Wrap-Up
Pushing Thirty and Still Obsessed With The Deal by Elle Kennedy
I first heard about The Deal by Elle Kennedy during my Bookstagram era, which was probably half a decade ago. But as far as I knew, the book wasn’t available in my Kindle region. So I added it to my …
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Wrap-Up
Irony at Its Finest: Reading The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella While Burnt Out
Two days ago, at almost 11:30 p.m., I finished my first (and probably only) book of February: The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella. Reading a burnout-themed rom-com while I myself was in a burnout phase tu…
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Reading
Read House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (If You Enjoy Being Mildly Traumatized)
You know the feeling when you find a thrilling book that makes you shiver—one that sends all your logic backward, yet you can’t stop reading even though you’re afraid? Others might paraphrase it as, …
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Reading
A Slow Morning with How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
My idea of a perfect slow morning is a book in hand and the sound of rain—something I was lucky enough to have today. With only a few pages left on my current read, How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kr…
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Romance Comedy
Book #2: Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne
If Solutions and Other Problems broke my reading dry spell, then Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne completely got me back on track.
Yup, you heard that right, people. I’ve finished yet another book. (…
Reading
Falling Back into Reading (Thanks to Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems)
After a year of not reading anything, it feels a little strange to finish a book. And it certainly feels even more unearthly to write a review right after closing the About the Author section. “Who a…
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Wrap-Up
How to Be Popular (in the Pages of a Meg Cabot Book!)
After months of being a bad, bad reader, I finally managed to finish a book today. How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot became the twelfth book I closed this year with (reading-wise), and this cute, teen-i…
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Reading
Breaking Up with Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: A Reader's Journey
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen was supposed to be the last book in her published works that I would finish. The novel follows the story of a young girl named Fanny Price in a coming-of-age tale about …
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Self-Help
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig: A Short Review
"Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky…
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Reading
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, An Eye-Opener
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things…
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Romance Comedy
Unexpectedly Finished The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
I must say that writing another post, meaning finishing yet another book for the month, is quite unexpected. After more than a month of being in a slump, I now crown The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie …
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Reading
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo: A Closure I Needed
I wasn’t sure before but now I am: I was in a reading slump for almost two months. It took me a month—I repeat, a month—to finish Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. Last night was the first time I fin…
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Wrap-Up
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik: A Short Review
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik is (most likely) the one and only book I managed to finish in March. Following the story of a sixteen-year-old half-Indian half-Welsh Galadriel “El” Higgins in a mag…
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Romance
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: A Perfect Satire
My decision to continue the postponed plan to read all of Jane Austen's books from 2021 has been a long time coming. I, very unexpectedly, finished Northanger Abbey last night, which turned out t…
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Reading
1984 by George Orwell: A Short Review
After spending two weeks with 1984 by George Orwell, I finally managed to finish this book on the first day of February. As a classic dystopian novel published in 1949 but taking place in 1984, this …
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Romance Comedy
Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella Surprised Me
In the last couple of weeks, my weekday reading cycle has been more or less like this: I pick up a book, I know that I should sleep, I ignore the warning, I decide to keep reading, I realize that the…
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Romance
Third Book of The Year (and Also Third Book by Mhairi McFarlane of The Year): It's Not Me, It's You
I feel like so on a roll after finishing my third book of the year last night. Continuing my binge-read of Mhairi McFarlane's books, I picked up her 2011 novel titled It’s Not Me, It’s You. I rea…
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