I am a romance reader. In pretty much every book I read, I need there to be an element of people falling in love or yearning. And, while I do enjoy literary fiction, too, I never could enjoy other genre fiction without romance. That was, until I discovered romantasies. I absolutely love the blended genre […]

I didn’t start liking reading until I was in 8th grade. And, even then, I wasn’t reading what all my peers were, which made reading a lonely and passive activity for me. Instead, I’ve always been devoted to writing. Every story I learned seemed to inspire me to create a variant of it. I adore […]

If you haven’t noticed from other posts, I am addicted to journaling— I am a huge advocate that journaling in any form can be a very fun and therapeutic experience for anyone, which is why I’m always writing about it. In my other posts about journaling, they are typically more bullet journal-like with trackers and […]

Sometimes it can be so easy to forget the things that had formerly engrossed our world—one of the many reasons why I track everything in journals. But, when you don’t, it can be a challenge to drudge up the memory correctly. Nevertheless, when it comes to bookish things, it can actually be fun trying to […]

Confession: I’m a slow reader.  That’s why I never did book clubs or buddy reads. But, when I started my bookstore, I knew that hosting book clubs would be foundational in fostering a bookish community. Nevertheless, traditional formats (we all read the same book) would be virtually impossible for me to keep up. So, I […]