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  • Is “Six of Crows” the Best YA Series Ever Written?

    If you’ve spent any time in the online book community within the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase, “No mourners. No funerals.” Or maybe you’ve heard, “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.” Or perhaps, “My darling Inej, treasure of my heart, will you please do me the honor

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  • STOP MISLABELING BOOKS: Keep YA Readers Safe

    I’ve rebranded! Goodbye Strangely Pop Cultured, hello Strange Storyteller! This new URL and identity feels more in line with what my blog has evolved into. I love this new name and hopefully you do too. And now onto our regularly scheduled post! ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use

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  • Books I Wish Didn’t Have Sequels

    ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** A few months ago, I wrote a post about books I wish had sequels. Today I’d like to do the flip side of that: books that shouldn’t have

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  • Series I Won’t Finish (Part 2)

    ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about series I won’t be finishing. I threw caution to the wind and revealed a couple unpopular opinions. I thought I’d

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  • Series I Won’t Finish

    ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** On my last post, I discussed series I haven’t finished yet but plan to. Today I’m focusing on the flip side of this— series I will not, under

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  • Series I Still Need to Finish

    ***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from IndieBound (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** I’m a big fan of binging series. If the whole thing is released, I love reading it all in one go. But sometimes, for whatever reason, that doesn’t happen.

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  • Guilty Pleasure Reads

    ***This post contains affiliate links. Use my link to buy from Book Depository at no extra cost to you. CODE: renstrange*** I have mixed feelings on calling things “guilty pleasures.” I’m a big believer that you should never feel ashamed for what you like. However, sometimes things we like aren’t… well, they aren’t great. And

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  • Bookending Summer: Down and Acrostic

    Bookending Summer is an event hosted by Sam of Fictionally Sam and Clo of Book Dragons in which book bloggers from all over get together to discuss books using summer themes. There are lots of great prompts I’m excited to respond to. Today’s prompt is by Isabelle of Bookwyrm Bites. I’ve chosen “beach umbrella” as

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  • Bookending Summer: Popular Books I Couldn’t Get Into

    Bookending Summer is an event hosted by Sam of Fictionally Sam and Clo of Book Dragons in which book bloggers from all over get together to discuss books using summer themes. There are lots of great prompts I’m excited to respond to. Today’s prompt is brought to you by Rachel of The Must Reads. Sometimes

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  • The Vampire Diaries Reread: “The Struggle” Book Talk

    Hello Vampire Diarists, and welcome to the second installment of my Vampire Diaries reread and book talk. In the first one, I discussed the first book in the series The Awakening. Today, obviously, I’m discussing the sequel. Last time I posed the question of whether The Awakening holds up and found that it does not.

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