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Unboxing | Christmas Surprise Boxes

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Last year after seeing a few friends of ours make Christmas boxes for someone else, we decided to give it a go as well. We had so much fun that we did the same thing for our birthdays and again for this Christmas. We set a budget for our Christmas Surpise Boxes and then get a couple of books and some bookish goodies for each other.

While waiting for things to be delivered, we ended up unxboxing them a little later than planned. So they’re kind of New Year Surprise boxes, haha. Time for us to show you what we got!

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Blog Tour| The Secret to Dating Your Best Friend’s Sister – Meghan Quinn

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In 2018 I read multiple books by Meghan Quinn and I loved them! So when I read about her newest release, The Secret to Dating Your Best Friend’s Sister, I was really excited. Thanks to Inkslinger PR and the author, I had the chance to read and review this book! Today is release day and I’m here to tell you what I thought of this book!

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Tag | No Disclaimers Book Tag

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Thursdays mean book tags! There are so many fun tags out there to do, and every week I see a couple of more I want to do at some point. Today I’ve got the No Disclaimers Book tag for you guys. I first came across this one at Emily’s booktube channel, but saw that a lot of my favorite booktubers did it this year. Let’s get into the No Disclaimers Book Tag! Continue reading “Tag | No Disclaimers Book Tag” →

Bookhaul | December

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The first bookhaul of 2019! It is insane how fast the year has gone by but here we are, January 1st of 2019. The December month is big for presents so we both acquired quite some new books! We already talked about some of these books, so we’ll try to be quick about those. And now, let’s take a look at our new books in our December bookhaul. Continue reading “Bookhaul | December” →

TTT #60| Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2019 Part 1

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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 last January Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s topic is Best Books I Read in 2018. I decided not to do this one, because we just posted three posts about our favorite reads (Backlist Books, New Releases and Romance Books). Doing this topic again, is a bit too much.

That’s when I looked at next week’s topic: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2019. Isabelle will be doing this one as well next week, so my Top Ten Tuesday this week is part 1.

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Unboxing | Secret Santa

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For the past few years, a friend of ours Kwante from Kwante in Wonderland, has hosted a Secret Santa for readers here in The Netherlands and Belgium. Since she started, we’ve both participated, so of course we had to this year as well.

Today we want to show you what we got from our Secret Santas!

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Show Sunday | Favorite TV Shows of 2018

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Apart from reading tons and tons of books, I’m also a huge tv show fan. I have seen quite a lot of them during this year and I wanted to share some of my favorites. When making this list I was thinking of maybe sharing my 10 favorite shows haha, so naive! I ended up do 18, as we did with out favorite books (backlist and new releases) because narrowing it down was HARD. These are all shows that had a season (or half a season) during 2018. Let’s take a look! Continue reading “Show Sunday | Favorite TV Shows of 2018” →

Buddy Review | Queen of Air and Darkness – Cassandra Clare

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Surrounding the release of Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare we did a whole week with reviews and Shadowhunter related posts. We shared our reviews for Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows and now we finally BOTH ( 😉 ) have finished Queen of Air and Darkness we can share this review as well! There will be spoilers for the first two books so proceed with caution! Please don’t read ahead if you haven’t read LoS yet because you WILL be spoiled and you will not be happy about it 😉 Continue reading “Buddy Review | Queen of Air and Darkness – Cassandra Clare” →

Bookish Item | Least Favorite Books of 2018

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We’ve been sharing some of our absolute favorite books we read this year and there were A LOT! Over the course of the past two weeks or so we posted lists with our favorite backlist books and our favorite 2018 releases, but unfortunately not all the books I read were favorites. I know my reading tastes quite well, so I usually pick up books I do enjoy. But every now and then there are some books that really disappoint me. Luckily there aren’t nearly as much books on this list as there were on my favorite lists. But I did end up rating 3 books with 2 stars this year, and I have 5 more that I rated 3/3,5 stars that I was expecting to rate much higher. So let’s take a look at my most disappointing reads in 2018. Continue reading “Bookish Item | Least Favorite Books of 2018” →