ApollyCon 2019

Last Friday and Saturday, I went down to Washington DC with my friends Rachel & DJ to attend this year's ApollyCon! In case you don't yet know about ApollyCon , it's a four day event hosted by Jennifer L. Armentrout (and organized by Steph and Hannah ) that brings together a mix of Y…

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Friends with ARCs | The Girl He Used to Know + Serious Moonlight

Annika Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois, who prefers the company of books and the solitude of chess over any social interaction that causes anxiety over her confusion in interpreting people’s behavior. Jonathan Hoffman comes into her life through chess club, and eventually, t…

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Abbreviations #82: A Hundred Summers, Wuthering Heights + Truly Devious

A Hundred Summers centers around Lily Dane, her (former) best friend Budgie and her (former) paramour Nick Greenwald. The novel switches timelines between a past summer when Lily and Nick fell in love and the present summer when Lily is still unmarried, living with her family and taking charge of t…

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OtakuAThon, Round 1 Wrap-Up

The first round of OtakuAThon has come and gone, and friends, it was incredibly fun! I had already suspected that Kristin and I would truly enjoy the weekend even when we were still in the planning stages. But it totally exceeded any of my wildest expectations! So many people joined in (which was …

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Table for Two #27: LRoom Cafe

Rachel of Hello, Chelly and I have teamed up to bring you a collaboration that involves two of my favorite things: New York City and food. Welcome to Table for Two , where the two of us will be highlighting restaurants and dessert spots in New York City! I get the delightful honor of talking about L…

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Friends with ARCs: You'd Be Mine + Descendant of the Crane

Clay is a popular country singer that has all the girls swooning… and all the tabloids and gossip sites hungry for his latest bout of bad behavior. Given an ultimatum by his record company, Clay convinces the Annie, the reclusive daughter of two country superstars known for their work and their do…

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A Tiny House Adventure

It’s been a couple of weeks since my sisters, Macky and I ventured upstate, but I still wanted to tell you all about our little adventure! We had been planning a fun weekend away for Rachel’s birthday, initially tossing around the idea of going up to a cabin or to a resort where we could snowboard…

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Book Haul: February 2019

I've been exclusively doing book hauls on our channel for the past couple of years, but I recently decided that I should start sharing them here on the blog again as well. I'm always excited about getting book mail, whether it's my own purchases or the exciting things that I get from t…

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Abbreviations #81: Circle of Shadows, City of Brass + The Iron King

I’m a little irked by the fact that I had written a pretty decent rundown of my initial thoughts on Circle of Shadows on Goodreads, but that original review has disappeared into the aether since. It expressed the mixed feelings I have about this new YA series starter so well, but I’ll try to do tho…

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Book Review: Field Notes on Love

Hugo might have just been dumped by his girlfriend Margaret Campbell, but that won’t stop him from taking the “last hurrah before college starts” trip they were supposed to go on together crossing the United States via train…. Except that the paperwork is booked in her name, nontransferable and no …

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Abbreviations #80: The Art of Losing, Running with Lions + My Favorite Half-Night Stand

Harley Langston’s world is turned upside down one night at the beginning of summer when she discovers her younger sister Audrey hooking up with her boyfriend Mike at a party and leaves them both there in her rage. And then, something even worse happens: a very drunk Mike is driving Audrey home when…

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