The Villain Squad Tag




This tag was created by Lainey to help promote The Young Elites and The Rose Society by Marie Lu. You can see her video here.


I was not tagged by anybody to do this (because I have no book blogging friends) but I recently read both The Young Elites and The Rose Society and remembered that this tag exists and thought it would be really fun. Who doesn't love a good villain? I will be incorporating mostly book villains; however, there may be one or two from TV. There may be some spoilers ahead - and I will mark the responses that have them - so proceed with caution.

Off-Season Report | Tigers and Marlins and Moves, Oh My!


The new year is upon us. Teams report to spring camp sometime next month (and it cannot come soon enough). While some big-name players continue to linger in free agency (Yoenis... ), a lot of players have already been snatched up. When it comes to my two teams, the Tigers and the Marlins, their off-season moves come with mixed reactions from me. Let's dig into them.

Flash Reviews | #1 | January 1-9, 2016


I know myself. I know myself so well that I know if I try to post a full review here for every book I read, it won't happen. It will start out fine - nice formatted posts, lots of nice words, some cute little star ratings. Then, it will end, just as quickly as it began. "It's too much work to post a review on both my blog and Goodreads," I will say. I will be lying. It's not too much work. I just don't want to do it. Instead, I will do this: flash reviews. Every two weeks (or so), I will do a roundup of the reviews that I have written during that period of time. I will link to my full review and just do a short summary here. Sound good? Great.

Top 5 Wednesday | Fandoms

Top 5 Wednesday was created by Lainey.

Yeah, yeah, Top 5 Wednesday was created in the book community and probably mostly meant for bookish things but I just can't put up a list of my top 5 fandoms if I don't include non-book-related ones. Sorry 'bout it!

January 2016 | TBR


Following my new 2016 reading goals, this TBR will be broken up into several sections. As always, these books aren't set in stone; if I'm not feeling a particular book, I won't pick it up - simple as that. I did start this month's list a little bit early (I just couldn't wait!); I picked up The Girl of Fire and Thorns on December 30th and I am roughly 150 pages in.

My January TBR consists of 8 books:

2016 | Reading Goals


Goodreads Challenge
In 2015, I initially set my goal at 75 books. I eventually bumped that up to 110 books. I think this year I am going to set it at an even 100 and not change it even if I do end up surpassing that benchline again. I think 100 is a reasonable number, even if I do hope to be busier in 2016 than I was in 2015 (as in, I need to find a full-time job ASAP).

2015 | Reading Year in Review




First off, yes, I have abandoned this blog for the last three months. I am a human disaster. I swear I will be better in 2016. I have no excuses, blog, I'm so sorry.

With that being said, 2015 is coming to a close! I know, I can't believe it, either. There will be a lot of different things in this post, so I will try my best to keep it as clear and easy to follow as possible. Here we go.

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