Month: January 2025

Let’s Call Her Barbie by Reneé Rosen | ARC Review

Posted January 20, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 3 Comments

My first five star read of 2025! I’m so happy this came across my inbox to read and review because it reminded me just how much I love reading historical fiction (I feel like I say this every time I read and review a historical fiction novel, lol). I’ve always been a fan of Barbie (I had the boat, the motor-home, the airplane, etc growing up) and I loved the resurgence of Barbie-mania in 2023 with the movie (ah, the summer of Barbenheimer). I was intrigued at the idea of a historical fiction take on the creation of the iconic […]

January 2025 TBR

Posted January 10, 2025 in Features, TBR / 0 Comments

I’m excited to be back with making structured TBRs for 2025! I sort of fell off doing this in 2024 after March because I got pregnant and understandably other things took priority. But in those first three months of 2024 I was reading pretty much everything on my TBR and then some, and I felt like picking 6 books to hold myself accountable to worked well! Last year I made sure I had one book “per category,” but this year I’m being more flexible and just picking the top 6 priority books regardless of categories (hence the 3 ARCs on […]

Top 5 Books of 2024

Posted January 9, 2025 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Books, Features / 2 Comments

Another year in the books! Most of my top reads this year were in the first half of the year, as the second half was dominated by pregnancy and baby books. These are in no particular order, except for Quicksilver being number uno. Quicksilver | You know that GIF of Lady Gaga that’s like “terrific, fantastic, phenomenal, iconic” etc? That’s how I feel about this book. Is it super original? No. I haven’t written my review yet but in many ways it felt like it could’ve started as ACOMAF fanfiction, but it was still so so good and captivated me […]