Tag: books
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Falling Woefully Short on My 2015 Goodreads Reading Challenge
In January 2015, I set myself the ambitious goal of reading 50 books during the year. In April, I was 11 books behind schedule, and just never really got on track. I knew 50 books was an… aggressive amount of literature to consume in a year—that’s nearly one book per week, and I’m no longer…
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Re-EXPeriencing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Cover photo via. I’m part of the lucky generation that got to grow up with Harry Potter—literally. Although Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published in 1998, I somehow avoided reading it until two years later… when I was 11 years old. I must have had friends tell me I needed to read it, likely…
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EXPeriencing ‘The Mistress’ by Tiffany Reisz
First things first, when an erotica novel makes you cry (multiple times) because of All The Feels, you know you’ve got a good book on your hands. Two and half years ago, I read my first-ever erotica novel, The Siren by Tiffany Reisz. I blogged about that experience on my old blog, and you can find…
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EXPeriencing All the Light We Cannot See
I’ve always been drawn to historical fiction. Ever since I was a kid and would devour American Girl and Dear America Diary books, I’ve loved stories that put you in one person or a couple people’s shoes during a certain event in history. Specifically, I’ve also always been drawn to WWII stories. Perhaps it’s because…
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EXPeriencing Book Madness 2015
The amount of anguish some sports fans feel when filling out their March Madness brackets is comparable to the anguish I feel when filling out my Out of Print Book Madness bracket. It truly makes a difference when you care about the subject matter of your bracket. Do I care if North Carolina State beats LSU…
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