February 2016 (+ Flights of Fantasy February Linky)

I'm not going to sugarcoat it: February was a rough month for me. I always get a case of the winter blues, so I wasn't surprised when I started feeling melancholy and lethargic and tired again. But the intensity with which they arrived and how long the bouts would last really caught me off…

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The Sunday Mix (25)

It's been three weeks since my last post, so get ready for lots of really great links to check out! I had to skip over one week because last week was the Love-a-Thon , and it was blooming fantastic. I'm so grateful to every single person who signed up to participate and  I'm so thankful …

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Tunes & Tales: Grease Live!

I was seeking suggestions from Rache l for this month's edition, and she came up with the brilliant idea of featuring the soundtrack for Grease Live!  We both watched the show on the night it aired on FOX, and were just completely blown away by the camera work, and the casting (particularly for …

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Disney Book Tag • The Sarah J. Maas Edition

I haven't been tagged to do this one, but I was chatting with my friend Kelly of Belle of the Literati  (who did an awesome version featuring characters from the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward ) and came up with the personal challenge of using only  Sarah J. Maas characters for my o…

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{Bookish} Travel Buddies: Isla & the Happily Ever After

I wanted to come up with a way to combine my love for books with my love for travel, and thus {Bookish} Travel Buddies was born. It's quite simple, really, as I'm pairing up characters from books I've loved + the places that I'd love to go visit with them. I've hung out with th…

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Harper Summer 2016 Tour: Traitor Angels (+ Giveaways)

I'm so thrilled to be a part of this massive  tour featuring books coming out from Harper Collins this summer! There are a lot of great teen titles included on the tour, and for my post today, I'm going to be talking about Traitor Angels . I'm really excited for another novel from author…

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Read Less, Write More

I finally took the plunge and lowered my Goodreads reading challenge goal to 150 books. (It was originally 200 books.) I do read a lot and I do read quite fast, and I also have the tendency to spend weekends binge reading (literally reading one book after another after another after another, but th…

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2016 Love-a-Thon: The End

In case you didn't already know, the Love-a-Thon is an annual February event that encourages the bookish online community to spread some positive vibes, strengthen friendships, form new relationships and have fun along the way. This year, I co-hosted with my friends  Cee of The Novel Hermit ,  Ha…

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2016 Love-a-Thon: An Invitation to Tea

It's here, it's here, it's here! I'm always  super  pumped whenever this time of year rolls around, because it's when I can officially say this:  The Love-a-Thon is here!  In case you didn't already know, the Love-a-Thon is an annual February event that encourages the bookish o…

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2016 Love-a-Thon: Spines and Lines, Poems and Rhymes

It's here, it's here, it's here! I'm always  super  pumped whenever this time of year rolls around, because it's when I can officially say this:  The Love-a-Thon is here!  In case you didn't already know, the Love-a-Thon is an annual February event that encourages the bookish o…

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