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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. What time is it? Summertime! (to the tune of the opening number of High School Musical 2). Even though I have finally left the formal education system, and so will never again […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: Summer TBRIt’s the kind of book that feels immensely satisfying to hold in your hands. There’s a good heft to it, rapping your knuckles on the front cover produces a strong knocking-on-wood sound and the pages are thick and irresistibly reminiscent of the paper in colouring books I had as a kid. This is everyone’s a […]
Read More everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by jomny sunTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt sounds vaguely science-fiction-y and I dig it. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor I’ve never been to Prague, and this book made me want to go […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Awaken the Travel Bug In Me*** For Angel Rahimi, life is only about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are currently taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark’s fandom has given her everything – her friendships, her dreams, her place in the world. Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark too. […]
Read More I Was Born For This by Alice OsemanA review of The Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan Release Date: 19 June 2018 I received an early copy of this book through NetGalley. Seventeen-year-old Mattie is hiding her obsession with Harry Houdini and Dorothy Dietrich from everyone, including her best friend Stella. When Stella takes off to boarding school for […]
Read More The life and times of a teenage escapologistTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J R. R. Tolkien Middle-earth seems really cool and everything, but a bit too dangerous for me. Also, I am terrible at archery and […]
Read More TTT: Bookish Worlds I’d Never Want to Live InPublication Date: 10 July 2018 Summary: “They say Château Beaumont is cursed. But servant-girl Lucie can’t believe such foolishness about handsome Jean-Loup Christian Henri LeNoir, Chevalier de Beaumont, master of the estate. But when the chevalier’s cruelty is revealed, Lucie vows to see him suffer. A wisewoman grants her wish, with a spell that transforms Jean-Loup […]
Read More Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge by Lisa Jensen