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A little bit of BEA wisdom

1. Rooms in New York are a lot smaller than you’re used to. I had stayed in NYC before but you never really appreciate it until you and three other women are staying in a tiny room with 300 books. Eep! We managed just fine, but it did take some creative thinking to keep everyone’s […]

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Honey, I’m home!!!

Hello, hello! As promised, I have returned. I’m all kinds of jet lagged but back all the same. Don’t worry, this is not an excuse not to jump back into things, I have been hard at work on various posts during my time away and have a few little revamps planned for the summer months […]

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IMM BEA Favorites Part 3 & 4

Part 3- Non Fiction Favorites Wait: The Art & Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy Mmm, psychology. I love books that try to explain why we do the things we do. Frank Partnoy’s Wait wants to have a look at delaying your decisions etc. rather than going with your gut, which is something I’d love […]

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Top ten books on my summer TBR list

Top Ten Tuesday is of course brought to us by the wonderful The Broke and the Bookish. I don’t usually manage to make a decent list but I really couldn’t resist this one. Let’s have a look at our summer reading lists!!! 1. Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent- I’ll be taking this one to Ireland […]

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IMM BEA Favorites Part 1 & 2

The beautiful, beautiful BEA book haul. Originally I was planning on doing my first ever video blog but I quickly realized that I can’t say nearly as much as I want to about each book without putting together a two hour production, so I’m going to break things down into a few regular posts. Part […]

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Emerald City Dreamer- Luna Lindsey

Jina and Sandy survived the unthinkable. Now they’ve set up a secret Order in Seattle to fight the impossible – fairytale creatures born of human nightmares and nourished on dreams. Their tools: iron, lore, science, glamour, and support groups. As beginners, without access to the ancient societies of faerie hunters, they must rediscover how to […]

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Home from BEA 2012

I’m hommmeeee! It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks from Toronto to Philly to New York City and back again. While I had so much fun at the Wizard World Comic Con in Philly with some pretty fantastic people, if you’re here odds are your looking for details on BEA. I arrived in New […]

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Atlantis Legend- The Lost Code Discussion

Yesterday’s review was all about Kevin Emerson’s The Lost Code a book that re imagines the legend of Atlantis. Fun! What is the legend of Atlantis??? While there are more variations then I can count, the main idea is that was a city called Atlantis, filled with super wisdomy (yup, I said it) people with […]

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Bout of Books 4.0 Results

So, my first read-a-thon in awhile and I did pretty okay. I completely finished Blood Red Road, Fire, Hunting Ground and The Trouble With Demons so I’ll have reviews up for all of those over the next few weeks. I will probably finish A Touch of Frost tomorrow, but I didn’t even start Spark. I’m […]

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Insurgent- Book Discussion

To kick us off… THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS. There. You have been warned. If you are looking for a spoiler free review, you can find mine here. Now let’s get to it. The first thing I’ve been dying to talk about with someone… Caleb. I actually had a moment mid book where I was thinking […]

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