glitter love month reads....!
hello, and welcome to the cozy month of hearts and glitter and chocolate!
here you’ll find each of february’s weekly reading book review videos posted as they happen each monday morning… complete with links so you can shop any titles that intrigue you at our fave online indie bookstore-supporting retailer: bookshop.org
with peace, love and maaaaaanyyyy colourful reads to you,
*hallie :)
✨ weekly reading book review february 2026: episode one!! ✨
this week i read:
✨ VERA WONG’S UNSOLICITED ADVICE FOR MURDERERS by jesse q. sutanto
heard the sequel is great, too: https://bookshop.org/a/5254/9780593546253
✨ A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by wm. shakespeare
currently reading:
✨ INKBOUND: METICULOUS JONES & THE SKULL TATTOO by philippa leathley
✨ BETH IS DEAD by katie bernet
possssibly maybe i’m falling for next:
✨ MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by wm. shakespeare
✨ THE LIBRARY OF UNRULY TREASURES by jeanne birdsall
✨ THE PIANO LESSON by august wilson
✨ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by tennessee williams
✨ GRACELESS HEART by isabel ibañez
✨ THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS by samantha sotto yambao
finishing a pre*order sticker commission, this year’s “halthegal*entines” for the crayon box, revising a pb dummy, and sending out my monthly marker re*cap (substack) sometime this week…!
studio fun linked here...
the crayon box: https://www.patreon.com/c/halthegal
my substack monthly newsletter: https://halthegalstoryart.substack.com/
i’ll be making another studio mess while you check all that out!
with nothing to wear for friday’s THE ART OF STORYTELLING gallery opening,
xo,
*hallie :)
✨❤️ weekly reading book review february 2026: episode two!! ❤️✨
this week i read:
❤️ BETH IS DEAD by katie bernet
❤️ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by tennessee williams
❤️ WHEN YOU FIND A QUESTION by allie millington , illustrated by anne lambelet
(coming march 10!)
p.s. my agent sister allie also just won the scbwi crystal kite award for her ONCE FOR YES middle grade novel!!!!
currently reading:
❤️ HATTIE MAE BEGINS AGAIN by sharon g. flake
maybe, probably reading next:
❤️ LOVE AT FULL TILT by jenny l. howe
❤️ MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by wm. shakespeare
❤️ ALL THE WORLD’S YOUR STAGE by dr. farah karim-cooper (my signed copy from east city bookshop in d.c.!! )
watched:
❤️ NOBODY WANTS THIS season 1 finale
❤️ the halftime show (go art-makers during sportsball!!)
❤️xo,
*hallie :)
✨❣️ weekly reading book review february 2026: episode three!! ❣️✨
this week i read:
❣️ HATTIE MAE BEGINS AGAIN by sharon g. flake
(mg historic novel in verse; #randomhousekidspartner )
❣️ LOVE AT FULL TILT by jenny l. howe (swoony ya amusement park scavenger hunt!! don't forget to pre*order her new book for REASoNS...!! )
❣️ MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by wm. shakespeare
watched:
❣️ THE OUTSIDERS (1983)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086066/?ref_=fn_t_1
❣️ NOBODY WANTS THIS season 2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26933824/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
❣️ STRICTLY BALLROOM (1993)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105488/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
got to see:
❣️ THE LION, THE WITCH, & THE WARDROBE, 2-person all-ages accessible 45-minute adaptation at the south carolina children's theatre !!
https://scchildrenstheatre.org/shows/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/
currently reading:
❣️ THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS by samantha sotto yambao (adult speculative fantasy a lá ghibli surrealist, immersive daydream)
reading next:
❣️ THE CORRESPONDENT by virginia evans (grown*up epistolary novel; next week's book club read!!)
❣️❣️ OTHELLO & PERICLES by wm. shakespeare
did youuuuuuu fall in love with any new stories this week?!
here for the sugar*frosted sugar crash of leftover cookie love,
❣️xo,
*hallie :)
✨❤️ weekly reading book review february 2026: episode four!! ❤️✨
this week i read:
❤️ THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS by samantha sotto yambao
❤️ OTHELLO by wm shakespeare
❤️ THE CORRESPONDENT by virginia evans
⛵️ NUNU AND THE SEA by isabella kung
currently reading:
❤️ COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE by haruki murakami
paperback: https://bookshop.org/a/5254/9780804170123
gonna get to see:
❤️ SUFFS at the peace center !!
https://www.peacecenter.org/events/detail/26-suffs
hope to watch:
❤️ A CHORUS LINE (1985)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088915/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
❤️ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051459/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
miiiiight read next:
❤️ IAGO: THE STRATEGIES OF EVIL by harold bloom
❤️ AGNES AUBERT’S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER by heather fawcett
❤️ THE REMARKABLE JOURNEY OF COYOTE SUNRISE by dan gemeinhart
❤️ SILVERBORN: THE MYSTERY OF MORRIGAN CROW by jessica townsend
loooots of goodness in the crayon box (https://www.patreon.com/halthegal), february substack newsletter coming this week (https://halthegalstoryart.substack.com/), and we’ll be TAKING A BREAK from our monday morning videos in march… !
lova yas, mean it!
❤️xo,
*hallie :)
stay tuned for our stack of fave reads of the month coming soon!