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Bookending Spring: Easter Time Book Tag

Another prompt for Bookending Spring, this time we get an Easter Time Book Tag! Tags are something I’ve just started doing recently, and I love them. Since it’s starting to get warmer outside (except it’s supposed to snow tonight 😂), spring book tags are the perfect thing! Rules Answer the prompts Tag some friends LinkRead More

Lists, Read to Resist, Young Adult Literature

Read to Resist: Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Since April is officially Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I decided to make that my focus. I have done this topic before (oops), but this month was a struggle. Topics weren’t coming easy to me, like they sometimes do. This does kind of fit along with my censorship post from last week, though. Especially when it comesRead More

Lists, Young Adult Literature

10 Quotes to Celebrate Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee

So, I finished Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner this weekend and I’m in love. That book has all the emotions! Not only is it hilarious, the bittersweet ending pulls at your heartstrings. Currently, Jeff Zentner is 3 for 3 in writing books that I love, and I don’t think that this will changeRead More

Life, Lists, TBR

Bookending Spring 2019: Spring Reading List

It kinda sorta is starting to feel like spring outside, so a spring reading list is here! Or, you know, Amanda’s loose plan for what she wants to read this spring. Because it almost always ends up changing. I have too many books to read and not enough time to do it! Maybe someday IRead More

Life, Young Adult Literature

Censorship in YA

One of the things I was thinking about the other day was censorship in YA. As some of you know, I’ve just started taking classes to obtain my library science degree, and I wrote about this in a recent essay. Because in all honesty, people have a lot of opinions about what teens should read.Read More

Life, Lists

Bookending Spring 2019: 30 Books I’d Keep If I Was Marie Kondo

By now, everyone has heard of Marie Kondo and her show Tidying Up, right? There was an uproar in the book community after the show aired because she recommended only keeping 30 books. Just 30! A lot of us bookworms though that was crazy. She later amended that you should keep them if they bring youRead More

ARC Reviews, Mental Health, Reviews, Romance, Young Adult Literature

Review: Serious Moonlight

Title: Serious Moonlight Author: Jenn Bennett Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: April 16, 2019 Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Goodreads Summary Birdie and Daniel had a very awkward first encounter at the Moonlight Diner. Birdie would be happy if they never saw each other again. But who does she see when she walks into her new jobRead More

Lists, Meme

Top Ten Tuesday: Things That Make Me Pick Up a Book

If you think about it, there are hundreds of factors that probably go your choice to pick up a book. Not only are you influenced by outside factors, but also weather, emotions, etc. Since I work in a bookstore, these factors play a major role in what end up taking home from work. Which isRead More

Music, Playlists

Character Playlist: Juliette Ferrars

Since the release of Defy Me is this week, Juliette Ferrars is our playlist subject for the month! For those of you that don’t know, she’s the main character of the Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi. I first read this series last year, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Tahereh Mafi has certainly become one of myRead More

Life, Lists

March Wrap Up

Hey, we’re at the end of March already, which means that it’s time for a March Wrap Up post! Unless I finish another book by tomorrow (maybe!), I have completed the same number of books this month as last month: 13. Which isn’t a bad number! Actually, I wanted to try to squeeze one moreRead More