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Comparing Young Adult Dystopian Books: Divergent vs Hunger Games vs Uglies
I like to think that I’ve read a fair amount of dystopian and a fair amount of young adult books. While making my way through Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, I couldn’t help but compare it to two...
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The TBR: Determining What Gets Added
It’s been a while since I blogged last about my TBR, but there were still a few things that I wanted to cover, so today I’m talking about how I decide what I add to my TBR list. You wouldn’t know it...
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On Rereading Books
Do you ever go back and reread books? I used to, all the time. I love going back and spending time with characters who have become my friends, see places that I remember dearly, and reminding myself of...
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Eleven Magic Words
When I am honest with myself, I have to admit that I am starting to find reading and reviewing books for my blog to be a little bit overwhelming. For some reason, I have less and less time to spend...
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I absolutely LOVE the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory cover
So, earlier this week, Penguin unveiled the new cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and there were A LOT of people who did not like it. I think I have heard everything from, “I would never buy...
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The Search For Narnia
I don’t know how I first discovered C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, whether it was the BBC series or through the reading of the books… but I have been absolutely in love with it for as long as I...
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Essential Reading: Children’s Books
There are books that are so near and dear to our hearts growing up that we sometimes can’t fathom it when others haven’t ever experienced them. I’ve noticed this a lot with John, who was never a big...
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The Great TBR Purge of 2014
I think part of the reason I’ve been in such a reading slump is because my TBR pile is currently consisting of books that have been there for a long time that I haven’t wanted to read for years. And...
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Books by Multiple Authors
One of the pages that gets the most traffic on my blog is a post I wrote years ago as a part of my now-disfunct Listed feature. In that particular instalment, I looked at novels that were written by...
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Women in Speculative Fiction: An Introduction
I talk a lot about kick-ass female characters. I adore them – they are the reason that I love good scifi stories. You know the characters I mean – the Buffy Summers’, the Samantha Carters, the Kitty...
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