided to give it a go!

How Many Books Is Too Many Books In a Series?

My collection of books by Sarah J. Maas doesn’t quite fit on my shelf…

I think once a series starts to go over 7 books it becomes a little too long. Reading 7 books takes a long time for anyone even if the books have all been completed, if…

Displaying some of the books I want to read 🙂

I am officially on Spring Break!!! I actually wrote most of this article before I went on Spring Break, since then most of my Spring Break plans have been cancelled because of COVID-19. The original name for this article was “Spring Break TBR” because the idea for this article came from the Top Ten Tuesday prompt for March 17th on That Artsy Reader…

The 10 Best Books I Read In 2019

I am publishing this list a little later than I intended to… but here are the best books I read in 2019! These aren’t necessarily prize-winning books, they’re just the books I enjoyed the most. Nor is this a list of every book I read that deserved a 5-star rating (I had to narrow down my list to only 10 or there would be waaaaaayyyyy too many books on this list). These are the books I can’t stop…

10 Quotes to Convince You to Read “Gods of Jade and Shadow”

Gods of Jade & Shadowis one of the best books I’ve read this year. The book takes place in Jazz Age Mexico. A girl living in a middle of nowhere town accidentally frees a Mayan death god. Together, they travel all over Mexico on a quest to restore him to his throne. This book explores various themes; some of the biggest themes explored in the book are the concept of what makes us human and the…

Wilder Girls was the August pick for the Barnes & Noble YA Book Club

Rory Power’s Wilder Girls has been hailed as a feminist retelling of Lord of the Flies. The story takes place at an all-girls school on an island off the coast of Maine that’s in quarantine because of a mysterious disease known as the “Tox.” The disease infects both the girls and the other organisms living on the island. The…

10 Quotes to Convince You to Read “Call Me By Your Name”

A scene from the movie adaptation of “Call Me By Your Name,” starring Timothée Chalamet and Armmie Hammer.

My favorite book changes every few years because the more books I read, the more favorites I find! There are too many wonderful books in the world to have only one favorite. Immediately after I read, Call Me By Your Name, it became my new favorite book. Everything in the book is…