Picture Book Fridays: Baking Mishaps, Lost Robots, and Magical Forests

Welcome to my very first Picture Book Fridays! I want to make sure I continue reading picture books each month so I thought reviewing them every two weeks would help do that. Since I'm a Children's Librarian, my goal is to read more picture books outside of what I read normally for storytim…

July 2026 Reading Wrap-Up // Latina Voices, Cozy Magic, and Navigating Anxiety

I only read seven books in July, not including my seven picture book reads. I am hoping this slower pace of reading will help me read a whole bunch of books for the upcoming Little Café Readathon. I am excited to start reading for Team Apple, which is my team for the readathon. Go Team Apple! 📣🍏 …

ARC Spotlight: Elfie's Grimoire by Audrey Alwett and Christophe Arleston

Release Date: October 20th, 2026Elfie and her two sisters, Louette and Magda, travel through the French countryside in a double-decker mobile bookstore called The Stinky Book. After gaining custody of her younger sisters, the eldest, Louette, whisks them away from their overbearing aunt, Delphine, …

Little Cafe Readathon TBR

Any food-based readathon or challenge, you can count me in! This'll be the second time I participate in the Little Cafe Readathon, but this time I am Team Apple 🍏
Rules: The goal of this readathon is to read a book for each category: food and drink.
The pairing of a drink and food, for our purpo…

ARC Catch-Up: The Trouble with Heroes and They Bloom at Night

Better late than never! I'm finally reviewing two ARCs from last year that I never got to write, but definitely deserve a spot on your TBR. Though one is an adventure story (Trouble with Heroes) and the other is a horror (They Bloom at Night), both deal with grief in really incredible ways.

A tr…

Mid-Year Reading Stats 2026

Now that I've reviewed every book (except one subpar manga) I've read this year, it's time for stats and my plans for the rest of the year. Readathons have pushed me into reading more, so I plan to do The Little Cafe Readathon in August and my own version called The Latin Cafe Readathon…

July - December 2026 Anticipated Releases

I was thinking about writing my stats for the mid-year point. I wanted to add some potential reads for the rest of the year so that got me thinking... What's even coming out for the rest of the year? I went on a search, and these are the adult, YA, and middle grade books that sound the most int…