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02 Jan

Best of 2019 – Emoji Files, Part III: The WOW Awards

Hello again, reader friends! Welcome to Part III of my annual Emoji Files celebrating my best reads of 2019. If you've missed either of the posts to date, you can check out The Swoony Awards and Got Me in the Feels. Today I'm presenting the WOW Awards for those books that kept me riveted with

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01 Jan

Best of 2019 – Emoji Files 2019, Part II: Got Me in the Feels

Happy new year, reader friends! Yesterday I began posting my annual best-of series of posts, which I've dubbed The Emoji Files, since I group my favourite reads of the year according to the emotional impact they had on me. Yesterday was the Swoony Awards, so if you missed that, make sure you

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01 Jan

Off-Script and Over-Caffeinated (Rhonda Rhea & Kaley Rhea) – Review

Finding the beauty of Not-Like-Me! If there's one thing Harlow Cruise hates more than those schmaltzy Heartcast TV movies, it's the fact that she loves those schmaltzy Heartcast TV movies. She loves them angrily. With popcorn. Pop-scorn? As if she doesn't get enough drama in her

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31 Dec

Best of 2019 – Emoji Files 2019, Part I: The Swoony Awards (and Top Ten Tuesday)

Happy Tuesday, reader friends, and welcome to the final Top Ten Tuesday for 2019 thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. Being the last day of 2019, it's hardly surprising that today's topic is favourite reads of 2019. For the last two years, I've presented my favourite reads for the year as a series

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29 Dec

Echoes Among the Stones (Jaime Jo Wright) – Review

After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene--even going

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27 Dec

First Line Friday – When I Come Home Again

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas with friends and family. We certainly did, but now I'm trying to get my head around the fact that 2019 will be ending in less than a week. 😳 With that in mind, I

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20 Dec

First Line Friday – Off-script and Over-Caffeinated

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. Yesterday was moving day for us! Hence my regular readers will notice I've been pretty quiet on here this week. While we still have a lot to do, it's nice to finally have the move itself out of the way. In the

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14 Dec

Katie & Rel’s Novel Gift Guide

Welcome, reader friends! Christmas is fast approaching, and if you're anything like me, you're still searching for the perfect gift for some of your family and friends. 😬 Last year, my dear friend Rel (from Relz Reviewz) and I put our heads together to give you some great recommendations to

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