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Hello! It’s time for another holiday book tag! I was tagged by Jenn @ Jenniely for the Bookish Naughty List book tag. 😁 So, let’s decide if I deserve to go on the the naughty list this year! Received an ARC and not reviewed it ✅ Hasn’t everyone done this? 🙈 Especially with things like NetGalley, it’s so easy to receive an ARC, and not get around to reviewing it. I plan on finishing them… Read More
Hey everyone! I’m so excited to finally share my TBR for the Holiday Adventure-A-Thon, hosted by Novel Thoughts! The readathon starts tomorrow, the 13th, and runs through Christmas Eve, the 24th. This is a super fun, “choose your own adventure” style readathon. To get all the details, be sure to check them out here! Okay, so I’ve decided to join Team Holiday Penguin! Here’s my route and anticipated TBR: Now, I’d love… Read More
Hey everyone! Tanya and Kimberly of GirlXOXO are hosting a fun, month long series of their favorites of the year called #AMonthofFaves. There’s new prompts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday all December long. Today’s fave is: Blogger Love Edition! So, today I’m going to share with you all some of the lovely blogs I follow and adore. I’ve decided to share one of their recent posts that have been my favorite as well! {Ottavia… Read More
Welcome back to Countdown to Christmas. Countdown to Christmas is a weekly feature where I recommend a different Christmas-y book each week to read this holiday season. Can you even believe how quickly Christmas is approaching?! Before you know it, it’ll be Christmas Eve! Today’s book is The Case of the Twin Teddy Bears (Nancy Drew #116) by Carolyn Keene On the trail of a teddy bear thief, nancy unwraps double-dealing and double crosses! … Read More
Hi everyone! I was tagged by Taylor from Taylor is Reading to do The Christmas Song book tag. Thanks so much to Taylor for tagging me! I love Christmas music, so I’m really looking forward to doing this tag. Okay, let’s get started! 1. “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch”: Name a villainous character you couldn’t help but love. For this one, I have to go with Alastor, from The Dreadful Tale of Prosper… Read More
Hello everyone! It’s December 1st, and so that means it is officially Blogmas!! To start things off, I’ve decided to do a fun, Christmas-y book tag. I discovered the ‘Tis the Season book tag on Book Snacks while googling for Christmas-y posts for Blogmas! Okay, here we go: 1. Do you have a favorite winter read? To name just a few, I really loved Let it Snow, Clara Claus, and, of course, the… Read More
Hello! Let’s just take a moment to stop and internally freak out that November is over, and we are in the last month of 2017! 😳 Y’ALL! HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN?! WASN’T SUMMER JUST LAST MONTH?! *ahem* Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about what I read and blogged about in the month of November! Plus, I have an exciting Blogmas announcement at the end of this wrap-up! In… Read More
It’s Top Ten Tuesday again! It’s a weekly bookish list created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: TOP TEN BOOKS ON MY WINTER TBR Skipping Christmas I absolutely love Christmas with the Kranks, which is based off Skipping Christmas. It’s one of my favorite Christmas movies, and I always have to watch it at least once every holiday season! I’ve never read the book, though. I wanted to read it last Christmas, but… Read More
Hello! I hope everyone had a good week last week, and for my fellow Americans, a happy Thanksgiving! Today I’m going to share with you all what I read during the Thanksgiving Readathon, which ran from Nov. 22nd – 26th. You can also check out my TBR post for the readathon here! So, I didn’t get everything on my TBR read, but I had such a busy week, I still think I didn’t… Read More
Hello! It’s Sunday, and so that means it’s time for another Countdown to Christmas book recommendation! Countdown to Christmas is a weekly feature where I recommend a different Christmas-y book each week to read this holiday season. This week’s book is Jingle Boy by Kieran Scott. Sixteen-year-old Paul Nicholas is a self-confessed Christmas fanatic. That’s why he’s so smitten with Sarah—a girl who smells like peppermint and thinks picking out presents to the strains of… Read More
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