Would I recommend this for a long car ride? No.
Quiet day at home? Most definitely.

To some extent, what matters is the narration, which is fantastic by all accounts; there are moments where I had goosebumps because the narration was so good. Hands down would say it's fantastic just on that alone.

But I loved the mix of very much in the pop culture psyche and things I'd never heard before. Hearing the sonnets at the beginning was a marvelous and quite a familiar feeling of nostalgia. But on the other hand, there were short stories I had never heard before that depicted love in different forms and how it can grow and change, and I found them enrapturing as I listened.

This book is sweet as candy and timeless, much as the title states.

This is a book I wish I had, had when I was going into College and finally allowed to learn who I really was. Along with finding where I belonged, and would be treated accepted as I was.
The mix of storytelling and science is the kind of thing I love in Non-Fiction works. It allows me to take so much more from the writing then I would otherwise, and Lindo Bacon does a magnificent job of it.

The one things I would recommend is to purchase a physical copy as it was incredibly difficult to read this on kindle due to some symbols not be recognized and foot notes showing up in places that were not helpful.

This felt like coming home, made me long for the warm nights of summer where it wraps around me like an old friend. This collection of RIlke's poems are beautiful, but I found myself falling in love with the draft's from this collection.
I found so many lines that felt like they were in harmony with my own soul.

I had to take a hiatus reading this book, because once I stopped I couldn't find the will in me to continue, knowing that to continue meant a level of introspection it had already brought to me.

This book made me FEEL so many things, about my childhood, but also about my present.
If you have a tumultuous relationship with your mother, I warn you going in that it could easily bring that stuff to the surface fast.

Having spent my summers in Western Nebraska in small nowhere towns, this book felt like stepping back in time for me. In stepping into Margot's shoes, I was also stepping into another life I could have lived. Power's writing only helps to give that feeling in her writing.

While I would say this story is slower paced it did keep me on the edge of my seat and I didn't know where this plot was going to take me and I found myself as surprised as Margot as she uncovered secrets.

Part of the reason I initially picked up this book is the fact it was tagged LGBT, but I was a bit disappointed in this facet, especially as it felt like it fell into a trope

(Bury your Gays)

which I despise. It being the main reason I didn't give it five stars.

This is the book I would hand to someone who is looking to get into preserving of any type. It fulfills its name as being the book with the answers.
It covers ways of preservation that in some ways feel like they have been lost to time, such as using sand to preserve produce.
But also talks about preservation ways that feel unusual to hear in our modern era, such as Ketchup not only being made with tomatoes.

I can't sing the praises of this book enough, The only thing I found myself wanting out of this book, was more information and direction as to fermentation. Especially given the earlier warning of not straying from recipe.

*I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review, all opinions are my own*

I have mixed feelings about this book, the art style was intriguing but I had a very difficult time following the story. But it left me with feeling I had just been sucked into a fairy tale similar Hansel and Gretel.

*I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review, all opinions are my own*

I had high hopes going into this book, mostly because I think that it is important that people learn to really do nothing, but this book didn't really follow through on the why or how though.
Which made it feel more like a new trendy thing rather than something that we should be trying to implement into our lives for the long term.

If you're looking for a book that feels more like it's written for the long term I'd recommend "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by Jenny Odell

*I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review, all opinions are my own*

This book had some interesting points, and in many ways felt like it was actually considering how to cut down on zero waste. If you are starting from square one and have never looked into zero waste this book would be a good choice for you. If you're more seasoned this at times feels like a lot of repetition.

A lot of this boils down to we should remember to try and reduce and reuse, before moving towards recycling as all three are important.

I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review, all opinions are my own

This is very informative and where I would refer a friend, who is dealing with problems regarding sleeping with their partner. Troxel speaks of this topic without judgment and makes it easier to broach this conversation with your partner. Along with how to help smooth things out in the interim. Because as Troxel talks about when people aren't sleeping well it is easy to take that out on our partners.

This book covers so much, and I feel like I can't begin to express what Troxel speaks of because they do so in such a great way where the book is better than any summary.

*I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review, all opinions are my own*

It's GAY, and it SLAPS!

As someone with terrible mental health, I related hard to the "casual" suicidal ideation that I often experience. I feel like it's something that I never see in media, but in working mental health, I know that it is not something I am alone in. But also the way the traditional Japanese play that he attends affects him so deeply and also how slow recovery can really be,

The way this romance progresses, let me completely engrossed from beginning to end. It definitely falls into the "Marriage of Convenience" trope. But how we see the relationship develop from both of their points of view is interesting and feels sincere.

If you are looking for wholesome, gay, romance? This will most definitely fill that need.

*I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review, all opinions are my own*