i'm being pulled apart. limbs stretching, tendons tearing I can't seem to hold onto - thoughts, ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย feelings, ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย [...]
losing time & forgetting sanity
ADULT FICTION REVIEW: AN AMERICAN FAMILY BY JACKSON BAER
Have you ever read theย blurbย of a book and think,ย damn that sounds good? Well, that was me when the author ofย An American Family,ย Jackson Baer, emailed me concerning his new novel. The blurb is as follows and can also be accessed on Goodreads: Isaac Childs has the perfect life - until that life comes crashing down when [...]
TROPES IN YA FICTION THAT DO NOT BUTTER MY CROISSANT
Well, hello there friends! It's been a while, I must say. But here I am with a bookish post to quench your thirst! Now, I wrote this twitter thread a few months ago, and I remember thinking to myself, I should just make this into a post for my blog and make it into some [...]
we don’t let our lips pull apart.
there's an acknowledgement, i guess, in the silence. we don't let our lips pull apart. just a moment, filled with the heaving of our breaths. i don't really feel guilty in taking what i want. you broke me, now: you're the one crawling on your knees, begging for my hands my lips my heat [...]
hey, i’ve missed you.
hi, my dudes! It is I, Allie, resurrected. I just thought I would quickly write up a little something, considering I've been AWOL for actual MONTHS on my blog. First of all, I am extremely sorry but my university coursework is insane and I just finished two back to back placements! It's my final semester [...]
NEW GOTHIC YA REVIEW: SCREAM ALL NIGHT BY DEREK MILMAN
... The only way I can properly describe Scream All Night by Derek Milman, his debut novel, is this: whatever you think should never happen in reality, actually, somehow, happens. It is fantastically chaotic, confusing and hilarious. Scream All Night narrates the story of Dario Heyward, who had made the promise to himself at age [...]
BLOG TOUR! NEW ADULT FICTION: The Afterlife of Walter Augustus by Hannah Lynn Review! WIN A SIGNED COPY!!
... Iโm writing this review on the immediate tail-end of completing The Afterlife of Walter Augustus by Hannah Lynn, and I have so many feelings bursting out of me like little pockets of sunshine expending out of my pores. Hannah Lynn weaves a sensational narrative depicting the rawness of reality and the inexplicability of life [...]
what are we?
what are we? fighters with no one to fight, wars that aren't our own. working ourselves to the bone the neverending story, on repeat. will it ever change? sometimes i sit small, curl myself up, contemplating the earth that i won't witness. to busy being dead. think about it. our lives are so [...]
SAVE THE DATE BY MORGAN MATSON REVIEW: Reading Tour AU
... Think of chaos and then multiply that by thirteen and you have the setting of Morgan Matsonโs new YA novel, Save the Date. Charlie Grant is in a state of longing - that is, she canโt wait to spend the entire weekend with all of her siblings at the family home. Yes, itโs for [...]
fragment #2: do i even exist?
i feel the world - dizzying at times, an illusion. i stand on the precipice unknowing of my place. do i even exist?
โจ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ซ๐ป๐ช๐ป๐ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ช๐ท๐ญ๐ป๐ช โจ 