Top 10 Tuesday: Books on My Syllabus


Top Ten Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010. It’s a fun way for bloggers all over the Internet to connect and post the things they love about books. This week I will be talking about the books that would be on my syllabus if I were to teach The Basics […]

August 24, 2015

The Liebster Blog Award


Uncategorized

Thank you to Lucia for nominating me for the Liebster award! I am honestly so incredibly honored to have been nominated. Bloggers are nominated by other bloggers for this award and nominees have fewer than 200 followers. Here are the rules for everyone that has been nominated for this award: The rules: 1) Acknowledge the […]

August 24, 2015

An Abundance of Reading


Books, Reviews

Title: An Abundance of Katherines Author: John Green Genre: Young Adult Fiction Quote: “I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.” Would recommend to: someone who understands the importance of second chances. I have never been a particularly huge fan of John Green’s novels. I don’t hate them, (obviously […]

August 21, 2015

Top 5 Wednesday: Tropes


Top 5 Wednesday

A couple Wednesdays ago I posted about the character tropes I loved. This week is all about the ones I hate. Again, character tropes are overused themes in books. So let’s get started… 1. The perfect girl You know what I’m talking about — I’m talking about the girl who seems so perfect on the outside with […]

August 19, 2015

Top 10 Tuesday: Auto-Buy Authors


Top Ten Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010. It’s a fun way for bloggers all over the Internet to connect and post the things they love about books. This weeks designated topic is “auto-buy authors”. This refers to authors whose books you will buy no matter what. Personally, this is just too […]

August 18, 2015

Treasure Tuesday


Treasure Tuesday

I am currently reading “Identical” by Scott Turow. 2. My roommate moves in this week, which means school starts super soon. Look out for a post on sneaky ways to keep reading for pleasure during the school year. 3.  4. I’m sure we can all relate to these struggles posted by Buzzfeed about having friends […]

August 18, 2015

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl


Books, Reviews

Title: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Author: Jesse Andrews Genre: Young Adult Fiction Quotation: “When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen.” Would recommend to: anyone interested in coming up with ideas. “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” doesn’t seem like such a great book. Maybe you pick it […]

August 14, 2015

The Best Time to Buy a Book is All the Time


Books

So I’ve done some shopping…I’m not proud of my addiction, but I understand it’s better than most. This is an extremely collective haul of books, some that I received as gifts and some that were free and some that were fewer than five dollars. So without further ado, let’s see what I’ve bought lately. Side […]

August 13, 2015

Top 5 Wednesday: Required Reading


Top 5 Wednesday

This week is all about that dreaded required reading for school, and with classes starting soon, this is a very fitting topic. As a kid I loved to read, and as you can tell, not much as changed. But reading for my classes always seemed to be the worst thing I could have imagined. Of course […]

August 12, 2015

Top 10 Tuesday: Popular Authors on My Bookshelf


Top Ten Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010. It’s a fun way for bloggers all over the Internet to connect and post the things they love about books. This week is highlighting the authors you’ve read the most books from. I’m not usually a repeat-author offender (I get bored because […]

August 11, 2015