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Best of 2018: The Emoji Files, Part III – The WOW Awards

It’s time for Part III of my Best of 2018 series The Emoji Files, and today I’m bringing you The WOW Awards. There are a few ways a book can make it onto my WOW list. The obvious one is plot twists and surprises (hello, Thirst of Steel and No Less Days in particular!) or high intensity and adrenaline (also Thirst of Steel…

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Best of 2018: The Emoji Files, Part II – Got Me in the Feels

Welcome to the second post in my Best of 2018 series—a series I’ve dubbed The Emoji Files, since I’ve grouped my favourite reads according to their emotional impact. The first post in my Emoji Files series was The Swoony Awards, so if you missed that, make sure you check it out here. But today, ‘m going to be giving you…

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Best of 2017 – The Emoji Files, Part I: The Swoony Awards

Happy New Year, reader friends! Welcome to the first part of my Best of 2017 series, which I’ve affectionately called ‘The Emoji Files’. When I sat down to try and do my ‘Best of 2017’ post, I ended in a completely bookish mess. I read 200 books in 2017, and since I’m pretty good at picking books I really enjoy, it gets difficult to narrow it down to a list of 10, or even 20. Then there’s the fact that I’m a pretty eclectic reader within the Christian fiction genre. I enjoy different books for different reasons, so it’s kind

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Best of 2017 – Year in Review

Happy New Year! May God preserve your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and even forevermore. If you’ve been hanging around here at all in the last week, you’ll know I’ve been sharing some of the fabulous books I’m looking forward to in 2018. But before we say goodbye to 2017 for good, I want to take a few moments (or…*ahem*…a few days!) to look back at some of my favourite reads and bookish moments from the last year. Boy am I thankful for Goodreads, otherwise I’d never remember them all!

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