On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

This first novel by Ocean Vuong (who has previously published a collection of poetry that has been on my TBR for years) is the most recent book that I’ve seen sweeping the reading community. I’ve seen nothing but amazing reviews and recommendations and so I knew that, eventually, I’d want to read it. But I…

Sister Outsider

This is my very first Audre Lorde. I have never been much into poetry, so it’s not completely surprising. However, I’ve been trying to read more diversely, including more diverse nonfiction, so to be honest, from that perspective, it’s about time I picked something up that she’s written. A few months ago, I put out…

Queens of Geek

This book was not super high on my TBR (though it was on it – because the cover is incredibly eye-catching and got me to read the synopsis) until I read about how legit Wilde is with writing representative characters. I mean, I am also a giant nerd and I love the focus on how…

A Closed and Common Orbit

This has been a big month for me as far as sequels. And not just any sequels…but such GREAT ones. I just recently posted my review for Vengeful, the follow-up to Schwab’s amazing X-men-ish novel Vicious. It was just as good as the first! And now I’ve finished reading A Closed and Common Orbit, the…

Freshwater

I was originally drawn to this book by the cover, which is gorgeous, and then by the description. I am always fascinated to read about beliefs that are different and foreign to my own, specifically in how they look/play out in real life. In addition, this sounded like a really fascinating personal exploration, a book…

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Last year, I read Every Heart a Doorway and it spoke to me on a level that very few books have. For being as short as it is, there was something that touched my soul in that book. And I’ve recommended it far and wide since then. Considering all the feels I had for that…

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

The first thing that caught my eye about this novel was the title…because obviously. Haha. Then, after reading the description and realizing the title is literally what the book is about, I was really just beyond intrigued. Since I first saw it, the book has gotten much more popular, especially after it was chosen by…

Her Body and Other Parties

I’m not always a short story person. I don’t read a lot of them, so when I do decide to pick up a book like this, you know there’s a good reason. In this case, a collection of stories billed as genre-defying representations of the female experience. Honestly, that’s an almost impossible description for me…

An Unkindness of Ghosts

This book was already on my 2018 TBR list (you can see it on my Back the Backlist Challenge list) when my long-distance book club decided, for a number of reasons, that we wanted to focus on making our February book an #ownvoices choice. This was the book I suggested and, after voting, it was…

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda

This is just one of those books – the ones that you kind of see everywhere and hear good things about, but don’t actually know much about it. And then you see they’re making a movie based on it (Love, Simon), so you watch the trailer and, finally, read a blurb about the book. And…