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BOOK REVIEW: AFTER MATH BY DENISE GROVER SWANK

Scarlett Goodwin’s world is divided into Before and After. Before she agreed to tutor Tucker price, college junior Scarlett was introvert, struggling with her social anxiety and determined to not end up living in a trailer park like her mother and her younger sister. A mathematics major, she goes to her classes,…

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SUMMERTIME MADNESS BOOK TAG

The summer isn't over yet! There's just enough time left for us to cram those final few summery reads into our TBRs. In fact, there's even enough time left to head to that perfect summer destination and reenact your favorite book (or do your best trying). But for those of us who have jobs and school loomi…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE DREAM THIEVES BY MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same.  Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life.  Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for so…

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TOP 10 AUTHORS WE SHOULD BE READING

We know what you're thinking: this week we're about to recommend you ten of our most favorite authors in the world. We're going to rhapsodize about J.K. Rowling's plotting, Suzanne Collins's worldbuilding and Tahereh Mafi's way with words. We're going to break out the good, old "if yo…

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IN MY MAILBOX: AUGUST 22ND

I have a secret admirer, I have a secret admirer! And he's sending me books! (Does a secret admirer get  any more dreamy than when they send you books instead of flowers? It's almost as if they knew  me! And it's almost as if I knew them. Especially when they tell me about the imminent arrival of…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE RAVEN BOYS BY MAGGIE STIEFVATER

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk pas…

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BOOK REVIEW: UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

An unforgettable love story that breaks all the rules. When Tate Collins finds airline pilot Miles Archer passed out in front of her apartment door, it is definitely not love at first sight. In fact, they wouldn't even consider themselves friends. But what they do have is an undeniable mutual attraction. He …

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BOOK REVIEW: ANGELFALL BY SUSAN EE

It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, includi…

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BOOK REVIEW: OPPOSITION BY JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came. She can't believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred, and love has become an emotion that could destroy her — could destroy them all…

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IN MY MAILBOX: AUGUST 14TH

It's so hard to be articulate right now. My co-blogger Natalie and I have come to a realization that every single language (that we can speak) is deficient where the expressions of gratitude are concerned. There are just no words big or important enough to properly thank someone for a great act of kindn…

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GIVEAWAY - UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

It's time. It's The Honest Bookclub 's first giveaway and, boy, are we excited!  We have an extra copy of the marvelous Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover , which was released earlier last week. If you haven't gotten yourself a copy yet, then you're in luck - you could win one right here at TheH…

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TOP 10 SETTINGS IN BOOKS

Let's shake off the Monday blues and get our book talk on! This week we're going to grab our passports and head abroad to our favorite settings in books. We've all read a book and sighed in sadness that we're not there. Authors have a way with words that make you feel like you're really there but…

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TOP 10 SIDEKICKS

Friends, comrades, brothers-in-arms. The time has finally come for us to pick our favorite (or in some way most memorable) sidekicks in literature. Whether it's the all-too-welcome comic relief they provide in an otherwise gloomy series, or whether it's their insight and strength and their love of the lead c…

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WEBSITE RECOMMENDATION: BOOKBUB

I hate not being able to afford books. Especially when it's that time of the year when all the good ones come out and you've got no money at all. The thing is, there's always a silver lining and for us, and it's BookBub. I only just found this website and I'm so glad someone recommended it to me! …

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