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Archives for August 2019

Ashley’s August Wrap Up

08.31.2019 by Ashley // 2 Comments

This was a crazy reading month.  I participated in the NEWTs Readathon hosted by Book Roast.  It was a super fun reading roller coaster and I managed to get a lot of books read.  I really enjoyed almost everything I read, and I loved how this readathon pushed me to get a lot of my TBR completed, even if I did change out a lot of my original TBR. In August I read 30 books, which means I read all but 6 prompts from the readathon and successfully reached my goal to be an Auror.  Catch out my run down for what I read under the cut.

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Ashley’s August Haul

08.30.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Another month, another haul.  Somehow I keep acquiring books, but I was really good about buying books this month.  I only got three new books, and two were very kindly sent to me by publishers.  While I haven’t read any of them yet, I am very excited about all of them.  Check them out below the cut!

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Top 5 Thursday | Five Random Thoughts

08.29.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Sometimes when I’m not reading or doing something that is particularly mentally engaging, I find my mind drifting.  I often have random thoughts that I really can’t explain.  So here are five random thoughts that I’ve had recently:

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Tag Tuesday | Chess and Book Tag

08.27.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

36BCD728-D7E1-46CB-AA5F-BAE27BB3693FChess has never been my favourite game, as I lack the strategy and planning skills for it.  However, this is a pretty cool tag.  Some of the questions feel pretty unique to me.

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Chapter Sampler Review | Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks

08.23.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

**Disclaimer: I received a free chapter sampler of Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks from First Second Books through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to them.

Pumpkinheads is a YA contemporary graphic novel that is hitting shelves on August 27th. As this was a chapter sampler, I do not have a full rating for you, however, I did enjoy it.

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Writing Wednesday | A Story About Three Siblings

08.21.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

This week’s story prompt is ‘A Story About Three Siblings.’  I hope you like it!

The story is below the cut.

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Tag Tuesday | Get to Know the Blogger

08.20.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

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I spend so much time talking about books that sometimes it’s really nice to switch up what I talk about on this blog.  So today, we’re going to talk about some things that I love/like that aren’t books!

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Writing Wednesday | A Retelling of a Fairy Tale

08.07.2019 by Ashley // 2 Comments

Retellings as a genre is something that is a more recent love in my life.  However, when I wrote this prompt, I hadn’t really read very many of these.  That being said, I thought it was a pretty genius to write my own retelling as the prompt was ‘A Retelling of a Fairy Tale’, and I fairly quickly decided to do my own version of Red Riding Hood.

The story is below the cut.

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Tag Tuesday | I Have Never…

08.06.2019 by Ashley // 2 Comments

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One of my favourite games to play is Never Have I Ever, so this is a super fun tag for me to do today.  Normally, I’m not very good at it, as there are lot of things I have never done, but I’m thinking that I will have a better rate of have done when it comes to book.  Let’s find out below the cut!

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Book Review | The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

08.02.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

**Disclaimer: I received an advance reader’s copy of The Turn of the Key through NetGalley from Simon & Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review.

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware is a mystery-thriller set in Scotland. It is written in a semi epistolary way, which was rather unique. The book releases on August 6th, 2019. I gave it 5 stars on GoodReads.

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Ashley’s Goodreads

The Complete Works
The Complete Works
by William Shakespeare
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &c., 1594
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &c., 1594
by William Shakespeare
All the Stars and Teeth
All the Stars and Teeth
by Adalyn Grace
I Am Still Alive
I Am Still Alive
by Kate Alice Marshall
Blood of Elves
Blood of Elves
by Andrzej Sapkowski

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Kari’s Goodreads

The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
Contagion
Contagion
by Erin Bowman
Crown of Midnight
Crown of Midnight
by Sarah J. Maas
Queen of Shadows
Queen of Shadows
by Sarah J. Maas
Ruthless Gods
Ruthless Gods
by Emily A. Duncan

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