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;ten books that have been on my TBR forever
I was trying to think of something that I had not written about before when I found myself on Goodreads. I started wondering why my TBR was so big, and whether I had maybe forgotten to move books about when I had read them, and then I realised that some of these books I don’t remember adding to my TBR. Anyone else have that problem? Anyway, I thought putting the first ten books I added to my TBR – excluding books from the same series’ – would be a fun list to make so here we are! I’m listing the books in the order they were added to Goodreads, from…
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review; plus one
Plus One by Elizabeth Fama It takes guts to deliberately mutilate your hand while operating a blister-pack sealing machine, but all I had going for me was guts. Sol Le Coeur is a Smudge – a night dweller in an America rigidly divided between people who wake, live, and work during the hours of darkness and those known as Rays who live and work during daylight. Impulsive, passionate, and brave, Sol deliberately injures herself in order to gain admission to a hospital, where she plans to kidnap her newborn niece – a Ray – in order to bring the baby to visit her dying grandfather. By violating the day-night curfew,…
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the girl behind the book blog; a BLOGVERSARY post
If we are being completely accurate, my blogversary was yesterday! And I had actually planned this post for next week before I realised it was my blogversary this month. Yes, I am very good at what I do, clearly. In my first year of blogging here on WordPress, I had a much slower schedule, and then I disappeared for a while after finding out I was pregnant. Since then, I like to think I’ve gotten a little better? But we’re not here to talk about my blogging habits or my stats (which could be better, but hey, I’ve got a nice community of blogger and writer friends, so what do…
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instant to-read; the tropes edition
When I set up this blog, I made a note to myself that I was going to write a post about tropes in books. What exactly that post would be eludes me – my notes are scattered in various notebooks as this was the pre-bujo era – but finally, finally, I am sitting down to write a post on tropes. Because tropes, love them or hate them, exist. Tropes are fun. I tend to lean more towards loving them in some cases. There are certain tropes that I will pick up almost immediately when they are advertised in the blurb of the book. These are the tropes I search for…
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review; seraphina
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty’s anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered – in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen’s Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin…
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recipe; eggless spinach & mushroom quiche
The first time I tried to make an eggless quiche, it was a vegan recipe I added lots of cheese to. I liked it. I did! My husband? Not so much. So I made it very rarely. Maybe twice in total. But then. But then. My husband’s gripe with the quiche was a lack of flavour. We’re Indian, we need things full of flavour, so I understood. But I also really wanted quiche. So I went looking for a way to mash up the vegan quiche recipe with a normal spinach and mushroom quiche recipe, and wound up making something my entire family would not mind having again. Thankfully, I…
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recipe; eggless spinach & mushroom quiche
The first time I tried to make an eggless quiche, it was a vegan recipe I added lots of cheese to. I liked it. I did! My husband? Not so much. So I made it very rarely. Maybe twice in total. But then. But then. My husband’s gripe with the quiche was a lack of flavour. We’re Indian, we need things full of flavour, so I understood. But I also really wanted quiche. So I went looking for a way to mash up the vegan quiche recipe with a normal spinach and mushroom quiche recipe, and wound up making something my entire family would not mind having again. Thankfully, I…
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;why you might be in a bookstagram slump
If you follow me on bookstagram, you may have noticed that I have not been very active in the last few months. That is because I ran out of photos, and then I lost the motivation to take more! Bookstagram slumps, am I right? Now we all can probably agree that breaks are necessary. But sometimes short hiatus’ turn into longer ones because we start second-guessing ourselves, our photos, our entire existence – so let’s think on why we might have fallen into a slump, and see if there is a way to crawl out of it. Note: I may be writing this post to try and pull myself out…
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review; this night so dark
This Night So Dark by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Tarver still has nightmares about the night, six months before the Icarus crash, when he rescued a group of civilian researchers being held hostage by brutal mercenaries. Now Tarver and Lilac must reconcile his memories of that fateful night with the truth that they uncovered on a mysterious planet after the Icarus crashed. Review:
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;how to turn your baby into a bookworm
Alternatively titled; 12 Types Of Books To Get Babies Interested In Reading, which was kind of a mouthful, so I went with the first. Which sounds like a self-help post for mommy bookworms who don’t want to feel guilty for wanting to spend time with her books instead of her baby. No, I’m not projecting my issues, what do you mean? A N Y W H O. I’m one of the few Mommy Book Bloggers I know, but I feel like this is good if you’re baby-sitting, or something along those lines too. It’s never too early to get someone interested in reading. I’m going to be honest, I chose…