Pages and Coffee Cups

January 3, 2021

Review: Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive, #2.5) by Brandon Sanderson

4.5/5☕ | Edgedancer is a short but incredible offering from Brandon Sanderson. This is a necessary read for any fan currently going through The Stormlight Archive.

January 1, 2021

Taking Stock #4: Seasonal Feelings and What-nots [December ’20]

“Taking Stock” is a series where I try to slow down and take stock of where and how I am right now. | December has always been a season of weird feelings for me. And this year is no different.

December 23, 2020

Review: Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

4/5 ☕ | When you’re used to reading fast-paced books with big characters and bigger endings, reading a quiet book like this would feel like a shock to the system. For me, reading Strange Weather in Tokyo has been a welcome change – a sudden stop: to breathe and slow down.

December 6, 2020

Review: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo

4/5☕ | The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a breathtaking feminist fantasy novella that starts out quietly and will treat you with great emotional payout right at the finish line.

December 4, 2020

Review: Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

6/5 ☕ | Words of Radiance is a brilliant follow-up to a first book that already delivered on all fronts to an astonishing level – cementing The Stormlight Archive series as one of my favorite fantasy series of all time.

November 28, 2020

Review: What To Do When I’m Gone by Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman

4/5 ☕ | It has taken me years to read this book without choking up. And though I still feel that unmistakable emotion bubbling up, it’s now faint enough for me to actually finish this book without feeling bad about life. If there’s anything I regret, it’s that I should’ve let myself read this sooner.

November 15, 2020

[Reading Diary] Listed: My Top Moments from Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings

I finally finished The Way of Kings and it was glorious. I was supposed to create a reading diary series focused on each part but I breezed through the whole thing when I got to Part 3. So to somehow cure the hangover, I listed all of my top/favorite moments while reading book.

October 28, 2020

Review: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

6/5 ☕ | And so I declare this: The Way of Kings is my number 1 read for 2020, so far. The last time I felt this way, I was throwing my paperback book across the bed after I read about that infamous Chapter 51 of A Storm of Swords.

October 28, 2020

Review: Please Pick Me by Reina Regina

4/5 ☕ | Reading Please Pick Me felt like peeking into something so intimate. With sections titled: flowers, thorns, roots, and seeds – this whole book is a metaphor for, fittingly, growth and all these less-than-picture-perfect facets of life that fundamentally still make up who we are.

October 17, 2020

Reading Diary: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Part 1 – First Impressions)

If you’ve been following me on Goodreads or maybe just good ol’ Twitter, you know that I currently had myself committed to starting The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. This is the first of a series of Reading Diaries dedicated to the book series, featuring the first book: The Way of Kings.