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  • Review: Assistant to the Villain

    Title: Assistant to the VillainAuthor: Hannah Nicole MaehrerSeries: Assistant to the VillainAbout this book: ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem and terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits. With ailing family to support, Evie Sage’s employment status isn’t…

  • I was never a huge fan of audiobooks, or audio CDs I guess they would’ve been when I was younger, cluttering shelves in the Chapters nearest to myself. I didn’t have a need for them, or a want to listen to them. I was willfully, and youthfully ignorant and insensitive. Yet one of my fondest…

  • Title: Love, Creekwood Author: Becky Albertalli Genre: Romance, Contemporary, YA Buy this book: Indigo/Chapters (Affiliate Link) Summary: Fall in love all over again with the characters from the bestselling Simonverse novels in this highly anticipated epilogue novella. Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli, the movie Love, Simon, and the new Hulu series spin-off, Love, Victor! It’s been more than a…

  • Hello all my followers, both new and old! I hope you’re enjoying some wonderful weather if you’re getting it, and if you’re not I hope you get it soon. Here in (certain parts of) Ontario, Canada we are experiencing some summer! But apparently that will be changing soon. Boohoo. Anyway I just thought I would…

  • It seems as though bullet journaling has taken the world but storm and I’m no different. That being said I tend to keep it simple because trying to make it pretty has pretty much caused me to stop using it a billion different times. So new journal in hand last month I planned out my…

  • I am turning 30 years old this year,  and it has taken me about 24 years to realize that what I read should not matter to anyone else. And, even more unfortunately, that what other people read should not matter to me. Because in the end reading is about immersing yourself in a world that…

  • Sometimes in life I struggle. We all do. Sometimes those struggles swallow you up and drag you to what I call “the pits”, modeled after a sandy wasteland that used to exist near my childhood home. You try and struggle through the sand, make your way to the top, and on the way your reading…

  • What is reading all about? What motivates me to do it? What motivates YOU to do it? What do we get from it? For me reading has been many things. It has been a struggle, as I took forever to learn and resented the fact. It has been a solace, when I realized a written…

  • I am Ashley and I have a huge book buying problem. I recently downloaded the Delicious Library, and using points bought a little bluetooth scanner because I am a total nerd who wants to catalogue all the things. I decided to give it a go, and using this program catalogued the books on my shelves…

  • I love Kelley Armstrong. I met her before I loved her writing, before I’d read a single word and she was a warm, friendly person. I wish I could meet her now to tell her that I’ve tried to read every word she’s written and it’s still an ongoing project for me, and that the…