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Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag | ft. How on earth are we already halfway through this crazy year?

Published on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by Aria19 Comments

Hello! I guess it’s time for me to do this tag? I was going to do it on June first, but then I forgot about it and was busy and here we are 20-something days later and I’m finally doing it. I was tagged for this by two wonderful bloggers: Kay @ Hammock of Books and Jane @ Blogger Books! Both of their blogs are wonderful and you should go over right now because both of them have wonderful bookish content!

Also, as Kay put it, this tag is like one giant game of telephone and it honestly is. Kay and Jane both did slightly different versions, but overall it’s the same. So, I answered 15 questions about books and stuff, so here they are!

Before I get into the questions though, here’s an update on my Goodreads challenge:

I am 18 books ahead, which I’m really happy about!! I guess that’s what months and months of social distancing gets you.

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Bloghopping!

Published on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 by Aria28 Comments

Hello there and happy Friday! Today’s discussion topic is one that I’m very excited for, so I’ll get right into it! Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly discussion post created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and is hosted by Rukky and Dani @ A Literary Lion! This week’s topic is: Bloghopping (suggested by Marie @ Tirilu)

The Sunshine Blogger Award

Published on May 24, 2020 by Aria14 Comments

Hello! I was tagged by the wonderful Daria @ A Bookaholic’s Therapy for the sunshine blogger award! Daria’s blog is amazing and hilarious, and you should definitely go check it out! But, as I attempt to make a small dent in the pile of things that I’ve been tagged for, today I bring to you, the sunshine blogger award!

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Blogging 101: How to Write a Discussion Post

Published on May 22, 2020 by Aria4 Comments

Hello there and happy Friday! Today’s topic is how to write your favorite post, so I chose how to write a discussion post, my favorite type of post to write! Talk Bookish is a weekly discussion post created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books and Dani @ A Literary Lion! This week’s topic is: Blogging 101: How to Write a Discussion Post!

February 2020 wrap up and March goals

Published on March 7, 2020March 6, 2020 by Aria1 Comment

Hello readers! This post is already kind of late, and I don’t feel like making this very long, so here is a quick summary of what I accomplished in February, and what my plans are for March!

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The Liebster Award

Published on February 17, 2020February 25, 2020 by Aria16 Comments

Hello everybody! I’m very excited to do this tag/award because I’ve seen it on so many blogs, and I think it’s amazing that this award has been floating around the internet since 2011! I was nominated by Lori @ Lori’s Bookshelf Reads for this award, so thank you Lori! Anyways, without further ado, here is the Liebster Award!

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January 2020 wrap up and February goals

Published on February 9, 2020 by Aria1 Comment

I can’t believe that it’s already February! I meant to write this post a while ago, (Like nine days ago) but as you might already know, I’m not very good at planning posts in advanced! Anyways, here’s how my month went:

I can’t believe that it’s already February! I meant to write this post a while ago, (Like nine days ago) but I haven’t had that much time recently. Anyways, here’s how my month went:

I read 23 books in January.

How I did on my reading goals:

The Gilded Wolves, by Roshani Chokshi–✅
Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo–❌
Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo–✅
The Teacher’s Funeral, by Richard Peck–✅
Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus, by Dusti Bowling–✅
Hook’s Revenge: The Pirate’s Code, by Heidi Schulz–✅
500 Words or Less, by Julia Del Rosario–✅
Okay For Now, by Gary D. Schmidt–✅
The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart–✅
The Mysterious Benedict Society: The Perilous Journey, by Trenton Lee Stewart–✅
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, by Trenton Lee Stewart–❌
It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel, by Firoozeh Dumas–✅

I wrote 16 posts in January.

How I did on my posting goals:

1 tag–❌
1 other post–✅
2 Chapters of my story–❌
2 book reviews–✅
3 Top Ten Tuesday–✅
4 Let’s Talk Bookish–✅
5 WWW Wednesday–❌

I finally read Six of Crows.

You can read my review here.

I completely reorganized my bookshelf and put fun lights on it.

I for the first time actually organize my bookshelf by genre, and I’m really proud of myself for doing that, because before I

I did a lot of stuff.

So even though my entire month was completely planned out very well, and I didn’t accomplish all of my goals, I’m happy with what I got done.

February Goals:

I’m not going to completely plan out and set a lot of goals for February, and I’m not going to write out a TBR (to be read), but I do want to finish reading all of the books that were on my winter TBR.

So… the books that I have yet to read are these:

Black Radishes, by Susan Lynn Meyer
Orange for the Sunsets, by Tina Athaide
Turtle in Paradise, by Jennifer L. Holm
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelo
Before We Were Free, by Julia Alvarez

That’s only five books, and I’ll most likely read more, but the other books I read will be for OBOB. (a reading competition I’m doing that’s through my school)

For my posting goals, I want to write:

1 Other post
1 Tag
2 Reviews
3 Top Ten Tuesday
3 WWW Wednesday
3 Let’s Talk Bookish

That adds up to thirteen posts, and plus this one is fourteen, and thats a good amount for me.

I also want to get some writing done, and work a little more on the story I’ve been working on.

And that’s it for my January wrap up and goals for February! I hope you are all having a great 2020 so far!

What are your February goals? How was your January? How is 2020 going for you so far? Chat with me in the comments below!

Happy reading!

Let’s Talk Bookish: Anxiety and Book Blogging

Published on January 24, 2020March 23, 2020 by Aria4 Comments

Happy Friday, everybody! I’ve had a lot with school this week, but I’m very excited for this week’s Let’s Talk Bookish! Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly discussion post created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books, and this week’s topic is anxiety and book blogging!

Has there been a topic that you were afraid to discuss?

No. This might be because I haven’t actually done any discussion posts that I’ve come up with, only LTBs like this one. But when I’m writing my opinion about books or anything, I’ve never felt like I’m going to be criticized for my opinion.

Do you censor yourself because you are afraid of backlash?

No. I know that there are people with different opinions than me on literally every topic, but I don’t censor myself and my writing, because I’m fine with having a different opinion than someone as long as they’re respectful of other people’s opinions.

Does your anxiety (not necessarily an actual diagnosis, but that feeling of nervousness and minor terror/anxiousness) kick in and make you afraid to truly be yourself on your blog? How do you deal with this?

A little bit. I’ve always been nervous about showing other people my writing, and when I’ve written stuff for school, it’s usually not my best work. So when I started this blog, I was truly terrified of the prospect that anyone anywhere could read my blog. Because of that, I guess I kind of censored what I wrote. Now, I think it’s really cool that anyone anywhere can read what I’ve written on this blog, and I want people to read it.

Its also easier that I don’t know the people who are reading my blog. My parents are the only people who read my blog that I know in real life, and everyone else is kind of mysterious.

I do have blogging friends who I’ve chatted with in comments, and whose blogs I follow, but that’s really really different from knowing someone in real life!

I guess Im kind of afraid to be truly myself, because there have been times where I write a sentence, or a paragraph, or even a whole post, and then I delete it, or change it.

However, I’ve definitely started to write a lot more confidently and have started to figure out how I want my posts to be, how the style of my writing is going to look like, and that sort of thing.

Other anxieties:

I do get nervous about getting posts done on time. I sometimes feel like I need to post 4 times a week, and although that would be great and I would love to be able to do that, I have the rest of my life to balance, and it just doesn’t work out.

When I recently took a short break, it was really nice because I was able to catch up on other things, and now I’m back to writing more consistently.

Conclusion:

I do have some anxiety around book blogging, but I do find ways to deal with it, and to work past it. Not feeling guilty about not posting or not reading other blogs is definitely something I need to work on, but over I’m not to stressed about blogging.

What about you? Do you ever have anxiety related to book blogging? Chat with me in the comments below!

Happy reading!

Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish discoveries I made in 2019

Published on January 18, 2020 by Aria6 Comments

Hello! I kind of took an unexpected mini hiatus, but now I’m back. Although I didn’t mean to or want to take a short break from blogging, it was good because I’ve been overwhelmed with school, and I haven’t been feeling well.

Hiatus: A pause, break, gap, lacuna, interval, intermission, interlude, interruption, suspension, lull, respite, time out, time off, recess
Ahhh, the thesaurus. Just read that out loud to yourself. It’s so satisfying!

So, I’m back to blogging, and I’ll hopefully be able to blog consistently for now. Anyways, even though it isn’t Tuesday, and although Tuesday was a fairly long time ago, I’m going to make a list of some of my many bookish discoveries in 2019. This is an especially important post for me to do, and shouldn’t be too hard, considering that at the beginning of the year I actually had no idea what a book blog was, or that such wonderful things existed, so before I make this introduction it’s own post, here are my 2019 bookish discoveries.

And oh yeah; Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl, where each week there is a prompt and you pick your top ten (or five or twenty) and yeah!

Discoveries:

1 Book blogs

Let’s just start off with a kind of enormous one. The entire world of book blogging is very new to me! I started this blog with never actually having read another book blog. I know that seems kind of crazy, and it seems crazy to me! I mean, most of the things I write on this blog are tags and memes! Moving on…

2 Reading Nooks

I’ve always just read here and there and whenever and wherever I could. I still do; I read a lot, but I created a little reading nook in my room with a comfy chair, immediate access to my bookshelf, and lots of light. It really makes reading more enjoyable, and now I’ll set aside chunks of time to just read.

3 Blogging in general

Similar enough but also slightly different to the 1st one, blogging on a whole is something that is new to me. There are a lot of blogs. A lot of people blog. More specifically, a lot of teenagers blog. That was something that I was very surprised about!

Blogs:

4 Kat @ Novels and Waffles

5 Rukky @ Eternity Books

Books:

6It Ain’t So Awful Falafel, by Firoozeh Dumas.

I discovered this book in early 2019, and I’ve reread it so many times since! It is an amazing book, and I love practically everything about it!

7 The Wolf Wilder, by Katherine Rundell

I read this book I’m pretty sure on New Years Eve Eve, but this was definitely on of the best books I read in 2019! I actually had read another book by this author in like third grade, but then I got this for my birthday, and I love it so much!

Posts:

8 Printed Books vs, ebooks: game on!

This post, found on the blog Drizzle and Hurricane Books is a really great comparison of two formats of books!

9 How in the World I Make My Graphics

This post, by Kat @ Novels and Waffles is so amazing and extremely helpful. It is basically a tutorial of how the waffle queen herself makes her graphics. If you haven’t seen her blog, you should definitely go check it out.