Tag: readingblogger
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Spooky Season Recs
What better way to bring back the blog than in my prime season – spooky season! There’s atmosphere, creepiness, witches, magic, and unhinged, scary fun… How can someone not be in the mood? Whether you are embracing the season already or need some help getting into the vibe, I got you covered. This list is…
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Musings Over The Magnolia Palace
“The rich think they’re protected, that they have magical powers, when in fact they’re only mortals, like the rest of us.” The Magnolia Palace – Fiona Davis My Rating In Summary of The Magnolia Palace “Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen…
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Worth the Hype
“What’s wrong with me? … I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extra curricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it’s not ambition, not entirely. It’s fear.” A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder –…
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November 9… Not Calendar-Worthy
“If you don’t show up today, I’ll be there next year. And the next. Every November 9th I’ll wait for you, hoping one day you’ll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. But if that doesn’t happen and you never show, I’ll still be grateful to you until the day that I…
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Migrations Will Take You on a Journey
“A life’s impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.” Migrations – Charlotte McConaghy My Rating In Summary of Migrations “Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to…
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The Cage Will Captivate You
“Car. Why did they call them cars? Elevators weren’t cars. In a car you were in control. You could stop, pull over, get out, walk free. They should call them what they were. Cages. That was what it felt like when I was trapped in there, in the dark.” The Cage – Bonnie Kistler My…
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Books, Briefly: My Body
“Books, Briefly” is back to spotlight Emily Ratajkowski’s essay collection, My Body. Title: My Body Author: Emily Ratajkowski “In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were…
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12 Books Challenge
On my Instagram, I asked for 12 book recommendations for the #12bookschallenge and I was not disappointed. The idea is that each book will represent a different month of the year. While I am technically already behind with January almost being over, there is not a specific time that I have to read these during…
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Reminders of Him is a Memorable Read
“People think women who go to prison have a certain look. That we’re a certain way. But we’re mothers, wives, daughters, humans.” Reminders of Him – Colleen Hoover My Rating In Summary of Reminders of Him “After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all…
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Operation Mission Seduction: Drafting Readers Now!
“The housewife dreamily thought of herself as a gallant warrior, rescuing her love from his self-described ennui and empathizing with him, feeling the same in her passionless marriage. He was saving her, too.” Operation Mission Seduction – Elvira Weitman My Rating In Summary of Operation Mission Seduction “When her college ex-boyfriend George, now a lieutenant…
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