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Happy Hump Day, bookworms!!! I'm probably gonna be a little terrible with posting for the next while until I get a handle on all my uni stuff but I swear! I'm working on it! I was tagged by @shesgoingbookcrazy to do the #myfirstbook tag (thank you, thank you!!!). Quite tragically, all of my beloved childhood Rainbow Fairy books are gone so instead I'm using the series that got me into reeeally reading, that obsessive reading that inspired my handle. I read the first Gallagher Girls book by @theallycarter, I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU back in 6th grade and absolutely fell in love. Badass teenage girls training to be spies at an exclusive academy? Yes please I love romance, I love contemporary, I love espionage and secrets and suspense, and this is the series that sucked me into all of it. Plus as the girl in the corner who no one noticed but noticed everything, I identified so much with Cammie. I thought I was an avid reader before, but it's nothing compared to what I've become since opening that first chapter. . What book made you love reading? . Sept 27 #septinbooks17 cover with your fave colour - blue #helloautumnseptember17 childhood read #beastlybooksseptember17 Elide: strong women #harrypotter4everbookchallenge favourite book (well, one of...) #bndtpsept17 girl power
HELLOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I am back, after like two weeks of nothing! Sorry about that, guy; I'm back at university and I just haven't had the time or the resources for the photo taking. Plus I'm sick, which is just icing on the suck cake. But imma do my best to post when I can!!! . I was tagged by the lovely @_in_a_world_of_my_own to do the #colourbooktag with the colour pink! This is all very exciting to me since this is MY FIRST EVER TAG 😱Aaaaaaanyway, THE FILL IN BOYFRIEND by Kasie West is adorable and romantic and, again, by Kasie West (whose contemporaries I absolutely LOVE, especially THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US so everyone should go read them. Right now). Thank you again so so much for tagging me; here are my nominees: @page_eater @effortlessly_ellie @theheirofhufflepuff_ @abookishbrain @reading_with_belle (Hopefully you haven't done it yet). Your colour is: GREEN. Can't wait to see them! 😁 . I meant to post this yesterday so we're just gonna pretend and use those challenges instead... September 17: #lunibookphotoseptember17 Cotton Candy: a cute book #thereadersbooknook Relationship Goals #bndtpsept17 Let the Ship Sail: couple on the cover #karysseptember Selena Delune: side character appreciation - the sister is bomb 👌 #beastlybooksseptember17 Rowan: bookish hearts - sorta 😜 . #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramchallenge #fallreading #backtoschool #romance #contemporaryromance #thefillinboyfriend #kasiewest #pinkbooks #pink #bookjunkie #booknerd #booktag #bookworm #bookdragon
What do you get when a genius, a vampire hunter, and a time traveler walk into a museum? The mismatched masterpiece of A CLOCKWORK SCARAB by Colleen Gleason, of course! This has been on my TBR foreeeeeeever and I only recently ended up reading it (big surprise there!). Now? It is probably the most beautiful hodgepodge of craziness I have ever read! Sherlock Holmes? ✔️Vampire hunter? ✔️Resurrected Egyptian goddess? ✔️An alternate steampunk Victorian London?✔️All tied together in a murder mystery/romance. It's wonderfully weird and I loved it! 😁 Review to come. . QOOTD: What's your favourite murder mystery? . September 4: #septinbooks17 Series You'd Recommend - okay technically I've only read the first one but I still think y'all should read it 😉 #weallfloatchallenge Friendship #greekaddictdiarieschallenge First book in a series #booksofdawn17 Cover love - I love the gold! And the red! And the clockwork! #septemberlibrary17 Female character #beastlybooksseptember17 Lucien: Autumn Colours #lilbookishtags #bookrec #lyricallybookishseptember Brilliant Mind (Some Kind of Wonderful) - Alvermina Holmes, of course! #watermelanerdsseptember What movie or TV show can you quote the most? - probably POTC 1, or anything Disney princess 😝 . #septemberbookstagram #septemberbookstagramchallenge #septemberchallenge #bookstagramchallenge #bookworm #booknerd #booklover #booklovin #bookdragon #booksofinstagram #colleengleason #aclockworkscarab #bramstoker #sherlockholmes #steampunk #timetravel #fallreading #bibliophile
Hello again bookworms! Who here likes to travel? 🙋🏻🙋🏻🙋🏻I have this fascination with places I've never been, or just places totally different from what I'm used to. I can't decide if books like VENOM by Fiona Paul--a murder mystery/love story set in Renaissance Venice--help sate my curiosity or just make the urge to go places worse 😂Nonetheless, I'm really dying to go back to Venice now... . Anyone else like to travel through books?? Where would you love to visit in a novel?
Hello lovely bookworms! Me being the history and factoid lover that I am, lately I've been feeling a bit in history withdrawal. I mean, sure, I've been reading a lot of historical fiction but sometimes I just really need to hunker down with a good proper history book. THE WESTEROSI GODS ANSWERED MY PLEA AND GRANTED ME WITH A BOOKSTORE SALE!!!!!!! So like the good bookworm that I am, I obviously bought too many. Regrets? Nope. None. 😉 . Do you guys like history? What's your favourite time to learn about? . I meant to post this yesterday but totally forgot so we're gonna use a combo of challenges 🙈 August 23: #qbdchallenge Non-Fiction Addiction #ampersandaug17 Row #watermelanerdsaugust Divination, Potions, Charms, or Configuration? - probably charms, they make me feel the most magical 😝 August 24: #augustlibrary17 Rainbow! - THERE'S A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT COLOURS OKAY #watermelanerdsaugust Aelin or Feyre? - THIS IS SO NOT FAIR. Oh goodness, okay, um um Aelin, because she's the one I loved first. THAT WAS TORTURE.
Today's a little different from my usual posts but I'm on vacation visiting my Newfie family and it was so beautiful outside I couldn't resist! I just started THE FALCONER by Elizabeth May, one of my vacation TBR books (video coming soon on my channel!) and I'm excited to get more into it. So far, SO. GOOD!!! . August 20 #augustmaiden #femaleauthor #wordboundaugust Land #fortunefavoursaugust Vesta: Fire - does her hair count? 😂 #augustlibrary17 Clouds - so teeeeechnically this is for blue books but my picture has actual clouds okay?! #watermelanerdsjuly Time Travel or Freeze Time? - TIME. FREAKING. TRAVEL. . #bookstagramchallenge #booksofinstagram #bookstagrammer #bookworm #booknerd #booklover #booklovin #bookjunkie #reader #bibliophile #travel #newfoundland #newfoundlander #edinburugh #thefalconer #thefalconertrilogy #elizabethmay #faeries #historicalfiction #scotland #nineteenthcentury #therock #bonavista #landscape
This one is impossible NOT to post because of that COVER!!! 😍 Lee Bross' TANGLED WEBS doesn't exactly win for me in the content department but it's definitely one of the prettiest covers I've ever read. I'm not even mad about not loving it because it's going to be gorgeous on my shelf 😉 Full review is up now--link in bio! . August 17 #frenchiefantasyaugust #openbooks #ampersandaug17 Ship #tdfaug17 I've Been There! - I visited London a few years back 😊 #fortunefavoursaugust Nemesis: Revenge #augustreadsplaining Loss #grimdragon Didn't See That Coming! #watermelanerdsaugust Beach or Mountains? - beach all the way . #augustbookstagramchallenge #london #enlightenment #1700s #eighteenthcentury #coverlove #coverbuy #lookatthatcover #oldnewspaper #lace #bookworm #booknerd #booklover #booklovin #bookdragon #bookstagramchallenge #bookstagramchallenge #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #blackmail #tangledwebs #leebross
Certainly took me long enough but I FINALLY read RED QUEEN by Victoria Aveyard! I wouldn't say it quite lives up to the hype for me but it's still sososo good! AND THAT ENDING?!?! 😱Review will be up soon! . What did you think of RED QUEEN? . August 14 #grimdragon Dog Days of Summer: Disaster & Catastrophe! - I think it's safe to say the ending is a good dose of both! #augustreadsplaining Battle #ampersandaug17 Win
Goooood afternoon wonderful people! I've been missing my old Greek-y/Percy Jackson days and thought what better way to get all nostalgic than to go back to one of my favourite mythological retellings/spin-offs, the Starcrossed series by Josephine Angelini! It's an incredibly unique redo of the Trojan War stories with a romance TO DIE FOR. This is the finale (I couldn't resist the colours!) but the series is one of my favourites and way up on the long list of books I'm ACHING to reread. Just need to tackle my TBR first... . What's your favourite mythical novel?? . August 11 Challenges: #ampersandaug17 Coin #allthebooksaugust Favourite Retellings #watermelanerdsjuly Retelling or original? - retelling #frenchiefantasyaugust #goodbooks #tdfaug17 Quick Reads - okay its like 400 pages buuuuut I burned through it in a night so... #beastlybooksaugust17 Mnewer: Prophecy #grimdragon Such wow! So beauty! Cover love! - look at the pretty colours!

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