Girls At The Bookstore

For the month of April, Tee and I are doing a dark academia challenge. We are trying to see how many books we can read within the challenge time. I have a collection of 12 books that I have chosen for this month.  Blood of the Alter - Bright Ink & Ruin - Hoa Dang Truly Devious - Maureen Johnson Katabasis - R.F. Kuang Babel - R.F. Kuang If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake Arcana Academy - Elise Kova The Deadly Education - Naomi Novik The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik 

 There is a table that we gather around once a week. Not for long, just a couple of hours carved out of our ordinary lives, but long enough for us to gather with our books and tell the stories they hold. We bring book we have read Books we abandoned  and books we could not stop thinking about at 2 am. We arrive with them, carrying stacks, tucked under our arms, and pass them around the table like they are offerings. Our book club, doesnt look like a lot of bookclubs. There is  no assigned reading. No structured discussions. No pressure to have read any book at all. Instead, we gather together with whatever found us that week. A story someone loved enough to bringamd say " You have to read this ". A book bought on a whim because the cover spoke to the holder. A half finished novel, dog eared and marked, waiting to be shared and understood. We trade them, recommend them, maybe gently insist on them. Then sometimes, we leave with more than we brought with us. It may not even...

GOODREADS SUMMARY After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. With the help of a little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her her first crush and first kiss (and who just happens to be a newly-divorced wedding guest ), and she decides to woo him during the cruise for some long-delayed closure. Only problem is, her sister’s a little busy being a bride at the moment—so JoJo ropes in her childhood bestie, Cooper Watts, to be her wing man. Cooper: who RSVPed no, but then showed up, anyway. Cooper: who left town without a word four years earlier and moved to London. Cooper: who was, if she’s honest, the worst heartbreak of JoJo’s life. It’s bliss for her to see him again, and it’s agony, too—and the more they team up for Project Conquest, the more she obsesses over questions she can’t bring herself to ask. Shipboard anti...

 GOODREADS SUMMARY From the relentless media scrutiny and controversies of their 2022 Caribbean Tour to the shock cancer diagnoses of both the Princess of Wales and the King, this captivating biography by acclaimed royal journalist Russell Myers intimately traces the story of William and Catherine’s relationship from their earliest meeting at St Andrews University to the present day. Drawing on exclusive access to numerous palace insiders, it offers never-before-told context about the biggest stories to have followed the Prince and Princess of Wales in recent years – including the Sussex departure, the forming of the ‘Cambridge way,’ and the death of Queen Elizabeth II – and provides an unprecedented glimpse into their private lives. Highlighting the couple's resilience and dedication in the face of adversity,  William and Catherine presents a deeply personal perspective on how the events the Prince and Princess have weathered together will shape their distinct vision for a mo...

  Goodreads Summary RYLAND GRACE  is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it,  Project Hail Mary  is a tale of discovery, s...

GOODREAD SUMMARY: Born in Hollywood, and raised by a radical, Black Panther-supporting mother and a charismatic trombone-playing father, Nikki Nash grew up surrounded by musicians, actors, conspiracy theorists, political fundraisers, jazz jams, and lots of alcohol-fueled parties. At thirteen she was lonely, longing for attention, and desperate to find something to fill the void. It wasn't a pony. It was Warren Beatty. She made a secret vow to find him and have him in her life forever. She wasn't naive and this wasn't a fantasy; she had a solid plan. And the first step was to grow up. Five years later, Nash—now eighteen—embarks on the next step of her plan. After quitting college, she learns that Warren Beatty—who lives at the Beverly Hills Hotel—frequents a nearby restaurant. She gets a hostess job there and waits. In the meantime, she has endless strange encounters with stalkers, sociopaths, actors, agents, mobsters, and producers. It takes a year-and-a-half, but on a cold...