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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | Spoiler(ish) Book Review

Hai Beautiful! It's about dang time I read this! What an amazing novel! I went into this novel with only the word of those who have raved about this book/ series/ universe on the internet since its release and subsequent conclusion. I've seen the special edition in my book store for months now,…

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The Lost Book Of The White by Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu | Spoiler-Free Book Chat!

Hai Beautiful! ✨ All the feels!!! ✨ I don't think I can even begin to explain how much love I have for Magnus Bane and literally how willing I am to read anything about him. Like at all. Give me Magnus Bane folding laundry and I'll eat that shit up! Goodreads Summary Life…

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Interview with Claire L. Smith, author of HELENA!

Hai Beautiful! My Best Friend Is A Published Author! In today's Storytime Wednesday I interrogate my friend Claire L. Smith about her novel! I've compiled a list of questions revolving around her novella Helena, dealing with publishers, as well as what it was like having people read her published work for the first…

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Sorting through the chaos of my mind by setting goals for 2021!

Hai Beautiful! Let's Plan! I've made it no secret on here that I absolutely love to plan! I will plan anything out, from physically listing out my daily tasks down to the half-hour or even making sure I at least know a rough sequence of events for a holiday, I find comfort in…

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Helena by Claire L. Smith | Spoilery Book Review/Chat

Hai Beautiful! Get ready for some spooks 🙈 If you have been on my seen any of my recent YouTube videos in the past few months, you'll know that I have been hanging out to read this ever since it was announced!! Goodreads Summary On the outskirts of London, 1855, mortician and funeral…

Books TBR

The First TBR of 2021 aka A Hopefully Better Year Than 2020 (in every way)!

Hai Beautiful! It's that time of year again! Starting off the year with a new Goodreads goal and a half-finished book from the year before is starting to become the norm for me now. But alas, I have anticipated this! But once again I have sabotaged my own well-thought-out plan, and have landed…

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The LAST TBR Of The Chaos That Was 2020!!

Hai Beautiful! Ending the year with a bang! I'm being ✨realistically optimistic✨ this month with my TBR. I've chosen five to six books that I really want to read before the year is over although two of them are novellas and another two, a collection of short pieces. A couple of weeks ago, I uploaded…

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Memento by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman | Novella Spoiler Chat

Hai Beautiful! I think we hyped it up too much... If you have read the Illuminae Files series (Illuminae, Gemina and Obsidio) in the past two or so years; a.k.a. since the release of Obsidio, you'd know about Memento, the companion novella that only a few readers were able to get their hands on.…

Challenges His Diary (Original Story) NaNoWriMo Writing Wednesday

What Happened During NaNoWriMo 2020?

Hai Beautiful! I'm back to my usual blogging schedule! I last spoke about my writing in this post titled: Announcing my 2020 NaNoWriMo Project. It was actually the last writing post before I disappeared from blogging in hopes to make more time for writing. In theory that was a great idea and in reality,…

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TrueLife By Jay Kristoff | Spoiler Book Review

Hai Beautiful! Why did I choose this book to read during NaNoWriMo? TrueLife was everything I expected (and more) from the last book in a very action-packed, heart-shattering series! Goodreads Summary Best friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and…