book-lovers thoughts and ways of thinking

  • First Lines Friday

    First Lines Friday

    First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? First lines: Retvenko leaned against the bar and tucked his nose into his dirty shot glass. The whiskey had failed to…

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  • First Lines Friday

    First Lines Friday

    First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? First lines: I stand up and look down at the bed, holding my breath in fear of the sounds that are…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday: Typographic Book Covers

    Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Hello, hi, how have you been?!? Hopefully good <3 In…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2022 To-Read List

    Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Hello and welcome back to another exciting bookish list!! Today,…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Geographical Terms in the Title

    Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. When I saw that this week’s TTT is books with…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday:  Books with Names/Character Names In the Titles 

    This week’s TTT is quite an interesting one; books with names in their titles!! There are soooo many books that fit into this prompt, some are quite popular and others not as much. Let’s start, shall we?! P.S. This list includes both books I read and books I still have to. Double P.S. Clicking on…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday:  New-to-Me Authors | Discovered in 2021

    Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week, a topic is provided and you are free…

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  • 12 books I’d like to read in 2022

    New year new goals, right?!? This year, I decided that I would really like to try and expand my comfort zone (in a reasonable way), one of the first things I want to try is reading classical books!! (especially Jane Austen’s books) So today’s post is all about the books I want to get to…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday || Books I Would Hand to Someone Who Claims to Not Like Reading

    Once I saw that today’s topic for TTT was books I would recommend to someone who doesn’t read, I got a bit too excited because that’s what I usually do… There aren’t really many readers that I know irl (if they read, they don’t read English books. So whenever I get the opportunity, I like…

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  • October TBR

    October TBR

    Hello! Welcome…or welcome back!! Hope y’all are good, safe, and healthy HRU?. It’s been a while, a lot of things happened since the last time I wrote on here and… yeah… BUT, I finally got my sh*t together and I’m planning to be more active–not as active as I’d like since uni is starting Monday–but…

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