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Review: What To Do When I’m Gone by Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman
4/5 ☕ | It has taken me years to read this book without choking up. And though I still feel that unmistakable emotion bubbling up, it’s now faint enough for me to actually finish this book without feeling bad about life. If there’s anything I regret, it’s that I should’ve let myself read this sooner.
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[Reading Diary] Listed: My Top Moments from Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings
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I finally finished The Way of Kings and it was glorious. I was supposed to create a reading diary series focused on each part but I breezed through the whole thing when I got to Part 3. So to somehow cure the hangover, I listed all of my top/favorite moments while reading book.
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Review: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
6/5 ☕ | And so I declare this: The Way of Kings is my number 1 read for 2020, so far. The last time I felt this way, I was throwing my paperback book across the bed after I read about that infamous Chapter 51 of A Storm of Swords.
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Review: Please Pick Me by Reina Regina
4/5 ☕ | Reading Please Pick Me felt like peeking into something so intimate. With sections titled: flowers, thorns, roots, and seeds – this whole book is a metaphor for, fittingly, growth and all these less-than-picture-perfect facets of life that fundamentally still make up who we are.
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Reading Diary: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Part 1 – First Impressions)
If you’ve been following me on Goodreads or maybe just good ol’ Twitter, you know that I currently had myself committed to starting The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. This is the first of a series of Reading Diaries dedicated to the book series, featuring the first book: The Way of Kings.
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Review: The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez
5/5 ☕ | I feel like this is one of those books that I won’t forget for a time. Read this book. But be prepared and please bring tissues with you – because it would definitely make you an emotional mess. As it did to me.
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Review: The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2) by Roshani Chokshi
5/5 ☕ | The Silvered Serpents is a solid outing by Roshani Chokshi and a strong sequel for such a fantastic series helmed by The Gilded Wolves. This book is emotional and gripping at the same time – something that so few stories have managed to achieve at such a flawless degree.
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Taking Stock #3: The Surprising Power of Intention
“Taking Stock” is a series where I try to slow down and take stock of where and how I am right now. | In this issue, I talk about the how I discovered the surprising power of intentionality in my days.
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“What the heck’s a blind willow?”
Haruki Murakami’s “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is getting an animated feature film – and guess who’s excited as heck?
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Reading Diary: 13 Thoughts I Had While Reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time War
This is a collection of my notes, important highlights and little entries I had in my journal while reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s breathtaking epistolary novella, This is How You Lose the Time War.
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