Hello, welcome to my cozy corner of the internet. I have created this space to share my love for reading. I have considered starting a book blog off and on for years, and as my library grew the desire to share the worlds that I have explored has also grown with it. Books are my sanctuary, they are where I go when I have no where else to go. To anyone else who also seeks solace in books I hope this can also be a place of solace for you as well. I know that sounds out there and like I am taking this far too seriously. Which is completely understandable and I don’t have any delusions of grandeur that I am some savior and this blog is going to change people and fix their lives. After all these are just book reviews, nothing to ground breaking. However what I do aspire for is to help people find a good book, because a good book can make all the difference.

A couple of months ago my grandmother died who I was extremely close to, and it was even hard for my mom who had been her main caretaker. I don’t know how the conversation came up but I started telling my mom about a book I had read it was called “The Appeal”. Something I said must of struck a cord, because although my mom does not read books at all she immediately went and bought it. She was instantly absorbed And within days she had finished it. She told me afterwards that she felt so much better, that it gave her a place to go to set aside her grief and be somewhere else for just for a moment. I then went on to recommend other books hoping she could find more stories to help her but she was never much of a reader in the first place and couldn’t get into them. She had gotten what she needed, that book gave her a lifeline and now she could face things a little better then before. It was not a cure all, and she was and is still dealing with her grief. If any of the books you decide to read becouse of my reviews help you at all then I would be so happy.

I have had similar experiences with books which is why I talk about them the way I do. In my opinion books are the closest thing in our world to magic. And I am a sucker for magic, my dream is to live in a cottage with my boyfriend and cats and pretend like I am a witch in a Ghibli movie. The other reason for this blog is a less poetic reason, I have a terrible memory. The existential crisis I get when I can’t remember the plot of a book I read a couple of months ago is quite severe. It makes me not want to read at all because it feels like I wasted my time. I hope that writing reviews will help cement these stories more firmly into my brain.

I have also struggled to find other book reviewers with my same outlook and taste in books as me. I seem to fall in the middle of the extremes in different ways. Such as I like romance, However I can not stand when books just hint that in the future the love interests are together with some quote like “and maybe one day our paths will meet again and then we can grow old together but for now they had to follow their own paths” I have had way to many books do that to me. On the other hand, when people start having graphic spice scenes after a couple chapters I’m also like ok slow it down there I don’t need to know all the details that are going on. I just want a nice tasteful fade to black so I can be happy that they did it but not have to read about what exactly they did. That’s just one example of the many tangents that I can go on and trust me you have not heard the last of that one.

So if anything I have said appeals to you and you decide to stick around then once again welcome to my cozy corner of the internet…