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Hey everyone! Today I’m participating in the blog tour, Regal Reads, in honor of Regal Hearts: Season One being released in paperback! I’m super excited about this post today, because not only am I sharing an extra book review this week, but I also get to be a little extra creative. The lovely Livy Jarmusch came up with some super creative tour ideas, and they were all so fun and imaginative! I just… Read More
It’s that time of year again!! I’m so excited to be bringing back my Countdown to Christmas blog series this year! For those of you new to the blog, Countdown to Christmas is a weekly feature where I recommend a different Christmas-y book each week to read this holiday season. My first pick for 2017 is What Light by Jay Asher. Sierra’s family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon—it’s a bucolic setting for a… Read More
Hello! October is over, and November is halfway over (which is freaking me out since it feels like it just started yesterday), so it is definitely time to share with you all what I was up to last month! In October, I read 5 books! BOOKS READ IN OCTOBER – Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (library) \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Regal Hearts: Episode 1 by Livy Jarmusch (ebook) \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – The Haunting of… 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 I Want My Future Children to Read Nancy Drew I’m going to start this off with my obvious answer: Nancy Drew! If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know how much I love Nancy Drew. So, naturally, I’m planning on having all my future children read Nancy Drew and… Read More
Hey everyone! I may already have my Christmas tree up, but I still wanted to wrap-up what I read for the 2017 Halloween Readathon hosted by Lauren @ Wonderless Reviews! Sorry this is late, but I’ve been so busy the past few days, that I haven’t had a chance to share with y’all what I read, but I had so much fun participating that I still had to share. So, here we… 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: Halloween Freebie For this week, I’ve decided to share ten books that actually take place during October/Halloween! So many Halloween recommendations feature scary books – which are great – but a lot of them happen throughout the year. Sometimes, I want to read a book that actually takes place in the month of October, to really… Read More
Welcome back to Movie Monday! A feature on my blog where I compare and discuss books and their movie or television adaptation! Today I’m discussing the 1999 movie, The Haunting, based off of the book by Shirley Jackson called The Haunting of Hill House.
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
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