Book 24/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim. Mother’s Day is still sooo challenging for me 😢 so I deliberately chose to read this over the Mother’s Day weekend as I was confident it would be the perfect distraction from the usual … Continue reading All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

Book 23/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsI had been wanting to read this for YEARS and thought I would LOVE it because not giving a fuck is something I have always advocated for. Not giving a fuck has always been one of my mantras and I was dying to learn the subtle art of … Continue reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

Book 22/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsIn the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man.Hook, Line, and Sinker is book two in the Bellinger Sisters duology and I was … Continue reading Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey

Book 21/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsIt Happened One Summer is a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com from Tessa Bailey about a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she does not … Continue reading It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

Book 20/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Let it be said about the Eras Tour, we’re tricksy. That’s what we are. We enjoy a good, healthy setlist hijinks. That is what my ABSOLUTE FAVE Taylor Swift had to say about her current RECORD-BREAKING AF tour, but it could also be said about The Pillars … Continue reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Book 18/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsKaren Krupp was home making dinner for her husband. She was expecting him any second. The phone rang—it was the call she hoped she'd never get. She jumped in her car and raced to a neighborhood she thought she'd never visit. She peered into the dark, deserted building … Continue reading A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena

Book 17/30. My rating: 1 of 5 stars535.That is the number of days I went without reading a 1 star book. The last time I rated a book 1 star was on October 14, 2021 when I finished reading Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. I went all of 2022 without reading a 1 star book … Continue reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Book 16/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsYoung Adult is my second favourite genre (after Romance) but I went into this with a 50-50 mix of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because I LOVE YA and trepidation because I was still nursing a book hangover from the Six of Crows duology and was worried the hangover … Continue reading Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Book 15/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsOn December 29, 2022 at the Chasing Paper Book Club inaugural in-person review, I met a few African women who all mentioned that they did not enjoy The Sex Lives of African Women as much as they thought they would. The general consensus was that the essays were … Continue reading The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

Book 14/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars No mourners.No funerals. AND JUST LIKE THAT (snaps fingers) THE SIX OF CROWS DUOLOGY IS MY FAVOURITE BOOK(S) OF ALL TIME!!It was THE MOST bittersweet feeling going into Crooked Kingdom because I loooooooved Six of Crows and was dyyyiiiiiiinnngggg to pick up the story where it ended. … Continue reading Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo