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Review | A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Read more: Review | A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia GrayTitle: A Thousand Pieces of You (2014) Author: Claudia Gray Publisher: Harper Teen Read: 22nd – 24th July 2018 Genre: young-adult; science-fiction; romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. None more so than the Firebird, a device that allows users to jump into different universes, which…
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The Full Monte Readalong | Week Three
Read more: The Full Monte Readalong | Week ThreeBonsoir mes amis et bienvenue sur le blog pour la troisième semaine du ‘Le Comte de Monte Cristo’. For those unaware of the reason for my (frankly shoddy) French, I am currently taking part in Laura from Reading In Bed‘s 2018 summer readalong for Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. We’ve reached Week Three in which I…
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Review | A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
Read more: Review | A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa TahirTitle: A Torch Against the Night (2016) Author: Sabaa Tahir Publisher: Harper Voyager Read: 24th – 30th June 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt Elias and Laia as they flee the city of Serra. Laia and Elias are determined to break into…
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Discussion | The Struggle of Reviewing Favourite Books
Read more: Discussion | The Struggle of Reviewing Favourite BooksWell, well, well, what have we here, a post we haven’t had in a while – that’s right, let’s discuss some things. Specifically, let’s discuss the struggle that is reviewing favourite books. Maybe not everyone has this struggle but, in an Internet full of book bloggers, I highly doubt that I am the only one…
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The Full Monte Readalong | Week Two
Read more: The Full Monte Readalong | Week TwoBonsoir mes amis et bienvenue sur le blog pour la deuxième semaine du ‘Le Comte de Monte Cristo’. Ok, that officially exhausts all my French language knowledge. For those unaware of the reason for my (frankly shoddy) French, I am currently taking part in Laura from Reading In Bed‘s 2018 summer readalong for Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte…
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Review | An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Read more: Review | An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa TahirTitle: An Ember in the Ashes (2015) Author: Sabaa Tahir Publisher: Harper Voyager Read: 22nd – 24th June 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. When Laia’s grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for treason by the empire, the only people she has…
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My 2018 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2
Read more: My 2018 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2As you may have seen if you’re been around the blog for a while, I do check-ins for my yearly resolutions as a way of keeping me accountable to more people than just myself. At the end of the first quarter of 2018, I posted my first check-in, and here we are today with my…
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The Full Monte Readalong | Week One
Read more: The Full Monte Readalong | Week OneIf you’ve been around these parts for some time, you may remember my participation in the War and Peace Newbies Readalong last year. I didn’t actually finish the book (I still haven’t, ok?) but I enjoyed the hell out of myself reading War and Peace and doing weekly summary posts of what had went down in Russia…
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Review | The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton
Read more: Review | The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa GrattonTitle: The Queens of Innis Lear (2018) Author: Tessa Gratton Publisher: Harper Voyager Read: 7th – 17th June 2018 Genre: fantasy; retellings Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars “The erratic decisions of a prophecy-obsessed king have drained Innis Lear of its wild magic, leaving behind a trail of barren crops and despondent subjects. Enemy nations circle the…
