Evening Plans...

There is a part of me that cannot believe the last day of the year is upon us. I hope you all had a good close to 2015. This has been a year of change and transition and I look forward to what 2016 will bring my way.

I am excited to delve into making this blog all that I dream it to be.  

Have a safe New Year's Eve tomorrow! 

For now, vanilla caramel tea and "Daughter of Smoke & Bone". While this book is not brand new, it was published in 2011, the storyline appealed to me during my last library trip. The gorgeous cover also didn't hurt.

"Daughter of Smoke & Bone" by Laini Taylor, Little, Brown and Company, 2011.

From the book jacket:

"Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she speaks many languages- not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out."

Review coming soon...

Bookish Shoes

As some know, my husband and I married on our four year anniversary on Oct 23, 2015! Our wedding was an amazing day filled with autumn, books and roses. My bouquet had hand crafted book page roses and I made my shoes to match!

The body of the shoe is covered in pages from Poe's The Raven and the toe-tap is a quote from Annabel Lee (coincidentally the name of my signature drink that night!)

They were such a fun project to undertake and I look forward to making other fun pairs in the future. It was definitely a way to create a memorable keepsake that I can wear for years to come.

If you would like a tutorial posted of how to make "bookish shoes" just leave me a message in the comments section below.

Happy Reading!

Library Haul (December)

My December Plans!

The Dead House

** spoiler alert ** Overall I really enjoyed the book, I felt the pacing and the tone were spot on and the development of Kaitlyn was well done. It was a very interesting and unique literary experience. DID is a complex and still very mysterious disorder. I enjoyed learning that the author came up with the the idea of splitting day and night while coping with inversion disorder and that she has a family member who has DID. I feel like this helped to lend a certain humanity to her storyline and characters. I only Overall I really enjoyed the book, I felt the pacing and the tone were spot on and the development of Kaitlyn was well done. It was a very interesting and unique literary experience. DID is a complex and still very mysterious disorder. I enjoyed learning that the author came up with the the idea of splitting day and night while coping with inversion disorder and that she has a family member who has DID. I feel like this helped to lend a certain humanity to her storyline and characters. I only wish that the "dead house" had been explored and described in more detail, I wanted to know more about the random dead girl she kept encountering, who Dee really was (because there was definitely more too it than what was said), and perhaps to learn a bit more about Carly. *** Part-psychological thriller, part-urban legend, this is an unsettling narrative made up of diary entries, interview transcripts, film footage transcripts and medical notes. Twenty-five years ago, Elmbridge High burned down. Three people were killed and one pupil, Carly Johnson, disappeared. Now a diary has been found in the ruins of the school. The diary belongs to Kaitlyn Johnson, Carly’s identical twin sister. But Carly didn’t have a twin . . . Re-opened police records, psychiatric reports, transcripts of video footage and fragments of diary reveal a web of deceit and intrigue, violence and murder, raising a whole lot more questions than it answers. Who was Kaitlyn and why did she only appear at night? Did she really exist or was she a figment of a disturbed mind? What were the illicit rituals taking place at the school? And just what did happen at Elmbridge in the events leading up to ‘the Johnson Incident’? Chilling, creepy and utterly compelling, THE DEAD HOUSE is one of those very special books that finds all the dark places in your imagination, and haunts you long after you've finished reading.

Hello and Welcome!

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Decidedly Bookish!

I'm Tiffany, a blogger and bibliophile living in New York.

I began this blog with the intention of creating a space to share all of the things I love. 

Here you will find my current reads and to-reads. As well as entries focused on my life outside the pages: style, decorating, cooking, etc.

I want readers to think of this site as a daily refuge, a book club and a cup of coffee with a friend!

Thank you for visiting! Come back and visit soon!
Tiff