Category: General Books

Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [198]

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We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time curled up reading in bed with or which book you wish you had time to read today!

Progress: 65% → Love & Resistance is an interesting YA contemporary about a secret group of misfits that aim to take down the popular bullies and disrupt the hierarchy in their school. It’s been pretty entertaining so far and I love the comparison of high school “politics” to dictatorial governments, lol. 😅

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#FirstLinesFriday: 18 August 2023

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Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Here are the rules:

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
  • Finally… reveal the book!

First lines:

“Hello, children. It’s time for Death.
Oh, you didn’t think I spoke? I’m fantastically verbose, and transcendently literate, and quite frankly, I’m disappointed you would think otherwise.”

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The Romance Reader Book Tag

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As I’m in a romance mood, it seems fitting that I finally get around to doing The Romance Reader Book Tag that I’ve been keen to do ever since I saw it on Kerri’s blog more than a year ago (omg, what is time 😂)!

After a bit of sleuthing, I’ve found that this tag was originally created by Romance Queen of Booktube and The Bookish Knitter.

And on that note, let’s get cracking on these questions!

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#TopTenTuesday: Book Covers in the Colours of My Country’s Flag!

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We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s topic is actually: Characters from Different Books Who Should Team Up (or date, be friends with, etc.) (Submitted by Cathy @ WhatCathyReadNext) BUT as you can tell by the title of this post, I’m going rogue!

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2023 Reading Firsts Book Tag

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Hi, friends! Today I’m doing The Firsts of 2023 Book Tag that I first saw on Celeste @A Literary Escape‘s blog last week. I’ve been on the hunt for a simple and easy tag to do ever since I started blogging again so when I saw this one I immediately jumped on it.

This book tag was originally created by Tanya @girlxoxo.

Without further ado, let’s get to it…

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Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [197]

Dini @ dinipandareads13 Comments

We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time curled up reading in bed with or which book you wish you had time to read today!

Progress: 76%

I’m still reading A Conjuring of Light and omg, ALL THE THINGS ARE HAPPENING! The last few chapters were brutal and heartbreaking. I’m scared to continue!

Progress: 32%

It’s been a minute since I picked up Amari and the Great Game cos my reading mood has been weird, lol. I can’t wait to see what happens next though!

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#FirstLinesFriday: 11 August 2023

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Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Here are the rules:

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
  • Finally… reveal the book!

First lines:

“Stay calm. It’ll all be fine.
If there was one place Maggie Le did not want to be, it was pushing a wobbly shopping cart through the narrow aisles of Tasty Great, the primary supermarket in the town of Fool’s Falls, eastern Washington State, population five thousand.“

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Mini Book Reviews: Highland Brides 1-2 by Lynsay Sands

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An English Bride in Scotland (Highland Brides #1)
Pub Date: 25 June 2013
Genre: Historical Romance

Panda Rating:

(3.5 pandas)

📖 SYNOPSIS

From New York Times bestselling author of The Husband Hunt , The Heiress , and other beloved historical romances, comes Lynsay Sands’s An English Bride in Scotland, the first book in a new series set in the wilds of the Highlands.

Annabel had planned to become a nun. But when her mother arrives at the Abbey to bring her home to marry a Scottish laird—her runaway sister’s intended husband—her life takes a decidedly different turn.

And though Annabel isn’t the wife he’d planned for, strong, sexy Ross McKay is taken with his shy, sweet bride.

Annabel knows nothing about being a wife, running a castle—or the marriage bed. But her handsome new husband makes her want to learn. When Annabel’s life is threatened, Ross vows to move the highlands itself to save her and preserve the passion that’s only beginning to bloom.

TL;DR: This book doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously and neither did I, so therefore, neither should you! It’s simply a good, silly, fun and sexy time. If you go into this expecting the plot to be serious and the characters to be anything more than one-dimensional, you’re bound to be disappointed and you might as well skip it. BUT if you want a quick and mostly painless (though not for the characters) romance to pass the time and aren’t averse to general ridiculousness, multiple concussions and orgasms, then why not give it a go?

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