Can't Wait Wednesday- Meet Cute

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read! I want this so bad! I'm almost afraid to read it. I'm going to get this book, read these meet cutes, and I'll be mad that I don't have the rest of their stories. Ugh.  *** Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every...

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Review: Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes

  It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her...

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Blog Hop: Books in Foreign Languages

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: Have you ever read a book written in a foreign language you might be fluent in, and then read the same book in English? Answer: I took four years of Spanish and I'd be lucky if I could introduce myself properly. The only language I'm fluent in is English, so no, I have never read a book in...

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Can't Wait Wednesday- Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read! As we can see, there's no cover yet, but I CAN'T WAIT for this book. It's the fourth book in the Shatter Me series that I was pretty sure I would never get but have wished for!!  *** Juliette Ferrars thought she'd won. She took over Sector 45,...

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Review: Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

4 Stars! Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen". But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every...

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Blog Hop: Readathons

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: Do you participate in readathons and/or reading challenges? Answer: Absolutely not! I have no time for that. As a librarian I can sit on book award committees which require you to read certain books over a specified amount of time.With the exception of those committee's and my Goodreads challenge,...

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Can't Wait Wednesday- Before She Ignites by Jodi Meadows

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read!   We've got a black girl, in a beautiful dress (I'm not about those ruffles), and a dragon tail curling around her feet. Need I say more. BeforeMira Minkoba is the Hopebearer. Since the day she was born, she’s been told she’s special. Important....

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Review: Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

Publisher: Macmillan Publication Date: April 6, 2016 Rating: 2.5 stars Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule. And now faces life-changing repercussions.She could...

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Young Adult @ Heart- Saving Red

My friends and I do an online, transcontinental, book club and we had lots of thoughts about the book Saving Red. Here they are!...

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Blog Hop: Reading Old Posts

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: Do you ever go "way back" to when you first started blogging and look at your old review posts? Do you see any differences from then to now? Answer: I haven't looked at old posts in a while. I use to do it all the time. My tone generally hasn't changed, but I think my thoughts are a bit more...

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