Where to go in Seoul? As a Reader? Here’s Arc n Book and my experience in it for the first time! 📚😊
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Last year (2024) I decided to hop on a journey of bookstores of Seoul, and Arc n’ Book was one of those that I visited. Why didn’t I visit more of these in 2023 on my first visit to the country is beyond me, but probably something to do with being awed by everything. 😸
Continue reading “Arc n’ Book Seoul: 2024 First Impressions”‘…have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?’
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Did you know that there is a Jane Austen Challenge going on by canterburyclassics? (This is not promoted).
There is! And I decided to go into it, starting with Jane Austen in January, true be told I didn’t finish it in Jan, but I’ll plan on continuing until the end throughout February since the challenge is month by month through 2025, and I am not really planning on doing needlework, this time. 😆
As Ms. Austen is to turn 250 this year! That’s how they decided that this should be the perfect way to celebrate.
These are the expected month-by-month challenges:
You can still join, of course. What do you think? If I find other book challenges like so, I’ll definitely consider them, it looked like so much, and perhaps I’ll finally read all of Jane Austen’s books, because Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey sit on my shelf since forever. 😸
That’s the latest from my end. I’ll update on my new view of Pride and Prejudice once I’m done. 😊
“When love was real, so was forever.”
I already had a feeling because it had been hinted at in the previous books, but I still was sad when it did happen.
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the end of the binge-read! ⭐
I finished reading all books in The Maddox Brothers series, though, it is not the end. This is only the so-far books that are published because it looks like a new one will be published about Trenton, is it confirmed? I don’t know, but it is in on Goodreads, so it might be.
I also skipped over Something Beautiful and went directly to the last one: A Beautiful Funeral because I had to.
Basically, book 4 Beautiful Burn and this one are a mix in my head, but they are very distinctly different, never fear about that.
What I cannot get over is the fact of how much of a giant Travis is, I really need to re-read Beautiful Disaster because I remember the essence of it, but a lot of little details are missing from my memories. I read it a long time ago.
Anyway, I am remembering all of the books because A Beautiful Funeral, it is basically all the books in one without repetition. I mean that all brothers are in here, and their girls. So be prepared for that.
Continue reading “A Beautiful Funeral: Book Review (The Maddox Brothers #5)”“Love made people hate in a way they never would have before.”
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Welcome to 2025’s first finished book, but that came from 2024 because I started reading in December.
Beautiful Burn is about the burn, nah, that’s a bad joke. It is about two people who like each other and would walk through fire for their love, in the end, and if there was a fire Tyler would burn for Ellie.
Now, a quick note. The only thing that I agreed with Ellie on this book was that Jim was a former detective and Abby was smart and so they would have to know that what the Maddox Brothers said they did for a living was a lie. 🚒
Continue reading “Beautiful Burn: Book Review (The Maddox Brothers #4)”“All I can do is try to ease your pain and replace the terrible memories with better ones.”
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The year is almost at an end, it might for some of you already, depending on where you are in the world. For me it is still Dec, 31st.
I was checking all the book reviews on the blog and was surprised by what I had picked up this year, mostly, “old” books but that were in my TBR since forever and I decided to read as many as I could.
Luckily, there was a dragon book in there, so the year of the Dragon was represented in my reading. For the year of the Snake (my year!) I shall see what books are out there that fit the criteria, there should be some interesting ones.
Alright, alright. I’ll begin.
Continue reading “What did I read in 2024? It was a surprise!”“I’ll help you get lost any time, Sunshine. The only deal is you have to promise to come back. I never want to lose you again.”
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It is almost the end of the year, and I cannot believe it!
What did I read this year though? It was varied, but with some (a lot) of re-readings in there. But I’ll keep this top 5 rating of 2024 to the books, manga, and light novel that I hadn’t read before and were new to me if not released this year or last, like all the reads on this list were published years ago.
Continue reading “Top 5 Reads of 2024”Winter is here, but are there books with Winter in them? Here are some… in name, at least.
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As it is December, apparently, don’t know where the rest of the months went. And in most places around the word it is Winter! Then here’s a special reading list that we might enjoy. 🏂
This is not a Christmas-related one, that will come later on, so be on the lookout.
Continue reading “10 Books with Winter in It”“I’ve had a lifetime of wrong. You’re the only thing that’s right.”
Oblivion indeed. 😮
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OMFJC on a cracker. 🍂
This woman got me, I didn’t see that coming. I had no clue. I still don’t understand what the big secret is about.
Other than the fact that TJ knew that Trenton was in love with Camille his whole life and he still went and asked her out, crappy move there, but I suppose since they were not together it was fair.
But I did not know it was HIM.
Okay, let’s do this review right.
Continue reading “Beautiful Oblivion: Book Review (Finally Read it!)”BookTok got me! I couldn’t wait for Bullets and Bonfires to be over—and not because I was hooked, but because I struggled to connect. While the side characters shone, the main duo fell flat for me, with moments that made me cringe or skim. Though there were bits I enjoyed, this read didn’t quite go as I had expected. Lesson learned: not all books with cool videos or photos are a perfect match!
I couldn’t wait for the book to be over. I’m proud because I finished it, but disappointed because I let Booktok trick me into reading it. 🥹
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Not all that you read on those descriptions of books on TikTok is accurate, always keep that fresh in your mind as it is true, and it is not the first time that it has happened to me, just that other times I don’t follow through, but this time I really thought: hey, this Bullets and Bonfires might be interesting.
And it was, but not quite what I was expecting of the book.
All of that said, I enjoyed parts and bits of this book, I did not fall for the main characters neither the “hero” nor the “heroine”, there were instances that I cringed, and that has not happened to me in… ever, I think, if it has I blocked it out, some parts I basically skimmed, say a page because I didn’t find it completely relevant or worth it of the story, I know it was, this was when Bree was talking to Teller, and to be honest all the side characters got my attention more than the main two.
Continue reading “Bull$ts and Bonfires: Book Review”“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”
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Here we are with a new challenge, at this point I should make a blog page solely for the book challenges, I have quite a few now. Should I?
Why not? 😆
Anyway, you can check out the new page of the blog with all book challenges listed on here: Book Challenges.
Created and inspired by this post.
Maybe I should I explain what this book challenge is about, I have rambled on enough. The Timeline Book Quest is about the books I have read and their years of publication or rather a list of years and checking if I read a book from that year. Let’s check it out.
Continue reading “Book Challenge: The Timeline Book Quest”
