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May 2024 Wrap-Up!
Happy Pride everybody! Toning down my reading pace since last month to focus on job hunting has not been fun but, sadly, a necessary change to make. It has been mentally taxing to receive so many rejections so I stopped going through the 2024 Indie Brawl Books. Most of them have been so tedious to Continue reading
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April 2024 Wrap-Up!
17 books read again this month! No surprise there, of course. I am unstill unemployed and I’m participating in this year’s Books of Horror Indie Brawl as a reader. Sorry for the radio silence here in my blog! My nose is so deep in books I’m barely writing any review. With so much horror books Continue reading
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March 2024 Wrap-Up!
17 books read this month. I think that’s a personal best! So this is how much I can read when I’m unemployed. Huh. And… maybe because of these four reasons too: I hope you had a wonderful March! #1: An Offer From a Gentleman ⭐4.5 : My second read of this book and it’s more Continue reading
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Thoughts on the Controversial Throne of Glass (ToG) Special Edition from Fairyloot
Last March 20, 2024, Fairyloot dropped the digital mockups for the first four books of the popular fantasy series ‘Throne of Glass’ by Sarah J. Maas and the public reception … has been overwhelmingly negative. Here’s my rundown of the situation and my personal thoughts. Continue reading
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Percy Jackson Illumicrate SE: I’ve Fallen Down the Ocean Trenches
I love a good book mail! A part of me is so impatient when I preorder these limited-edition book sets because they’re usually weeks or months away from getting in my hands, but the moment they come it feels like a huge, wonderful surprise. Today I received Illumicrate’s Percy Jackson series and I am ecstatic! Continue reading
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February 2024 Wrap-Up!
February was more of a graphic novel/manga season. 17 volumes of Kakegurui and 21 volumes of Assassination Classroom! I find manga and graphic novels to be perfect for when I don’t have the mental bandwidth to visualize and process the words I’m reading. I still badly want to consume stories but I’m having sensory overload Continue reading
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January 2024 Wrap-Up!
I finished 6 books this month! Yay! It’s so hard to pick a favorite because of the varied genre but if I had to pick it would be ‘Yellowface’ by R.F. Kuang. What’s yours? Hoping to read great books this upcoming month so share your absolute faves please! Continue reading
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100 Books in 1 Year? How?! (2023 Wrap-Up)
So when I reached my target of 100 books, aside from being totally surprised that I can actually manage that, I asked myself “what changed?” Continue reading
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Taking a Break!
Image Transcript: Announcement. Taking a Break! Sorry I’m doing this again but I’m taking another blogging break for a while and that unfortunately means I’m cancelling the remainder of my Spooky Shorts 2023 series. I’m hoping to be back on my 2023 wrap up in late December as I’m still targeting to read 100 books Continue reading
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Spooky Shorts 2023!
For this Halloween season, I will be posting one (1) review per day. Each review will be focused on a chilling short story from this amazing featured anthology! Ready to spell out this month with one spook a day? Continue reading
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Taking a Pause
I became a book reviewer for a book group and I’ve posted three reviews for that group since. There’s no strict format to follow, but it was still an enlightening experience as I realized I had to modify the way I write my reviews, especially for the ones I dislike. I’ve been posting reviews based Continue reading
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Book Reviews : Spoiler-free or nah?
Really curious to hear everyone’s opinion. When I check for book reviews, I find myself getting irritated for having generic reviews why they like it or not. They can’t reference a character arc or a specific event to avoid spoilers but generic reactions like “I really love it!” and “I hate it. This trope is Continue reading
The Stray Reader 