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Quarter-Year Wrap-Up
We’re almost 25% way through 2024?! Sounds like it’s time for a reading wrap-up. More in-depth reviews will be linked if possible. If there are any books here that interest you, please check the content warnings before reading. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels – Janice Hallett A suspenseful and unpredictable read that explores…
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Reading Slumps, Why???
Welcome back, dear reader! I think I speak for most readers when I say that reading slumps suck. A reading slump, for anyone lucky enough to have not experienced one, is when reading any book loses all appeal. This can happen for a multitude of reasons. Most commonly, reading slumps happen after you finish an…
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“Babel: An Arcane History” by R.F. Kuang
R.F. Kuang’s “Babel: An Arcane History” follows Robin Swift, an orphan brought to London from Canton by Professor Lovell, a translation professor. Professor Lovell trains Robin in Latin, Greek, and Chinese so that Robin can attend Babel – Oxford University’s Royal Institute of Translation. Babel supplies England with magical silver bars charged with the meanings…
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My Thoughts on BookTok (Pt.2)
Hi all! Welcome back! Last week, I started a little rant about BookTok, the bookish subculture on TikTok. Last week, I talked a bit about the marketing of romance books, the normalisation of adult content in YA novels, and what they label as “must-reads.” This week, I wanted to tackle some other issues like the…
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My Thoughts on BookTok (Pt.1)
In the 18th century reading was considered a delinquent activity. Teenage girls were banned from reading alone in their rooms out of fear that they would become too aroused by the story. Sounds absolutely crazy and unreasonable, right? Now, enter today’s romance books, and its subcultures, specifically BookTok — a section of TikTok where book-related…
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“I Hope This Doesn’t Find You” by Ann Liang
This book describes itself as “snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters” and I couldn’t think of a better way to describe it. I’ve read Ann Liang’s other books, If You Could See the Sun and This…
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“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee
Welcome back all! One of the first books I read this year was Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Pachinko is a historical fiction novel that tells the touching and resilient story of four generations of a Korean family through the 1900s, as they navigate World War II, Japan, and the life that comes after it.…
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My Favourite Reads
Welcome back! This week, I wanted to share some of my favourite books. And by favourite books, I mean that if I was trapped in a tower for an extended period of time, I would be thriving as long as I had these books. 😊 By the way, this is not a ranking, just a…
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Guest Interview: Liz Buxbaum and Wes Bennet
Hi everyone! In today’s blog, we have some very special guests joining me for an interview. Please welcome the star couple from Better than the Movies: Liz Buxbaum and Wes Bennet! We’ll start with a question for either one of you: How did you first meet? Wes: I’ll take this one. We met when we…
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“The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels” by Janice Hallett
Synopsis: Amanda Bailey’s career is on a downhill trajectory, and the only way to save it is to write a book on the infamous Alperton Angels cold case: the cult where the members thought that a teenage girl’s baby was the anti-Christ. However, when the girl called the authorities, the Angels all committed suicide and…