As always, I'm throwing a twist on this topic. My list is composed of 4 books that have beautiful covers and not-so-beautiful insides and one series that is absolutely lovely but has covers that are, eh, disappointing (because I couldn't really come up with five legitimate answers).
In these two-ish weeks, I read 5 books. I gave a couple of them lower ratings and the other three higher ratings so, overall, I would say that I am happy with my reading over the last little bit of January.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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