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Blog Tour: Crossing in Time
Welcome to day twelve of the Crossing in Time (Between Two Evils #1) blog tour! Below you will find my book review for this (time travel, dystopian, romance) science fiction novel by author D.L. Orton. The content warnings below reveal minor spoilers, but otherwise I will not be revealing any spoilers in my review beyond what is told in the synopsis. Many thanks go to The Write Reads for putting together this tour, and for inviting me to participate alongside a [great] number of talented bloggers. I was given a copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest review on this tour, but I opted to listen to the…
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The Real Mrs. Price | 20 Books of Summer
The 20 Books of Summer Reading Challenge was created and is hosted by Cathy at 746 Books. You can find my full TBR here, and keep reading for my spoiler-free thoughts on The Real Mrs. Price by J.D. Mason.
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From My Bookshelf: English, Carnation, Ring
November is typically the month in which I start looking back on the books I read throughout the year, and those I didn’t get to. For the past couple of years this has also meant looking at the books on my own bookshelves that still sit unread – and this year is no exception. So this month’s From My Bookshelf post features three books that fit this criteria, and one more thing they have in common: they were all written by Lauren Willig.
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May Reading Challenge: Villette
Our narrator introduces herself a few pages into the novel, although we know she is speaking to us right away. Lucy Snowe is an Englishwoman who takes a position at a boarding school in an attempt to escape her loneliness. I’m not convinced that she succeeded in that attempt, however, the most captivating part of Charlotte Brontë’s last work for me was not the actual story. Rather, Lucy Snowe’s speeches, inner feelings and thoughts, and general descriptions of what she sees or witnesses were enough to keep me moving through the pages with ease.
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January Reading Challenge: Modern Romance
Like a cold beer from a newly discovered microbrewery, I had such high hopes for Aziz Ansari’s co-authored book about romance in the modern age. And, like a new-to-me IPA, I kept diving into the book hoping it would grow on me, but for the most part, I experienced, or tasted, disappointment. I will continue trying IPAs, but sadly, I don’t think I will read Modern Romance again, and not just because surely by now there are more updated data on the facets of dating Ansari and sociologist Eric Klinenberg covered. While I expected a few humorous moments to be sprinkled throughout the text, those moments never seemed to be…
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