we're all mad here
This week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic was one that I immediately knew which trope I was using because truly what is better than friends to lovers? Sure, enemies to lovers is great, there’s a fantastic level of angst going on there, but friends to lovers is my jam. It’s also almost primarily what I…
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This week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic is a bit wild. Not gonna lie, I can think of one off the top of my head? Maybe two. I made fun of books like this one time in one of my books, and yet, I can’t remember which books I listed. I feel like this is…
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Happy Black History month! I got a bunch of amazing BIPOC books over the last year, and since I was focused on catching up on my preorders for the last few months of 2021, I didn’t get to read anything new that wasn’t already scheduled. Thus, I’m really excited to finally be digging into these!…
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This was originally supposed to be my top five middle grades reads of the year, but I ended up reading mostly YA fantasy because I was feeling all sorts of feelings about books this year, and that was where I felt like I could safely linger without being angry at everything I was reading. Thus,…
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Somehow, for this week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic, there ended up being four different Sam’s and two Nathaniel’s, which just seems strange, but they’re also great names, and I’m not at all surprised that each of the Sam’s made it on here. I also managed to solely pick couples, which makes sense given how…
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I was originally supposed to talk about my California trip for today’s post, but ya girl is a little too psycho sometimes because I really thought that I could draft a coherent post on a red-eye flight, three hours of sleep, and a time zone change. And because that definitely is not happening, I found…
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I 100% thought that every book on this list was going to be a contemporary, but then my third one was a fantasy, and my fourth one was a horror, so this turned into a strange list. I wasn’t in a slump recently because I was consistently reading, but I’ve been pretty unhappy with the…
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Book Roast has done it again! I am just in awe of all the work that G has put into this readathon and so, so grateful to her that she’s created another one. She has truly gone above and beyond this year, and the fact that she’s planning it to be a multi-year adventure where…
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This is somehow going to be the hardest That Artsy Reader Girl topic ever. It shouldn’t be because there are so many reasons why I love reading, but that’s it right there, that’s why it’s the hardest. How do you narrow down something so monumental into ten reasons? And they’re definitely not going to be…
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Okay, here’s the deal. At the end of May, I talked about why I occasionally do book buying bans and how they’re actually really helpful for me. At the beginning of this year, I threw away my handwritten TBR list that was organized chronologically by when I’d bought something. It was bringing me a lot…
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Mary and the Words 