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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

The time leading up to Christmas is a pretty hectic one, personally and professionally. I’ll be taking a break until after the holidays, and I’ll see you all in the new year. Wishing anyone who comes by this blog a happy and healthy holiday and a happy new year! Thank you for taking the time to come by my little corner of the internet.

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The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas

Tessa Lowell has spent the last ten years living with her grandmother in Florida. Ten years away from everything she knew – the shit hole town where she grew up, ten years away from her friends and family, ten years away from the Monster. And then she receives a phone call that changes everything. Her dad is dying, and while she doesn’t care, not really, she gets on a plane anyway to see the man…

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Book to Movie Adaptations

This line from Taylor Swift’s Blank Space is pretty appropriate when talking about book to movie adaptations. You have some that are going to become iconic in their own right, and some that make you roll your eyes so hard they might pop out of your face. Harry Potter, The Shining, Lord of the Rings, Anne of Green Gables, Interview With the Vampire.. all good representations of books turned into…

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Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

Kara Thomas has a way of sucking you in from the first page of her writing. That’s what happened to me with Little Monsters this weekend. There’s no long and drawn out build up, it’s gripping and has momentum from the very beginning and doesn’t let you go until the very last page. Kacey moved from New York to Wisconsin about a year ago to live with the dad she never knew and his family. She has…

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On Alternative Dust Jackets

*image by booknerdrox on instagram While scrolling my instagram feed, as one does more often that one wants to admit, I came across this image. It’s beautiful, it’s compelling, it’s eye-catching. I had no idea what it was until a third pass at the tagging. It’s the Court of Thorns and Roses series, and I’m currently reading the books. 🙂 I do actually like alternative dust jackets, I actually…

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A Court of Mist and Fury y Sarah J. Maas

Fayre is a survivor. From her childhood with family who didn’t understand her, her teenage years where she provided for that same useless family, to her time in Prythian and Under the Mountain. She survives. She’s basically a much more interesting Destiny’s Child. Since the events of the first book, Fayre has become an immortal with a mortal heart. She’s never had to think about whether her…

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Devour

*image from @purpleplanesundays on instagram There was a time when I could say I devoured books with such intensity that I’m not sure I can even remember what I’d read. Looking at my Goodreads shelves, 2010 and 2011, at 129 and 130 books each, was peak that time. So much so that recently I’ve purchased books without realizing I’ve already read them, just had forgotten the stories completely. It…

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A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Mass

A few weeks ago I came across a book cover by Sarah J. Maas and decided then that I need to read the series it was from. So several years late to the game, I’ve gone full tilt into A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas. I spent the weekend reading this first installment, ignoring my unpacking and cleaning and dived head first into this fantastical faerie novel. Feyre is a starving mortal…

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why should girls be responsible

*image by mandibaxter on instagram As females, we’ve come a long way, but let’s not pretend that we are equal counterparts. Across the country male politicians are slowly taking away female rights, and we just came out of four years where the leader of our country didn’t think of us as equal. On top of all that, anything that goes wrong in life, or to us directly, can be construed as a female’s…

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Aunt Dimity & the Heart of Gold by Nancy Atherton

I’ve loved and adored Nancy Atherton’s Aunt Dimity series for almost two decades now. An old friend in high school handed me a copy of the very first one freshmen or sophomore year and I’ve been hooked ever since. They are the literal definition of a cozy mystery, complete with a friendly spector from beyond the grave and nestled in the English countryside. Aunt Dimity & the Heart of Gold is the…

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Not really a book person..

I’m not really a book person. That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me. – Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell *image from uppercaseya on instagram I’ve never read anything by Rainbow Rowell, but I might have to after stumbling across this quote on bookstagram. I don’t know the context but it reminds me of a time in high school where I realized I was a little bit different from everyone…

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Payback's a Witch (Blackwood Bay Witches #5) by Misty Bane

Payback’s a Witch (Blackwood Bay Witches #5) by Misty Bane

Dru’s got some interesting new neighbors in the fifth installment of Misty Bane’s Blackwood Bay Witches series. Joe & Laura Collins moved in with a bang, and go out with one too. It all started when Dru got an invitation to Joe’s 60th birthday bash, by way of a swarmy con man turning up in her bookshop and staring at her chest. Despite her unease, she dicides to take her boyfriend, Harper, along…

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A thousand pages I have not read

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not read yet. – Cassandra Clare *image from uppercaseya on instagram How true is this quote? It can be taken a couple of ways. Firstly, think of the life your living. How many days, hours, minutes we have. Each is a new page, we just need to turn it to see what’s coming next. Comparing life to a book is the literally the most beautiful…

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Broomsticks and Bones (Blackwood Bay Witches #4) by Misty Bane

Dru Rathmore is going to Hogwarts. Just kidding. But she is going to Crocus Academy, ~Hogwarts light~ for a week. She’ll be dorming with teenagers, which she’s not thrilled about, but doesn’t have to wear the uniform, which she is thrilled about. And she’s there to learn to ride a broomstick. But naturally, as soon as she arrives, she stumbles upon a secret Crocus Academy is hiding. Whispers…

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Words Can Just Shred Your Insides

“It’s amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.” – Lauren Oliver They really can. Some ~10 years ago I read If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin. I read the book in a matter of hours and felt like I had been on a roller coaster of emotions. By the end I was in tears. And then I picked it up again and savored it a second time, taking in the highs and lows, the tearful parts,…

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Phantoms in High Fidelity (Blackwood Bay Witches #3) by Misty Bane

Ghosthunters has come to Blackwood Bay. Not really, but the fictional version of the reality show has taken up short term residence in the sleepy little coastal town, and it’s turning everything upside down. Dru Rathmore just wants to watch the cleaning fairies zoom around her apartment and spend a little time with her hot Guardian, Harper. But with the cast of Supernatural Sleuths hanging…

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It's a little bit strange sometimes

It’s a little bit strange sometimes

It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think am the people in the book – The Perks of Being a Wallflower I don’t know that I’ve ever gotten so lost in a book that I thought I was a character from it. I have felt their emotions so deeply that I’ve cried for them, laughed with them, and been angry on their behalf. Sometimes I wish I was wherever they are. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to…

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