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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: Best YA series in recent years? // Rave Book Review

24 Jul 201920 Nov 2020
“Who'd deny a poor cripple his cane? "If the cripple is you, then any man with sense.” My Goodreads: Criminal mastermind Kaz Brekker is commissioned by the Ketterdam government to…
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2019 Mid-year Freakout Tag! (a.k.a. making up for my laziness last year)

19 Jul 201920 Jul 2019
Long time no see blogosophere citizens! I was poked last year by another blogger to do this tag, but in typical "me" fashion, I forgot to publish my answers on…
Book Reviews

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo: Raw, grim, wallowing // Book Review

30 Jun 201920 Nov 2020
"Darlington liked to say that dealing with ghosts was like riding the subway: Do not make eye contact. Do not smile. Do not engage. Otherwise, you never know what might…
Book Reviews

A Face Like Glass: Incredibly fresh and original! // Rave Book Review

13 Jun 201918 Aug 2019
My Goodreads: Neverfell is found wandering the underground city of Caverna as a little girl with no memory of her past. But one look at her terrifying face, and her…
Book Reviews

Why I have no (immediate) plans of continuing An Ember In The Ashes // Book Review

2 Jun 201910 Jun 2019
 “In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in its cold arms.” Goodreads: Laia and her brother live under the…
Book Reviews

Angelfall by Susan Ee: Brutal, gripping, harrowing // Book Review

27 May 20194 Jun 2019
My summary: The Apocalypse has struck the world, and Angels are mercilessly hunting down humans. When Penryn's younger sister is snatched away by an Angel, Penryn joins forces with another…
Book tag…

My first TBR post In 16 months?! // Books I Plan On Reading (Relatively) Soon

22 May 20197 Jul 2019
It is apparent to everyone in my life that I don't do TBRs very well. I add books to my list in the heat of excitement, but rarely do I…
Book Reviews

Uprooted by Naomi Novik: Creepy, delightfully creepy! // Book Review

13 May 201929 May 2019
“There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.” My summary: A village lies at the edge of…
Book tag

The Seven Deadly Sins Book Tag! (because we all have bookish sins…)

15 Apr 201924 Jun 2019
Whazzup blogosphere! I was tagged to this tag a long time ago by Ashley @ Book Tales, a most loverly blogger with whom I initially bonded over our love for…
Book Reviews

The Kingkiller Chronicles: So is this series ever going anywhere? // Book Review

25 Mar 20192 May 2019
"As names have power, words have power." Summary: Narrated from the perspective of an adult Kvothe, this series chronicles his past: his tragic encounter with the Chandrian as a child,…
Book Reviews

The Girl in the Tower: Riveting, absolutely riveting! // Rave Book Review

19 Mar 201922 May 2019
"Why are you here?" she asked him. For a moment she thought he would not answer, then he said, as though reluctant, "I heard you cry.” My summary: In this…
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I am back from the blogging grave. For reals this time. (She liiiives!!!)

7 Mar 201915 Mar 2019
Dear Blogosphere and its citizens, Good afternoon, good evening, good night. As you can see, I am well and alive, thank you, and I don't know what the actual french…
Book Reviews

The Bear and the Nightingale: My favorite read of 2018! // Rave Book Review

29 Jan 201922 May 2019
“A demon sat sewing in the corner, and she was the only who saw.” My summary: This book is about a Russian girl named Vasya who lives in her village…
Other

I went on a two-month hiatus. Because I suuuuuuck. // Life updates and other pointless shite

23 Oct 201813 Jan 2019
Okay, what the hell is this post? I have no friggin' idea. I took a very long and unannounced blogging hiatus due to my big move, and I'm currently waiting…
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The Fictional Family Book Tag! (because books are family, cliche as it is…)

19 Aug 20183 Sep 2018
Whazzup blogosphere! I was tagged by Margaret @ Weird Zeal to do this tag, so considering how I've been running around lately like a headless chicken in my hunt for apartments, I…
Book Reviews

Why I so intensely dislike A Court of Thorns and Roses // Spoiler Rant Review

10 Aug 201822 May 2019
As the title suggests, this is the SPOILER rant review of A Court of Thorns and Roses. Therefore, if you have not read this book or just don't have time…
Book Reviews

A Court of Thorns and Roses: Hyperbolic, tone-deaf, and incompetent // Non-spoiler Rant Review

9 Aug 201822 May 2019
“As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely, there would be no hope of ever repairing it.” Summary: This is a Beauty and the Beast retelling…
Book Reviews

The Book of M: Oof! A chilling yet heart-breaking ride! // Book Review

5 Aug 201822 May 2019
"Everything was slowly draining out of her. When she'd needed to be brave for someone else a moment ago, it was one thing. But it was hard to be brave…
Book Reviews

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning: Pensive, melancholy, ominous // Book Review

19 Jul 201824 Jul 2019
"The sea is a fickle witch. She is just as likely to bestow a kiss as to steal the breath from your lips." Summary: Evie, Anna, and Prince Nik are…
Book Reviews

Blue Lily, Lily Blue: My favorite book in the series! // Rave Book Review

11 Jul 201822 May 2019
“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this…
Book tag…

The Ultimate Harry Potter Tag! // Harry Potter Anniversary Week, Day 4

29 Jun 20186 Sep 2018
Hi all! Welcome back to the final day of Harry Potter Anniversary Week. Today I am doing the Ultimate Harry Potter tag, which I'd initially stashed away for my one-year…
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Why Harry totally should’ve ended up with Luna Lovegood // Harry Potter Week, Day 3

28 Jun 20186 Sep 2018
Welcome back to the third part of the Harry Potter Anniversary Week! For the third and fourth days of this event, I was meant to share a personal story about…
Book tag…

Ranking the Snitches outta Harry Potter! // Harry Potter Anniversary Week, Day 2

27 Jun 20186 Sep 2018
Welcome back to the second day of the Harry Potter Anniversary Week! Today is the day where I mash the second and third days of this event in order to…
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The Hogwarts Tag // Harry Potter Anniversary Week, Day 1

26 Jun 201818 May 2019
Hello! I have been tagged by Margaret @ Weird Zeal to participate in a lovely event celebrating the 21st anniversary of Harry Potter (yikes, already), so I decided to take…
Book Reviews

Why The Daughter of Smoke and Bone both thrilled and irked me // Book Review

20 Jun 201829 May 2019
“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?” Summary: Karou is a Prague art student raised by chimaeras, but her past is a mystery to…
Book Reviews

Circe by Madeline Miller: A tale of stirring resilience! // Rave Book Review

7 Jun 201822 May 2019
“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.” Summary: From birth, Circe has always looked to…
Book Reviews

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: Crisp, elegant, fascinating! // Rave Book Review

28 May 201822 May 2019
“For mermaids are the most unnatural of creatures and their hearts are empty of love." My summary: So all you have to know going into this book is that it's…
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The Beauty and the Beast Tag! (by a non-fan, ironically enough…)

8 May 201811 Jul 2018
Whazzup everyone! I saw this tag over at Dorine @ Lost in my Paperworld and thought it would be a fun change to geek out for the first time in ages.…
Book Reviews

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: A favorite classic! // Rave Book Review

7 May 201822 May 2019
“It may not have happened exactly like this, but this is the truth, whether it happened or not." Summary: This book is narrated from the perspective of Chief Bromden, a…
Book Reviews

My Lady Jane: Charming, cheeky, and delightful! // Book Review

3 May 201822 May 2019
“No horse jokes," he said. "My lord, I apologize for the horse joke. If you put down the book---unharmed!---I will give you a carrot." He brandished the book at her.…
Book Reviews

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3): Hurrah! Catharsis galore! // Rave Book Review

1 May 201822 May 2019
“Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.” Summary: Ruin has been unleashed, the ashfalls…
Book Reviews

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black: Flimsy yet salvageable // Book Review

26 Apr 201824 Jun 2019
"Madoc raised his brows. 'We will all look magnificent.' When he walks past, he ruffles my hair. In moments like these, it is almost possible to think there is no…
Book Reviews

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) blew me out of the water! // Rave Book Review

6 Apr 201822 May 2019
“It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.” Summary: The second installment of the Mistborn trilogy shows Vin,…
Book Reviews

The Final Empire (Mistborn #1): A promising start to a trilogy // Book Review

26 Mar 201822 May 2019
“The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.” Summary: This first…
Book Reviews

The Dream Thieves: A better version of the first book // Rave Book Review

9 Mar 201822 May 2019
“He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to burn.” Summary: The ley lines have…
Book Reviews

The Philosopher’s Flight: A simple story of success! // Book Review

3 Mar 201822 May 2019
"No, that's philosophy," Unger said. "The strength of your dissipate sigils doesn't matter. It's the interfaces." "So what, it bounces off?" "Not precisely," said Unger. "As I said, it's a…
Book Reviews

The Raven Boys: Talk about a misleading synopsis! // Rave Book Review

26 Feb 201822 May 2019
“We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again." "This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have…
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The Harry Potter Spells Tag (a.k.a. the very first tag on my blog!)

21 Feb 20182 Aug 2018
Now I don't recall if I've ever mentioned this before, but BY GODS do I love Harry Potter. This series is one I've re-read so many times that I have…
Book Reviews

The Hazel Wood: A tantalizing premise gone unfulfilled? // Book Review

16 Feb 201822 May 2019
"My mother took care of me and I took care of her in a symbiotic relationship that looked cute on TV, but felt fucking exhausting when you're moving for the…
Book Reviews

A Monster Calls made me weep uncontrollably…. // Rave Book Review

8 Feb 201822 May 2019
“Stories are wild creatures," the monster said. "When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?” Summary: Thirteen-year-old Conor wakes up every night at exactly 12:07 a.m.…
Book Reviews

The Language of Thorns: A retelling with progressive twists // Book Review

2 Feb 201822 May 2019
“I can bear ugliness,” he said. “I find the one thing I cannot live with is death.” Summary: This is a collection of short stories that exist within the Grishaverse,…
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I need this book in my life. Right now. // My Current Bookish Obsessions

25 Jan 201822 May 2019
News flash, I've lost my mind. Like, I'm utterly cuckoo right now. I realized this book is coming this April, and I am going nuts trying to get my hands…
Book Reviews

Mask of Shadows completely lost me…. // Dnf’d Book Review

20 Jan 201822 May 2019
“I would remember them forever–their names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and their eyes stared through me." Summary: Sal is a gender-fluid thief who wants to…
Book Reviews

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue: Whew, what a riot! // Book Review

14 Jan 201822 May 2019
“I've always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious." Summary: It's 18th century Europe, and Monty has been kicked out of boarding…
Book Reviews

Nyxia by Scott Reintgen: Hunger Games meets space? // Book Review

6 Jan 201822 May 2019
"I never thought of escaping into a book. So as I read, I'm surprised how quickly the words take me from the hospital bed and into the woods." Summary: In…
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My (Non-existent) Bookish Goals of 2018

2 Jan 201826 Aug 2018
Happy belated New Year's! I am only putting this out today because I was having way too much fun spending time with family and binge-watching Harry Potter, and thus forgot…
Book Reviews

Why The Song of Achilles is my favorite book of 2017 // Rave Book Review

29 Dec 201715 Jul 2019
“Will you come with me?” he asked. The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed,…
Book Reviews

The Strange Case of The Alchemist’s Daughter // Book Review

19 Dec 201729 May 2019
"Phew!" said Diana. "You would make a good criminal." "Yes, I worry about that sometimes," said Watson. Summary: After the death of her mother, Mary Jekyll comes to learn of…
Book Reviews

Rosemarked: A slow yet engaging burn! // Book Review

12 Dec 201722 May 2019
He's almost apologetic, but still I can feel my heart pounding against my rib cage. "I wouldn't lie to you. Why would I?" "I don't know," he says quietly. He…
Book Reviews

Heartless by Marissa Meyer: Shocking, but gutsy! // Rave Book Review

10 Dec 201722 May 2019
“These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,' he said, vanishing up to his neck. 'They happen only in nightmares.' His head spiraled and he was gone.” Summary: Cath…
Book Reviews

Murder on the Orient Express is a clean and thrilling ride // Book Review

3 Dec 201722 May 2019
“If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it, often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your…
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My grubby little hands snagged these on Black Friday! // Book Haul

29 Nov 201722 May 2019
Sadly, I spent Thanksgiving alone this year *sobs* and as a result, I went a little nuts binge-shopping on Black Friday. I woke at 8 am to drive to Barnes…
Book Reviews

Haven by Mary Lindsey: Predictable, but strong finale // Book Review

27 Nov 201729 May 2019
“We all hold a monster inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed.” Summary: Rain has lived on the streets with his mother for his entire life…
Book Reviews

As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti: Cynical protagonists for the win! // Book Review

20 Oct 201722 May 2019
"Why don't people stop wishing and start doing? Why is everyone so willing to wish away their lives?" Summary: Madison is no ordinary town. It may look dry and dusty…
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Whoop! I got approved for this book on Netgalley! // Currently reading and Life Updates

13 Sep 201722 May 2019
Seriously my gods, I requested this book on Netgalley way back in June, and I never thought I'd get approved. And yet, I finally got the green light a week…
Book Reviews

The Golem and the Jinni: Such villainy, such story-telling! // Rave Book Review

2 Aug 20178 Dec 2020
“On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.” Summary: Chava and…
Book Reviews

Caraval: Bland, lazy, and self-indulgent // Rant Book Review

29 Jun 201722 May 2019
“She’d once heard emotions and desires fueled the magic that made wishes possible. But either Scarlett didn’t feel enough, or the stories she’d heard about wishes were made of lies.”…
Book Reviews

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe // Rave Book Review

18 Jun 201722 May 2019
“When do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?” I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don't know,” I said. “Tomorrow.”…
Book Reviews

The House of the Scorpion is an incredible masterpiece! // Rave Book Review

10 Jun 201722 May 2019
“I love you," Matt said. "I love you, too," Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it." "If I have a soul, I'll…

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Why I so intensely dislike A Court of Thorns and Roses // Spoiler Rant Review
Why The Daughter of Smoke and Bone both thrilled and irked me  // Book Review
The Raven Boys: Talk about a misleading synopsis! // Rave Book Review
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: Best YA series in recent years? // Rave Book Review
The Fictional Family Book Tag! (because books are family, cliche as it is...)
A Court of Thorns and Roses: Hyperbolic, tone-deaf, and incompetent // Non-spoiler Rant Review
Sea Witch by Sarah Henning: Pensive, melancholy, ominous // Book Review
The Beauty and the Beast Tag! (by a non-fan, ironically enough...)
My Lady Jane: Charming, cheeky, and delightful! // Book Review
A Monster Calls made me weep uncontrollably.... // Rave Book Review
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“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something.”

― The Once and Future King

“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”

― The Mistborn trilogy

“Old women must know something, or they wouldn’t live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front steps.”

— Six of Crows

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— HP and the Deathly Hallows

“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”

― The Song of Achilles

“Stories are wild creatures,” the monster said. “When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”

— A Monster Calls

“A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late.”

― The Bartimaeus Trilogy

“I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

— The Chosen

“On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.”

― The Golem and the Jinni

“Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea.”

― My Lady Jane

“Trism lived in Liir’s heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once.”

— Son of a Witch

“Always check your hats be-
fore donning them. You never know what might be lurking inside.”

— Heartless

“Then he closed his eyes and he began to dream.”

— The Raven King

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

― The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

“For mermaids are the most unnatural of creatures and their hearts are empty of love.”

— The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”

— Circe

“All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

— The Lord of the Rings

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

― The Shadow of the Wind

“A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.”

― The Promise

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

— The Thief Lord

“The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing, you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”

― The Once and Future King

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside of them.”

― Inkheart

“I have always felt terrible inside. The reason for this keeps changing.”

— Aristotle and Dante

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as of yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he’d ever met one, chances are they’d both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

— The Bartimaeus trilogy

“It may not have happened exactly like this, but this is the truth, whether it happened or not.”

― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— The Shadow of the Wind

“A demon sat sewing in the corner, and she was the only  who saw.”

― The Bear and the Nightingale

“Why are you here?” she asked him. For a moment she thought he would not answer, then he said, as though reluctant, “I heard you cry.”

— The Girl in the Tower

“Magic is forgetting the world was ever other than as you willed it.”

— The Winter of the Witch

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”

– Aristotle and Dante

“People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”

— Shadow of the Wind

“In a solitary life, there are rare moments when a soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

— Circe

“You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus.You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.”

— The Night Circus

“People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.”

― The House of the Scorpion

“Isn’t it hard to maintain an argument when you can read each other’s mind?”

— Ptolemy’s Gate

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

― Murder on the Orient Express

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