Category: đź“– Shelf Life
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How to Build a TBR You’ll Actually Stick To
If you’re anything like me, your to-be-read (TBR) list probably started off small and manageable… then quietly snowballed into an a mountain of unread books. I used to add every intriguing title I came across without much thought. But when it came time to choose my next read? Decision fatigue. That’s when I realized: my…
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Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Set in the near future, the story takes place in the Republic of Gilead—a theocratic regime built from the ruins of the United States. Reacting to social unrest and a falling birthrate, Gilead enforces extreme, literal interpretations of scripture, with devastating consequences for women and men alike. Told through the eyes of Offred, a Handmaid…
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Review: Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) by Rebecca Yarros
An honest review of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros: dragons, romance, messy pacing, and a cliffhanger ending that still hooked me.
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Spoiler Alert: I Read It First
The glamorous world of ARCs — Advanced Reader Copies — is mildly chaotic. These are books that aren’t out yet, but somehow you’re reading it like you’re a VIP! Here’s how you can make that happen!
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My Bookish Red Flags (And Why I Won’t Change Them)
Something that doesn’t get talked about enough in the bookish community? The red flags we readers have. I’ll scroll through Booktube or Bookstagram and see people with their perfectly tabbed books, filled with gorgeous notes—and I get jealous. Like, deeply jealous. But then I think… are these people totally innocent? Do they never commit any…
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ARC Review: The Book of Blood & Roses by Annie Summerlee
When Rebecca Charity first saw the coffin in her dorm room, she thought it must be a mistake. But then Aliz Astra stepped into the lamplight — beautiful, deadly, and impossibly alive. Rebecca’s heart didn’t know whether to race from hatred or something far more dangerous.
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The Anti-TBR Tag | This Is My Villain Origin Story
I’ve been wanting to join in on a bookish tag, and I saw that hardcoverhaven had done it and I thought… I just have to do it! I love sharing unpopular opinions and enjoy having conversations about them! Without further ado, let’s get into my hot takes and what’s not on my TBR! A Popular…
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ARC Review: Haven’t Killed in Years by Amy K. Green
When body parts start arriving at Gwen Tanner’s door, it’s clear someone knows her real identity: Marin Haggerty, daughter of a notorious serial killer. Forced to confront the past she’s spent two decades hiding from, Gwen must navigate the dark world of true crime fandom to find the new killer—before her secrets destroy her for…
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ARC Review: How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley
A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house…
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Review: Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel by Ella Berman. Ten years after being cleared in their friend Evangeline’s death during a summer in Greece, Bess and Joni have taken very different paths—Joni chasing fame, Bess hiding from it. But when…
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