Smashing & Dashing Characters of 2016 Awards

Cait at Paper Fury created this awesome book tag and I had to do it. Because fictional characters! So, here are the best and worst characters from the books I read this year (the books don't have to be published in 2016, otherwise I couldn't do the challenge). Not spoiler-free, but I won't go into...

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5 Ways My Reading Habits Have Changed in 2016

As we've already established, 2016 hasn't been my best reading year in terms in number of books read (as of today, I've finished 22 books this whole year). Apart from reading fewer books, how else have my reading habits changed this year? Quite a lot, it turns out. I haven't been afraid to DNF...

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Top 5 Writers That Were New to Me in 2016

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016 but I don't have a top ten because I haven't read enough books this year. So here are my top five. 1. Leo Tolstoy What I love about his writing:...

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November Wrap Up

  Life I had my birthday! I still don't feel 19 yet. Uni ended. I had an exam and got my final results. Now I have 3 months until Year 2! My country had a major earthquake! I didn't feel it though. For those of us who weren't affected, it was great, because it gave the media something...

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9 Things I Disliked About Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison

Pretty language doesn't make a book unproblematic. I didn't hate everything about this book, but it's so problematic I can't rate it any higher than 1 star. I don't recommend it to anyone. Don't read it. Here's why. (Warning: This review is extremely spoilery so that I can explain my distaste.)   First,...

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Stacking the Shelves: Library Haul

   Stacking The Shelves is a meme created by Tynga’s Reviews. The following links go to Goodreads. I went for a walk because today was lovely and sunny and I hadn't left the house in a week, so I was getting cabin fever. I felt like going to the library, because while I've been...

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My 2016 Reading Stats

2016 has been a worse reading year than 2015, but I can blame that on uni - you read a lot more for uni than you do for school, and this ruins a) your time for reading for pleasure and b) your enthusiasm for reading. I've read 18 books total! (But two of these were over 1,100 pages long...) That's...

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