Self care

Shakespeare & Company bookshop, Paris

When you have finished a book and you are just not over it yet.

just want to drop everything and read

I am deep in all of the feels over this book. At different turns this book has had me crying over a single line of dialogue and at others it’s made me want to fling it across the room for an entire chapter. I’m still trying to process everything that I read, so I hope this review comes out okay.

I really liked Wallace as a main character, but he was a total asshole at the start of this book. I loved that by the time we get to the end of the story he had learned from his past to make a better future. Hugo was such a sweetheart and he really deserves all of the hugs and warm tea. And I can’t forget Mei, Nelson, and Apollo! They got up to the best shenanigans. I also really loved that this book didn’t shy away from hard topics. And that it dealt with them in a genuinely kind way, especially Cameron’s storyline. I think the only draw back to this book is that it was really slow paced. But I think it also worked for this type of storytelling.

This is one of those books that will stick with me long after I’ve finished it. This book deals with grief in a different way then any other that I’ve read and it hit home in ways that I wasn’t really ready for. But it was also something that I think I really needed and for that I have to thank TJ Klune. Under The Whispering Door is getting a four and half out of five stars.

Edit: I forgot my reading challenge prompts again! 🤦‍♀️

Reading challenge prompt fills:

PopSugar 2022: a book about the afterlife

addiction is not a silly way to describe having a favorite thing. saying "omg I'm such a [object or thing] addict!" or something like that when you really just mean it is something that you enjoy makes you shit. along with the already terrible stigmas surrounding addiction it makes it seem like something that people chose. it makes it seem like something that people just don't want to stop. stop using addiction and addicts as your punchline.

Can someone give me book recommendations about whatever .......my list is over I just wanna read

Rereading for the nth time, my most favourite book series:

ROWAN OF RIN by Emily Rodda

These are a compilation of short books about the adventures of a shy and fearful boy who faces perils that are seemingly greater that who he is. But eventually finds that being different may be a strength and that true friendships are found in these difficult times.

Emily Rodda is also the author of Deltora Quest and its series. Just sayin

It calms and brings peace as you concentrate to your own breathing, feel the quietness.

My girl Anna WHAT are you doing????

I quite honestly haven’t binged a series in a week since I read Divergent in 2014. Highly recommend The Inheritance Games if you like puzzles, mystery, and enjoyed The Queens Gambit

The temptation to post the poetry that is probably supposed to be crumpled up and tossed into the recycling bin

It should probably just stay in my brain.

If anyone on Bookblr might be interested in connecting on Goodreads, my url is bibliophilicsloth. 🦥

“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot."

[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

—Alan Bennett