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New Release Tuesday: February 19th 2019
What’s up my bookish babes? This week of new releases is AMAZING! I honestly can’t wait for some of these and already started reading the new Alyssa Cole and WHEW is it good 🙂 Bangkok awakes to rain: Pitchaya Sudbanthad Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in translation: Ken Liu Colonize This: Bushra Rehman, Daisy…
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New Release Tuesday: February 12th 2019
Hi Ya’ll! A new week, a new list of books out this week, so let’s jump into it! Muslim: Zahia Rahmani A Deadly Divide: Asuma Zehanat Khan American Spy: Lauren Wilkinson Death is Hard Work: Khaled Khalifa Early Riser: Jasper Fforde Elsewhere, Home: Leila Aboulela How to Disappear: Akiko Busch Lord: Joao Gilberto Noll The…
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New Release Tuesday: February 5, 2019
Here comes one of the biggest and best releases of the year! Definitely setting some money and holds for these awesome books: Best babysitters ever: Caroline Cala Binit: The Complete Trilogy : Nnedi Okorafor Black Leopard, Red Wolf : Marlon James Bowlaway: Elizabeth McCracken Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones: Micah Dean Hicks Brown, White,…
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New Release Tuesday: January 29 2019
Another week, another batch of new releases! 99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne A Curse so Dark and Lonely – Brigid Kemmerer All the lives we ever lived – Katherine Smyth At the Wolf’s Table – Rosella Postorino Black is the Body – Emily Bernard Bloom – Kevin Panetta Craft-Fulness – Rosemary Davidson and Arzu…
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Book Challenges – 2018
2018’s Book Challenges I actually am not actively participating in any challenges, but I am setting some goals for my reading life in 2018. 1.read down my bookshelf: I have so many unread books on my bookcase – it’s awful! How did I do? TERRIBLE!! I have no impulse control over book buying, I…
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Books = connecting the world around me
*images from respective book websites I saw something online, where a witchy technique of book magic, is used to discern advice for a moment in your life. I thought this was pretty cool, as I tend to correlate lots of things in my life to what I am reading at the moment or a book…
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24in48 challenge: Swiss army book recommendations
Everyone has a book they will push onto anyone they meet, no matter what kind of reader they encounter. For me the most successful of these recommendations is An American Marriage. It’s a book that is so easily real, and so beautifully told that no matter what genre you like – you’ll be happy. The…
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24in48 Challenge: food related reads
My stepmom is an amazing chef, expert musicologist and avid reader. She has an entire wall at home dedicated to cookbooks and food related books. Conversely, I never considered cookbooks as a entertaining read, the same way I never saw myself as someone who could cook. But when I saw Cravings in the bookstore a…
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24in48 read: The Proposal
I love reading romance. I read a lot of it before I went away for college and miss that experience a lot. I was in the midst of a terrible….let’s call it a “relationship”, where it seemed we in a cycle of hurting each other as much as we could and then later, holding on…
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24in48 challenge: Favorite series
I don’t have a favorite anything: the stuff I love is so dependent on itself and the times I read it, I can’t pull it from that context to compare it to anything else. However, this series is amazing! I never read a lot of YA growing up (maybe YA wasn’t a fully formed genre…
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