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TOP 10 BOOKISH WEBSITES WE LOVE

This week for our Top 10 Monday, we've decided to share with you our favourite  bookish websites. If we're being perfectly honest, most of the sites we  go on daily are book related so we're no strangers to these ones. We have them all bookmarked in our browsers and ready to use for our daily book/author …

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2015 BOOKISH RESOLUTIONS

At The Honest Bookclub, we've really set out to make January the month of the new year . From end-of-the-year tags , all the way to our favorite books of the past year , and to our most anticipated releases of the new year , we're making sure to differentiate between the old and the new, and to step into the …

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TOP 14 BOOKS OF 2014

There are more than a few releases to look forward to in the upcoming year. In our Top 10 Monday post on the subject, we've each shared our ten most anticipated books due to come out in 2015 . But not acknowledging what an amazing year 2014 has been would be impossible. As many readers out there, we've discov…

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TOP 10 PLACES TO READ

We're changing things up just a little. This week, we're dreaming not so much of a specific kind of books, but of the places where we can read the ones we've already started. Some readers out there prefer to live in a single place which they come to associate with books and which in turn prompts them to …

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TOP 10 BOOKS WE DIDN'T THINK WE'D ENJOY (BUT DID!)

The thing about running a reviewer blog of any kind is - you are essentially a critic. And more often than not, we come to equate critique with criticism (and not the constructive kind). It's altogether too easy to get lost in a world of underwhelming reads, overhyped books and all manner of disappointing bookish…

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BOOK REVIEW: THRONE OF GLASS BY SARAH J. MAAS

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men…

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BOOK REVIEW: UNRAVEL ME BY TAHEREH MAFI

tick tick tick tick tick it's almost time for war. Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her—people with gifts—and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance. She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a wea…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE GIVER BY LOIS LOWRY

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family unites: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is a world without confli…

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BOOK REVIEW: DESTROY ME BY TAHEREH MAFI

In Tahereh Mafi’s  Shatter Me , Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner—and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. But as she’ll learn in  Destroy Me , Warner is not that easy to get rid of. . . Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his powe…

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TOP 10 AUTO-BUY AUTHORS

Welcome to our first Top 10 list of 2015. We've discarded some of the old traditions and introduced some new ones (look up the 2015 TBR challenge - it's excellent). But the one tradition we love and never wish to dispense with is our Top 10. So Shady's back. (Tell your friends.) This week, we have compi…

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'TIS THE SEASON BOOK TAG

Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Welcome to 2015, fellow book addicts  readers! And welcome to our first tag in the new year. If Christmastime in the book community had a bucket-list, doing a winter-inspired tag would be about the only item left unchecked for us this season. And thanks to  Richard over on Bo…

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