We are introducing a new series on the blog: The Genre Guide! One of our goals at Alchemy Bookshop is to help you expand your reading life into books and genres that you might have not been originally drawn to. We have started with the essential Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) books as it seems to be …
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Welcome to the Bookish Community all you new bibliophiles! The kindest community on the internet, but full of terminology and jargon that makes a person feel slightly intimidated when first introduced to this online love letter to all things bookish. Or was that just me? Today, I’d like to *virtually* sit down and discuss some …
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Why Do We Hate Pink? When I was a little girl, I decided that I hated the color pink. This hatred of pink I carried with me up until college. I would loudly proclaim “Ew, pink is such a GIRLY color” and gravitate towards literally anything else. What does this have to do with Chick …
Sometimes you need to go somewhere. And sometimes, a pandemic gets in the way. Not to worry, we have a few ideas of where you can go in the meantime… Going a little stir-crazy… Well all, here we are on day 84503th of Covid-Quarantine. I don’t know about you but if you’re like me, you’re …
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Trilogies are the perfect format for a fantasy story, at least in my humble opinion. Long drawn-out series tend to lose my interest after a couple of books such as the fantastic, but incredibly long, 14 book Wheel of Time Series. (Still haven’t made it past book 9 yet!) Not to mention, there are SO …
New Habits For A New Year Hello everyone! My adorable foster Willow (in the basket) and I are here to talk about an experiment that I’m going to be undertaking this year that is near and dear to my heart. This year I’m going to hold myself accountable to practicing community care by curating better …
Even though all of us have our favored genres we are avid readers and our reading tends to be all over the map. Every month we like to reflect on the best books we read that month, and fan girl over the books that remind us why we love to read in the first place. …
I have always been a voracious reader and usually read over 100 books a year. During graduate school, I still read at least 100 new books during that 3 year period and that included studying for boards nonstop for 6 months. Post graduate school, I still manage to read A LOT of books with: a …
As much as I like to pretend I’m a special butterfly and no one ‘gets’ me, it’s pretty clear that I am just like thousands (millions?) of other millennial women who are obsessed with True Crime. via GIPHY Why are we so fascinated with True Crime? This article by the BBC mentions toward the end that …
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The Changing of The Year Well, we’ve said goodbye to 2020, and 2021 is staring us right in the face. Just like borders, the changing of the years seems to be an arbitrary line that humans have constructed to help us make sense of the chaos. I’ve caught myself saying “I can’t wait for 2020 …