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Hello, and Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all my other fellow Americans! I’m so excited to share with you all my TBR for the Thanksgiving Readathon hosted by Ottavia at Novels and Nonfiction and Jackie from Death At Tsundoku! This is a super low-key, stress-free readathon, and I’ve been so busy lately, it is exactly what I need. So, if you want to participate, here’s how: Read as many books as you can in those… Read More
Title: The Haunting of Hill House Pages: 182 Genres: Horror, Classic, Mystery, Fiction Published by: Penguin Classics (Nov. 28, 2006 [originally 1959]) Summary The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult… Read More
Hello! So, on Saturday, I participated in Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-thon. It was sort of a last minute decision, so I wasn’t as organized with this one as Dewey’s readathon in April, and I had a few things to do that evening. That being said, I still read quite a bit, and I’m really happy with how the readathon went for me! Reading Update First, I read the last chapter in The Haunting… Read More
Hey everyone! This is super last minute, but I’ve decided to participate in Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-A-Thon! I’m sure a lot of you already know about this, but just in case you don’t, basically you read whatever you want, as much as you can, in 24 hours. For my timezone, the readathon starts tomorrow morning, October 21, at 8 AM. To get all the details, as well as see what time the… Read More
Hello! It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted, and I honestly can’t believe it’s been that long. I hadn’t planned on taking a blogging break, but it just sort of happened, and I went with it. Lately, I haven’t been reading as much, and thus, I haven’t had as much to blog about, so I just decided not to push myself to post, and took a mini, unplanned, unexpected hiatus. The… Read More
Hey everyone! I know I just wrapped up a read-a-thon a few days ago, but I’m already ready to jump into another! I’m so excited to be participating in Wonder Week, a bingo read-a-thon, hosted by Rimpy from rimpysreads. The read-a-thon starts today, August 25th, and goes through September 1st. The goal is simple. Based off the bingo board below, read books that fit the descriptions and get a bingo! I’m going… Read More
Hey everyone! It’s a little late, but here is my wrap-up for this year’s Booktube-A-Thon. I didn’t get as many of the challenges done as I had hoped, and even the challenges that I did do, I didn’t finish all the books completely, but I still had a good time, and actually read quite a bit more than the previous weeks, so yay for that! 1. Read a book with a person… Read More
Hey everyone! So, this is really impromptu on my part, but I’ve decided to participate in the BookTube-A-Thon! I wasn’t going to, just for the fact that I didn’t really know when it was, and I’m not a booktuber, but after seeing so many other bloggers participating, and just the hype about it starting today in general, I decided “why not?!” I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump these past… Read More
It’s 11 days late, but here it is: my June wrap-up! Honestly, I’m a little disappointed in the amount of reading I actually got done. I finished three books in June, which is not terrible for me, but in the summer months I usually read more. So, I had hoped to just finish a few more books, but oh well! At least all the books I read were great ones! BOOKS READ… 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 of 2017 (So far!) In order of read date: The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins This was the first book by Ellen Hopkins that I had ever read, and it was so good! It was so raw, emotional, and beautifully written. I loved the intertwining of verse and… Read More
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