Day 19: What splurge item do you own that you are most grateful for? Does it count if it was a gift? Because I know this was a definite splurge item for the person who gave it to me. It’s a signed first-edition of Haruki Murakami’s Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage given…
Day 17: Favourite quote from your favourite book. This was SO hard to choose from!! But I managed to narrow it down to one, amazingly. “Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt.” –Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood. The quote I’ve shared is something that I…
Good afternoon! I was going through my tags for the past couple of months, and I saw that I was tagged by the brilliant Chizure from Of Midnight Ravings to do the 3 Days, 3 Quotes tag quite some time ago. I am sorry that it took me so long to get around to doing…
Happy new year from my small family to you and yours! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend as 2017 ended, whether you were with loved ones or went solo. Instead of blogging, I decided to take a break so that I could spend my holiday time with Sir Betrothed and our kitty clan.…
Today I wanted to do something a little on the delinquent side. Most folks who’ve ever been in a classroom setting, whether high school or university, has probably had that one class that was unbelievably boring! It may have been the person teaching, or just the subject matter. Whatever the reasons, the class sucked and…
Good Morning book dragons! I was tagged by James @ This Is My Truth Now to do this tag, which was really fun to do. Please stop by James’ site and check him out. He writes very intellectual and interesting reviews; you won’t be disappointed. 🙂 #1: What book would you make everyone read? Norwegian…
May has been a deliciously awesome month so far in regards to book mail and book gifts, and one of the reasons for that is there’s a lot of diverse books in my haul this month! The second reason that it’s so awesome is that the pile is positively towering and leaning. It’s already fallen…
A most kind and brilliant book blogger, Shenwei, is hosting a super-awesome reading challenge for the month of May, which also happens to be Asian-American Heritage month, called Asian Lit. Bingo! When I first saw this challenge at the beginning of the month, I had opted out from participating because I felt that I wouldn’t…
What a peculiar type of book! It’s actually a Borzoi book, which means there’s special attention to detail such as the card stock, illustrations, and overall format that make it very unique, creating a seemingly “special” feeling to a rather ordinary book. The structure of it was definitely interesting and helped provide creative visuals for…
Spring is finally in full bloom. My allergies have been having quite the raging party to celebrate. Trash bins filling up with a snowy mountain of tissues as the red-nose syndrome finds its way to my face. In observance of such a lovely time of year, I decided to do the Spring Reading Tag! Adding…
Last week I created a list of books that I felt were some of my worst reading experiences for the year. This week I have returned with something that has a much better resonation to it: the best reads I’ve encountered in the past three-hundred-sixty-some odd days. While I glance over the scribbles on this…
Good afternoon my worldly book mates! With the end of December, 2016 will finally come to a close. On one hand, I’m so excited that this dreadfully fuck-shit of a year can be put behind us. Yet, another part of me, a small fuzzy part of me, will miss a tiny corner of 2016. It’s…
Happy holidays to all of the book elves everywhere! I hope your season is going about splendidly. Last week Sir Boyfriend surprised me with two of my Christmas presents early. I was having a rough time dealing with some shit and he wanted to make me smile (I swear, he is the greatest of all…
Ciao, book kittens! Today is Friday, which means it’s a great day; a day for total unwinding as we steer our way into the weekend. As I sat down at my computer to compose some sort of scribbles for the day’s post, I decided to partake in a book tag that is quite old and…
Good morning, bookwormies out there everywhere! Most of you who actually read my ramblings probably know that I’m participating in a readathon event called Bout-of-Books. Today is Day #4 in said event and there is a very special challenge on this over-heated California day: If You Like This, Try Reading This recommendation challenge. Now, I…
