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If You Loved Not Here To be Liked…

It’s time to bring this series into 2022! I can’t believe the last time I did this was in December. So we’re kicking it off with a wonderful book I read end of last year that brought two interesting things together: Asian representation and feminism.

Let’s first take a look at its lovely cover and then we’ll get right into it!


About the book (review here)

A novel that unpacks just how complicated new love can get…when you fall for your enemy.

Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper. That is, until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides on a whim to run against her. Suddenly her vast qualifications mean squat because inexperienced Len—who is tall, handsome, and male—just seems more like a leader.

When Eliza’s frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those who believe she’s a gender equality champion and others who think she’s simply crying misogyny.

Amid this growing tension, the school asks Eliza and Len to work side by side to demonstrate civility. But as they get to know one another, Eliza feels increasingly trapped by a horrifying realization—she just might be falling for the face of the patriarchy himself.

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Birthstone Covers: March 2022

Leslie @ Books Are The New Black created a fun monthly post featuring book covers that fit the birthstone of the month.This can be the color of the cover or the color in the title.

Anyone can join, just be sure to give credit where it’s due.

The month of March is represented by the beautiful aquamarine! I chose to represent this gemstone with light blue covers. Blue is one of my favourite colours and it’s nice that there are so many books that feature it so prominently.

I have selected a number of books I’ve read (reviews linked where applicable) AND some books on my TBR I hope to get to.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my Spring 2022 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.


Normally I take this time for such a TTT topic to highlight all the releases I know I want to get my hands on on release day. Yet, I find that I rarely actually get to all (if most) of them during the season of their release. I’m such a mood reader, go figure.

So to make this a little more truthful (and hopefully self-fulfilling), I’m splitting the books on my TBR into books I want to read ASAP upon release this spring AND books I own that really need to be read (and I actually want to read yet always have excuses for reading something else first). Does anyone else have this problem?

Books I own that need to be read

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