I've had Cake By the Ocean playing in my head this Summer. It gave me the inspiration to find some cozy, beachy books perfect to read by the ocean. According to Book Riot, beach reads are ones that are carefree, compulsively readable, have summer settings, romance, and low stakes. I found forty…

I've been looking at my past reads lately and I've noticed something glaringly obvious that I'm missing from my books - diverse point of views. Last year, I took a class that got me to read genres that I hardly read with diverse POV's. I've never liked the idea of reading a boo…