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TBR | Easter Weekend Readathon
Read more: TBR | Easter Weekend ReadathonHi everyone, it’s Thursday so that means it’s time for… nope, not a Tag Thursday after all! Like a lot of people, I’m officially heading into a 4-day weekend thanks to Easter. I have tomorrow off work (there’s nothing more glorious than a weekday off from work) as well as Monday, and it feels so good to…
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Review | Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Read more: Review | Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertTitle: Madame Bovary (1856) Author: Gustave Flaubert Translator: Lydia Davis Publisher/Edition: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Read: 20th – 27th January 2018 Genre: classics; French classics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of…
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Feature | Bookish Savings Jar: An Update
Read more: Feature | Bookish Savings Jar: An UpdateDo you remember back in January when I floated the idea of the Bookish Savings Jar, the tactic that would solve not only my re-reading problem but also my book buying problem? Well since I seem to be checking in with my resolutions for this year lately, I thought I might as well do an update for…
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My 2018 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1
Read more: My 2018 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1Last year I did quite well with my yearly resolutions, I think, in part, because I regularly “checked in” with them and had a look at how I was doing. Since it worked so well (not to blow my own trumpet) in 2017, I’ve decided to carry on that tradition into 2018 so this is…
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Review | The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
Read more: Review | The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi HeiligTitle: The Girl from Everywhere (2016) Author: Heidi Heilig Publisher: Hot Key Books Read: 13th – 16th February 2018 Genre: fantasy; young-adult; historical fiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “It was the kind of August day that hinted at monsoons, and the year was 1774, though not for very much longer. Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a…
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Top Ten Tuesday | Books on my Spring TBR
Read more: Top Ten Tuesday | Books on my Spring TBRWelcome one, welcome all, to Top Ten Tuesday! For those who are unaware (or who might need a reminder) Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by book bloggers and list lovers, The Broke and the Bookish, and is now hosted fantastically by Jana from That Artsy Girl! Each week a topic is chosen for bloggers to respond…
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Down the TBR Hole #17
Read more: Down the TBR Hole #17Welcome folks to the seventeenth round of Down the TBR Hole! As I mentioned in my last round of DtTH (nope, that acronym isn’t particularly attractive, is it?), this little project has been a great way of weening down my TBR over the past year so I’ve decided to keep it up and make it a…
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Unboxing | Fairyloot February ‘Twisted Tales’ Box
Read more: Unboxing | Fairyloot February ‘Twisted Tales’ BoxHello one, hello all. Today I bring you a somewhat belated but nonetheless exciting post – an unboxing! And not just any old unboxing but an unboxing of February’s Fairyloot box focused on the theme ‘Twisted Tales’. For those who don’t know, Fairyloot is a UK-based subscription box with a monthly theme which the products of center around. Boxes contain a…
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Review | Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Read more: Review | Carol by Patricia HighsmithTitle: Carol/The Price of Salt (1952) Author: Patricia Highsmith Publisher: Bloomsbury Read: 21st – 24th February 2018 Genre: romance; LGBTQ Rating: 3 out of 5 stars “Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is…
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Review | The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Read more: Review | The Upside of Unrequited by Becky AlbertalliTitle: The Upside of Unrequited (2017) Author: Becky Albertalli Publisher: Penguin Read: 11th – 13th February 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly is always careful. Better to be careful than be…
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