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Ashley’s March Wrap Up

03.31.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

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Wasn’t March just the longest month ever? I kept looking at the date on the calendar and being like how are we still in March?  However, it’s finally over and hopefully April will bring better things.  I read 19 books in March, which I feel pretty good about because I was somewhat slumpy for a good part of it.  You’ll find my thoughts below the cut.

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Ashley’s February Wrap Up

03.01.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

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February was a weird reading month for me.  I had several things on my TBR that I really wanted to get to, but I didn’t get to most of it.  Without officially saying it, I kind of threw my TBR out the window.  I finished some things I started in January, but anything physical that I started in February that wasn’t a graphic novel was pretty much a no go.  I was definitely feeling slumpy, despite the fact that I read 19 things.  Most of what I read were audiobooks and graphic novels.  That’s not a bad thing, but it’s not really a great thing either.  I need to work on my physical TBR some more, but that’s probably a next month kind of thing.  However, without further ado, you’ll find everything I read below the cut.

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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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Shelfie Sunday | Unboxing – LitJoy Magical Edition 7.1

01.19.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

One of my favourite box discoveries this year has been the LitJoy Crate Magical Editions. Harry Potter is one of the great loves of my lives and I will always love items related to the books. I’ve tried a few different Harry Potter subscription boxes and this is one of the best I’ve found despite it not being a monthly subscription.

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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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Misc Monday | 2020 Reading Resolutions

01.06.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Another year and another year of reading! There’s something about a fresh start and a new year that just makes me really excited! So because 2020 is here, I decided to set a new batch of reading resolutions. Well, they are somewhat similar to last years, but personally I don’t mind that so much.

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Shelfie Sunday | Unboxing – OwlCrate December Box

01.05.2020 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

OwlCrate has been by my side for a most of the time that I’ve been really active in the bookish online community. It’s the subscription service that I get every month and I’m always so excited about it. To be clear, I purchase this every month and this is not an ad.

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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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Ashley’s December Wrap Up

12.31.2019 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

How is it the end of the year already? I can’t believe we’re about to start a brand new decade. This past month I read 18 books, which is pretty exciting because I officially beat my record of books read this year by reading 235! I also participated in the winter session of the Magical Readathon, which was definitely fun. I have a few books at the beginning of January to finish it up. You’ll find everything I read this month 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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