One sub-genre of history I’ve accidentally found myself engaged in recently is that of the time traveler. These books ask, if you accidentally found yourself transported to this place and time in the past, how would you get by? It’s a fun question to consider, especially as a lot of the history we study is…
Hey you! Do you tend to go all-in on a topic once you start reading about it and then fall down the rabbit hole for weeks? I do. You know this about me. But perhaps your cup of tea is, for some reason, a topic other than shark-related disasters, naval disasters, or imperial exploration disasters.…
My dad told me the other day he tried to read one of my posts and it was too long so he gave up. Fine. This is a book review I had to write for a journalism class a few years ago, which had a word limit and my professor told me was a “pleasure…
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Whewwww! We are really cutting it close to the end of the month here. That’s okay, there’s still time to sneak it in. You’ll recall from the previous Women’s History Month post that I am rather a fan of “listicle” books, much like the content on this site so far. That post focused on some…
Happy Women’s History Month! You might have heard the phrase “history is written by the victors,” and one place that’s quite evident is the presence of women throughout your textbooks. Women and other marginalized groups are often excluded from the narrative, either deemed unable to lead or hold positions of power like men, or relegated…
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Hi friends! Thank you all for your great engagement on my first-ever literary post on this blog. I’m back again for a follow-up to that article, this time tackling my favorite non-fiction reads instead of fiction. Let’s clarify a couple things before we hop into this post, though. First, these books did not necessarily come…
As I’ve been setting up this site, I’ve been reminded of many of the books I read since 2019 that simply slipped my mind. I read them, I enjoyed most, I marked them down in my reading tracker, and then promptly forgot everything that happened in them. I try not to waste time on bad…
My name is Kayleigh, and I’m a bookworm. Okay, so that certainly doesn’t make me unique, and there’s more than a few websites and blogs already out there where people share their favorite reads, life-changing books, new releases, and more – not to mention an entire part of the journalism industry focused on reviews! So…
Buying New Bookshelves 