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2016 BOOKISH RESOLUTIONS

It's New Year's resolutions time, and here at The Honest Bookclub we are nothing if not resolute. We make bold, lofty promises. We aspire to greatness and world domination . We pledge to read our way through the Library of Alexandria on days off, and to write the Great American European Novel. And then w…

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OWLCRATE REVIEW: WE'RE OFFICIALLY WIZARDS (OR ARE WE?)

'Tis the season... to attempt to stick twelve Christmas trees in your living room and decorate them with a levitating charm. 'Tis also the season for owl post. Much as we hold out hope for Christmas letters with our initial(s) and a certain wax-sealed letter of admission into a certain magic school, once agai…

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MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK RELEASES OF WINTER 2015/2016

Happy first-night-of-winter, fellow snowflakes (because, let's face it, the day is short  here in the northern hemisphere on this date in particular)! Your choices are twofold: you can bemoan the cold and the gloom and the lack of proper daylight, or you can grab a good book and fail to notice the cold and the gl…

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BOOK REVIEW: FINDING AUDREY BY SOPHIE KINSELLA

An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she’s never been able …

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TOP 10 BOOKS WE'VE READ IN 2015

*another obligatory flail about WHERE HAS THE YEAR GONE* We don't always eat books. When we do, however, we make sure to devour them whole in a span of few hours, then proceed to flail about their deliciousness for at least a year. Normally, Nutella and pizza are the sort of food groups we recognize and resor…

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IN MY MAILBOX: DECEMBER 13TH 2015

I am exactly 3497 decades too late putting this up. I did the math. (And you thought you  were a procrastinator!) 3497 is also, serendipitously, how old I am in draconic years. It's how old my soul  is... when I'm not writing dirty limericks or watching Courage The Cowardly Dog over and over again. But I …

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GUEST REVIEW: FIRSTS BY LAURIE ELIZABETH FLYNN

Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect fir…

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BOOK REVIEW: OBLIVION BY JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

I knew the moment Katy Swartz moved in next door, there was going to be trouble. Lots of it. And trouble’s the last thing I need, since I’m not exactly from around here. My people arrived on Earth from Lux, a planet thirteen billion light years away. Plus, if there’s one thing I know, it’s that humans can’t be …

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TOP 10 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK RELEASES OF 2016

*obligatory flail about WHERE HAS THE YEAR GONE* Now that that's behind us, let's begin. 2015 has been good to us in terms of new releases. We've been... a bit less good about actually staying on top of them all. Our bad. But now that the end of the year draws near, we apparently rhyme have are activel…

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TOP 10 WEIRD BOOKISH FACTS ABOUT US

You know those mysterious, mysterious creatures who are active online and post plenty, but never about themselves? For all you know, they were trained at the Ninja Academy (which may or may not be a real thing) - they pop in and out, never for long enough to get a hold of them and shake some solid personal facts out…

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