• Hosted by the Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group Buenos dias, everyone! It’s time for Top 5 Wednesday again! This week’s topic is your top five problematic faves. The post defines this as a character you don’t want to love, but do anyway. However… this is pretty broad. Personally, I’m going to define this as a…

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  • I was five years old when my mom first introduced me to Shania Twain. I remember sitting in the car and falling in love with “If You’re Not in It for Love (I’m Outta Here)” and “No One Needs to Know” off of The Woman in Me. Shortly after came Come On Over with such…

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  • As much as I hated my entire public school experience, I loved college. I loved the classroom environment and I loved talking about books and writing all the time. I was a creative writing major, but I took a lot of literature classes as well. Obviously, I had a lot of assigned reading. Most of…

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  • Is it just me or was October the month for albums as opposed to singles? This month just felt less fruitful with individual songs I just had to have. That doesn’t mean there weren’t still good songs— on the contrary, there were quite a few. It just feels less than usual. But I’d still like…

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  • The Diverse Books Tag

    In light of recent commentary on the apparent “unrealistic” nature of diversity in books (yes, an actual recent criticism), I thought it would be a good time to do a brief tag celebrating diversity in books. Because, despite popular belief, diverse characters don’t have to have a reason to be diverse. Real diverse people don’t…

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  • Hosted by the Top 5 Wednesday Goodreads Group Well guys, it’s November. 2017 is almost over. And it’s been one hell tornado of a year. Who knows what else will happen before the year’s out? Well, we know one thing for sure: there are eight Wednesdays left, which means there’s eight Top 5 Wednesday topics…

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  • October 2017 Wrap-Up

      Happy Halloween, bitches!!! It’s time for my October wrap-up. I know for sure I’m not finishing any more books by the end of the day, so I’ve got my total. This month I read five novels, one novella, two graphic novels, and one exhibit companion book. This adds up to a total of nine…

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  • It seems like every album since My December has been a comeback for Kelly Clarkson. All I Ever Wanted was a return to traditional pop, Stronger rose up in the face of leaks, and Piece by Piece was her first all-new album in four years (she’d released a greatest hits album and a Christmas album…

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  • If you’ve learned anything about me over these last seven months, it’s that I’ve always loved books. Well, there’s something else I’ve loved just as long: music. Alas, aside from a brief year of piano lessons and half a semester of saxophone class, I have no skill for it. Regardless, music has always meant the…

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