Cleopatra is what Circe is for those who love Egyptian history. El-Arifi captures the voice of a Pharaoh, mother, lover, and woman buried by the sands of time, giving her her own voice that men have stripped from her throughout history in this enchanting and powerful story.

Hi everyone! I know it has been a while, almost half a year😱. I hope everyone is doing well and reading fantastic books.

A little life update from me and why I have been mia for so long. Right after my last post in April I was made a full time employee at the bookstore I work at! I am doing frontlist book buying, and still working as a bookseller and on our many fantastic book events. So I have been adjusting to working full time while balancing my chronic illness at the same time. I wasn’t able to also make content at the same time. I still honestly don’t know if I am able to make content in the same way I used to.

If you are still looking for my book reviews and such I am posting a bit more on instagram because it doesn’t take as many spoons from me, but I will do my best to also post them here in a bit more detail as well.

I appreciate all of you have been on this journey from the start of my bindery with me and have watched it morph into so many different things. Here is the start of another new chapter. So thank you again for coming along for the ride 😊

Hi friends!

This Saturday April 26th is Independent Bookstore day! I hope you’ll be able to get out and support your local indie bookshops, go on a fun book crawl if you are in a big city, support indies through LIBRO.fm or Bookshop.org! Indies give back to the community in ways that big box stores and Amazon, so by supporting indies you too are giving back to your community. I hope everyone has a great weekend and is able to hit up a great bookstore this weekend!

Hi everyone! I know for a while we have been doing bookclub on the app fable, but it has now switched over to storygraph (which is woman and black owned!). To hoping you can go to this link https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/bb931b0c-5922-4c40-847d-f3f005271990

Or go to the community tab, click where it says news feed and filter down to book clubs. Then search for Paws, Pages and Brew. This month we are reading Hungerstone by Kat Dunn which is a gothic retelling of Carmilla! We are discussing it in the storygraph app via readalongs, so if you need any help getting there or figuring out how to navigate you can message me here or in discord!