First Bookish Challenge with #TheReadingQuest + Book List

Hello! I'm excited to post this up because, as you can guess from the title, this is going to be first ever reading challenge! Yay me! The Quest Board reading challenge is hosted by Aentee from Read At Midnight. I found out about this challenge when I saw that Stephanie of Igniting Pages joined. You…

THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL: Coarse, Immoral, and Brave

When we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear. To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light, is doubtless the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it…

BELLE’S BOOKISH TALES || My, My, What A Picky Reader You Are

We all have our own reasons for picking up a book - from a secretive murderous family to clockwork-like dragons to children with glittering skin! We're all faint hearted when it comes to pretty covers. Oh, you know what I'm talking about. But we can't ALWAYS splurge on books lest we make our poor mothers…

Belle’s Bookish Tales || Running with the Wolves

If there's one thing you should know about Women Who Run With The Wolves, it is that this book isn't something to be read in the span of a few days, or even weeks. (It took me nearly a year to get through this book. Women Who Run is a companion book; the book I…

THROUGH THE FLASHING BARS OF JULY: A Monthly Wrap Up

Happy August, everyone! Aren't you just excited for autumns aesthetics to start blowing in? Here, in the Philippines, the monsoons have begun. Which means more books, more tea consumed, warmer blankets, and a thesis to complete! Autumn is essentially everything I was born to be. Besides running around haphazardly to get my thesis outline done,…