Month: January 2026
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Book Review: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
I have been loving this genre of cozy Japanese magical realism books lately. A small part of me was nervous that I would be fatiguing myself with these types of books by picking this up relatively soon after the last one (given it’s not a go-to), but it’s now one of my favorites in the…
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Book Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Despite my love for classics, I was never drawn to Jane Austen. I think I tried watching the movie of Pride and Prejudice when I was younger, but I wasn’t interested. Although by reading this I confirmed that this isn’t my preferred era of stories, I’m so glad I finally gave it a try…
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Book Review: Graham Greene: The Last Interview
I didn’t want this year to end without reading this much-anticipated book from my bookshelf that somehow kept getting shuffled to the bottom of my priority list. Unfortunately, now that I’ve finally read it, I realize that this wasn’t as spectacular as I’d built it up to be in my mind…
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Book Review: Dunamys: Foreign by Carlos G. Moreno
This is a series that I began out of order. I meant to get to this book shortly after reading book two… alas, my time management skills are terrible. But the wait was worth it!…
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Book Review: Terms and Traditions by Morgan Taylor Giesbrecht
I’ve been on the hunt for more sweet romance books. I saw this one recommended on Instagram and/or YouTube and thought it sounded like a nice, cozy Christmas read…
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Book Review: Food for Thought by Alton Brown
Growing up, Good Eats was my favorite Food Network show. I remembered enjoying Alton Brown’s approach to teaching about food and food science (to this day, I cannot pick up a bag of sliced bread without thinking about him squishing the bag to show how much air is in there)…
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Book Review: The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins
Despite having grown up interested in the Great Depression and World War II eras, I never did much research on Franklin Roosevelt as a person. I came across this book secondhand around the time I read Becoming Madam Secretary (a fictionalized account of Frances Perkins’ life), and I thought it would be fascinating to read about FDR…
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Book Review: A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn
I chose this book as my Book of the Month pick last December but never got around to it. I’ve been looking forward to picking it up all year. At first, I felt like the wait was worth it, but approaching the second half of the book, I started to retreat…
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Book Review: Good Spirits by B.K. Borrison
I will never grow tired of A Christmas Carol retellings. I don’t know if I would necessarily consider Good Spirits a complete retelling given the major shift in dynamics, but the concept is there, and it feels fresh…