Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • Tome Topple Wrap Up: Week One

    Tome Topple Wrap Up: Week One

    Hello friends! Week One Tome Topple Round Five is now finished! What a concept. I have three books on my TBR for this readathon: Crazy Rich Asians, A Conjuring of Light, and The Diviners. So how did I do in week one? Well, read on to find out! Day One: Friday, November 17, 2017 I’m

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  • December TBR

    December TBR

    We’ve almost survived the entirety of 2017! Woo! This year has been really hard and emotionally exhausting, but it’s come with a lot of really awesome accomplishments for me in my personal life. Plus it came with Reputation by Taylor Swift, so like, not all bad. But mostly, I’m really ready to close the chapter

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  • ContemporaryAThon Wrap Up

    ContemporaryAThon Wrap Up

    If you read my mid-month wrap up, you know I got a job that started the same day ContemporaryAThon started, which meant things were a bit more of a struggle than I was expecting. This job is different than my last one, in that it’s not nearly as flexible and my commute is significantly further.

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  • November Wrap Up, Pt. 1

    November Wrap Up, Pt. 1

    First of all, I got a job! That’s why my updating schedule has been off this week. I started on Monday and every evening when I’ve gotten home, I’ve been trying to cram in some reading for the ContemporaryAThon and desperately wanting to crawl into bed. I’m not good at mornings, honestly. Now, let’s talk

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  • YA Fantasy for Running from Your Problems

    YA Fantasy for Running from Your Problems

    According to Goodreads, which is about half accurate, I’ve read 93 YA fantasy books so this should be easy enough. However, when I started to think about it, I realized that true escapist fantasy for me is kind of hard to come by–especially given that the majority of the books I’m mentioning here are parts

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  • The TBR Tag

    The TBR Tag

    Well, I’ve ruminated on how awful my TBR is on my own plenty and it’s sparked a myriad of Snapchats where I ruminate on how ridiculous I am and how desperately I need to get some self control. So, when I stumbled across The TBR Tag on leynes’s channel, created by Dana and Rachel, which

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  • ContemporaryAThon and Tome Topple TBRs

    ContemporaryAThon and Tome Topple TBRs

    Did I manage to successfully complete three readathons last month? No. Did I learn my lesson that I should probably do one at a time? Also, no. Plus, I think these are much more my speed so I should be good to go on this end. ContemporaryAThon is hosted by Julie at PagesandPens and Chelsea

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  • Someone to Wed: A Spoiler Free Review

    Someone to Wed: A Spoiler Free Review

    Mary Balogh is an amazing romance author whose books tend to have a different tone to them than most other popular authors, in that her books are a little more serious and a little less built on witty banter. (I find nothing wrong with either style and enjoy both depending on my mood, so this

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  • The Austen Escape: A Spoiler Free Review

    The Austen Escape: A Spoiler Free Review

    The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay comes out tomorrow, November 7th, and is a fun escapist read along the lines of Austenland, though slightly less full of secondhand embarrassment. Actually, there’s dramatically less secondhand embarrassment. However, there’s still the cringe-worthy obliviousness to the love interest’s… well, interest. There’s also a weird friendship dynamic that I

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  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Book Review

    Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Book Review

    Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, originally wrote a blog post titled the same thing, which stirred up a lot of controversy. Paradoxically, writing the blog post ending her discussions with white people about race, led to her having many more discussions about race with all kinds

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