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The Accidental Suffragist by Galia Gichon My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Accidental Suffragist by Galia Gichon is a historical fiction account of the women’s suffrage movement, with the story following the perspective of a factory worker named Helen. To brush up on actual history for a moment: the women’s suffrage movement was the... Read More

This is simple and yet so good! 4 large egg whites, room temperature 1/2 tsp cream of tartar 1/8 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 cup sugar, to be added 1 tbsp at a time Preheat oven to 225 F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside. You want to have... Read More

I’ve decided to start blogging again–mainly because I’ve been discovering and sharing a lot of food posts on my Instagram account, and I’ve had people ask me for recipes. Instagram, while a good platform for beautifully filtered photos (hehe!), doesn’t have the best caption space–it has limited word count, it does this weird thing with... Read More

So this actually came out a few months ago, but I’ve been so busy I never got to bragging posting about my short story that got accepted into the newest anthology coming from Elephant’s Bookshelf Press (I’ve had two other short stories published in their previous anthologies, so EBP is like my publishing family now. […]

I can’t believe it’s already 2016. A new year of new reads, yeah? 2015 was good to me. Not only did I manage to reach my Goodreads Reading Challenge of 200 books, I went over it by about 4 books. Granted I had quite a few graphic novels included in my Read list, but hey, […]

Taking a break from revising to do a few book spotlights because I love getting to recommend books to people. And this particular book is one of my all-time favorites! About the Book: YA Contemporary I’m dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and […]

I’ve always been an easygoing person, until I had kids. Let me rephrase that: I didn’t become a mama bear until I had my cubs to take care of. This post is probably going to sound rant-y, but whatever. The mama bear’s claws are out. I’ve never thought of myself as an outsider, even though […]

I’ve always been an easygoing person, until I had kids. Let me rephrase that: I didn’t become a mama bear until I had my cubs to take care of. This post is probably going to sound rant-y, but whatever. The mama bear’s claws are out. I’ve never thought of myself as an outsider, even though […]

I flew through this series in just a few days. Read book 1 in one day, book 2 in one day, and book 3 in 2 days (but only because I was getting sick; otherwise, I would have finished it in just a day as well). Guys, this is now one of my favorite series […]

I have been neglecting my blog, but only because I’ve been on a reading frenzy lately. Now that the frenzy is calming down, I thought: what better way to celebrate the awesome books I’ve read so far than to spotlight them online for the world to see? Right? And to leave reviews on Goodreads or […]