february 2024 reading wrap*up!
hello, my bookish, colourful friends!
behold: all of february’s weekly reading book reviews collected here in one place for you— reviews of what i read— and sneak peeks of what i at least thought about reading next… :)
unless otherwise indicated, all title links direct you to the book’s bookshop.org page where you can learn more about the book.
and if you choose to buy it, your purchase shall support independent bookstores across the country who are invested in, and pay taxes to support, your local communities and hardworking neighbors and authors! (you know, instead of tax-evading, billionaire space-colonizers intent on destroying our humanity. nbd.) :)
cool. here’s the books, then! :D
with all my reader heart & the papercuts to prove it,
xo,
*hallie
p.s. i’ve collected my best-o-the-best reading recs by category for you on my bookshop.org “affiliate” page, which you can browse any time. i don’t do it for the $ (i’ve yet to earn a $20 pay-out in 3+ years); it’s more to have all my recs collected for you!! from middle grade to grown*up romances, for actors, shakespeare nerds, the aspiring authors, picture book lovers, and more! :D
✨📖weekly reading book review february 2024: episode one!!📖✨
📚
i’m back home from a writing retreat work-cation in AZ, & here’s the stack of (mostly) skinny books i read last week/while i was gone:
💖 BARBIE (the screenplay) by greta gerwig & noah baumbach
❤️ THE INHERITANCE OF ORQUÍDEA DIVINA by zoraida córdova
🩵 SENSE & SENSIBILITY (the play) by kate hamill (link to dramatist website)
🩷 THE TATAMI TIME MACHINE BLUES by tomihiko morimi
🧡 THE MONA LISA VANISHES by nicholas day & illustrated by brett helquist
💙 THE FURY by alex michaelides
📚
currently reading:
💚 THE MISFITS: A ROYAL CONUNDRUM by lisa yee & illustrated by dan santat
📚
reading next {probably} :
💜 NOT QUITE A GHOST by anne ursu
💙 GOODBYE DAYS by jeff zentner
🥳
what stories are you loving right now?!
😄🎬💃🏽🎨💘🩰🎧🎭📝
it’s a whirlwind of drafting & creating in the studio for me this week!!
👉🏽 & mailing crayon boxers your fancy*cute new halthegal valentines!! yayyy!!
(if you want a handwritten valentine from me, please join the crayon box— my author-illustrator artsy-book patreon community! click here! )
🥰👻🐰🎭💘📬💌😎📝
so here i go…!!
💛xo,
*hallie 🤓
✨📖 weekly reading book review february 2024: episode two!! 📖✨
here’s what i read this week:
❤️ THE MISFITS by lisa yee, illustrated by dan santat
❤️ GOODBYE DAYS by jeff zentner
❤️ WILL’S WORDS: HOW WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CHANGED THE WAY YOU TALK by jane sutcliffe, illustrated by john shelley
currently reading:
❤️ FIRST LIE WINS by ashley elston (my copy is was a january book of the month pick; here’s my referral link to try BOTM for $5!)
might read next:
❤️ A WISH IN THE DARK by christina soontornvat
❤️ EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE by benjamin stevenson (imho artist/author opinion, i love the new pb cover better )
what stories are you loving right now?!
☕️ hoping you #treatyoself to a new book this week!!
in all my caffeinated glory,
❤️xo,
*hallie
✨📖 weekly reading book review february 2024: episode three!! 📖✨
here’s what i read this week:
❤️ FIRST LIE WINS by ashley elston
❤️ NORTH OF SUPERNOVA by lindsey leavitt
currently reading :
❤️ EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE by benjamin stevenson
might read next:
❤️ A STARLET’S SECRET TO A SENSATIONAL AFTERLIFE by kendall kulper
❤️ PRINCESS PROTECTION PROGRAM by alex london
❤️ SOME WRITER! THE STORY OF E.B. WHITE by melissa sweet what stories are you loving right now?!
☕️
i’m finishing up a new illustration in the studio today for a new crayon box video & process post; doing some editing; and catching up on my correspondence… as one does.
✒️✂️ here’s to an early bedtime for more reading soon!
❤️xo,
*hallie
✨weekly reading book review february 2024: episode four!!✨
ooooh did we read some winners this week!!
❤️ EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE by benjamin stevenson
❤️ TUMBLE & BLUE by cassie beasley
❤️ GET SIGNED by lucinda halpern of lucinda literary (GreAt interview on today's happy writer podcast you should give a listen to, also!! Linked HERE)
❤️ THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES by hisashi kashiwai
currently reading :
❤️ NOT QUITE A GHOST by anne ursu (my signed indie pre*order from wild rumpus book in minneapolis !!)
miiiight read next:
❤️ THE FICTION WRITER by jillian cantor (signed copy from the poisoned pen bookstore from when i was out in arizona earlier this year!)
❤️ TERRACE STORY by hilary leichter
as ever, i’d love to know what stories you’ve been reading, watching, listening to, (etc.), and loving! :D
cheers to a brand new story-filled month ahead!!
❤️xo,
*hallie :)
exciting BOOKISH things happening over in the crayon box— would love to have you join our colourful little community for march’s sticker happy mail And THEN Some!! ;D
click here: learn more about the crayon box!