Tag: reading community

  • Beyond the Wand: Book Review

    Beyond the Wand: Book Review

    Hello, dearies! 🪄

    I haven’t done a review like this one before… 📚

    Book Title: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

    Author: Tom Felton

    Genres: Actor Biography. Nonfiction. Rich & Famous Biographies. Memoir. Autobiography.

    Page count: 288 pages

    Rating: 5 out of 5.

    I didn’t give it 5 stars because he is Tom Felton, but it might have something to do with it, maybe for the last half point to reach 5.

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  • Five Fingers Book Challenge pt. 2

    Five Fingers Book Challenge pt. 2

    Hello, dearies! Welcome to a new book challenge! 😊

    For this second round I went with books that I don’t have on paperback but I wish I did. 📚

    So, I don’t have a photo of my hand on each book as last time, but that is okay, too. 😆 Regardless, the basics remain, and each finger is for a book.

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  • Saw 2025 Reading Firsts Book Tag and Had to Do it

    Saw 2025 Reading Firsts Book Tag and Had to Do it

    Welcome, everyone! 😺

    Sometimes there are cool book tags and challenge in different blogs, and I miss on those, but I saw this one! The 2025 Reading Firsts Book Tag, and here we are!

    Originally by Pam – ReadBakeCreate, or that is what I gathered, but I first read it on jillianthebookishbutterflyblog.

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  • Two Starfields Libraries: 1 of Me

    Two Starfields Libraries: 1 of Me

    Welcome, dearies! ✈️

    Once more we’re going on a bookish adventure in Seoul. 📚

    Now onward to Starfield. 😺 There are two of these libraries in South Korea, well, as far as I know. The first time, I only visited the one in COEX Mall, but in 2024 I had to cover more ground and see more bookish spots because I was a bit shy the first time.

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  • The Bane Chronicles: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

    The Bane Chronicles: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

    Or a Friday Flashback! 📚

    Hello, dearies! Welcome back to the Shadow World! 💙

    I had stopped posting about The Bane Chronicles, story by story, but here I am again, The Fall of the Hotel Dumort was next in line after Saving Raphael Santiago, and it could be said it follows: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort.

    Author: Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

    Collection: The Bane Chronicles

    Number in Collection: 7

    Genres: Supernatural. Shadowhunters. Short Story. Vampires. Warlocks.

    Who? Well, Magnus Bane

    Shadow World

    Rating: 4 out of 5.
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  • Throwback Thursday: City of Ashes

    Throwback Thursday: City of Ashes

    Hello, dearies! Welcome to a New TBT!

    Title: City of Ashes

    Genres: Fantasy. Young Adult. Romance. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy.

    Book Saga: The Mortal Instruments Book #2

    Author: Cassie Clare

    Page count: 453 pages

    Year Published: 2008

    Families: Lightwood. Fairchild. Morgenstern. Herondale.

    Podcast Version1

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  • Just one Book?

    Just one Book?

    What book could you read over and over again?

    How about 9 Books to re-read? Because I have that list all set up and ready if you want book recommendations, you can check out that post on the blog.

    But long story short, it is a variety of fantasy, romance, and young adult.

    So, any Shadowhunter Novel and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are top in the re-reading list. Don’t be so shocked, if you spent some time here on the blog, you’ll see those worlds have a special place in it.

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  • Sunrise on the Reaping: Book Review [The Hunger Games 0.5]

    Sunrise on the Reaping: Book Review [The Hunger Games 0.5]

    Hello, dearies! 📚

    It’s been a while since I read a book so fast, and fresh out of the oven. But here we are.

    It was easy reading Sunrise on the Reaping, and going back to the Capitol, Panem, District 12, even when it was not shown all that much, and discovering how they wanted everything to fit and explain The Hunger Games and the plots that unraveled there.

    That’s pretty much it. The end. 😅 Just kidding, sort of.

    Let me show you what this book was like, considering that we wanted to know what happened to Haymitch Abernathy, and we sure did. 🫠

    And yes, there will be spoilers all over this post, like I will assume you want to know or you have finished reading the book, too.

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  • What is Bu Bu Jing Xin? The Novel

    What is Bu Bu Jing Xin? The Novel

    Hello, dearies! 📚

    So I have seen some are curious about Bu Bu Jing Xin, which is literally translated as ‘Scarlet Heart‘ is the novel where Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo came from, I mentioned this on my reviews of this awesome K-Drama, but it all goes back to a book.

    I don’t know much to say about it, other than what I have discovered online, so here are my findings.

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  • 9 Books that I can easily re-read every year… some times twice a year

    9 Books that I can easily re-read every year… some times twice a year

    Hello, dearies! 📚

    Welcome to another ranting on books that not everyone might know about, but I am very attached to and like a lot, and I don’t mind re-reading them over and over, even when I have a reading list (or TBR if you prefer) the size of a town.

    So, what are some books that I wouldn’t get tired of reading? You might be surprised, because I certainly was when thinking back and trying to figure out, what would be that book that I want to re-read?

    And so, here I am, sharing because I am kind like that. 😆

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