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where i’ll be in the fall
so, the last time i updated you all, i thought i was going to the netherlands in the fall for a restricted study abroad semester. i was upset that travel was limited to the country, but excited to really get to explore this new place and leave the continent for the first time. but then,…
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lit review: girls of july
similarly to the sunshine crust baking factory, i first saw alex flinn’s girls of july recommended in the teen section of my library. after finishing my last book, i was thinking really hard about what i wanted to read next. it was between this book and commonwealth by ann patchett (which is next up). but,…
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what i wish i knew going into my freshman year of college
in a couple weeks, it’ll be the anniversary of my first day of college. about this time last year, i was watching youtube video after youtube video about moving in and how to make friends and everything in between. so, today, i thought i’d add on to the plethora of resources open to college freshman…
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lit review: the sunshine crust baking factory
i’m back with another lit review! if you can’t tell, i’ve really been on my reading grind. that’s what going to the library to pick up 15 books will do to you i guess. today, i’m going to be talking about stacy wakefield’s the sunshine crust baking factory. i first saw this book recommended in…
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lit review: red, white, and royal blue
for three blissful and fun days, i’ve torn through red, white, and royal blue. while three days for 420 pages may seem like a long time to avid bookworms, i’m a slow reader, so forgive me. casey mcquiston’s deut novel has been on my to-read list since i first saw it advertised in my local…
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lit review: our black year
today, i’m going to be reviewing our black year by maggie anderson, the founder of the empowerment experiment. this book details the anderson family’s year of “buying black” in 2009. through maggie’s lens, the reader simultaneously learns of the personal struggles of buying black in the greater chicago area and the historical background of the…
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my brief musings on the twilight saga
before starting the series about two months ago, i had only laughed at the twilight movies with my friends and cousin (who read the books when the series came out). the movies were just another example of an exaggerated teen rom-com to me (and to many others who watched them). but, after reading the series…
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little fires everywhere: the show
so, in true bingeing fashion, it took my family less than a week to finish the little fires everywhere hulu series. unfortunately, due to my lazy streak, it’s taken me almost twice that time to write about it. and, boy, do i have some opinions. (this entire post contains spoilers so if you haven’t watched…
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lit review: little fires everywhere
in between this review and my last one about this is how you lose the time war i’ve successfully read the entire twilight series and, in an efforts to spice things up, will be writing a post about the entire saga in tandem with the infamous movies. i wanted to do something similar with this…
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