we're all mad here
Yes, there are only nine books on this list, it is what it is. There were a ton of series that I finished up this year, but not all of them stood out to me in a way that was WOW BEST SEQUEL material, so I didn’t want to stick a tenth one in there…
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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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Gonna be real with you, some of these tropes are definitely not bad, they’re just overused, and they’ve gotten a kind of oh here we go again connotation in my head, so that’s why I’m attributing bad to it. I also love this week’s topic on Meeghan Reads for the month of tropes, too, because…
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This month, over at Meeghan Reads, the weekly top ten topic is all about tropes, and I’m so excited to dig into them! We’re kicking things off with tropes that I love, and because I did do favorite romance tropes earlier this year, I’m going to try not to just repeat that entire list, though…
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I could honestly just stop this post immediately at the title. That’s it, y’all! That’s the post! YA is not a genre, thanks for coming. Okay, but, for real, YA is not a genre. It stands for young adult, which is an age range of 12-18. I get really wary of those who say that…
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Ohhhh, I can already tell that this week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic is going to be HARD. I can think of, like, one book with a number in the title? No, two! Oh my gosh, and all of you definitely know what one of them is. This is probably going to be predictable, but…
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I will never actually copy & paste the scene that I’m thinking of from my old high fantasy series, but wowza, it was just Helm’s Deep almost identically. (I won’t share it because that is some olddddd writing, and I’m not about to subject anyone to that.) For a long time, I had a rule…
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Disclaimer: I’m mostly talking about YA here. I can probably count on one hand how many adult fantasies I’ve read in the last decade, although none of those few had men for their MCs, either. I truly don’t think that if I had to put together a top ten fantasy books that feature men MCs,…
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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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Mary and the Words 