Read | Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Blame it on the combination of home schooling, pregnancy, holiday orders and a major reader’s block, it took me months to get through Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. I had to experience extreme pregnancy insomnia to remember that I could just read instead of staring at the ceiling or scrolling through social media. Don’t…

Read | Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

When I first watched Pan’s Labyrinth, I became a Guillermo del Toro fan. Sure, I had already watched Mimic and Blade II, as well as immensely enjoyed Hellboy by then, but Pan’s Labyrinth was a different kind of special. It’s mix of historical fiction and fantasy that swept me away and left me with wonder…

Watch | Attack on Titan Season 3

I’ll be honest. I almost gave up on Attack on Titan. Season 2 was quite a chore to watch. Sure, the titans were still there and the action was still pretty fun to watch, but there was something off about its run. I’m not sure if it was the imbalance in good events in comparison…

Read | Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

When I started listening to audiobooks, I was a little intimidated by the length of some of the titles offered in the Scribd subscription I just signed up for at the time. This is why I specifically selected shorter books, which included the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. We’ve all read fictional stories about…

Watch | A Whisker Away

When I first saw its trailer, I felt like A Whisker Away is my kind of anime. Sure, I appreciate and will watch all anime given the chance, but when it comes to the film format, I prefer the whimsical variety with a softer approach to its animation. There’s a guarantee that the story is…

Read | The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Before the pandemic and the subsequent quarantine most of us are experiencing, I think I didn’t touch the blog for a couple of years aside from embedding my IG posts. I actually debated if I wanted to start it up again, because if I did, I knew I wanted to move the blog to WordPress….

Read | The Devil’s Thief by Lisa Maxwell

Given the chance, I would choose to read the sequel in a book series right after the previous volume. Details are still fresh, so there’s less of a struggle to remember characters or events. And it’s such a relief when the previous installment ended on a cliffhanger, just like The Last Magician. Betrayed by the…

Watch | His Dark Materials Season 1

When film and TV series adaptations of books are announced, there’s usually a mix of excitement and anxiety for readers. A good adaptation means that the story you love will be shared to more people, but a bad one will hurt your case in getting more people to read the source material. And I’m sure…

Read | The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

When I attended the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale in 2019, I found a hardbound copy of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell on the fantasy table. I decided not to get it because I had planned on only getting paperback books on account of limited shelf space. A few days later, I watched booktuber…

Read | The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

I’m usually late when it comes to book releases. My reading backlog is rather extensive, so it’s a huge deal if I can read a book a few months after the release. I really don’t mind since I choose books based on what I feel like reading at the time, but it was hard to…