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Sunshine Blogger Award
I was so thrilled to be nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award by Yaykisspurr over at Perspective of a Writer and Avi at Panic at the Bookstore! This makes me happy for a number of reasons, including the fact that ‘Sunshine’ is an old college nickname. Continue reading
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Blogger Stats Book Tag
Drew at The Tattooed Book Geek posted this tag and I really liked their answers! I love stats and things like this so I thought I’d give it a go. Continue reading
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Instagram Sundays
It’s the end of the week and time for Instagram Sunday! Continue reading
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First Date Book Tag
I saw this on Thrice Read and it made me giggle. I had to dig back into my ‘read’ shelf on Goodreads in order to come up with some of these answers, which was a fun journey into my reading past. Continue reading
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Instagram Sundays
Happy Sunday! It has been kind of a slow week, but here’s a wee round up from Instagram. The Great Gatsby was published on 10 April 1925. This is one of my absolute favorite books, but it was very nearly ruined for me because of high school reading. What a great cover! I’m a big… Continue reading
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Recommended Reads: Chinese Sci-Fi
So I recently completed my dissertation on Chinese science fiction and whether or not English-language publishers were missing out on a gap in the market (spoiler alert: results are inconclusive). I’ve had a fair few people ask me for recommendations from my reading list, so I thought I’d post about it here. Continue reading
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Unpopular Book Tag
The Unpopular Opinions Book Tag was created by TheBookArcher. You can watch the original video here! I spotted this on someone’s blog and thought it made for some interesting discussion. I absolutely cannot find it again, let me know if you think it’s you! I’d love to give you credit. A quick note, I’m… Continue reading
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Instagram Sunday
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Reader Confession Tag
I was seeking out new book blogs to follow and stumbled upon Drizzle and Hurricane Books and loved her responses to this tag, so I just had to do it myself. Continue reading
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April TBR Strategy
I’ve yammered on about how No Buy March clearly didn’t work for me, so I’m implementing a couple of new strategies for reading down my TBR pile this month while keeping me a happy reader/buyer. Continue reading
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