I complain a lot about living in Connecticut. There’s not much to do on a daily basis and all of the nearby towns (including the one where I grew up) is just farmland everywhere. Our capital city – Hartford – is best known for scary, not great city statistics instead of the ones I’d like to see. I usually avoid it like the plague. My boyfriend and I are always wondering what to do on the weekend and we ache for faraway places that just aren’t here. However, there are some perks to living in this boring state. The biggest […]

I absolutely love to travel and I love books that make me want to travel. Any time I see that a book involves travel or that it’s set somewhere in the world I want to go, I immediately want to read it. And when I do read those books, I usually get a major case of wanderlust and places that I haven’t already been to get added to my travel bucket list. Which has become ridiculously long thanks to books. So here are a few of my favourite books set abroad and that have made me want to travel!   […]

Sarah’s Bookish Travel Bucket List Hello, friends! I’m so thrilled to be a part of Andi’s special travel feature today! I’ll be holding the fort down here in Boston while she’s off soaking up the sun in Mexico. Although, I kind of wish I could have snuck into her suitcase and tagged along for the trip! Have a margarita for me, Andi! For today’s post, I thought it would be fun to pair up some of my most anticipated future releases with some travel destinations that have been on my bucket list for a while now. There are so many […]

Recently I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of time-travel books, specifically Young Adult novels, being published. For this year, many bloggers and publishers stated that time-travel was a hot topic. The Huffington Post did a piece in October 2015 entitled “5 Exciting YA Book Trends to Look for in 2016” with time traveler being number one. Paper Fury did a 2016 YA trend prediction post where time-travel made the top trends. And I can’t tell you how many times I saw this topic come up on twitter. But why is time-travel “all of a sudden” such a hot topic? […]