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Ashley’s October TBR

10.01.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

I cannot believe it’s October already!!! It’s been a crazy year, but I’m excited to load my TBR up with some spooky books! I’m also going to be participating in Sbooktober which is hosted by Paper Faerie, and some others.  I’m not sure if doubling up on prompts is okay for that readathon, but I’m going to roll with it and that’s what I’m doing.

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Ashley’s September Wrap Up

09.30.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

September has been a crazy month! It was back to school and since it’s not exactly a normal year, it’s been a bit hectic all around.  However, I still managed to read 15 books, which is not too shabby at all.  Also I got all but one of the prompts completed for the September back to school edition of The Loyal Book-a-Thon.  Let’s jump into all of the books that I read this month!  You’ll find them below the cut.

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The Loyal Book-A-Thon | Back To School Edition

08.27.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Hello friends!  Inspiration has struck Kari and I again, so we are back once more with another edition of The Loyal Book-A-Thon!  This time we took inspiration from everyone’s favourite time of year: back to school!  (I will admit to a little bit of sarcasm there, especially in light of the current times but I digress!)  Our next readathon will occur during the month of September and we really hope you’ll come along with us on this journey! 🙂

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Ashley’s August TBR | ScallywagAThon – August 16-23

08.13.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

August is kind of a catch up reading month for me, because I brought home a whole bunch of books from my classroom and school library and only dipped into a couple during July.  It meant that I have a whole bunch still left to read for August, so I never made a TBR post at the start of the month.  However, I’ve since decided to participate in the ScallywagAThon, which is hosted by HardbackHoarder, Paper Faerie, and Read All the Books.

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Ashley’s June Wrap Up

06.30.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

June has come and gone and so has this very strange end of the school year.  I’m looking forward to my summer vacation and some reading and relaxing.  Before I can jump into that, however, I have to look back on my reading month in June.  I read 23 books this month, which I feel pretty good about.  You’ll find everything I read below the cut.

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Book Review | #bestiemademe | Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim

06.28.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

June’s book for the #bestiemademe challenge is Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim.  Kari has also reviewed this book, and you can find that here.  She absolutely loved it, and honestly, this is another recommendation that she knocked out of the park.  I really, really had a good time reading this book and I ended up giving it 4 stars on Goodreads.

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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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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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The Loyal Book-a-Thon | 24 Hour Readathon Announcement

04.02.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Hi, friends! We promised you a 24 hour readathon, so here we are back with that announcement!

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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: 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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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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I finished The Final Girl Support Group recently a I finished The Final Girl Support Group recently and I had a lot of fun reading it.  It’s a really compelling story and I really enjoyed the characters. 
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It seems to me that there are lots of books about Final Girls and it kind of makes me want to read them all to see which is the best!
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Q: What are your weekend reading plans?
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A: I have a long weekend this weekend and as much as I would like to spend the whole weekend reading, I unfortunately have some work responsibilities to fulfill.  I have a bunch of marking to do.  However, I will do some reading as I need to finish my audiobook of The Secret History!
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Kari’s Bookstagram

Hi friends! ♡ What’s your favorite Greek myth Hi friends! ♡

What’s your favorite Greek mythology tale?
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Welcome to my stop in the Bookstagram & Creative Tour for Zeus by @carlyspade, book 6 in the Contemporary Mythos series! Zeus/Zane, King of the Greek gods, holds the world in his palm in both his mortal and godly form… until Hera leaves him, forcing him to uphold Gaea’s clause: There must always be a Queen, or he loses his title and part of his power along with it. Time is short. Too bad the one woman he has his sights on wants nothing to do with him...or does she? Zeus is out now & can be read as a standalone!

I loved this book so so much! It was extremely fun and a really engaging read. I read it within a day. Zeus and Keira’s chemistry was electrifying (both literally AND figuratively) and I loved seeing the growth between them both.

While Zeus is not depicted as the best of gods (because let’s face it, he really isn’t), I super loved him in this book and couldn’t help but root for him in the end. Carly Spade, I’m not sure if I should love or hate you for that 😂 All joking aside, if you’re looking for a passionate and fun read, this is definitely it! I gave it 5 stars!
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INTL TOUR-WIDE GIVEAWAY
One reader will win a signed Zeus paperback and swag. If International, the book will be sent via Book Depository and First Class mail art print, signed bookplate, and bookmark.

HOW TO ENTER
- Like & leave a comment
- Follow me (@thedevourerofwords), @carlyspade & @mtmctours

ADDITIONAL ENTRIES
- Tag friends in different comments
- Share this post via stories tagging me & @mtmctours
- Visit #ZeusMTMC from May 16th to May 25th for more epic tour stops!

Ends May 28th. Results announced on mtmctours' account in the tour wrap-up. Must be 18+ or have parental permission to enter. (Not affiliated/endorsed by Instagram)
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#carlyspade #contemporarymythos #mtmctours #greekmythology #retellings #darkheartsandbooks #beautifulbooks #readnext #bookrecs #glowingreview #zeus #booksbooksbooks #bookstagrammer #booktour #readinaday #ipreview via @preview.app
Hi friends! ♡ If you could have dinner with an Hi friends! ♡

If you could have dinner with an author, who would it be?
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I’ve teamed up with @bookofmatchesmedia for a great giveaway featuring The Wish-Eater, great for fans of Katherine Arden, Naomi Novik, and Edith Pattou.

There is no greater pain than a wish unfulfilled— a truth Elodie Mercer and Sebastian Beringer know all too well. After four long years of trying for a child, Elodie’s hopes of motherhood have all but consumed her. She’s convinced a baby will save her loveless marriage and help banish her husband’s demons. Sebastian’s suffered his own secret pain—watching Elodie married to the wrong man for all these years.

So when a stranger comes to their quiet village with a fantastical tale of a mythical, wish-granting creature, Elodie latches onto the story as her salvation. Driven by the desperate desire to see their wishes fulfilled, Elodie and Sebastian embark on a dangerous quest to find the Wish-Eater, only to discover that there are things worse than a wish unfulfilled, after all.

GRAND PRIZE:
- Signed hardcover of The Wish-Eater
- $20 Amazon gift card

TO ENTER:
-Must be following me (@thedevourerofwords), @claireluana and @bookofmatchesmedia
-Like, comment, save, and tag 1 bookish friend

EXTRA ENTRIES:
- Share giveaway in story for 24hrs tagging @claireluana and @bookofmatchesmedia
- Add The Wish-Eater to your Goodreads Shelf 
- Tag 3 friends in a comment (you can do this up to 10 times on each post)
- Search #TheWishEaterTour and enter the giveaway on all the tour hosts' posts every day for 10 days for more chances to win!

RULES:
Giveaway will end on May 5, 2022 at midnight PST, open to US/INTL, not affiliated with IG, must be 16+ or have parental permission to enter, must be a public act to verify entries.
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Hi friends ♡ What song is currently on repeat f Hi friends ♡

What song is currently on repeat for you?

For me it’s currently “That That”!! So damn catchy, I love Psy and Suga.

Happy Friday everyone! I’m SO ready for this weekend and the week following because my bestie @kategracia is coming for the week! Ahhhh this week has been so long with anticipation 😂
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