Between the Pages

Reading and writing, reading and writing, reading and writing: that's what I hope to keep doing all summer (with some swimming and seeing friends mixed in there too!). Here's another review! This is Stuart Turton's The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,  and it's a doozy.  SUMMARY THE RULES OF BLACKHEATH Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Understood? Then let's begin... Evelyn Hardcastle WILL die. And every day Aiden Bishop WILL try to identify her killer and break this neverending cycle he has somehow found himself in. But every time a new day begins, Aiden inhabits the body of a different guest at Blackheath. Some of Aiden's hosts will be more helpful than others. Some of Aiden's hosts are more capable than others. Some of Aiden's hosts start to overcome Aiden's true personality. Then again, who is Aiden? A...

Hello, everyone. In my quest to finish my junior year of high school (aka the hardest year of my life) on a high note, I have not posted a review on this blog for a while. My apologies for the lack of posts; however, it's summer. I'm back. Let's get into it with my first self-help book EVER: Atomic Habits by James Clear.  SUMMARY Atomic Habits by James Clear is, at the most basic level, a book about habits, as the title suggests: habit-forming, habit breaking, and strategies for integrating small changes into our daily lives. While the majority of the book is focused on teaching readers “an easy and proven way to build good habits,” as the title proclaims, James Clear’s overarching goal is proving that massive success does not require massive action, but rather that small, everyday changes will have a larger impact. Clear writes, “It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.” ...