Top Ten Aspects of a Book That Make Me Want to Pick It Up

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the bloggers of The Broke and the Bookish. I altered this prompt slightly to be: Top Ten Aspects of a Book That Make Me Want to Pick It Up." Relying just on words or topics on the cover/blurbs/paratext felt a little too confining for me. The Chosen One — This is perhaps my greatest weakness of all. Time and again, I just love reading about...

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Review: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Published: 2011, Tor Teen Series: Anna, #1 Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Source: Library book Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble We’re not children, neither of us. We don’t believe in fairy tales. And if we did, who would we be? Not Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty. I slice murder victims’ heads off and Anna stretches skin until it rips, she snaps...

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Review: Native Son by Richard Wright

Native Son by Richard Wright Published: 2005, Harper Perennial Modern Classics (Originally 1940) Genre: Adult Fiction Source: Paperback gifted by boyfriend Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble I am fairly certain that nothing I write can truly do justice to this raw and emotionally wrenching book, but I shall try. I received Native Son as a gift from my boyfriend. Since I've always been a...

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A Grandmother's Legacy

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. -Author Unknown On April 15, 2013, the majority of the United States mourned the tragedy in Boston. My own family suffered a different, personal, and more acute sort of tragedy that day as we watched my maternal grandmother pass from this world to the next. It’s been over a week since I said goodbye to her and...

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Rewind (Top Ten Books I Had to Buy, But Haven't Read Yet)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the bloggers of The Broke and the Bookish. This is a rewind week, so I decided to visit a topic from a few weeks ago that I never answered: the top ten books I had to buy, but, for some reason or another, haven't read yet.  Before blogging, I used to be really good about this. I always had a few books on my shelf that I had not read,...

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Review: The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

The Rose Garden by Susanna KearsleyPublished: 2011, SourcebooksGenre: Adult Historical FictionSource: Personal ebook Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble   There was something about this remote western corner of Britain that captured the soul and refused to let go, something ancient and wild in the moors and black cliffs and the voice of the sea that spoke always of something unseen...

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