Author: Kim and Tanya
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2023 Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge Sign-Ups
Welcome to the 2023 Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge! We’re so excited to be back for another year of reading with you! HOW IT WORKS ~ This is a monthly challenge that runs all year long from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. ~ Eight “key words” are given for each month. Your task…
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2023 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge Sign-Ups
Welcome to the 2023 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge! We’re so excited to be back for another year of reading with you! HOW IT WORKS ~ This is a monthly challenge that runs all year long from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. ~ A Motif (theme) is given for each month. Your task is…
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‘Other-World’ & Alternate Reality Books That Will Haunt Your Dreams
Books that involve a visit to (or from) a different dimension, the after-life, or an alternate reality add a whole other level of complexity to a story. When done well, they are completely wild and amazing! Here are a few of our recent favorite reads that involve another plane of existence… KIM The Book of…
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4 [More] Weird Ways the World Ends in Books That are #WickedGoodReads
Apparently we have a thing for reading books with weird apocalyptic events because we’ve read about the World ending by killer plants, slow rotation of the Earth, common drugs and hurricanes in 4 Books With Crazy Weird Apocalyptic Events and ending by animals, hair loss, an unknown entity and an unknown illness in 4 More…
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#SummerAtoZ 2022 Blog Event Wrap-Up
Every year on the blog, we do a #SummerAtoZ blog challenge. We challenge ourselves to write one post for every letter of the alphabet. Some of them are bookish but we also cover a bunch of other topics too. It’s always fun for us to look back and see how many letters we managed to hit.…
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4 Books to (Z)ap that Reading Slump [Vol. 2]
Reading slumps are the worst, aren’t they? Once you get out of the habit of reading regularly it can be hard to get back in to it. Luckily we’ve found a few books that have worked great for zapping those reading slumps and reigniting that excitement for page turning! – KIM – Thrillers One thing…
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6 Of Our Favorite (Y)oung Adult (YA) Stand Alone Fantasy Books
A while back we shared 6 Amazing (Y)oung Adult Stand Alone Novels that you should check out. Both of us read lots of speculative fiction, so we thought we’d also share some of our favorite Fantasy (Y)oung Adult novels as well. TANYA PATRICE Uprooted, Naomi Novik Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the…
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Books That Got the A(X)e This Year (So Far)
The decision to not finish a book is not an easy one for us, and we certainly don’t mean any disrespect to the authors. There can be many reasons, we’re not into reading that type of book right now, it’s not a category that we like, we just can’t understand where the book is heading,…
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Booked Out [August 2022]
How was your month in books? Which book was your favorite? Did you participate in any reading events? Work on any of your reading challenges? Here’s a look at what we’ve read this month. KIM August is always crazy with transitions between summer and the school year. I taught a couple sections of summer courses…
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(B)ooked Out [July 2022]
How was your month in books? Which book was your favorite? Did you participate in any reading events? Work on any of your reading challenges? Here’s a look at what we’ve read this month. KIM In July I read 4 crime thrillers. I liked them all but they were so similar that I’m now having…
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