Omens by Kelley Armstrong || Book Review

Hello beautiful people! No matter how great a book is lately, I just can’t seem to get the drive to read! The reading slump is BAD, my friends. The solution? Re-read a favourite! I ADORE Kelley Armstrong … she’s on my top 10 of people I’d love to meet. The Cainsville series is the PERFECT pick for the fall season, full of mysteries and the supernatural. The writing’s so detailed and enticing, I find myself grasping at the pages in the desperate need to know more … and this is my SECOND TIME READING THIS! Hopefully, this fits your cup of tea too.

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Books I’d Probably Love if I’d Actually Read Them

One of the biggest issues I have as a book reader … finding the time to read all the books I have and want to have. Seriously … it’s actually so stressful sometimes that I don’t end up reading for months because I can’t choose! I was scrolling through Instagram when I found someone posting about books they would love if they just read them, which made me really want to write my own post. Because let me tell you, there are a LOT of books I’d probably fall in love with if I FINALLY just read them!

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The Cucumber Man: A Short Story by Darren Gallagher || Book Review

Hello beautiful people! A little while ago, an amazing bookstagram friend of mine published The Cucumber Man and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing it. I typically steer clear of scary things, but I actually LOVE spooky short stories for some odd reason, and I’d been eager to finally read some of Darren’s work. The Cucumber Man: A Short Story is, by far, my favourite short story I’ve read in a LONG time (thank gosh … since I’d HATE to tell a friend his work wasn’t my cup of tea). From the fluid writing to the unique take on horror, I had a blast reading Gallagher’s work!

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Turning the Page on Cancer 2020 Read-a-Thon

Hello beautiful people! About a month or so ago, a wonderful bookstagrammer reached out to me in regards to a fun October 2020 read-a-thon challenge. Sam @ Turning the Page on Cancer created this amazing read-a-thon to help spread awareness on Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) and raise funds for researchers to find a cure.

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Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno || Book Review

“On the island of By-the-Sea you could always smell two things: salt and magic.”

Synopsis: A magic passed down through generations . . .

Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience for the tingle of magic in her fingers—magic that has been passed down through every woman in her family. Her twin sister, Mary, already shows an ability to defy gravity. But with their eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina fears her gift will never come.

An island where strange things happen . . . No one on the island of By-the-Sea would ever call the Fernwehs what they really are, but if you need the odd bit of help—say, a sleeping aid concocted by moonlight—they are the ones to ask. No one questions the weather, as moody and erratic as a summer storm. No one questions the (allegedly) three-hundred-year-old bird who comes to roost on the island every year.

A summer that will become legend . . . When tragedy strikes, what made the Fernweh women special suddenly casts them in suspicion. Over the course of her last summer on the island—a summer of storms, of love, of salt—Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms.

Source: Goodreads

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Creative Ways to Fill Your Empty Journals

Graphomania: an obsession with writing (Collins Dictionary). That undeniable urge to grab your journal and pen, and begin writing whatever comes to mind. Poetry, travel logs, feelings and thoughts, daily tasks, checklists, stories — the never-ending list of possible writing prompts. Does this feel at all relatable?

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been a lover of literature and words. Reading and writing have constantly been a form of therapy for me, bringing me comfort by simply looking at a book or holding a journal. I can’t recall a single moment of my teenage years where I didn’t own and use a journal for SOME amazing possibility. But like many things, my time using journals and reading was put on hold as the bombardment of adulthood took over.

At the start of 2017, I made the decision to join the book blogging community to help bring my love of reading back to life. But what I wasn’t expecting was my love of journaling to also rise once again; the book blog community is FULL of NUMEROUS and CREATIVE ways to use journals! That NEED to pick up a pen and write things down started to come back, making my love of journaling ignite once more.

So for all you who love to journal, want to find ways to love journaling, or loved it once and can’t seem to get that urge to try again, here are a number of ways to find uses out of those unused journals (or excuses to go out and buy one).

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The Rising by Kelley Armstrong || Book Review

Hello, beautiful people! Finally! The last book review for Kelley Armstrong’s Darkness Rising trilogy — The Rising. In this series finale, we FINALLY learn the truth behind all the mysterious events happening to Maya and her friends, with some BIG plot twist by the end of the novel.

If you HAVEN’T read book one or two, please read the previous books first before proceeding:

The Gathering (Darkness Rising, Book One) by Kelley Armstrong
The Calling (Darkness Rising, Book Two) by Kelley Armstrong

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Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan || Book Review

Hello, beautiful people! I’ve finally done it — I’ve succumbed to the hype surrounding Crazy Rich Asians! Some lovely bookstagrammers let me join their buddy read, so I obviously couldn’t say no. Though it took me a couple weeks longer to finish it, I really enjoyed reading Kwan’s drama filled novel!

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The Calling by Kelley Armstrong || Book Review

Hello, beautiful people! Let’s continue with reviewing Armstrong’s Darkness Rising trilogy with book two, The Calling. In this exciting sequel, we FINALLY start to uncover so many of the unanswered questions and find out what happened after the “BIG EVENT” in book one.

So if you HAVEN’T read book one, please make sure to read my review on The Gathering first AND the book:

The Gathering (Darkness Rising, Book One) by Kelley Armstrong

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The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong || Book Review

“I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don’t want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.”

Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Maya is just an ordinary teen in an ordinary town. Sure, she doesn’t know much about her background – the only thing she really has to cling to is an odd paw-print birthmark on her hip – but she never really put much thought into who her parents were or how she ended up with her adopted parents in this tiny medical-research community on Vancouver Island. Until now.

Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town – from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend’s hidden talent for “feeling” out people and situations, to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel…different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya’s biological parents and it’s easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.

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