Book Review: [ARC] My Riot by Rick Spears

Posted on 08/03/2020 by Lenn

Title: My Riot

Author: Rick Spears

Publication Date: October 20, 2020

Number of Pages: 188

Publisher: Oni Press

Genre: Young Adult

Synopsis:

Set in the early ’90s, My Riot is about a trio of teen girls team up to form a rock band and shake off society’s expectations of what it means to be a young woman coming of age in the modern world.

1991—Val, a teenager from a conservative family, has grown up dreaming of becoming a ballerina, but recently something has changed. She’s begun feeling pressure to conform to a specific idea of beauty, body type, and a personality that just doesn’t fit.

Val meets Kat, a smart, witty girl that doesn’t take any crap off anyone. Kat introduces Val to punk rock. Along with Rudie, another new friend, the three form an all-girl punk band they ironically name The Proper Ladies.

Soon Val and her friends find themselves caught up in a movement with other girls also starting bands—also finding their voice. Collectively, these “riot grrrls” discover that their songs ring out loud and powerful, and for Val, there’s no going back.
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Stuff I’ve Been Reading Lately #10

Posted on 08/01/2020 by Lenn

BOOKS READ:

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
My Riot by Rick Spears
Kaguya-sama: Love is War Vol. 2 by Aka Akasaka
Beauty and the Beast: The Graphic Novel by Jessica Gunderson

BOOKS BOUGHT:

- Paper Towns by John Green
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Landline by Rainbow Rowell
- The Last Star by Rick Yancey
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 5 by Sui Ishida
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Inheritance Trilogy (Omnibus Edition) by N.K. Jemisin
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

BOOKS RECEIVED:

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Queens of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3) by Cassandra Clare
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck

ARCs:

My Riot by Rick Spears
Beauty and the Beast: The Graphic Novel by Jessica Gunderson
The Innocent Girls by B.R. Spangler

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Tier-Ranking All the Contemporary Books I’ve Ever Read

Posted on 07/24/2020 by Lenn

Hi, everyone! I’m back with another book list (sort of). Since I’ve been seeing a lot of people in the book community tier-ranking the books that they’ve read, I decided to do one for all the contemporary book that I have ever read. Continue reading →

Book Review: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Posted on 07/22/2020 by Lenn

Title: Sharp Objects

Author: Gillian Flynn

Date Published: September 26, 2006

Number of Pages: 396

Publisher: Crown Publishing Book

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Synopsis:

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. Continue reading →

Book Mail: My First Ever Fullybooked Online Purchase

Posted on 07/16/2020 by Lenn

Hi, everyone! I’m back with another book mail. These arrived along with the other books that I posted before but decided to post them separately because I bought them separately, too. Haha! It just so happened that I had them shipped to my boyfriend’s place and he had it delivered to me all at the same time.

To be honest, I think I’ve bought so many books this year than I ever did in my whole life. The quarantine keeps me feeling anxious and overthinking most of the time and my only escape is online shopping and looking forward to my parcels arriving. Most of my purchases are books (some skincare, of course, but only if I run out of stocks); books keep me so preoccupied which help me avoid overthinking. So without further adieu, here are the titles for this haul:
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Best Books of 2020 So Far

Posted on 07/06/2020 by Lenn

Hi, everyone! I hope you are all doing okay and you are all able to cope up with the events happening worldwide recently. It’s been a tough year, generally speaking, but to get my mind off all the cruel things happening around us, I turned to my books for solace. Just like what I used to do when I was kid and so 2020 instantly became a great reading year for me so far. My Goodreads goal is to read 30 books this year and I’ve already read 22 books (so I will probably adjust my reading challenge to 40 or 50).

This “tag” is an annual bookish thing that has been going on around the bookish community which, to be honest, I haven’t done in a while. Since I did read a lot of books so far this year, I decided to do it again. Wow, I can’t even remember the last time I did this (and I can’t even remember if that particular post still exists in my blog since I migrated to WordPress from Tumblr just last year).
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Stuff I’ve Been Reading Lately #8

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Lenn

BOOKS READ:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (Art by Maira Kalman)
The Girl On the Train by Paula Hawkins

BOOKS BOUGHT:

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (Art by Maira Kalman)
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

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