Category: Recommendations

FICTION TROPES THAT MAKE ME ABSOLUTELY FROTH AT THE MOUTH (PART ONE)

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Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog! A few months ago I made a blog post about 22 things I love in books and it really inspired me to write about my favourite tropes in fiction so today that’s what I’m going to do today! I’ve also put part one in the title because I’m really hoping to eventually add a second post to this and make it a series!

Also, there will be a lot of links to threads on Twitter because explaining my feelings on a subject in great detail is not one of my strong points so I’ll give it my best shot and then link to people who no doubt said it better than me.

I’ll be honest I struggled with coming up with recommendations for each prompt, so if you have any recommendations please leave them in the comments. I’ll be eternally greatful!

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2021 book recommendations πŸ“šall of my favourite 2021 releases i read last year πŸ“š

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Hi everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog! Every year I do a recommendations post of the new releases I read from the previous year and really want to recommend and for 2021 I actually have a lot more than I assumed I would. I haven’t written a blurb for all of them, just my absolute favourites. But, I have included the covers of all of the books I enjoyed that came out in 2021!

I’ve also included my 2020, 2019 and 2018 recs at the end of this post if anyone’s curious!

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THE ‘READING ROMANCE’ CHALLENGE [2022] prompts + reading recs

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Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! I’m finally getting back into a better blogging mood and I’ve recently been spending a lot of time over on StoryGraph. I’ve also been having a lot of fun creating my 2022 challenges over on the StoryGraph site, so I figured I’d share them with you as well as some recs for each prompt! These are also all open for anyone to join, if you’re interested!

Find my 2022 challenges here:

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THE ‘ROMANCE BUZZWORD’ CHALLENGE [2022] prompts + tbr recommendations! ✨❀

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Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! I’m finally getting back into a better blogging mood and I’ve recently been spending a lot of time over on StoryGraph. I’ve also been having a lot of fun creating my 2022 challenges over on the StoryGraph site, so I figured I’d share them with you as well as some recs for each prompt! These are also all open for anyone to join, if you’re interested!

Find my 2022 challenges here:

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THE ‘READING GRAPHICS’ CHALLENGE [2022] prompts + tbr recommendations! πŸ“šπŸ’•

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Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! I’m finally getting back into a better blogging mood and I’ve recently been spending a lot of time over on StoryGraph. Ive also been having a lot of fun creating my 2022 challenges over on the StoryGraph site, so I figured I’d share them with you as well as some recs for each prompt! These are also all open for anyone to join, if you’re interested!

Find my 2022 challenges here:

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Graphic Novel, Comic & Manga Recommendations | Getting Ready for GraphicsAthon Round 4! πŸ“šβ€

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Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! The Graphicsathon is fast approaching so I thought it was about time I finally recommend some graphics on my blog, and today I’m paying attention to everyone with Middlegarade, YA, NA anda Adult fics! Most of these fit into the Graphicsathon prompts for the readathon too which is super fun!

For anyone interested my tbr for the readathon should be up in a few hours after this post… and it’s EXTENSIVE! Guess who got too carried away…again…πŸ™ˆπŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ

You can check out my Graphics shelf on Goodreads here.

*Click on the titles to go to the Goodreads pages!

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22 THINGS I LOVE IN BOOKS & 55+ BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS! | Weird books, bodyguard romances & soft magic πŸ“šπŸ˜

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Hi friends, welcome back to my blog! Today I’m fangirling about 22 of my favourite tropes / favourite things in books! I can be *really* picky with the books that I choose to read, and on top of that, the books that I choose to 5 star! So, with any of the tropes or elements in this list I could be completely thrown off if it was to just be upped a tiny bit, but if it’s the perfect amount than it’s most likely a 4.5 or 5 star read for me. I really am a picky reader which is why so many of my reads get a 3 star rating or somwhere around that, but more often than not, if a book has one of these elements, it’s going to get a really high rating from me!

Also, supringly, it was a lot easier to write this list than my hate list (coming soon!) so that was an honest to god shock but a good one!

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Movie Recommendations for Each Enneagram Type!

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HI friends, welcome back to my blog! I recently watched Booksandlala’s video about enneagram types and I was wondering how I could translate a video like that into a blog format and this is what I came up with! I wasn’t in the mood to talk books today but I am 100% here to recommend movies so I hope you all enjoy this even if it’s not book-centric!

I’m really curious to know what your eenneagram types are and what your favourite movies are! Also, can you guess my enneagram number?

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Recommending Graphic Novels, Comics + Manga For The GraphicsAthon!

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Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! Destiny, Rebecca and I are all hosting the GraphicsAthon during October so we figured we’d each write our own recommendations blog posts to go along with our Google Doc of recommendations for the readathon!

In case you need a catch up, here are the prompts:

  1. Read a graphic with BIPOC rep
  2. Read a graphic with disability &/or mental health rep
  3. Read a graphic with LGBTQIA+ rep
  4. Read a spooky graphic
  5. Read a graphic you predict will be a 5 ⭐

+ Bonus Prompts

  1. Read a graphic with an adaptation (has an adapted, will be adapted)
  2. Read a graphic with pink on the cover
  3. Read a graphic that’s a story type or genre you wouldn’t usually reach for
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