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It’s Top Ten Tuesday again!  It’s a weekly bookish list created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Summer Reads Freebie For this week, I’m going to share (in no particular order) ten of my favorite summer-y reads! 10. Since You’ve Been Gone Since You’ve Been Gone is the epitome of a summer read.  Ice cream, adventure, boys, and best friends.  Honestly, this book is so much fun and everything about it… Read More

Hi everyone!  Today I’m teaming up with Writerly Yours again for another fun, blog tour.  This time, I’m sharing my review for the short story, I Still Remember by the founder of Writerly Yours herself, Priya Prithviraj! Title: I Still Remember by Priya Prithviraj Pages: 29 Genres: YA/NA, Contemporary, Coming-of-Age, Romance Published by: Self-published (May 14, 2017) Summary Ji-woo dreams of becoming a writer and is back in college giving it a second shot. But then Weon-gyu, her first… Read More

Title: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees Pages: 376 Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance Published by: Berkley (May 3rd, 2011) Summary A richly imagined, remarkably written story of the woman who created Little Women– and how love changed her in ways she never expected. Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O’Connor McNees returns to the summer of 1855, when vivacious Louisa May Alcott is twenty-two and bursting to free herself from family… Read More

Today is Top Ten Tuesday – A weekly bookish list created by The Broke and the Bookish!  This week’s topic is: Ten Bookish Things on my Wishlist I admit, I tweaked this week’s prompt just a bit.  It was originally my reading wishlist, but I have so many books I’d love to get, and honestly, my TBR is so large, I really shouldn’t be buying anymore books right now, so I decided to mix… Read More

Title: The Auctor Trilogy by T. R. Wolf Pages: 486 Genres: YA, Fantasy Published by: CreateSpace (Nov. 28, 2016) Summary When seventeen-year-old Addie Auctor’s mother is murdered by her father, she must confront many secrets that her family has hidden from her. The worst of these secrets is that Addie’s father, Donovan Hawthorne, is still hunting Addie because of an ancient blood feud between her mother’s family, the Auctors, and her father’s family, the House of Hawthorne…. Read More

Today is Top Ten Tuesday – A weekly bookish list created by The Broke and the Bookish!  This week’s topic is: Cover Theme Freebie Everyone knows the old saying, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.”  However, we all know that’s not always the case…sometimes we do!  Here are 10 books I read based off their covers (that I ended up loving)!   I just really love this cover!  It’s so simplistic, yet I… Read More

Welcome back! First of all, can we just agree that April was like, 2 days?!  The beginning of April was a little slow for me reading and blogging-wise, but things really started to pick up for me the second half of the month. BOOKS READ – Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – The Auctor Trilogy by T. R. Wolf \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Heart of Danger (Nancy Drew Files #11) by Carolyn Keene \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️… Read More

Well everyone, we did it! How did you all do? Yesterday was chilly and rainy, and so it was perfect readathon weather. While I didn’t read the entire time, I read so much yesterday! I did have to stop reading to go to bed last night, because I had church in the morning and didn’t want to fall asleep then (lol), so I went to bed around midnight. I had hoped to… Read More

How’s everyone doing on the Readathon at this point? It’s 11 PM where I’m at, and being that I have church in the morning, I’m planning on going to bed soon. That being said, I’m really pleased with the progress I’ve made for this readathon! I’ll have a full wrap up post after the readathon is completely done, but I just have to say, for me, I read so much today. I… Read More

Hello everyone! Today is the big day!! It’s about 11:30 AM where I am, and while I took a bit of a break to eat breakfast and get dressed, I am actually doing really well so far. ☺️ I wanted to start by doing the Hour 1 challenge/introduction even though it’s not Hour 1 anymore: 1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? I’m from Ohio, USA! 🇺🇸… Read More