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For the past year I’ve struggled with a lot concerning this blog. I’ve struggled with time to dedicate to it as I started not one, but two part-time jobs. I’ve struggled to sit down and focus as I’ve been transitioning to a new university and working to fix the issues caused by my last school.

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End of Summer Bookstagram Challenge #EOSChallenge

For the past two months I’ve had the chance to be a part of the Book Blogger Creativity Project, hosted by Nori of ReadWriteLove28. BBCP organized different groups to get together and create a new feature or project for their blogs. My group ended up creating an End of Summer Bookstagram Challenge which I am

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When It Feels Like You Can't Read Anymore

I’m going to be stepping away from the articles and posts I normally write today and I’m going to do something a bit different. Doing mini rants and summing up thoughts that stem from my personal life is something I often don’t mix with writing. I much prefer to give good advice, humor, or. .

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Why Nerds Should Be Your Favorite People

If there is one thing that I actually learned from this past semester in college, it is how wonderful it is to meet people like myself. I’m so used to being surrounded by people with whom I don’t have much in common and who definitely don’t understand my love for things like reading and blogging.

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I'm Totally Not Participating in NaNoWriMo

A lot of you probably don’t know that way back in yesteryear I wrote a blog about writing. Me. Writing. With nothing to show to prove why anyone should listen to my thoughts on the matter. But as a fourteen year old with a 40,000 word “novel” full of unicorn crap, I thought I was

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Hey all, it’s Alexa! Back a few months ago, I reviewed Water Walker, one of the best books I’d read in a long, long time. Well today, I’m going to tell you about the next book in the series, Hacker, which just may pass Water Walker as my favorite book of the year. Back Cover Description:

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So. . .you want to be a fangirl. Ah, and not just any fangirl–a fangirl of the literary niche, lover of the written word, having a fiery passion against every love-triangle you come across. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Now for $9.99 plus shipping and handling you can order your very own (Literary) Fangirl Starter Pack!

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Story time: A few weeks ago in my human relations class we were separated into groups in order to practice. . .well, relating with other human beings. In one of our exercises, on of my classmates was given a word that he had to describe while we guessed. After awhile he said that some people

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The other day I heard a saying. I’m not entirely sure of where it came from, who said it, or even the exact wording, but it went something like this: “They say not to judge a book by its cover, but how else do I know which one to buy?” I thought that this quote

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I kind of eluded to it in one of my previous posts, Why Do We Reread Books?, but I believe that certain books change things for readers or are just so profoundly good that we want to reread them like we hadn’t before. This may just be me, but over the years, I’ve had a