✵ Book Tag | Last, Now, Next

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✵ (Beautiful!) Cover Reveal│Emotional Commotion by Marisa Phillips

Hey, everyone! Today I'm sharing about an anthology publishing soon. It's written by Marisa Phillips, who is a young teen writer, and I promise you that the cover reveal will be spectacular! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... About the Book A whirlwind of emotions…creating a commotion in your soul. Emotions...

✵ Spell the Month in Books│July

I'm trying to catch up with this challenge, but it's not quite working. 😆 Still, thank you to Jana @ Review From the Stacks for hosting this! J - James and the Giant Peach About the Book James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks...

✵ Book Spotlight: Should We Tell Her?

I somehow missed the blog tour sign-up for Lillian Keith's amazing new book, Should We Tell Her (*cries dramatically* Lily, how could you let that happen?!). I guess this means I can't add the blog tour graphic to my post or include the tour schedule, but you can check all of that out over on...

✵ Book Review: A Daydream a Day by Ivan Tu

Rating ★★★★★ About the Book A Daydream a Day is a collection of fifty cute drawings and inspirational poetry about growing up, defining success, and falling in love. The black-and-white, cartoon-style drawings will fully immerse readers in the daydreams of a young adult trying to make sense of life.The collection is divided into five parts—on...

✵ Strike Out Challenge!

I'm doing something fun and a little different today! I found this challenge through Lifesfinewhine, and though it is old, it looked too fun to pass up. It's a super simple challenge; I'm just striking out the ones I've done before and leaving alone the ones I haven't done. Some of these are good things....

✵ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past . . . Rating ★★★ My Review I feel quite conflicted about this book. I'm giving The Great Gatsby 3 stars mostly for its beautiful prose. Other than that, I have quite a few problems with this one.Don't get me wrong,...

✵ Spell the Month in Books│June

All right, I'm back with another addition to the Spell the Month in Books challenge from Jana @ Review From the Stacks! Most obviously, it's not June anymore (it's not even July anymore 😳), but I don't want to skip any months. Consistency in posting is hopefully now a lesson learned! J - Just One...

✵ Poetry│Lonely

For those who struggle. a room full of people,a head full of thoughts,a past full of memories,a heart full of doubt. dark nights and cold tears,fading hope, fading hope.but always she rises,again and again. with a dream that someday,someday,things will beokay. Originally from @KBuxtonBooks's #mondayfic on Twitter. It's a challenge to write a Tweet-long piece...