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    review; the wishing spell

    The Land Of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer Alex and Conner Bailey’s world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales. The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to…

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    review; destroy me

    Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi In Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me, Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner—and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. But as she’ll learn in Destroy Me, Warner is not that easy to get rid of. Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But when Warner’s father, The Supreme…

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    review; the unbearable book club for unsinkable girls

    I’ve been writing reviews for books for a couple of years now, and posting them on my booklr. But until I can hit a stride here on this blog, I figure it’d be smarter to slowly migrate the reviews from there to here. I mean, it’s going to take a while for me to get into a groove, I know this. At least I have some things already reviewed and posted that I can now put up here as well. This is probably the only review that will have a preface to it, if only to explain that my reviews tend to be written within a few days of having…

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    new beginnings

    The problem with starting a blog, for me, is that I never know how to start it. I’ve been sitting here for a good while just trying to figure out what to write. Do I start with an introductory post? Do I just jump straight in? I posed this question on Twitter and a couple of people answered – with conflicting responses. Helpful, right? But it made me realize that there is no correct way to go about doing this. This is a blog, for me, by me. This is MY blog, my space. I can do whatever I want here. It’s the start of April, and I am currently…