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    Top 5 books I wish I had read when I was younger

    Hello bookworms!! Happy Tuesday!! This week’s Top 5 Tuesday is top 5 books I wish I had read when I was younger. Yes, today we’re talking about those books that could have helped shape our lives earlier… if only we had read them (or they existed) when we were young’uns. These in particular are books that younger me would have…

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    Top 5 Tuesday 2019 wrap-up

    Good morning bookworms! I know, I know… this isn’t actually a Tuesday. But it’s also not really a Top 5 Tuesday topic, so WE ARE FINE. So… what are we doing, you ask? Well, during 2019 Shanah asked us a lot of questions. Approximately 45. And some of them required us to predict things that would happen in the future.…

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    Who Am I? book tag

    Good morning bookworms! TODAY’S POST, is my 500th blog post. 500 posts. I don’t even want to consider how many hours I’ve spent tell you guys all my ramblings, but I did just want to say, THANK YOU for being here with me. I really appreciate you guys and just want you to know how much it means to me…

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    ABC Book Challenge: U

    Good morning bookworms! During 2019 I am participating in the ABC Book Challenge! Previous letters: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M N | O | P | Q | R | S #1 | S #2 | T Please keep in mind that books that literally start with ‘A’, ‘An’ or ‘The’ will be posted in the…

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    Bookending Autumn '19 – FALL in love

    Good morning bookworms! Welcome, welcome, welcome, to BOOK ENDING AUTUMN!! This is my final hosting post, and can I just give a great big gushing THANK YOU to everyone who has liked, commented on, or JFC actually done one of my prompts?! You have all made my little black heart a bit fuller. This post is part of Bookending Autumn 2019,…

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    Bookending Autumn: Spicy Pumpkin Latte book tag

    Good morning bookworms! This post is part of Bookending Autumn 2019, which is organized by Sam & Clo! The prompt for today, “Spicy Pumpkin Latte book tag” is hosted by Me! (That sounds so weird…) If you want to do this prompt, please don’t forget to link back to this post! Prompt Explanation: Autumn is when the beverage names at the local coffee shop…

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    September '19 book haul

    Good morning bookworms! Book haul categories are as follows: book boxes book purchases (book mail, instore and digital) review copies (book mail and digital), and bookish items (book related, but not actual books). I subscribe to three monthly boxes: OwlCrate, FairyLoot and the book-only subscription for LitJoy. Here is what arrived in September: FairyLoot’s July box FINALLY ARRIVED. The theme…

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    Top 5… U, V, W, X, Y and Z

    Good morning bookworms! Today’s Top 5 Tuesday post is ‘U, V, W, X, Y and Z’! This is the final post in the mini alphabet spree! My A-E post is HERE, the F-J post is HERE, the K-O post is HERE, and the P-T post is HERE. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic…

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    Bookending Summer: Down and Acrostic

    Good morning bookworms! This post is part of Bookending Summer 2019, which is organized by Sam & Clo! My prompt for today, “Down and Acrostic” is hosted by Isabelle @ Bookwyrm Bites! (And you SHOULD go check out all their blogs because they’re amazing and Isabelle is one of the nicest people ever.) If you aren’t sure what a ‘down and acrostic’ is, then…

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    Top 5… 'unputdownable' reads

    Good morning bookworms! Today’s Top 5 Tuesday is ‘unputdownable’ reads. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit her here, and join in for Top 5 Tuesday by checking out all the amazing topics that are coming up! So I’m taking ‘unputdownable’ as books that I read in one sitting. Which…

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    Top 5… books I want to reread

    Good morning bookworms! Today’s Top 5 Tuesday is ‘books I want to reread’. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit her here, and join in for Top 5 Tuesday by checking out all the amazing topics we have coming up! There are SO MANY books/series I own that I would…

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    Mystery Blogger Award

    Good morning bookworms! The amazing Andy @ Andy Winder – YA Writer tagged me in the Mystery Blogger Award, which sounds awesome because it sounds MYSTERIOUS!! and also because I’ve not been nominated (or tagged?) to do this one before!! THANK YOU ANDY!! ? What’s the Mystery Blogger Award? “It’s an award for amazing bloggers with ingenious posts. Their blog not…

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    Top 5… book titles

    Good morning bookworms! Today’s Top 5 Tuesday is ‘top 5 book titles’. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit her here, and join in for Top 5 Tuesday by checking out all the amazing topics we have coming up! ARGHH!! This is me posting VERY late on Tuesday night… I…

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    Top 5… books that drained my emotions

    Today’s Top 5 Tuesday is ‘books that drained my emotions’. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit her here, and join in for Top 5 Tuesday by checking out all the amazing topics we have coming up! 98% of the time I am happy to be in Australia. However, because…

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    Top 5… LGBTQ+ books

    Today’s Top 5 Tuesday is ‘LGBTQ+ books’. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit her here, and join in for Top 5 Tuesday by checking out all the amazing topics we have coming up! Also, I can’t stick to 5 only books for this, so you’re getting a top EIGHT…

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    Top 5… summer time reads!

    Today’s Top 5 Tuesday is ‘summer time reads’, and is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit her here, and join in for Top 5 Tuesday by checking out all the amazing topics we have coming up! Excuse me while I layer on seventeen more jumpers before I write this post, because it…

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    Top 5… ending lines

    This Top 5 Tuesday post was ‘ending (or last) lines’, and is hosted by the super lovely Shanah over at the Bionic Bookworm, and you can check out her page here (please do, she’s amazing). Also, my scheduled blog posts weren’t posting, so I don’t know what’s happening with that, so you’re getting four weeks at once. AREN’T YOU FREAKING LUCKY?! I…

  • Book review: Leah on the Off Beat

    Leah on the Offbeat – Becky Albertalli

    Release date: 24 April 2018 Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★ – 10/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link Leah on the Offbeat (Creekwood, #2) blurb: Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but…

  • Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

    Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli

    Release date: 7 April 2015 Rating: ★★★★★★★★★ – 9/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1) blurb: Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is – and what he’s looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things get all kinds…

  • The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

    The Upside of Unrequited – Becky Albertalli

    Release date: 11 April 2017 Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★ – 10/10 Goodreads link Book Depository link The Upside of Unrequited blurb: Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love – she’s lived through it twenty-six times.  She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret.  Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t…