Book Blitz| Maya and the Rising Dark – Rena Barron

I’ve noticed now that I’ve been reading more middle grade books that I also am finally realizing how many middle grade books are being published. Today is the release day for Maya and the Rising Dark by Rena Barron. This book has a stunning cover and the synopsis sounds amazing. Today I want to talk about this book! Keep on reading to find out more about Maya and the Rising Dark!

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Bookish Item | 3 Years of Blogging: Favorite Reviews

In the three years we have been blogging we wrote over 450 reviews! Can you believe that? So we thought it would be fun and look back at some of our favourite reviews we wrote. It was hard just picking a couple from so many but we did manage! So let’s take a look at those reviews. Continue reading “Bookish Item | 3 Years of Blogging: Favorite Reviews”

TTT #151| 2020 Fall TBR

We have been having fun with Top Ten Tuesday, so we decided we will do one every week. This bookish meme was hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and has been going since June 2010! Since January 2018 Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s topic is 2020 Fall TBR. I’ve noticed I have a hard time sticking to them and I don’t dare look at the previous ones I made this year, haha. That being said, I still think it’s fun to talk about the books I really hope/want to read this Fall. Let’s take a look!

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5 On My TBR | Buddyreads We Want to Do

This week we’re going to be kicking off our blog birthday week! It’s hard to believe that in a few days it’s The Book Dutchesses’ third birthday! We still love what we’re doing, so we thought we’d take some time to look back at what we’ve done and what we still want to do.

So today our 5 on My TBR is focusing on five books on our TBR that are buddyreads we still want to do. We love reading books together. There are just so many it takes us awhile to get to all of the books we want to read. Keep on reading to see five books we hope to read together soon.

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Royal Update #41

We thought it was time for a fun new post every week. In the Royal Update one of us updates you about our personal life, bookish news, what we’re reading, watching and listening to and anything else that might apply to this post. We thought it would be fun to share a bit more about our personal lives and hope you think so too!

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Bookish Item| Books I’ve Started and Really Need to Finish

This year I’ve been keeping track of my reading in a spreadsheet my boyfriend made for me. When I was looking at it last week, I noticed that I’ve started quite a few books, but haven’t finished them yet. I want to try and finish as much of these as possible before the end of the year. So a few will be added to my TBR each month to try and meet this goal. So keep on reading to see the books I’ve started, but really need to finish.

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Book Tour | The Wild Path – Sarah R. Baughman

This year middle grade has had a lot of amazing books and I have a feeling there are quite a few to come. The Wild Path is one of these books. It sounded so amazing that both of us knew we needed to read it. So we knew we had to sign up for the book tour. Today is our stop on the tour hosted by TBR and Beyond Tours. We’re going to share our review and some favorite quotes.

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Review| The How and the Why – Cynthia Hand

If you’ve been following the blog for awhile, then you know I’m a big fan of contemporary books. The How and the Why is one that caught my attention when it released and I finally got around to reading it. Last month I saw that the audiobook was on Storytel and I knew I needed to finally read this one. Keep on reading to find out what I thought of this book!

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Bookish Item | 2020 Most Anticipated; Did I Read Them? – Part 2

Last week Candyce posted about her 2020 most anticipated reads. At the start of the year we both did a TTT post for our most anticipated reads for the first half of the year. You’d expect we would have read them by now, right? So we thought it would be fun to look back at those posts and share how many books we read. And by fun I meant scary because we all know I probably failed big time haha. Let’s dive in! Continue reading “Bookish Item | 2020 Most Anticipated; Did I Read Them? – Part 2”