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Taking a Break and Coming Back Fully Loaded!

Hello! I’m going to visit some relatives in the Pennsylvania area, *cough*my mom *cough*, and thus, I won’t be able to post for two weeks since I’m on college break. Relax, she does have a wifi, she just has an aversion to my spending more than an hour with a computer. Anyway! I will be active on twitter and not entirely lost because I’ll be taking the chance to BUY ALL THE BOOKS.

No, really, I even made a list

Writing About Other Cultures. Right or Wrong?

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussions about diversity, but more than that, the concepts of cultural appropiation vs cultural appreciation that are at play in literature. This is a very delicate topic, and I’m writing this in the hopes of learning about what other people think about this, even though I’m sure some could disagree.

My interest began from simple convos on twitter I skimmed through. Bottom line: It felt wrong to me that it was oh so bad for ‘white’ people to, let’s say, use anoth...

Flash Reviews: Contemporary Romances

There’s been a lot of books I’ve read recently that haven’t made it to a review blog post. Some I had so much to say about, but unfortunately, my blogging drive has ben sketchy at best! So, in hopes that some day I DO get to write a review for them, but also wishing this will placate that restless part of me that demands of them to have a rating, I’m doing this!

If You Stay This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, a...

Bookshelf Tour

I have no braincells to come up with a discussion post topic, but I really didn’t want to write another review. So, I went to the official page for the discussion challenge, hosted by Nicole from Feed Your Fiction Addiction, and Shannon, from It Starts at Midnight. Luckily for me, Shannon had a few ideas for the zombies who stayed up most of the night watching a TV Show. *cough* Not that I did. *cough*

Doing a bookshelf tour seemed a pretty awesome idea to get out of my slump in a different...

Review: Juliet Immortal & Romeo Redeemed, by Stacey Jay

Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
Published by Ember on September 11th 2012
Genres: Young Adult, Love & Romance, Fantasy & Magic, Paranormal
Pages: 307
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased

Goodreads

Fans of Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver and Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush will relish this intense paranormal love story featuring Romeo and Juliet, literary history's most tragic couple, who meet again, not as true lovers, but truly as enemies. The most tragic love story in history . . .
Juliet Capulet didn't...

Sept/15: Let’s Wrap it Up!

So much has happened this month! I’m so happy that my little baby is one year old now, and soon I’l be announcing the giveaway winner!

I’ve written quite the number of reviews this month, which was awesome because I’m usually too lazy to do it.

Reviews Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge Cinder & Ella by Kelly Oram Two-way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

As for discussions, I haven’t had a lot...

Book Blogger Creativity Project| When We Aren’t Lazy!

I’m thrilled to share something we’ve been working on for a while. With the other Team Lilac peeps, we’ve put together a list of blogging goals, a bucket list of sorts to motivate ourselves and reach these goals together. We’ll be sharing our progress throughout the month also using the hashtag #TeamLilac . It should be fun XD

My Bucket List: Cross post all reviews (EW, GR, LT, Amazon) Get one month ahead on all posts Use more photography in posts Bloghop weekly ALWAYS double-check and tri...

Review: Two-Way Street, by Lauren Barnholdt

Two-way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
Published by Simon and Schuster on June 26th 2007
Genres: Young Adult, Social Issues, General, New Experience, Love & Romance
Pages: 304
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased

Goodreads

there are two sides to every breakup.
This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They're even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation.
Then Jordan dumps Courtn...

5 TV Shows You Should Be Obsessing About

As awesome as books are, there will always be something about watching a story develop right in front of your eyes that doesn’t cease to be breathtaking. Movies and TV-shows offer story-telling a different dimension of awesome that books lack since we’re ‘limited’ by our imagination. Sometimes it’s nice to compare what our imagination came up with, with what other people’s did.

Last year was my year of TV-Shows! I fell hopelessly in love with a couple and can’t wait for the next seasons. Her...

Review: Cinder and Ella, by Kelly Oram | Flawed In and Out

Cinder & Ella by Kelly Oram
Published by Bluefields on August 15th 2014
Genres: Adolescence, Bullying, Contemporary, Emotions & Feelings, Family, Friendship, Love & Romance, Social Issues, Young Adult
Pages: 322
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased

Goodreads

It's been almost a year since eighteen-year-old Ella Rodriguez was in a car accident that left her crippled, scarred, and without a mother. After a very difficult recovery, she's been uprooted across the country and forced into the custo...