• Book Review: The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Hello and welcome! How’s October treating y’all so far? Do you love fall? I LOVE fall!! via GIPHY Anyway, as I mentioned before on books I’ve been putting off for years. The Inheritance Games is one of the books I’ve wanted to read for a loong time and I finally got around to pick it…

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  • Book review: The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino

    Hello again! Hope you’re having an amazing time and HAPPY OCTOBER! via GIPHY Today, I’ll be talking about an anticipated book for me…Knights and yearning, here we are!….Or are we? The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino Love. Loyalty. Sacrifice. Grey Flynn has dedicated her life to her mage, Kier. She will be his…

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  • Books I’ve been putting off for years

    Hello and welcome back! Is it just me or do you also think September has been a LONG month? Anyway. Seeing as I’m falling in a predictable reading slump, I decided that the best course of action would be, not to pick up new books, BUT to review the list of books I wanted to…

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  • 5 Books to read when you need a good cry

    Hello and welcome back! Hope y’all are having wonderful days<3 Is it just me or do you also like to read books that wrecks you emotionally from time to time? Bonus points if it causes a reading slump and nothing compares to that emotional turmoil! If that’s something you’re looking for, here are 5 books…

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  • 8 Fall Cozy Book recommendations

    Hello and welcome back! Hope you’re having good days <3 As fall is getting closer, I thought I’d compile a little list of cozy books that are perfect for a warm night in. I’ve read most of the books in this list and while I forgot (a lot of) the plotlines, I can definitely remember…

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  • Book Review: A Stage Set for Villains by Shannon J. Spann

    Hello and welcome back! Hope September is treating you well! Coming back to you with a favorite 2026 read of mine today…Sheepishly asking for similar book recs if you know of any! via GIPHY A Stage Set for Villains by Shannon J. Spann The gods are dead. All that’s left are the Players… The performers…

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  • Design concepts: Redesigning YALC’s website

    Helloo and welcome back, hope you’re having a great and relaxing Sunday!! Today’s post will be a little bit different from my usual. Remember when I told you that I’m planning to post more about my other shenanigans? Well, seems like today’s the day, lucky you!! I’m still torn on what to call these types…

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  • Top 10 Most Iconic First Lines

    Hello and welcome again, hope you’re having a great weekend! A couple of days ago, I had this theory that, generally speaking, we can anticipate if a book is gonna be “the one” or not from the first couple of chapters. Actually, I’ve had some that I knew were gonna be bangers from the first…

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  • Book Review: Babel by R.F. Kuang

    Hello again, ’tis me!(have you watched the new Enola Holmes movie??!) Today, I’m going to be talking about one of my most anticipated reads since last year, that I finally got around to. Below is my review of the one and only: Babel by R.F. Kuang! No spoilers, as always ;-p Blurb: Genre: dark academia,…

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  • On Being Catfished by a Book

    Hello an welcome back, Let’s talk about expectations versus reality today! Or what I’d like to call being catfished by a book: bookfished :-p We all know the feeling. You’re scrolling (most likely) when you stumble across the most beautiful fanart/edit. Such intriguing visuals, such beautiful quotes, the comments are all raving about it. “This…

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