Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m in awe that tomorrow will be 2016! It feels like 2015 was just yesterday.
In this post, I’ll be recapping my December, as well as looking forward into January! Unfortunately, since I started this blog a few months ago and did not complete a whole year of blogging, I won’t be doing a yearly recap, but I do have a year in review, thanks to WordPress.
This year has been amazing. I started this blog this summer in hopes of meeting new people and sharing my love for books, and I think I managed to achieve that. I know that I haven’t gone very far in terms of putting myself out there, but one of my New Year’s resolutions is to be more assertive in the book blogging community.
Without further ado, here is how my 2015 went.
Sixteen-year-old Elli was a small child when the Elders of Kupari chose her to succeed the Valtia, the queen who wields infinitely powerful ice and fire magic. Since then, Elli has lived in the temple, surrounded by luxury and tutored by magical priests, as she prepares for the day when the Valtia perishes and the magic finds a new home in her. Elli is destined to be the most powerful Valtia to ever rule.
But when the queen dies defending the kingdom from invading warriors, the magic doesn’t enter Elli. It’s nowhere to be found.
Disgraced, Elli flees to the outlands, the home of banished criminals—some who would love to see the temple burn with all its priests inside. As she finds her footing in this new world, Elli uncovers devastating new information about the Kupari magic, those who wield it, and the prophecy that foretold her destiny. Torn between the love she has for her people and her growing loyalty to the banished, Elli struggles to understand the true role she was meant to play. But as war looms, she must align with the right side—before the kingdom and its magic are completely destroyed.
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All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It’s the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist, she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a woman who was always possessed by a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as troubled waters.
When Imogene is seventeen, her father, now a famous author of medical mysteries, strikes out in the middle of the night and doesn’t come back. Neither Imogene’s stepmother nor the police know where he could’ve gone, but Imogene is convinced he’s looking for her mother. She decides to put to use the skills she’s gleaned from a lifetime of her father’s books to track down a woman she’s never known, in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she’s carried with her for her entire life.
Rebecca Podos’ debut is a powerful, affecting story of the pieces of ourselves that remain mysteries even to us – the desperate search through empty spaces for something to hold on to.
As 2015 comes to a close, I can’t help but to think that hopefully, I’ll be able to complete many of my goals in 2016. Let’s get started!
Oh, man. There are so many books I want to read in 2016! In the coming year, I’m going to be doing my Goodreads challenge (I challenged myself to read 50 books) and a Popsugar challenge. You can read more here. This is my first time ever doing a book challenge since this is going to be my first book blog new year!
In terms of books I want to read, since joining the book blogging community, I’ve realized that there are SO many books that I need to read. Therefore, I definitely want to get to the following, very popular, very hyped-up books:
Of course, this is just the beginning, but these are my NEED TO READ books. Hopefully I can make this happen in 2016!
For 2016, I’d like to:
But wait! There’s more!
To celebrate the new year, I’m hosting a giveaway for a book of choice from The Book Depository under $20, including pre-orders! This giveaway is international if TBD ships to your location — you can check here.
My giveaway policy applies in this giveaway — please read the rules here. This giveaway will end a month from today, January 26. Good luck!
Happy Friday! And more importantly, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Today is the last day of Top 10 of 2015, hosted by Rachel of Fiktshun, Jaime of Two Chicks on Books, Mindy of Magical Urban Fantasy Reads, Nancy of Tales of a Ravenous Reader!
If you don’t know, Top 10 of 2015 is a week-long event in which we look back at some of the best of all things books from 2015 and look forward to those books in 2016 that we are super stoked for. I hope you’ve enjoyed this blog series!
Today, I’m showing you 10 books I’m very excited to read in 2016!
Happy Christmas Eve, everyone! Hope you’ve been having a fantastic holiday so far!
Today, I’m very happy to be participating in Top 10 of 2015, hosted by Rachel of Fiktshun, Jaime of Two Chicks on Books, Mindy of Magical Urban Fantasy Reads, Nancy of Tales of a Ravenous Reader!
Top 10 of 2015 is a week-long event in which we look back at some of the best of all things books from 2015 and look forward to those books in 2016 that we are super stoked for.
Today’s topic is the top book boyfriends of 2015. Let’s get started!
I guess I can’t exactly call this a review since I didn’t finish reading the book, but…
It’s always disappointing when you decide to DNF (or did-not-finish) a book, especially when you have high hopes for them.
With DNF reviews (I guess you could call it), I’ll talk about where I stopped, what I liked, why I stopped reading, etc.
We’ve all had those days, weeks, months, even, when we can’t read anything without feeling bored and unable to take in anything. Fortunately, if you’re in this situation, I’ve accumulated a few of my favorite books that helped me out of some reading slumps of my own.
Without further ado, here are some books that helped me get out of reading slumps and may help you as well!
Productivity. I’m going to admit it: I have so much trouble with productivity. I get distracted, I get bored, I get nervous towards impending deadlines and due dates.
But through my experience in high school, that time where teachers have no mercy on your soul and give you like, 5 projects a week, I have accumulated some incredibly important habits that help me be productive throughout the school year and blogging life.
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