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Top 5 Thursday | Ashley’s Best Reads of 2020

01.07.2021 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I had an amazing reading year in 2020.  I read way more books than I expected I would read and more than I probably will ever read in a year again.  It was a messy year, but I read a lot of books which is pretty great.  This is going to be a quick overview of my favourite books that I read this year. It is also going to be a few more than the top 5, so I’m sorry about that.

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Top 5 Thursday | Ashley’s Best of 2019

01.16.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

As I said on my Worst Reads of 2019 post, I’m a pretty easy to please reader.  I tend to get swept away in the story and for the most part I enjoy almost everything I read.  So when it comes to choosing the best books I read this year, I have to admit that I had a really hard time.  There are so, so many good books that I read over this year that it was hard to choose the best, and even harder to narrow it down to the top 5.  So in order to do this, I gave myself some criteria. In order to end up on my Top 5 Reads of 2019 list, the book couldn’t be a re-read.  It also couldn’t be a sequel, and so I will admit that I cheated a little bit and made a list of the best sequels I read in 2019 just to make narrowing this down a little easier.  With those criteria in mind, I was still left with a fair bit of a list, so I had to narrow it down some more.  That was the hard part, but I was able to do it.  Below the cut, in no particular order, you will find my five best reads of 2019.

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Top 5 Thursday | Ashley’s Worst of 2019

01.09.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I am someone who is rather easy to please when it comes to books.  I often fall in love with the books that I read, and it’s not very often that I find a book that I don’t like or even a book that I rate lower than a three stars.  I always try to find something redeeming, and maybe that’s a bad thing, but it’s just the kind of reader that I am.  I tend to fall deeply into whatever book I’m reading.  However, I can’t say that every book I read in 2019 was a positive experience for me.  Below the cut, you will find the five worst books I read in 2019.

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Top 5 Thursday | Ashley’s Most Surprising of 2019

01.02.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Conversely to going into books with high expectations, sometimes you go in with pretty low expectations or no expectations.  Those are always really nice times because then you end up falling in love with something you never expected.  That’s why it felt most appropriate to follow up my most disappointing reads of 2019 with its opposite: my most surprising reads.  You’ll find them below the cut.

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Top 5 Thursday | Ashley’s Most Disappointing of 2019

12.26.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

It’s hard to go into books with no expectations, as much as I try to.  I try to keep myself neutral but then I get my hopes up anyways.  However, sometimes when I get my hopes up, I get let down.  This year there were five books that disappointed me.  That doesn’t mean they were necessarily bad books, but I just wasn’t happy with how they turned out.  Below the cut you will find those five books.

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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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Q: What’s the best fast food burger?
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A: It’s probably a bit cliche but I am fairly partial to the Big Mac.  I just love the combination.
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Day 15 - #bookhitchhikersapr21 - Blue Books
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Q: What’s your favourite thing to make for dinne Q: What’s your favourite thing to make for dinner?
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A: Right now I really enjoy making this broccoli and cheddar risotto with my boyfriend in our instant pot. It’s amazing.
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Day 13/14 - #bookhitchhikersapr21 - Yellow Books / Green Book
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Q: What’s something you learned as a child that Q: What’s something you learned as a child that blew your mind?
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A: When I was little I was obsessed with Nancy Drew books.  I’d take two out of the library each week and read them.  One year I joined this club at the local library and part of it was doing this newsletter thing that included an author profile.  I suggested Carolyn Keene because Nancy Drew was amazing so obviously so was the author.  Then the librarian told me that Carolyn Keene wasn’t real and it broke my little reader heart.
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Day 12 - #bookhitchhikersapr21 - Orange Books
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Hi friends 💙 So we all know Geralt is from the Hi friends 💙

So we all know Geralt is from the school of the Wolf. However, there’s also the Cat (also known to produce “evil”), Bear, Griffin, Viper, Manticore, and Crane. I think I’d like to be part of the Wolf or the Bear or Viper schools to be honest!

That being said, what are some of your favorite books with animals in them?
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Hi friends 💙

Short caption today. I hope you’re all having a lovely week!

What’s a book you recommend to everyone?
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Hi friends! 💙 Hope your Sunday is going well. Hi friends! 💙

Hope your Sunday is going well. I just finished by case brief and compare and contrast for my class, so I’m feeling rather accomplished right now.

What are you currently reading?

Right now I’m reading A Song of Wraiths and Ruins. It’s so good!

I’m excited to pick up this badass lady series as well.
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