The Picky Pledge 2020

2020 is the sixth (!) year of The Picky Pledge , a low-key collaboration with Hannah from So Obsessed With where we strive to be intentional when it comes to acquiring and reading books. The underlying aim of this project has always been to curate our TBRs and get them down to a more manageable num…

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The Picky Pledge 2019

It's a new year, friends, and one of the things that I've been excited about doing is updating all of you on The Picky Pledge . The pledge is a project I started with Hannah of So Obsessed With in 2015, with the aim of becoming more intentional about our book buying and our reading choices.…

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2018 Picky Pledge

It's a brand new year, and one thing I've been looking forward is the reaffirmation of my collaboration with my BFF Hannah of So Obsessed With , also known as The Picky Pledge . If you're curious about how it all began, you can find out more here , but suffice to say that this project was…

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Dear Miss Prine • These Is My Words

I'm thrilled that I finally took the plunge and read These Is My Words ! Hannah sent this one along to me, mostly because she thought I would enjoy the similar vibe it has to the Little House series... and she was absolutely right. These Is My Words is a fictional story about Sarah Prine, as in…

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Solve the Case • Murder on the Orient Express

I'd never read an Agatha Christie book prior to this year, but now I've read two (And Then There Were None, as well as Murder on the Orient Express ) and I must say that I really enjoyed them. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know that I'm not much of a mystery…

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A Circus for Dreamers • The Night Circus

You know when you've been meaning to read a novel for ages but kept putting it off until you were in the right mood/it was the right time/the season was the perfect background for the story? That's what happened to me with The Night Circus . I was interested in this story from the moment I …

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Historical Heroines • A Tyranny of Petticoats

Allow me to preface this review by telling you that I don't read a lot of short story collections. While I've always admired the folks who manage to condense a story into such a short format (as my stories tend to go on and on and work best as longer fic or series), I just find that it'…

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Straight Out of a Fairytale • The Girl Who Drank The Moon

If you've been reading the reviews on this book blog of mine, then you might have seen that Macky has already shared his thoughts on The Girl Who Drank the Moon  a couple of months ago. He loved it, in case you were wondering. In fact, he loved it so much that he wound up bringing a copy home f…

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Choose Your (Life) Story • The Hidden Oracle

I'm still baffled as to why I waited over a year to read The Hidden Oracle . I had the book pre-ordered the moment I first heard about it and it's by one of my all-time favorite authors, so I really had no excuse whatsoever not to read it right when I got it. Yet somehow, I still managed to…

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Transformation Begins With a Word • Year of Yes

Year of Yes  is another non-fiction read (yes, I read two in a month, and no, that's not normal for me), this time chronicling the year that Shonda Rhimes spent saying yes  to all the opportunities that came her way instead of the no she normally parroted. Shonda gets personal with her readers, s…

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