Pardon the Dust: Mild Renovation

I am currently tweaking the blog's template so if you notice something different or off that is the reas...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 10: Choosing the Next Great Read

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here. How Do You Choose What Book To Read Next? It’s all about what I am in the mood far. I’ve learned after suffering through many reading slumps that it’s a good idea to mix things up. Sometimes, especially if you are reading a really good series, you just want to read books back to back. I did this with the Skulduggery Pleasant books; I read the first book and then ordered all the other books in...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 9: Why I blog about Books

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here. Why Do You Blog About Books? Well like with anything I love or am obsessed with I want to share it and talk about it. Unfortunately all the people I want to talk about books with who would understand my love for them and be able to talk about them with me live very far, far away. Actually initially I started blogging because I had a lot of time to kill while I was away at university. I am not...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 8: What I like on blogs

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here. Quick. Write 15 bullet points of things that appeal to you on blogs! Discussion posts Cover posts Drop Down Menus (this is more a design thing but it counts!) Book to Movie reviews Simple but pretty/fantastical designs with easily legible posts/text Blogs that I can easily navigate – search bar, paging through posts, links to other pages like a review archive. Multiple ways to follow/subscribe...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 7: Blogging Quirks

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here. Talk about your blogging quirks This question was hard probably because I didn’t really understand what a quirk was; I had to look it up. a peculiarity of action, behaviour, or personality; mannerism And I really can’t think of anything. When I was blogging regularly I had a spread sheet with a calendar where I schedule my blog posts. I still have it but am not currently using it. I organize...

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Out This Weekend - The Wolverine

I am honestly tired of Wolverine and would love to see movies about other X-Men characters like Storm and X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a mess of a movie but it's X-Men so I have to see it and I've read good things about this one from someone who didn't like Origins either so I have hope. I'll be checking this out tomorrow. What movie do you want to see this weekend? What was the last movie you sa...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 6: Shopping for Books

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here.    Describe How You Shop For Books I usually go local. The local indie, Book Nook, for the most part doesn’t have the books I want on its shelf so I order through the bookstore and the books arrive a week later. The only time I shop online is if I want a book with a foreign (non-US) cover so I order from Book Depository or FishPondWorld or if I am ordering an ebook (these I get from ...

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Win The Dream Thieves from Bloody Bookaholic

Yes The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater. The sequel to The Raven Boys. Here be the gorgeous cover If you want a chance to win the book go here to the Bloody Bookaholic. Though I hope I win and not you as selfish at that sounds. I got a chance to read an ARC of The Raven Boys last year, review here so I was pining for it's sequel long before...

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The Last Word: UNFETTERED ... for a great cause!

The Last Word: UNFETTERED ... for a great cause!: When some of the biggest names in the fantasy genre all come together on one project, readers sit up and pay attention. Especially when that... I am reblogging some interesting news that I thought you guys would be interested in. There is a great cause happening right now. Over a dozen big fantasy...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 5: Tearjerker

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here.    Recommend a Tearjerker Oh gosh. If I Stay by Gayle Foreman and The Prophecy Sisters by Michelle Zink (this one hurt me so bad I couldn’t continue the series). Many other books have made me cry but I don’t think they would qualify as tear jerkers in the general sen...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 4: Testing tempers

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here.   What is the last book you flung across the room? I don’t throw books, even books I hate I can’t mistreat even if I have the urge to. The last book that has made me want to throw it across the room would probably be Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Alice was such a frustrating protagonist, I kept cursing at her and wanting to just reach into the book and shake her....

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 3: Blogging BFFs

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here. Who are Your Blogger BFFs? You know when I was going through the challenge and creating answers in advance I skipped this question? First of all I am not a very social person, 9 out of 10 times I will not approach you, and I am equal parts introvert and equal parts shy. I don’t like bothering people at least that’s what it feels like, even when I am in the midst of an online conversation I will...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 2: Bedtime Reading

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here. What’s Your Bedtime Reading Ritual I suppose this is referring to the days where I actually read on a regular basis like a normal book lover. Well I would just get ready for bed, tell the family good night, prop myself on a pillow and start reading the book of the moment. When I got tired then I would put the book away on my nightstand and if it was really good pick it back up first thing in the...

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[15 Day Challenge] Day 1: Confessions

I know this blog has been quite sleepy for a long time but today I discover a book blogger challenge that seems quite interesting that I wanted to participate in. Now I am not sure how well I will do in this challenge since I have been in a reading coma for the past year but hey maybe this will help me get out of it. The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by April over on Good Books & Good Wine. You can start the challenge anytime you want, Day 1 is here. Day 1: Make 15 book related Confessions My favourite kind of covers are illustrated. If...

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