March 2019

If the year continues to pick up steam for me the way that it has since January, it well may be that every single month is going to be even busier than the the last! March was definitely another month filled with some incredible highlights: the first round of OtakuAThon (which included a snow day)…

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ApollyCon 2019

Last Friday and Saturday, I went down to Washington DC with my friends Rachel & DJ to attend this year's ApollyCon! In case you don't yet know about ApollyCon , it's a four day event hosted by Jennifer L. Armentrout (and organized by Steph and Hannah ) that brings together a mix of Y…

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Friends with ARCs | The Girl He Used to Know + Serious Moonlight

Annika Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois, who prefers the company of books and the solitude of chess over any social interaction that causes anxiety over her confusion in interpreting people’s behavior. Jonathan Hoffman comes into her life through chess club, and eventually, t…

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Abbreviations #82: A Hundred Summers, Wuthering Heights + Truly Devious

A Hundred Summers centers around Lily Dane, her (former) best friend Budgie and her (former) paramour Nick Greenwald. The novel switches timelines between a past summer when Lily and Nick fell in love and the present summer when Lily is still unmarried, living with her family and taking charge of t…

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OtakuAThon, Round 1 Wrap-Up

The first round of OtakuAThon has come and gone, and friends, it was incredibly fun! I had already suspected that Kristin and I would truly enjoy the weekend even when we were still in the planning stages. But it totally exceeded any of my wildest expectations! So many people joined in (which was …

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