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September Brings all My Books to the Yard
If you have a friend who preorders books a lot, I beg you to check on them after this month. Apparently, after two years of book blogging and now a bit of book collecting, I still didn’t learn my lesson to save up for the month that is September madness.…
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Talking about my Slump
Thought I would share more about this slump that has had me more in semi-hiatus mode than ‘new minimal post schedule.’ I’m still reading, just, not with this desire to aside from the couple of books I’ve managed to finish. I’m still here, I exist, but it feels like I…
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Books & Comfort
After a week of like the craziest crap with our internet, I’m pretty much all for a discussion post with it’s lack of graphics and photos. Also, I did think about this topic quite a bit with my new found…isolation. I love hanging around people, well, my friends, and though…
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The Dreaded TBR
Hey all! Haven’t had a discussion post in a while, so here I am doing that while the spawn is taking an online test. I have been adjusting to some major changes and that means adjusting when and how much I read in a day, which of course can change…
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Cutting Down on Blog Tours
So this may or may not be the a discussion post you can relate to but it’s something I wanted to ‘announce’ & discuss today. Blog Tours. Some of you have seen me go crazy with them, I mean I went and stayed crazy with them, sometimes having…
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Racial Color Blindness and its Negative Effect on Authors of Color
Hey guys, just some light topic discussion to get our Thursday going. Half kidding. It’s not light, but, it is something I’ve wanted to discuss! It’s an important topic and one that doesn’t get enough discourse [outside of Bookish Twitter]. Picture it: You walk into a bookstore, you browse the…
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The Dreaded 3 Star Review
Discussion post today, and I’m tackling the three-star head on! I know that writers aren’t fond of the three-star rating, and well, I mean, it makes sense. But, why do we as reviewers issue them? I do completely understand when an author would like an explanation of why…
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Handling Stress
Hey everyone, how are you all? If you ever need to comment just to talk, I’m here! Even if it’s about what you had for breakfast or anything at all lol. Anyway, so, I know everyone has their ways of dealing with stress. I have always immersed myself…
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Reading Rate Shaming
Hey guys, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve done anything besides crank out reviews. I needed a small break lol. So here we are, let’s discuss reading rate shaming. What do I mean by that? [I’m clarifying because I know I make little to no sense lol]…
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The ‘Strong’ Female Character Archetype
This post was inspired by Samantha Shannon, as some of you know, I saw her at Cymera Fest and again last month at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Both times, something that really hit home for me was her take on ‘the strong female character’ because she was 200% right.…
The Caffeinated Reader 