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WIKATHON: August 2020 TBR

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“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the u

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. My mother is my best friend. My husband is my best friend. No. True sisterhood, the kind where you grew fingernails in the same womb, were pushed screaming through identical birth canals, is not the same as friendship. You don’t choose each other, and there’s no furtive period of getting to know the other. You’re part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”

Each with their own addictions to deal with, we follow the Blue sisters a year after their sister’s death. We watch them navigate their way through their grief, addiction, and in finding ways out of questionable decisions.

With the inevitable sale of the apartment they grew up in, we watch them go through their late sister’s belongings and figure out how to properly be sisters again.

A heads up for those who have parental issues though. Their parents are not very good at being parents. Their dad is an alcoholic. Their mom, despite not wanting any children, did her best. When confronted about the reason why they kept on having children, it’s because she believed being a wife and being a mother went hand in hand. Unfortunately, she relied heavily on Avery (her eldest). Avery who had to grow up fast; who chaperoned all of her sisters going to and from a Spice Girls concert at the age of 15 (correct me if I’m wrong, please); who taught all her siblings how to swim; who was told to take her sisters out of the house while their dad was having a fit. Avery who practically raised her sisters.

Overall, I found this to be a good start for my year.

TW: death; drug use; alcoholism; infidelity; addiction; desire to be a mother; parental neglect.

Thank you to @penguincanada for my copy.

#bluesisters #bookrecs #cocomellors

"Pride […] is a very common failing I believe. B

"Pride […] is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

I remember starting Pride and Prejudice a few years ago, and I also fully remember how it took me a year to finish it. This was also the time I decided to finally start annotating.

I didn’t really know what to expect, given all I had going for me was Matthew Macfadyen’s hand stretch from the 2005 film (please spare me, I didn’t know any better). I don’t think I’ve read anything more focused on character before this, but I was glad I stuck to it because I get it now.

Eventually, when the time is right, I will revisit the Bennets. For now, I have the rest of Austen’s works to look forward to.

#prideandprejudice #janeausten #classicliterature

#readinggoals #2026readinggoals

#readinggoals #2026readinggoals

A bit late, but here are my favorite reads of 2025

A bit late, but here are my favorite reads of 2025, in no particular order.

- THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE KISSMAS by Sara Raasch
- GO LUCK YOURSELF by Sara Raasch
- THE ENTANGLEMENT OF RIVAL WIZARDS by Sara Raasch
- THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART by Monika Kim
- THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- GOOD SPIRITS by B.K. Borison
- CRYING IN H-MART by Michelle Zauner
- DEEP END by Ali Hazelwood
- THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE by Samantha Shannon
- ENTANGLED LIFE by Merlin Sheldrake
- SUNRISE ON THE REAPING by Suzanne Collins
- I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy

Have you read any of these?

#bookrecs #2025favoritereads @sara_raasch @monikakimauthor @amalelmohtar @max.gladstone @authorbkborison @alihazelwood @say_shannon @merlin.sheldrake @jennettemccurdy

According to @the.storygraph, I’ve had a great

According to @the.storygraph, I’ve had a great reading year:

- Finishing 49 books (from my goal of 20) read across 11,149 pages, and 192.98 hours;
- Explored 32 new (to me) authors;
- Read 3 books from MY shelf (given I work at a bookstore, this is an accomplishment LOL)

And you know what else made it such a great reading year? The number of non-fiction books I read: 8. I don’t typically gravitate towards non-fiction, but for some reason it was a little bit easier this past year.

Here’s to hoping I get another great reading year!

#readingwrapup #2025readingwrapup

To celebrate National Science Fiction Day, I thoug

To celebrate National Science Fiction Day, I thought I’d share with you one of the VERY few sci-fi books I’ve read, and enjoyed.

It’s not a genre I normally gravitate to, and I would love to read more so please feel free to leave recommendations!

#bookstagram #instabooks #bookrecs #yxe #thisishowyoulosethetimewar #nationalsciencefictionday #nationalscifiday @amalelmohtar @max.gladstone

One day, I’ll go to a Christmas tree farm, and c

One day, I’ll go to a Christmas tree farm, and cut (chop?) me a real tree… One day.

@authorbkborison #lovelightfarms #bookrecs #bookstagram

A Christmas Carol gets a romantic twist in Good Sp

A Christmas Carol gets a romantic twist in Good Sprits by B.K. Borison.

This got me bawling during the early hours of the day so I guess it’s safe to say it’s easily one of my favorite holiday romances.

#goodspirits @authorbkborison #books #bookrecs

“I love you. I’m glad I exist.” The Orange

“I love you. I’m glad I exist.”

The Orange by Wendy Cope

#bookstagram #yxe #yxeblogger #theorange

@ocean_vuong @stoonlibrary #timeisamother #bookst

@ocean_vuong @stoonlibrary #timeisamother #bookstagram #yxe #yxeblogger #libraryreads #publiclibrary #saskatoonpubliclibrary

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