Tag: romance
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Last-Minute Christmas Romance Recs
It’s Christmas Week! Get out your last-minute Christmas books because it’s candy-cane-crunch time! And if you don’t know what to pick up because there are so many Christmas books and so little time to decide? I got you covered. Based on my most recent reads this month – as well as the Christmas books highest…
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Reading Wrap-Up: November 2021
I read 5-books during the month of November. Teaching has been busy, as well as preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday, but I read an interesting variety of books when I could! (Hence the majority of this month’s reads being audiobooks.) **Book titles with asterisks are ones I’ve already reviewed on Archetypes & Anecdotes, as of…
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Reading Wrap-Up: October 2021
10 books. What a month! I am so lucky to have had ample time to read this month (although it’s never as much as I’d like to have), but I feel like 10 books will suffice… Here is what I read this month (with links to their Goodreads pages and stats on my star ratings…
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Moody & Creepy Classics
Classics are in. Okay, I guess they are technically always “in” because they are called classics for a reason. These books and authors have been able to stand the tests of time (for the most part) and they continue to entertain and inspire new versions. And the cool thing? Classics can include spooky reads, too.…
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Books, Briefly: Only When It’s Us
“Books, Briefly” is back to spotlight the first book in the Bergman Brothers series! Title: Only When It’s Us Author: Chloe Liese “Hate, enmity, rivalry are all passionate responses. My personal theory is that they are incomplete expressions of one core human emotion: love.” Only When It’s Us – Chloe Liese READ IF YOU LIKE:…
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Unconventional Spooky-Time Books
Okay, yes. Spooky books are inherently unconventional in content. But what if there’s something about them that makes them even more unique? I’ve seen reading guides on YouTube, blogs, and Instagram recommending what you’d typically expect: Stephen King, slashers, Riley Sager, etc. While there’s absolutely nothing wrong with these, I thought I’d switch things up.…
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Reading Wrap-Up: September 2021
September 2021 was a 5-book month for me. This wasn’t bad given the circumstances. To be honest about personal matters, my grandmother passed this month. I was traveling more than usual, trying to keep up with work, and coping with what was happening. However, that’s the beauty of reading. Books will never leave your side!…
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Reading Wrap-Up: August 2021
Well, 8 books despite returning back to work after a reading-filled summer is something I am pleased with! I invite you to take a look at my reading for the month (with links to their Goodreads pages and stats on my star ratings for the month). Have you read any of these? If not, perhaps…
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Readers! Take Refuge Within the Pages of Exit West
“…and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.” Exit West – Mohsin Hamid My Rating In Summary of Exit West “In a country teetering…
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People We Meet on Vacation Takes Readers for a Trip
“I’m on vacation. Vacations always end. It’s the very fact that it’s finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn’t be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spend there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it…
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