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Hey everyone! As many of you probably already know, the Booktubeathon has become the Reading Rush! I, personally, love the changes that have been made and I am so excited for the readathon this year. Also, feel free to add me on the website. My username is thecalicobooks! The Reading Rush is running from July 22nd through the 28th. So, it’s just about to begin in my timezone! 🎉 Today I’m going… Read More
Hello and Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans! 🎆 Today is also my first day as a host for Bookending Summer 2019. I am so excited to be hosting for the next four days! I loved being a host last spring, and I just know that this time is going to be even better. 😁 Today’s prompt is inspired by the fact that today is the 4th of July. I’ll be… Read More
Hey everyone! It is summertime again! 🙌🏼 The summer months are my favorite, and it feels so great to be swimming and gardening again. Today I’ll be sharing with you all my bookish related goals for the summer. Typically, I count my summer reading from approximately Memorial Day to Labor Day – late May through early September. So, I’ve already started working towards those goals. Without further ado, here are my 2019 summer… Read More
Title: Ornamental Graces by Carolyn Astfalk Pages: 366 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Christian/Catholic Publisher: Multa Verba Publishing (Oct. 11th, 2016) Summary After his duplicitous girlfriend left, Dan Malone spent six months in a tailspin of despair and destruction: emotional, physical, and spiritual. Just when his life seems to be back on track, he meets Emily Kowalski, younger sister of his new best friend. Emily’s the kind of girl he’d always dreamed of—sweet, smart, and sincere. But he’s made… Read More
Title: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Page: 384 Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons (Aug. 14th, 2018) Summary For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in… Read More
Hello and happy first day of May! I can hardly believe it’s already May. Summer will be here before you know it! 🎉☀ Last month I decided to take a break from planned TBRs, because for the past few months, they haven’t been going well, lol. Well, I read even less last month, so I’ve decided to give them another try. I’m really hopeful that May will be a great reading month…. Read More
Hello! Today I’m back with another extremely late wrap-up. Yup, that’s not a typo, it may be nearly May, but I’m finally sharing my March wrap-up. 🙈 For the past few months, I feel like I’ve been in this weird reading and blogging slump, where I want to read and blog and then I just do other things instead. I’m ready to push through that, though, so hopefully the rest of the… Read More
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