Friends with ARCS | Loveboat, Taipei + Woven in Moonlight

Loveboat, Taipei is like Crazy Rich Asians meets American Panda , but is also very much a contemporary YA that stands all on its own. Ever Wong’s summer plans are completely disrupted when her parents send her off to Taipei to attend Chien Tan , an educational program meant to help Ever with her Man…

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Book Review: The Map from Here to There

I’m a big Emery Lord fan, and  The Start of Me and You is my favorite of her novels. So, I was experiencing a mix of anticipation and nerves when The Map From Here to There , the long-awaited follow-up story, was announced. It didn’t help that, upon picking up this sequel, I was coming off a reread …

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Flights of Fantasy 2020

I’m so excited to announce that Flights of Fantasy is making a comeback! Rachel from Hello, Chelly and I hosted this annual fantasy reading challenge from 2015-2017 but decided to take a break in 2018. We toyed with the idea of bringing Flights of Fantasy back in 2020, and I’m so glad we decided t…

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My 2020 Reading Journal

I’m so happy to finally be sharing my 2020 reading journal set-up today! While I’ve migrated into digital options for my personal planning (via shared calendars and Trello), I really wanted to have a physical record of my reading year. So, after much consideration (and inspired by Kristin from Sup…

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2020

I was chatting with my sister Rachel on one of our random walks home together, and we were talking about our annual (third year running!) tradition of picking out a word to encompass the entire year at its onset. It always feels incredibly important to choose the right word, and this year, my word…

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