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All Truths and No Lies - A Get to Know Me Tag :)

All Truths and No Lies – A Get to Know Me Tag :)

Hello, everyone!

I really thought March would never end… But now it’s finally April and I’m so ready to start the new month 🙂 I’ve been up to many things in the last few months that I’m really excited about, but that also means I haven’t been reading too much. It’s okay, though! I don’t feel bad about it haha 🙂

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to do a little Get to Know Me tag! I found…

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Judging a Book By Its Cover: A Quiz (Part 2)

Judging a Book By Its Cover: A Quiz (Part 2)

Hello, everyone! And welcome to another episode of Guess That Plot!

Lol. I wish this was a real game show 😀

So last week, you may or may not have noticed me posting a part 1 to this quiz, where I got my sisters to guess the plots of books based on their covers. They didn’t do very well, I think. There was a lot of arguing, eye rolling, trying to talk over each other and a fight. Well, it…

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Mini Review #5: Rejected Princesses, A Northern Light, Shadow and Bone

Mini Review #5: Rejected Princesses, A Northern Light, Shadow and Bone

Mini Review #1

Title: Rejected Princesses – Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions & Heretics Author: Jason Porath Published: October 25th, 2016 by Dey Street Books

Synopsis: Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout…

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Judging a Book By Its Cover: A Quiz

Judging a Book By Its Cover: A Quiz Lots of arguing, lots of wrong answers, but lots of fun :)

Hello, everyone! Hope you’re all doing well 🙂

I guess I haven’t been online in a while, I’ve been busy baking cupcakes, lots and lots of cupcakes, a few birthday cakes and other types of baked goods in February. I’d show you photos, but I really want to save them for my Instagram so…. Guess you’ll just have to wait for that haha 🙂

But since I’ve been otherwise occupied, I think I’ve used up…

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Digging My Way Out of My TBR Pile: Book Series to Finish ASAP (Part 3)

Hello, everyone! Hope your day is going great 🙂

I’m here today with yet another list of book series that I haven’t finished. I think these lists are good for me. They motivate me to actually get started and make a dent in my neverending TBR. I’ve actually taken a few books of the previous lists (you can check out Part 1 here and Part 2 here if you want to) either by donating them, or you know, ac…

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Mini Review #4: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Psychology of Success, Until the Beginning

Mini Review #4: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Psychology of Success, Until the Beginning

Mini Review #1

Title: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Author: Laini Taylor Published: September 27th, 2011 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Summary: 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…

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What's Good, What's Bad, and What's in Between: January Wrap-up

What’s Good, What’s Bad, and What’s in Between: January Wrap-up

Hello, everyone! Hope you’re all doing well 🙂

January has come to an end and I’m here to talk about it. I think it was a very productive month for me, maybe a little overwhelming at times and a LOT tiring all the time (then again, ‘tired’ is part of my personality at this point). But I’m feeling pretty good about it!

The Reading

So in January, I read a total of 5 books, one of which is…

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Book Blogger Memory Challenge

Book Blogger Memory Challenge

Hello, everyone! Hope your Monday is going great 🙂

Over the weekend, I was scouring the World Wide Web for fun tags to do and I found the very interesting Book Blogger Memory Challenge. So even though I don’t have the best memory, I decided to take on this challenge and see how well I’d do.

Rules:You must answer these questions without looking anything up on the internet and without…

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A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

Title: A Very Large Expanse of Sea Author: Tahereh Mafi Published: October 16th, 2018 by HarperTeen

Summary: It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped.

Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She’s tired of the rude stares, the…

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Taking on a Challenge: Year of Asian Reading Challenge 2019

I'll be participating in #YARC2019 this year! Taking on a Challenge: Year of Asian Reading Challenge 2019

Hello, friends! And welcome to another video post!

I’m not Safiya Nygaard, but I’ve always wanted to say that. Okay, moving on.

Last year, in my list of Things I Want to Ditch in 2018, the first thing I added was to stop participating in reading challenges, specifically the Goodreads reading challenge. With work and other responsibilities I had (still have) on hand, I didn’t like the added…

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Mini Reviews #3: TV Series Edition (The Shannara Chronicles, Eternal Love, Nailed It)

Mini Reviews #3: TV Series Edition (The Shannara Chronicles, Eternal Love, Nailed It)

I’m not the biggest movie fan. I prefer TV series where I can have many episodes to be fully invested in the stories and fall in love with the characters. So when I’m not reading, you can usually find me watching TV in my spare time. Well, not really watching TV, because who watches TV anymore when we have Netflix?

But my point is, I watch quite a few series (maybe not as much as other people,…

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Average Ratings: Do They Matter?

What's your average rating? Is it high? Low? Let's discuss! Average Ratings: Do They Matter?

With the end of the year and the beginning of a new one, I’ve been seeing plenty of posts around the blogosphere where readers recap their reading year in beautiful charts and graphics. I actually really wanted to join in on the fun but I didn’t because my reading year really wasn’t worth mentioning. But this will be my year! I just know it!

Anyway, back to the topic, I’ve noticed that most of…

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Raging Star by Moira Young

Raging Star by Moira Young: An awesome conclusion to one of my favorite series :)

Title: Raging Star (Dust Lands #3) Author: Moira Young Published: May 13th, 2014 by Margaret K. McElderry Books

Summary: Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo… until she meets him and finds herself drawn to the man and his vision of a healed earth, a New Eden. DeMalo wants Saba to join him, in life and work, to build a stable, sustainable world…for the chosen few. The young and…

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So Many Books, So Little Time: 5 Books I Tossed and 5 Books I Kept

So Many Books, So Little Time: 5 Books I Tossed and 5 Books I Kept

Towards the end of the year, I decided to do another bookshelf cleanout, where I pretty much tried to Marie Kondo my books and keep the ones that made me happy. But it was quite difficult to use the Konmari system when I haven’t read ALL the books on my shelves so I had to improvise. I knew I had to make some tough choices because as much as I love the look of a fully stocked shelf, I couldn’t…

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Mini Reviews #2: Rebel Heart and Changeling

Another set of mini reviews because full reviews are just too long :D Mini Reviews #2: Rebel Heart and Changeling

Hello, everyone!

Hope you’re having a good day! Today I have another set of mini-reviews for you because like I said in my Mini Reviews #1, there are books that I just don’t like/dislike enough to write a full review on 🙂

Okays, here are today’s reviews:

Mini Review #1:

Title: Rebel Heart (Dustlands #2) Author: Moira Young Published: October 30th, 2012 by Margaret K. McElderry

Summary: Saba thought…

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New Year, Same Me? A New Year Post

New Year, Same Me? A New Year Post

Hello, everyone!

First of all, Happy New Year! 2019 is here and so am I 😀

I hope you’re all doing well and had a wonderful holiday, I certainly had a nice downtime with my family. Everyone gathered together on New Year’s Eve and we had a great dinner 🙂 But now I’m back and ready to get back in the game, especially after WordPress kindly reminded me that today is my 3 Year Blogiversary!

W…

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I'm Ending 2018 Early?

I’m Ending 2018 Early?

Hello, everyone! It’s been a while. Again.

I see WordPress has a new editor now and it looks super cool! Can’t wait to experiment and play around with it 🙂 But I think that’s going to have to wait. Because as you can see from my title, I’m ending the year a little early.

So let’s do a little recap of 2018! Honestly, the first half of 2018 was pretty great. I was working at a digital marketing…

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