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Tag Tuesday | The Avengers Book Tag

06.11.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I have a whole bunch of book tags that I meant to do on Bookstagram, but I never really got around to them, which is too bad.  I thought that it might be fun to share them here, and Kari agreed, because it’s always nice to have different kinds of things to post.  So we’re going to start a Tag Tuesday series here on the blog!

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Misc Monday | It’s Been a Year

06.10.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

June 7th marked the one year anniversary of my first post on this blog.  I can’t believe it’s already been a year, who knows where the time went? (Not me, that’s for sure).

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Top 5 Thursday | Reasons to Be Happy

06.06.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Everyone needs something that’s going to help them to get by and get through the day.  Lately, I have been finding that I’ve been extra exhausted and dragging my feet, so it felt like a really good reason to reflect on some things that make me really happy.  It never hurts to remind yourself of why things are actually really great in your life.  So without further ado, on today’s inaugural Top 5 Thursday, here are my Top 5 Reasons to be Happy (in no particular order)!

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Tag Tuesday | Wonderstruck

06.04.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I saw this tag on someone else’s blog, and even though no one has tagged me to do it, I need to.  It’s a book tag based off of Taylor Swift songs, and I love Taylor Swift and I love books so this is perfect for me!

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Misc Monday | 6 Month 27 Books in My 27th Year Update

06.03.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Today is my half-birthday!  I am officially 27.5 years old, and in honour of this I want to take you back to a post I made on my 27th birthday: 27 Books to Read in My 27th Year.  In that post I wrote about 27 books that I wanted to read before my next birthday.  Since half a year has passed, I thought it might be fun to check back in and see where I am at in this special TBR of mine.

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Ashley’s June TBR

06.01.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

After May, where I ended up throwing most of my TBR out the window and reading whatever I want, I’m going to try and keep things light this month.  I am going to hope to get to a couple of different things, but I’m just going to let myself mood read for the most part.  It’s going to be a hectic month, so I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself.   So without further ado, here are my reading plans for June:

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Ashley’s May Wrap Up

05.31.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

May was a bit of an interesting reading month for me.  I started out with these really good intentions to read a lot of fantasy books and then I kind of started to feel somewhat burnt out on it, and hit a book I didn’t really want to continue with it.  I was talking to my friend Cheyenne, and mentioned wanting to throw my TBR out the window and just read whatever I wanted.  She encouraged me to do what was best for my reading, and so I did.  That’s not to say I didn’t read any fantasy this month, because I did get to a couple which was nice.  I think because of this I will probably be a bit more loosey goosey on my TBR in June, which will be more forgiving to me as I move into the end of the school year.

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Ashley’s May Haul

05.30.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I am a bit embarrassed about how big my May haul is.  I promise that I didn’t really do all that much book shopping this month except for one or two things, but so many things that I had ordered in previous month came in and so it makes it look like I went absolutely crazy with my shopping.  So I guess, technically, I did go crazy in the past months.  Just know that I was actually pretty reasonable this month, it’s just that all of my previous crazy ended up coming to my mail box in various shipments this month.  Pretend that I’ve inserted the See No Evil Monkey emoji here, because I’m definitely a little bit embarrassed.

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Review | Please Send Help by Alison Raskin and Gaby Dunn

05.26.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

**Disclaimer: I received a free copy of Please Send Help for review purposes from NetGalley.  Thank you to the publishers for this opportunity.

Please Send Help by Alison Raskin and Gaby Dunn is the follow up novel to I Hate Everyone But You.  It takes place three or four years after the initial story, and continues to tell us Gen and Ava’s story.  Gen and Ava are best friends and have been since high school. They went to different colleges and so their friendship became long distance and both books are told through text messages and emails.  The first is their first year of separation, and Please Send Help is the story of them being fresh out of college and working their first jobs.  The girls are older and wiser, sort of, and navigating the world of adulthood.

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Ashley’s May TBR

05.02.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I’ve decided to do something a little different with my reading plans in May.  I’ve just come off of April where I completed two different readathons, during which I read some books which have been sitting on my TBR for a rather long time.  It felt really good to check those off of my list, so I decided to dedicate May to knocking some of the books I have been putting off, off my list. However, I decided I am going to focus a little bit on fantasy books in particular.

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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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Ashley’s Bookstagram

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Where’s your favourite place to read? . . One of Where’s your favourite place to read?
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One of my favourite places to read is in the tub.  I know it’s a little bit weird but there’s something really relaxing about shutting out the rest of the world and escaping into a book.  It’s a small piece of perfection.
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The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd was a book that I read for my staff book club.  It was a fascinating read with wondrous elements of magical realism that felt marvellously woven into the narrative.  I felt like I learned a lot about maps as well.  The characters were interesting.
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#booksbooksbooks #bookworm #book #readersofinstagram #reading #thecartographers
Q: Long books or short books? . . A: I feel like l Q: Long books or short books?
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A: I feel like lately I’ve been really preoccupied with the number of books that I read per year as opposed to reading the long books that pile up on my shelves.  I get scared by how big the book is and how it’s a much bigger time commitment.  However, I often find that when I finally commit myself to the big book I end up loving it. 
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#reading #readersofinstagram #booksofinstagram #booknerd #booklover
Q: What’s in the recipe for your perfect book? . Q: What’s in the recipe for your perfect book?
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A: I find it’s hard to fully answer this question even though I am the one who is asking the question.  However, I find that sometimes the perfect book for me will hit me in my nostalgia for books that I read as a kid or in my interests from when I was little. 
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I found out about this book, Daughters of a Dead Empire, through #booktok and it was an instant buy for me when I figured out the plot.  I loved the premise of what if Anastasia Romanov survived the execution of her family and how that might have played out.  I loved this story!  The dual points of view were really well done and I loved the story arc.  It was well written and I highly recommend it.
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Kari’s Bookstagram

awolfinred

𝐡𝐢 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 ♡ What is 𝐡𝐢 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 ♡

What is one of your favorite Asian or Asian American books?

Happy #aapi month friends!

I was so thrilled when I received this book last year from @fairyloot. The fact that it had to do with Korean mythology made my heart soar! I love learning more about my heritage, especially because I was adopted. The older I’ve gotten, the more diaspora I’ve felt.

I know this version of Coldplay’s “Yellow” is in Chinese, but I couldn’t help but include it because I read how the director for Crazy Rich Asians fought for it to be in the movie and I honestly think the reasoning was awesome.

Some of my favorites by Asian American authors are:
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
• Portrait of the Thief by Grace D. Li
• The Dandelion Dynasty series by Ken Liu
• Crazy Rich Asians series by Kevin Kwan
• The Poppy War by RF Kuang

I know there’s still more I need to read!
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#axieoh #thegirlwhofellbeneaththesea #koreanamerican #fairylootedition #bookstagram #koreanmythology #readya #asianamerican #supportaapiauthors #beautifulbooks  #bookish #bookaesthetic #booksofig
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Do you like horror? What about space horror?

I’m so excited to read this one! One of my favorite video games is Dead Space.

Thanks so much to @orbitbooks_us for sending an ARC my way!
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Paradise-1. Earth’s first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark.

No communication has been received from the colony for months. And it falls to Firewatch inspector Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate.

What they find is more horrifying than anything they could have imagined.
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#davidwellington #paradise1 #readhorror #spacehorror #bookstagrammer #arc #advancedreadingcopy #orbitbooks #shelfie #bibliophile #bookish
𝐡𝐢 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 ♡ What is 𝐡𝐢 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 ♡

What is your favorite Star Wars movie or show? Otherwise, what is your favorite character from a space related book?

Happy #maythe4th!

I don’t know why, but I felt like sharing these awesome Shakespearean novelizations of the Star Wars saga. I love everything about them.

I’m SUPER excited for Ahsoka and for Visions s2. Also, I need more Bad Batch, like right now 😭😭😭
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