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Paper Towns by John Green
Spoiler Alert! Purchase Here When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q […]
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Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
This book made me excited to be a writer. I could only dream of someday having such a gorgeous voice in my work. Every now and then, we stumble upon the accidental read. There’s always that one book you guiltily buy because of the title–and for once, it doesn’t let you down. As this is […]
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THE GODDESS TEST by Aimee Carter
*SPOILER WARNING. So there are a lot of ‘fresh takes’ on Greek myths. I like Cassandra Clare but she wouldn’t be the first author I like to promote a fictional book about Greek mythology that’s just way overrated. I didn’t really expect much when I bought this book, but I was giving it a shot. Hopefully, […]
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A Disgruntled Englishman on Biscuit Dunking
Right, ok, I’ve told you how to make the perfect brew, here, so it is only proper that you are taught the correct accompaniment to this magic potion, the dunked biscuit. Before we begin you are now English, it is a biscuit, not a “cookie”. Right onto business. Get your cuppa (If you haven’t got […]
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PARIS, MY SWEET by Amy Thomas
Complete with a cover that’s pure eye candy (I must admit that the cover is why I first bought it,) this little memoir is vivid. Amy Thomas painted the city and people in it so I could feel a breeze on my face, or smell the Nutella crepe that she described with such enthusiasm. It […]
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meeting Faith
Yesterday I met Faith, a lovely fellow blogger who has been my pen pal for years. I have a drawer full of snail mail letters, and we’ve known each other for a long time, but even though we live in the same state–we’d never met before! We went to a Starbucks at the grocery store […]