books
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Do you ever have those books that you put off reading because they’ve been hyped so much? How could a book be that good, right? I have a few of those and Serafina and the Black Cloak is one of them. I put off reading it and put off reading it but it’s been staring at
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“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.” Nightmares are living, breathing things. But can they help you through tragedy? A Monster Calls may be one of my favorite and least favorite books all at the same time. Conor O’Malley is losing his mother to a monster
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I remember reading Tuck Everlasting back in middle school and this book has stuck with me ever since. I find myself constantly thinking of this book and wanting to read it again and again. Meet Winnie Foster. Her family is relatively normal, life fairly predictable. Until one day she discovers a spring on her family’s land.
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I’m not usually big on teen romance novels. They’ve never rocked my proverbial socks off. Not much was different when reading By Your Side. Anxiety-riddled Autumn Collins finds herself locked in the local library over the long holiday weekend. She thinks she’s alone until she finds herself face-to-face with Dax Miller, the black sheep of their
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To the boys who get called girls, the girls who get called boys, and those who live outside these words. To those called names, and those searching for names of their own. To those who live on the edges, and in the spaces in between I wish for you ever light in the sky. Do
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“We move, we surge, we dash and we flow, and we think that our furious beating upon the far shores of the universe means we are powerful. But we are only the crest of an uncontrollable surge in the tide.” I had no idea what to expect when I started reading The Beauty. Honestly, I’m still
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Welcome book lovers to the second installment of #FictionFriday!!!! Coming-of-age novels have never really been my thing but I always manage to read at least one each year. I’m always surprised by how much they stick with me. But this one in particular really stuck with me. Perhaps it’s because there’s a bit of sci-fi
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Hey book lovers! So I’m starting something new this month with #FictionFriday (waits for applause). Basically, every Friday I’ll be posting about a fiction book I think should be on your bookshelf. Maybe even give you a nudge to go out and buy it over the weekend. Who knows? Starting out our #FictionFriday, I’d like
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“I am not a murderer.” Welcome to St. Aiden the Great School, better known as S.T.A.G.S. and run by a group of prefects known as the Medievals. A cruel group that doesn’t believe in the latest technology and is filled with old money. Greer MacDonald is privy to their punishments until one day she receives
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Never look for a roommate on Craigslist! I repeat, NEVER look for a roommate on Craigslist. “…the guy waiting on the other side of my door was about to bring the whole thing to another level. A screw up of literal biblical proportions.” Amanda Grey can tell you just how much of a bad idea it
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