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Today is Top Ten Tuesday – A weekly bookish list created by The Broke and the Bookish! This week’s topic is: Top Ten Things Books Have Made Me Want to Learn/Do After Reading Them * The Winnie the Horse Gentler series made me want to ride a horse. I loved this series, and I actually learned a lot about horses while reading it. This series made me wish I could own a horse and ride her… Read More
I want to apologize for the lack of posts this month! I have been absolutely terrible keeping up with book reviews, and really, all posts in general. Honestly, I just haven’t had a lot of time on the computer these past couple of weeks, and writing entire posts on my phone is not an enjoyable experience lol. I will try to post more consistently again from here on out! July’s Classic … Read More
Title: All American- Girl by Meg Cabot Pages: 398 Genres: YA, Contemporary, Chick-Lit, Humor Published by: Harper Teen (June 7th, 2002) Summary Samantha Madison is an average, cool Washington, D.C., teen: She loves Gwen Stefani (who doesn’t?), can draw like nobody’s business, and enjoys being opposite to her sister’s annoying ultra-social personality. But when she ditches art class one day, she doesn’t expect to be jumping on the back of a wannabe presidential assassin. Soon the young… Read More
I’m only doing a top 5 again, AND I’m a day late again, but Monday was the 4th of July, so it feels like a Tuesday today, so I’m going with it…Today is Yesterday was Top Ten Tuesday – A weekly bookish list created by The Broke and the Bookish! This week’s topic is: Top Ten Five Books that Have Under 2000 Ratings on Goodreads * Marvelous Marvelous by Travis Thrasher is book 1 in such a… Read More
Title: Never Never by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher Pages: 159 Genres: Romance, YA, Mystery, Contemporary, NA Published by: Hoover Ink (January 7th, 2015) Summary Best friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen. Complete strangers since this morning. He’ll do anything to remember. She’ll do anything to forget. – Goodreads What I Thought Going into this book, I didn’t know much about it. However, it was free, and everyone on Bookstagram/the… Read More
June was a fairly quiet reading month. I read 4 books, which isn’t terrible, and I didn’t buy any new books (which is probably for the best! lol). Overall, it was just pretty…average! BOOKS READ Like I said, I read four books this month! Two of them were physical, and my other two were ebooks. – A Thousand Salt Kisses by Josie Demuth \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – The Kill Order by James Dashner \\ ⭐️⭐️… Read More
Title: The Kill Order by James Dashner Pages: 327 Genres: YA, Sci-fi/Dystopian, Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic, Action Published by: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (August 14th, 2012) Summary The prequel to the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares… Read More
Can you believe it? I’m actually posting June’s classic in June! :O June’s Classic Originally Published: 1868 My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Synopsis: In this first volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, sweet, motherless eight-year-old Elsie struggles with several bewildering problems. She has never known her mother, and her relationship with her father is filled with misunderstanding and tears. The young girl learns to depend wholly upon her faith in her heavenly father. … Read More
Hey everyone! Today I want to talk about my reading goals for this summer. I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now, and I decided that since today is officially the first day of summer, it’s time for me to actually write it! Just to be clear, I generally count my “summer reading” from approximately Memorial Day to Labor Day. So, late May through early September. 1. Read at… Read More
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