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Welcome back to week 2 of this year’s 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. This week’s book is The Perfect Christmas by Debbie Macomber. WHAT WOULD MAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS PERFECT? For Cassie Beaumont, it’s meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing’s worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and… Read More
Hello everyone and happy 1st day of Blogmas! I’m so excited to kick off an entire month of daily blogging with my stop for the It’s a Wonderful Night blog tour. Today I’m going to be sharing my review as well as how you can win a fun prize pack (UK only, sorry!)! Alright, let’s get started: Title: It’s a Wonderful Night by Jaimie Admans Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Holiday Published by: HQ Digital (Oct. 5th, 2018) Summary… Read More
Title: The Grownup by Gillian Flynn Pages: 64 Genre: Thriller Published by: Crown (Nov. 3rd, 2015) Summary A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection…. Read More
Hello everybody! With Halloween coming up this Wednesday, I thought it would be the perfect time to do the Halloween Book Tag! I stumbled upon this tag while actually googling festive, Halloween book tags to do, and I came across this one from the Sassy Book Geek a couple of years ago! 1.) Favorite Scary (Must Read) For Halloween? I’m going to go with Small Spaces for this one! I recently read (and absolutely… Read More
Hello everyone! Today for Blogtober, I’ve got an extra special post! Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Tessa Emily Hall, award-winning author of Coffee Shop Devos, Unwritten Melody, Purple Moon, and her latest release, Fallen Leaves! Today, I’ll be sharing that interview, and how you can enter to win a fun prize pack!
It’s time for another Blogtober Book Quote! Today I’m back with another Ray Bradbury quote, but this time it’s from his widely famous novel, Fahrenheit 451! I absolutely love this book, and this particular quote describes the atmosphere of autumn so incredibly well. The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion… Read More
Okay, so last week I shared with you all my TBR for the Spookathon. Well, now that the readathon is over, and I’ve moved onto Sbooktober, I thought I’d share how this readathon turned out for me!
Hello! In honor of Blogtober and Blogoween, today I’m sharing with you all my TBR for the second readathon I’m participating in this month! The Sbooktober Readathon started today, October 21st and goes through October 27th! You can click here to get all the details! I’ve decided to join the Lycans team, led by Vanessa @ Paper Faerie! 🐺🌕 Alright, here’s the challenges and the books I’ve chosen: Join Sbooktober Read a… Read More
Title: And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich Pages: 352 Genres: YA, Paranormal, Horror, Mystery Published by: Little Brown Books for Young Readers (Sept. 6th, 2016) Summary Stay away from the woods… When Silla and Nori arrive at their aunt’s home, it’s immediately clear that the manor is cursed. The endless creaking of the house at night and the eerie stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets… Read More
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