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the year of the diverse?;
It is 2017! And I promised myself that I would try to be better about posting discussion posts on the blog. Yes, that means my schedule is a lot slower than other bloggers, but hey, so long as I keep blogging, right? But even so, it has been difficult for me to get into the right mindframe. I was having a tough time trying to figure out what I should write about for my first post of 2017. And then it hit me. No, not literally. I got an email notification that Cait @ Paper Fury had a new blog post up, so obviously I went to read it. Her…
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2016; it’s a wrap
Would you believe I don’t actually remember when I last posted something on this blog? For someone who only just started blogging this year, that is – probably not a good sign. It’s the same for my bookstagram. I think I posted six or seven photos, and then I’ve hoarded the rest I’ve taken. I don’t even know why. I may have bitten off more than I could chew this year. Not all of that was my fault. I honestly thought, going in, that I would be able to handle things. Last year, even with my Masters going on, I managed to read about 30 odd books. This year, I…
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;the life and times of writers
Let me start off by saying, if you write, you’re a writer. It doesn’t matter if you’re published or not. If you studied English, or whatever language you may write in, in college. It doesn’t matter if you’ve posted your work online or sent it to someone for validation. If you write? You’re a writer. Of course, writing comes in all shapes and forms. I’m not here to go into that. I’m here to go into the most relatable things writers feel across the board. In my opinion, anyway. Note; these posts are taken from Tumblr, and I cropped out the original post’s URL because not all of them were…
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meet your match; the fantasy edition part 1
Meet Your Match is a creation of the Violet Team for the Book Blogger Creativity Project, organised and hosted by the wonderful Nori @ ReadWriteLove28. It is a genre-based quiz that will prompt a suggestion for your next read. If you’ve read the book you’re suggested at the end of the quiz, well, that’s okay! Let’s talk about it, and you can try with another quiz next time around. This was planned as a monthly feature, but for now we’re starting slow, with just a few basic genres, though we hope to recommend a variety of genres and topics. What are you looking for in your protagonist? a) a teenage…
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top ten; book blogger facts
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday by The Broke And The Bookish has such a broad topic that I got a bit confused for a second as to what I wanted to do. I mean, facts about me? As a person or as a blogger or as a reader? It made sense to put together a list of book blogger facts about me. What I did, I will admit, is check out Cait @ Paper Fury‘s What Does A Book Blogger Actually Do? and 10 Things Book Bloggers Should Not Be Worrying About and see what applied to me as a blogger. A lot of the things on Cait’s lists applied…
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hashtag twitter book chats;
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a proper discussion on the blog. June was unproductive for me, and on some fronts, July looks like it might be the same. But I’ve had this in my drafts for a while, and I’ve finally gotten down to actually finishing up this post! I think almost all book bloggers agree that twitter chats are a good basis for not just getting to know more bloggers and getting to interact with more like-minded people, but also for finding more books to add to our TBRs! (Maybe too many? Nah. No such thing as too many!) I was taking part in a few twitter…
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top ten; books that are under rated
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve taken part in The Broke And The Bookish‘s Top Ten Tuesday, but this one intrigued me. I mean, books that I enjoyed that have under 2000 ratings on Goodreads. My first thought was, how do I check how many ratings there are? (Thankfully, they were kind enough to provide suggestions on their blog, and I used the first one, and it was simpler than I thought.) My second thought was, did I actually enjoy these books? Also – wow, I’ve read books that have A LOT of ratings… Some of these books come from the same series, and some are books I read…
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june 2016; it’s a wrap
It’s coming to the end of the first month of summer. Or well, for some, it’s summer. I come from the land of perpetual summer. Or at least I used to. I’m back here for a break, anyway. I’m used to the heat. And the inactivity that comes with it. But then again, I do go through bouts of inactivity, even with blogging. It’s a really good thing I have a backlog of reviews to slowly post. I’ve been managing with that for a bit. The thing is, I’ve got the ideas for blog posts – even saved some of them as drafts – but no motivation to actually write…
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top ten; reasons i enjoy the starbound trilogy
Each time I think ‘this is it, this is the best Top Ten Tuesday The Broke And The Bookish have come up with’, they prove me wrong. Each. Time. I can’t say I feel bad about it though. I mean, this time, the category is so broad that I thought it would take me forever to come up with an idea. Then I realised one very important thing – I love The Starbound Trilogy. So much. Ever since I picked up These Broken Stars because the cover was GORGEOUS and I fell in love, I’ve loved the series. I thought it would suffer from the sophomore slump. It did not. It…
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top ten; books i feel differently about
I am going to be very honest. This post was rushed together because I had a difficult time coming up with a list. I’ve read so many books over the years that looking back at them and wondering if I feel the same about them now as I did when I read them is just – not so simple. I’ve been second-guessing my choices, and then realising I don’t think I have ten books? So I’ve just put a quick short list of books that I feel differently about since I’ve read them. Edit: I almost forgot to link this back to The Broke And The Bookish! Whoops. The Harry…