Hey everyone! Today I have a very fun and exciting post for you. As you can tell from the header and graphic above, I am doing the TMI tag! However, I am having a special guest with me today. Rachel from Book in a Blog! If you didn't know Rachel is my cousin and she has been blogging for a few months now. She came to me and wanted to do a post together and she was all for it. We decided on the TMI tag. 10 questions will be here and another 10 will be on her...

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SO THE DAY HAS COME. Wow, where has the time gone? It was only a few weeks ago where I was starting up with this meme and freaking out about how I was going to format these posts and here I am, recapping the tour. I had a great great time and really got to work with great people. Met some new friends and got to learn more about people I had already knew about. Excited for this tour to come around next year. Now that I've run out of tears, we shall recap the tour! --- Here...

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Dumplin' Author: Julie Murphy Pages: 384 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Release Date: September 15th 2015 Also at: Lit Up Review Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked . . . until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to...

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Harry Potter Moment of the Week is a weekly meme created by Uncorked Thoughts. Each week there is a question, Harry Potter related of course, and all you do answer the question. It is a great way to celebrate and keep Harry Potter alive! --- Would you rather be locked in a room with Voldemort or Bellatrix? What is this question. It's like asking who would I rather be killed by! It really depends on the situation. If I was locked in a room with everyone in Harry Potter (that I trusted) and they circled and protected me,...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Breaking The Spine. --- Illuminae Author: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff   Pages: 608 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publishing on: October 20th 2015 This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down...

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Hey everyone! Today I have a fun tag for you, it's kind of like the Liebster Award. First off, I would like to thank Mary at Books In Her Head for tagging me! Definitely check her out if you have the chance. Now, onto the questions! --- Rules:  Thank the blogger who nominated you and link to their blog in your post. Answer the questions that the blogger who nominated you has provided. Nominate ten other bloggers (or up to 10). Create ten questions for your nominees and notify them of their nominations. My answers to Mary's questions...

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CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? This is the last post of this tour (hosted by the Book Bratz) that will feature a blogger. Next week will be a wrap up post then guess what? This tour will be over and it shall continue next year... It's okay though! I had a great time. Anyway, today I have Jaclyn here with me and we are going to do something fun and related to book quotes. --- This week I am featuring Jaclyn at Living in a World of Book Quotes | Twitter | Instagram | (Jaclyn sent me 5 quotes...

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Everything, Everything Author: Nicola Yoon  Pages: 320 Published by: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Published on: September 1st 2015 This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she’s ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more. My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people...

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We've all heard that saying before right? How there is more to something that meets the eye. Despite that saying, judging a book by it's cover is what lot's of people do. You see a pretty or interesting cover, most likely you will pick up that book to read more about it. I think covers are very important when it comes to presenting a book. It's like if you write a crappy essay and submit it to a university, will they accept you? Most likely not. It's all about first impressions that are very important. Obviously, some covers...

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Harry Potter Moment of the Week is a weekly meme created by Uncorked Thoughts. Each week there is a question, Harry Potter related of course, and all you do answer the question. It is a great way to celebrate and keep Harry Potter alive! --- If you could change one thing in the first film, what would it be? This question is scary, because if I change something then I could change the whole series entirely. I don't want to risk not developing that close relationship Harry had with Hagrid. I don't want to risk potentially not meeting...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Breaking The Spine. --- Persuasion Author: Martina Boone Pages: 464 Published by: Simon Pulse Published on:  October 27th 2015 Romeo and Juliet meets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in the spellbinding second novel in the Heirs of Watson Island trilogy that “skillfully blends rich magic and folklore with adventure, sweeping romance, and hidden treasure” (Publishers Weekly, on Compulsion). Grieving the death of her godfather and haunted by her cousin Cassie’s betrayal, Barrie returns from a trip to San Francisco to find the Watson plantation under siege. Ghost-hunters...

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme held over at Broke and Bookish. Each week there is a topic and we list off our top ten items based on that topic. --- 1. Leigh Bardugo So, if you haven't read Leigh's Grisha trilogy, I highly recommend it. I loved it so much. The plot is great, the world is super interesting, and I looooovee the characters. If she wrote a contemporary, I would definitely buy it. If she wrote a dystopian, *gets money ready.* Her new book Six of Crows- I am sure you all have heard of...

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Hey everyone! Welcome back to the Summer Blogger Promo Tour hosted by the Book Bratz! I'm super sad because there is only one more blogger after today then we're recapping up the event. I have had such a great time with this tour and will not be able to wait for next year! I hope everyone has enjoyed this tour and the bloggers! Now, onto Ana, who today will be tellings us 5 authors and characters they would like to go on a roadtrip with.  --- This week I am featuring Ana from Ana Loves... | Twitter |...

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Welcome to the Mid Month Reading Update! August is a pretty big month for me I guess? School is starting up in a few days and I am attending a Taylor Swift concert today! (Woohoo! Excited :D) Anyway, I have read quite a few books so let's get to the update! :) --- Violent Ends Author: Various Pages: 384 Publishing by: Simon Pulse  Publishing on: September 1st 2015 It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby Matheson to exit his car, march onto school grounds, enter the gymnasium, and open fire, killing six and injuring five others.  But this isn't a...

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The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 17th and runs through Sunday, August 23rd in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 14 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Hello everyone! Yes! It has come to the...

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The Winner's Crime Author: Marie Rutkoski Pages: 416 Published by: Farrar Straus Giroux Published on: March 3rd 2015 Book two of the dazzling Winner's Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love. The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement... if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner...

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