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Bookending Spring: Type A Personality Characters

For today’s Bookending Spring post, we’re celebrating Type A Personality characters! In order to celebrate Avengers: Endgame coming out in two weeks, I’m focusing on Marvel characters. You might see more Marvel posts in the coming weeks. I’m not sorry about it. 😂 Check out my last Bookend post here. Charvi @ Not Just FictionRead More

Blog Tours, Mystery, Reviews

Blog Tour: The Haunting of Elmwood Manor

Title: The Haunting of Elmwood Manor (a Pekin Dewlap Mystery) Author: Pamela McCord Publisher: Acorn Publishing Publication date: March 1, 2019 Genres: Middle-Grade, Mystery Amazon | Goodreads | Barnes and Noble | iBooks Pekin Dewlap hasn’t seen a ghost since she was twelve. But she’d do anything to get them back. Starting a ghostbusting business with herRead More

ARC Reviews, Reviews, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Review: Demons of Time

Title: Demons of Time: Race to the 7th Sunset Author: Varun Sayal Publication Date: April 15, 2019 Publisher: Amazon Digital Amazon | Goodreads Summary When he was a child, Tej saw his mother tortured by the time-demon Kumbh. Though twenty years have passed, Tej still burns with the need to revenge what happened to his mother. He’s desperateRead More

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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