Between the Pages

   There were 2,635 pages under the tree just for me this Christmas. Pages full of analysis, reviews, history, pictures, fiction, and true crime. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction; I also, as any normal person did, gave books this Christmas. Not quite 2,635 pages worth, but enough to hold my status as the reader of the family. Here lie the highlights of what this booklover was gifted this Christmas.  #1: The New York Times Book Review    125 years of literary history all bound into one beautiful book that combines my two passions, literature and journalism, is a collection of 368 pages I found myself gawking at on multiple occasions. All alone, on its pedestal in a warmly lit bookstore, stood my one true love: the one and only New York Times Book Review . Over the past couple of months and over the course of 6+ visits, at least three Parnassus employees said some version of, "That book is amazing. Inspired, really," as I stood drooli...

Hello readers! Happy Holidays from BTP! Exams are finished, gifts are wrapped (mostly), and extended family members have arrived - we are ready. While I completely and fully believe that every season is a "reading season", I contend that the most romantic time for readers is the holiday season. Fire crackling, lights twinkling, my reading session two days ago by the fire, in a cozy chair with a knit, chunky blanket, with a cold glass of ice water with just a smidgen of lemon was the peak of my existence.  I have finished a book thus far and am already into three more. I bought books, I recommended books, I borrowed books, I lent books, and I am certain I am receiving books in the coming days. I have been enjoying texting about books with friends, as we all have more time to read. I have been participating in #TistheReadson reading sprints (which are a great excuse to put that phone away and do some reading!). I love being part of bookstagram, and I am grateful for that commun...

Well, hello there! I have SO many things to write about, but NO time to write about them. Here's a post, though. Y'all, I did it! I finally read it - after months.  Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Ellie Cosimano.  SUMMARY Finlay Donovan has no stability. She is recently divorced, has two small children, and is an author with a mental block. Not only is she failing to put any words on the blank document that she sits in front of every night but she cannot even manage to keep her daughter from cutting tragically jagged bangs. Struggling to pay bills, Finlay meets with her agent at a local Panera (where else?) to discuss getting yet another advance on the book she is failing to write when an unidentified, despondent-looking woman slips a piece of paper into Finlay's diaper bag. A piece of paper that read - "I crumpled up the note and held it over the bin. But the dollar sign - and all the zeros that followed - piqued my curiosity. Who was Harris Mickler? Why did he have s...

I am immensely behind. That's just a fact. I have read so many books over the past couple of months. As we all know, I have not reviewed them. But here's a review:  The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan! SUMMARY Rebecca Porter isn't the fancy twin. She isn't the girly twin or the popular twin or the 'pretty' twin. Her sister Lacey is the one who should have all this. The one who should have this seemingly glamorous life. The one who should be in all the magazines and the topics of everyone's conversations. Nonetheless, Rebecca, Bex, found her prince charming. No really, she fell in love with Prince Nicholas, future King of England, when she found herself living down the hall from Nick at Oxford.  Dating Nick introduces Bex to a whole new world: one of lavish events, cocktail dresses, chasing Nick, his friends, and his charming brother Freddie around London, and learning to keep her legs together when getting out of cars to prevent unwanted paparaz...

 Hello readers! I have not posted in a while as you are all aware. Junior year is no joke. Between making time to read or making to post, I have chosen reading for the past month. I have not stopped reading/listening to audiobooks but I have not written a review in quite a while. I'm back! SUMMARY "Part The Westing Game , part We Were Liars , completely entertaining." -- Kirkus Reviews Avery lives out of her car. She is very close to her sister and is a top student, but has a strange life to an outsider looking in. With her mother dead and her father missing, Avery lives a complicated and hard, but routine life. One day Avery is barely making ends meet, the next she is on a plane to the Hawthorne House, the mansion and estate of Tobias Hawthorne the Texas billionaire. One day Avery doesn't have a house, the next she is the beneficiary of the late Tobias Hawthorne's fortune. The list of questions/'catches' is long. (1) Avery doesn't know and has never k...