This week was LONG, but we’re excited for the longer days coming with daylight savings! Feels like we’re rounding the corner with winter and have the summer (and vaccinations!!) to look forward to. What we’re…. Reading: A: I just bought My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee, and I’m loving it so far! I think this […]
Super-Niche Reading List #1: Royal Fiction
We have always been slightly obsessed with the royals. We woke up at five A.M to watch Kate and Will’s wedding in high school, complete with tea and crumpets for breakfast. We also want to make it clear that while we have a fascination with the British royals and their drama, we are horrified by […]
All the books we read in February 2021
A list of all 13 books A and E read in February 2021—from YA to mystery to non-fiction—rated and reviewed.
The Quarantine Roundup: What We’re Reading, Eating, Watching, Buying, and Loving
Welcome to a new segment we’re calling the Quarantine Roundup. Every week we’ll give you a look into all the (Covid-friendly) things we’re reading, eating, watching, buying, and loving. Reading: A: The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow. Loving it so far– the book combines suffragettes with magic in a feminist twist. This Atlantic […]
The ultimate list of books set in New York City
When we were growing up in a small ~undisclosed~ town in New England, we both loved reading books that offered a sense of escapism and a peek into what our lives could look like when we grew up, ideally living it up in New York City. Fast forward ten-ish years, and here we are, living […]
The 10+ Books We Read in January to kick off 2021
January was a solid month of reading for us. A read five books, and E got eight, putting us on track for our 2021 reading goals. January was heavy on fiction for both of us, but we have a variety thrown in for you! You can check out our complete list of books at Bookshop.org. […]
Our Favorite Bookstores in New York City
We both live in Brooklyn, but when it comes to bookstores, we do not discriminate by borough. We’ve gone on excursions just to visit a bookstore and consider ourselves to be quite the connoisseurs. We will continue to update this list as we discover more of New York City’s best bookstores, so keep checking back […]
10 tips to help you read more this year
In 2020, we read a combined 112 books, which is objectively a lot of time spent reading. Of course some of this is due to the fact that we live in the U.S. and have therefore been in quarantine for almost a year, but we also have some tried and true tips to make reading […]
A year of quarantine: the 20+ books that made 2020 bearable
Coming to you (a little late) with a round up of our twenty favorite books from 2020. This was a challenging year and reading really helped us escape during the worst parts. Hopefully you can find something on this list to check out in 2021! You can shop our full list here. A’s picks I […]