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Misc Monday | Six Month 28th Year Reading Update

06.01.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

My half birthday is on Wednesday so I thought we were about due for an update on the books I was planning on reading this year.  I haven’t done as well with this as I was hoping to, but at least there are still another six months until my birthday to attempt to finish it all up.

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Ashley’s June TBR

06.01.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I’m so excited about June because Kari and I are hosting another round of The Loyal Book-a-Thon.  I really have a lot of fun planning these readathons with her, and I always have a lot of fun reading for them.  We try to keep them flexible and allow for doubling up of prompts and maximum flexibility.  People always have things going on and we don’t want it to be overwhelming.  I know for me that I will probably have less reading time than usual because as of today, I’ll have to start going back to work and being in the building part time during the week.  I’m excited to see my students, but it does mean less listening to audiobooks as I work through the day.

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Ashley’s May Wrap Up

05.31.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

May marked another month of me working from home, so it meant that I listened to a lot of audiobooks again.  However, I also got to read some physical books, and I checked some of the beefier reads off my TBR.  Overall, it was a really good reading month and I felt like I really enjoyed a lot of the things that I read.  Everything that I read can be found below the cut!

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Ashley’s May Book Haul

05.30.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

May was another weird month, but I think that all of the months will be weird until this whole pandemic ends.  I ended up succumbing to my book buying urges this month and picked up an order from Book Outlet because they had some crazy sales going on.  I also picked up a couple of other books.  You’ll find them below the cut.

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The Loyal Book-A-Thon | Summer Edition

05.25.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Hello friends!  Kari and I were feeling inspired and in need of reading inspiration and are planning our next edition of The Loyal Book-A-Thon readathon in June.  As summer starts in June, we decided to do one with prompts inspired by summer, which is arguably one of the best seasons in the year.

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Ashley’s April Wrap Up

05.01.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

This was a crazy reading month for me.  I felt really slumpy back in March and then had to transition into working from home.  I expected that I wouldn’t really get a lot of reading done this month despite participating in both the OWLs Magical Readathon and our Loyal Book-a-Thon.  I figured I’d read those, and that would be about it.  However, I ended up getting through a lot of books and finished off both readathons pretty early in the month.  Working from home meant that I could listen to audiobooks while working, and it’s made me a lot more efficient reader.  So I’m pretty proud of the fact that in April I read 34 books/novellas.  You’ll find everything I read below the cut. 🙂

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Book Review | You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

04.18.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

45046574**Disclaimer: I received a free early access reader’s copy of You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley.  Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this opportunity.

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce is an adult novel that falls in sort of the mystery thriller genre.  However, it has some fantasy and horror elements as well.  It tells the story of Cassandra Tipp as she writes about her life before she mysteriously disappeared.  I gave it 4 stars on Goodreads.  You Let Me In releases on April 21st.

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Book Review | #bestiemademe | Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

03.15.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo is the second book I read for the #bestiemademe challenge that Kari and I are doing. Kari loved it, so she’s been bugging me to read it for awhile. I read this in February and finished it in early March, and I was very grateful for the recommendation because I absolutely loved this book and rated it 5 stars.

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Book Review | You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

02.29.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

**Disclaimer: I received a free advanced reader’s copy of You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to them and the publishers for this opportunity.

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen is an adult mystery/thriller set in New York City. The events in the book center around the protagonist, Shay Miller, who is a data analyst unsatisfied with her lot in life and who gets caught up in a mystery. I gave this book 4 stars on Goodreads. It publishes on March 3rd, 2020.

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Ashley’s January Wrap Up

01.31.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I love the feeling of a fresh year of reading. There’s always so much anticipation when it comes to the new books I’ll pick up or even the old books that I’ll revisit.

I’m off to a good start when I comes to reading this year. In January I read 21 books, of a variety of qualities. One was pretty low in the rating departments, but one will be one of my favourites of the year.

You’ll find everything I read below the cut:

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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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