My Favorite American Authors: July 4th Edition

While I'm not proud of all of my country's most recent as well as past indiscretions (to put it mildly), I am proud to be American. So, in celebration of Independence Day, I thought that I would compile a list of some of my favorite classical and contemporary American authors. Albeit, it&#…

Monthly Wrap-up: May & June 2018

I know this wrap-up is really late. June is half over, but I thought I should post it anyway. May marked the official end of my first year of graduate school, and boy, was it a long-awaited end! This has been the most difficult year for me- academically- to date. Honestly, it was for lack of tryin…

Outlander (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon

Synopsis
3.7 out of 5 stars
Outlander is not what I expected it to be. Now before the lot of you that have actually read and really loved Outlander come after me with pitchforks and proclaim me a witch, hear me out. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but I felt like there just so much going on theme-wis…

2018 Book Haul #1!

This is my first ever book haul on the blog! I always watch book haul videos on Youtube created by avid book readers like myself, and find them very entertaining so considering I bought a good number of books this year thus far, I thought I'd write a book haul post showcasing the books I'v…

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4) by J.K Rowling

Synopsis 5 out of 5 stars
Firstly, I did not expect for half of the events of Goblet of Fire to happen at the Quidditch World Cup! I get that we needed the game in order to be introduced to the Death Eaters, (because how else would the characters and readers become acquainted with them, they can'…