This was a fun one! I spent longer than I likely should have combing my shelves and TBR lists to find one-word titles, particularly ones that are interesting on-word titles.
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This was a fun one! I spent longer than I likely should have combing my shelves and TBR lists to find one-word titles, particularly ones that are interesting on-word titles.
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I follow a lot of people on Twitter, so many that I have no idea anymore who, exactly, I’m following. But there are always a few accounts that stand out. That either inspire me, inform me or just make me feel like fuck, yeah, you get it. You know what I’m talking about. We
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In looking back over the books I’ve read in the past couple of years, I was surprised by how few immersed me enough to leave me with that book hangover feeling when I finished them. Perhaps it’s partly reading more non-fiction – it doesn’t feel quite the same as reading a fictional plot and
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I love Book Riot’s yearly Read Harder Challenge. It always has an original mixture of prompts that encourage readers to stretch out of their comfort zone – whatever that comfort zone is. It represents diversity across the board and doesn’t make any reader’s favourite genre, format or topic seem inadequate. I never manage to finish
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I’m doing a bit of a twist on love. I’ve never been hugely into Valentine’s Day, and I don’t read books about romance very often. But that doesn’t mean I don’t value a story that has love at its heart. I just value all different kinds of love. So here are a few kinds
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I have to be honest, I didn’t really want to read this book. But the sequel, Olive, Again, came out this year and I knew there was a good chance it would show up on the list for the BookTube Prize. I am trying to read some of the books I think either will
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This is an exciting post, because I’ve been meaning to write one on this very topic for a while! I feel like most of the books on my TBR shelves (hundreds at this point) are ones that I at least feel have the potential to be 5-star reads, and a lot of them I
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I’m a sucker for book covers that appeal to me. I don’t know if it’s because my dad is a designer and my mom is an art lover, so I’ve always been surrounded by beautiful art, or if it’s just a peculiarity of mine. Whatever the reason, I have a lot of trouble bringing
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I started off autumn doing pretty well with my reading, but it kind of tapered off. November I got the worse cold of my entire life that turned into some kind of bacterial infection (I’ll save you the details, but suffice it to say it was not pleasant). Then as I was recovering from
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I’m writing this in advance, so this is more the books I added to my shelves before the second week of January. And they’re ones I’m very excited about! These two were presents from my wonderful husband for Christmas. I have yet to get into Elena Ferrante’s work, though I’ve read small bits
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This is another of those books that I want to review simply by saying it’s a vital read, and you should go pick it up. End of review. Of course I will try to go into more detail, because that’s not very persuasive. But it’s hard to know where to start. This book is
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This is a tough prompt, mostly because I can’t really remember which I came across this year, last year or the year before! Time tends to meld into one continuous blur these days. So some of these might not be accurate on the timeline, but still are awesome nonetheless! Musicians Can Be Awesome Writers
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There are only a few books that have been announced for release in the first half of 2020 that I’m over-the-moon excited to get my hands on. But there are several others that look interesting and that I wouldn’t mind checking out. Here are a mixture of the two:
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I had some very high highs (and some pretty low lows, but fortunately that’s not what we’re here to discuss!) in my 2019 reading. There are several books that have been added to my all-time faves, and a lot I highly recommend that you check out! Here are the top ten: Non-Fiction:
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Blue Nights picks up pretty much where The Year of Magical Thinking leaves off. When The Year of Magical Thinking was published, Joan Didion’s daughter had passed away, but she had not written about it in the book. The book dealt, instead, with the loss of her husband who died of a heart attack
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I rarely find books under my tree. Mostly because no one (even me) can keep track of which I already have, let alone which I most want. So I don’t realistically expect to see any there this year – though if I’m very lucky there might be a gift card I can put towards
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I first heard of Lemn Sissay in a YouTube video. He is a poet, and I was very impressed with his eloquence and thoughtfulness. He briefly mentioned a bit about his childhood – the restrictions put on his reading by his parents, his relocation into state-run institutional homes at the age of twelve, and
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As you know, I am hopeless at TBRs. So I’m not saying I will read these before the end of the year, just that there’s a higher chance for these ones than the rest of my millenia-long reading list! I’m hoping to participate in the BookTube Prize as a judge in 2020, so I’m