Author: Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

• Taking Stock #7: Cruel Summer [July ’23]

  

  “Taking Stock” is a series where I try to slow down and take stock of where and how I am right now. | July was a blur. I feel like I’ve been everywhere and felt everything.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  August 11, 2023

  Memes / Tags, Taking Stock

  Heartbreak, Musing, Personal, Taking Stock

• (Photo Diary) Belfast in the Rain

  

  There was something magical about Belfast today. Rain is no stranger in this city. But today, for some reason, it almost feels like the afternoon shower bathe the place anew.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  August 8, 2023

  Photo Diary, Travel

  Belfast, Photo Diary, Travel, United Kingdom

• (Series) Review: Coffeehouse Mystery #1 to #4 by Cleo Coyle

  

  4.4/5☕ | My recent audiobook streak has given yet another cosy mystery series to obsess about: The Coffeehouse Mystery Series. It took a while before I got to actually read this friend recommendation, but I absolutely loved it when I did!

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  July 30, 2023

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Book Reviews, Reading Challenge, Reviews

  Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Bookworm 2023, Cleo Coyle, Cozy Mystery, Latte Trouble, Murder Most Frothy, On What Grounds, The Coffeehouse Mystery Series, Through the Grinder

• Holding Suffering Close: A Little Life Play (2023)

  

  I get to cross off one item in my bucket list: to watch this play live. A Little Life was achingly, amazingly, and brilliantly adapted in this production and let me tell you why.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  July 18, 2023

  Events, Theatre, Travel

  A Little Life, A Little Life Play, Bookworm 2023, Hanya Yanagihara, London, Stage Production, Theatre, Theatre Review, Travel, Travel 2023, West End

• My 2022 in Books + My Top 10 Reads of the Year & 2023 Bookish Resolutions

  

  It’s that time of the year again (although a little bit late): for recaps and best-of lists! This post is about everything bookish in my 2022: reading stats, my top reads, and some 2023 resolutions.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  February 1, 2023

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Reading Challenge

  2022 Reading Challenge, Anderson Cooper, Annual Wrap-Up, Beautiful Player, Book Lovers, Book Recommendations, Bookworm 2022, Christina Lauren, Christine Gildiner, Dolly Alderton, Emily Henry, Ghosts, Gloria Vanderbilt, Good Morning Monster, Intimacies, Joan Didion, Lily King, Lucy Caldwell, Michael Pollan, Stanley Tucci, Taste, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, The Year of Magical Thinking, This is Your Mind on Plants, Writers and Lovers

• Photo Diary: Spring Waltz (2023)

  

  I moved to Northern Ireland in the middle of winter. I was close to being depressed because of homesickness and the drab weather. But then a couple of months in and something magical happened: Spring!

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  October 26, 2022

  Photo Diary, Travel

  Belfast, Northern Ireland, Photo Diary, Spring, Travel 2022, United Kingdom

• My Month in Books | March 2022

  

  Here’s my month in books for March 2022: what I’ve read, what I plan to read, and what I’m currently reading.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  April 10, 2022

  Memes / Tags, Monthly Wrap-Up

  32 Yolks, A Match Made in Lipa, Amanda Montell, Beautiful Beginning, Bookworm 2022, Carla de Guzman, Carmen Maria Machado, Christina Lauren, Cultish, Eric Ripert, Gillian Butler, In the Dream House, Joan Didion, Lily King, Michael Pollan, Michele Filgate, Monthly Wrap-Up, Overcoming, Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness, The Year of Magical Thinking, This is You Mind on Plants, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, Writer & Lovers

• Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King

  

  4.5/5☕| Lily King’s Writers & Lovers points out that no matter the age, we take time to grow into our own. That despite wherever we are in life at the moment, there will always be something to figure out and to work for.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  April 5, 2022

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Book Reviews, Reading Challenge, Reviews

  2022 Reading Challenge, Book Reviews, Bookworm 2022, Contemporary Fiction, Lily King, Literary Fiction, Writers & Lovers

• Listed | My Favorite Memoirs (so far)

  

  In which I list down all the memoirs that I’ve loved, enjoyed, and those that basically just stayed with me through the years.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  March 21, 2022

  Listed, Memes / Tags

  84 Charing Cross Road, Anthony Bourdain, Becoming, Bookworm 2022, Chanel Miller, Haruki Murakami, Helene Hanff, Joan Didion, Kitchen Confidential, Know My Name, Listed, Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Memoirs, Michelle Obama, Non Fiction, The Year of Magical Thinking, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

• My Month in Books | February 2022

  

  Here’s my month in books for February 2022: what I’ve read, what I plan to read, and what I’m currently reading.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  March 13, 2022

  Memes / Tags, Monthly Wrap-Up

  A Match Made in Lipa, Bookworm 2022, Carla de Guzman, Gary Chapman, Intimacies, Joan Didion, Lucy Caldwell, Michael J. Casey, Monthly Wrap-Up, Paul Vigna, The 5 Love Languages, The Age of Cryptocurrency, The Year of Magical Thinking