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Bookish Item | Netgalley Backlist Part 4

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When I was looking through previous posts to find some inspiration for my next bookish item, I stumbled upon my Netgalley Backlist Part 3. I wrote that at the end of October when my feedback ratio was 62%. It’s been four months and my ratio decreased (oops!), haha. I’m now at 56% and really need to increase this.

Out of the 141 books I’ve been approved for, I’ve written reviews for 80 of these books. That means I still have 61 books to go! Today I’ll talk about six more books on my backlist to motivate myself to get to read them. Let’s take a look at my Netgalley Backlist Part 4!

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Bookish Item| Top 100 Romance Novels on Goodreads: What Have I Read?

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If you’ve been following us for a little while, you’ll know I’m a big fan of romance novels. It’s a genre I disocvered and haven’t stopped reading since I did. Last week I saw a post on In Love & Words. Bree posted about the top 100 romance novels on Goodreads and told us what she’s read so far. I was curious to see where I stand, so let’s take a look! A big thanks to Bree for this fun idea.

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Bookish Item| #FaeFriday

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I always like trying new things every once in awhile for bookish items. Today I decided to participate during #FaeFriday. This weekly tag was created by Kristy from Caffeinated Fae. Definitely check out her blog, because she’s the sweetest! She decided to create a tag that’s a bit magical and the header was created by her as well. Each Friday has a different prompt, so let’s take look at this week’s topic!

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Bookish Item | Books to Read Before 2018: Did I Read Them?

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Last week Isabelle took a look to see if she’d read any of her 2019 anticipated releases. I decided to get back a bit further than that. In September 2017 I wrote a post aboute the 12 books I wanted to read before 2018. So I decided to take a look for an update. Did I read any of them? Let’s take a look!

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Bookish Item | Book Beginnings on Friday: Jackaby – William Ritter

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It’s been a month since our last Book Beginnings on Friday and I thought I would give it another go! This meme was created by Rose City Reader. The idea is to post the first sentence or so of the book you’re currently reading. After that you talk about your initial thoughts about the sentence, book or anything to do with that. I don’t know how often we will do this, but it seems like fun from time to time. Today’s book is Jackaby by William Ritter.

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Bookish Item | Favorite Covers of 2019

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This past week we’ve been talking about all the books we’ve loved and a few that disappointed us. People always say don’t judge a book by its cover, but even if you don’t want to, it’s still the first thing you see when you pick up a book. So today we wanted to devote a post to our favorite covers of 2019, let’s take a look!

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Bookish Item | Reading Goals 2019 End of the Year Update

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After sharing a lot of our favorite books, we decided it was time to talk about our 2019 goals. How did we do? Are we happy with how we did? Let’s take a look at our end of the year update for our 2019 reading goals!

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Bookish Item | Most Disappointing 2019 Reads

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So far we’ve talked a lot about the books we loved! We had a list of our favorite backlist books, 2019 releases, romances and graphic novels. While we’re both really lucky to have read so many amazing books, some of these didn’t live up to our expectations. So today we’re talking about our most disappointing reads of 2019! Let’s take a look. Continue reading “Bookish Item | Most Disappointing 2019 Reads” →

Bookish Item | 2019 Favorite Reads – Romance Reads Edition

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Yesterday Isabelle started off our 2019 favorites with her favorite graphic novels.Today I am going to talk about some of my favorites. Romance is a genre I read a lot of in 2019, so this was actually pretty hard. So today I want to show you my favorite 19 romances! Let’s take a look!

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Bookish Item | 2020 Reading Goals

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With the new year almost here it’s time for our 2020 Reading Goals! We set some reading goals last year as well, and you can expect a wrap-up on those early January. For quite some years now we’ve been setting Goodreads goals but the last couple of years we’ve also tried to set some additional reading goals. So let’s take a look at the goals we set ourselves for 2020. Continue reading “Bookish Item | 2020 Reading Goals” →