Year: 2015
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I have enough books on my TBR to fill years and years (and years and years) of reading without ever looking at a new release. Most new releases I find in the similarly titled section of the library. There are very few if any books that I look forward to and buy immediately (or even…
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There are some books that leave an indelible mark by dint of their incredible strangeness–books that startle and make you wonder how an author ever could have come up with it. This is one of these books. But it’s brilliant. Geek Love follows the story of Oly, an albino hunchback who her parents deplore for…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. I think my mom was heartbroken when I asked her if Santa was real in the second grade. She loved the magic of it. She told me that while Santa and fairies might not be real, the magic of…
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You may have noticed this book popped up on my favorites list for Top Ten Tuesday. There were actually a number of books on that list that I haven’t done a post about yet, but they will all be coming I promise. This book came out about five years ago, but it’s lost none of…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. So it is very hard for me to pick favorites when it comes to books. What is your favorite book is probably the most difficult question I am asked on a semi-regular basis. I love so many books. But…
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It took me a while to finish this book because I accidentally left it at my parents’ house. And did I mention I only had 60 pages left? This is an interesting twist on a beloved fairy tale replete with cyborgs and inter-species love. As you know, I love a good fairy tale adaptation. The…
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So I don’t exactly have a recipe or a normal post for you. Because I made this sauce. And it was just. so. gross. So I will not be sharing the recipe with you. Because you will hate me if I do. I mean, I will share vaguely. But don’t make it. So the Hugo,…
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Kate Christensen’s novel is written in diary format, though the narrator would probably not like it being referred to that way. But it’s written as a series of notebooks he writes his private thoughts in and doesn’t let anyone read…so a diary. There’s nothing wrong with having a diary of course; I’ve had one for…
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