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bye bye reading slump!

9:24 PM / BY Abby Joy
I had a reading slump for a whole 2 weeks! That's hella scary. First of all, it was because of the concert I attended to last Oct. 24, 2013. A week before that concert I was a bit panicky and jumpy. I was so freaking excited that I set aside my current reads. Sorry, Eleanor & Park and Unchained. I tried so hard to continue reading either of the two, but my mind kept on...

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Top Ten Tuesday (4)

10:12 AM / BY Abby Joy
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish So today's topic is: top ten character names I LOVE or top ten most unusual character names! First of all it's already Wednesday here but a week won't be complete without this meme on my blog. Yay. From PJO and HoO series. There's something artistic and cryptic about his name although Nico is common already, his last name is just mesmerizing. From...

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WW Read-A-Thon Wrap-Up

7:37 AM / BY Abby Joy
Tada! I am done with the read-a-thon I joined in last Oct 15, 2013. If you want to know what it is all about, this might help you. That was my first post regarding this activity and I admit I only read one book from that "supposed to be" list. It happened that Duff and Sweet Evil kinda irked me so I switched to other books, and oh boy! A quick summary of my reads...

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Super Six Sunday (1)

12:52 AM / BY Abby Joy
Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme created from Bewitched Bookworms  Today's theme is: Super 6 favorite book couples This is my first time to post for this meme and I am so thrilled for this book meme. Anyway, This is hard. How to choose only 6. Wait let me get my thoughts together....3....2....1 *heavy breathing* Okay, decisions made! So these are just fancasts (aka hot boys) 1. Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray from...

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Review: Breaking Nova

9:22 PM / BY Abby Joy
Breaking Nova Author: Jessica Sorensen Published Date: 2013 Genre: NA, contemporary, romance, dark Rating: ★★★★ Synopsis: Nova Reed used to have dreams-of becoming a famous drummer, of marrying her true love. But all of that was taken away in an instant. Now she's getting by as best she can, though sometimes that means doing things the old Nova would never do. Things that are slowly eating away at her spirit. Every day blends into the next...

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BUSY BUSY :((

8:26 AM / BY Abby Joy
Just a quick drop by! Hello! I've been abandoning this for a while. It had been a tough 1st week of second term for me and as the term begins, hws and activities started rushing almost taking me off with it. Actually, I found it extremely blissful when I get to read books in between my travelling time to school and back home. I've got to read 3 books for Wonderfully Wicked Read-A-Thon and my...

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Top Ten Tuesday (3)

3:40 AM / BY Abby Joy
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish So today's topic is: Books I Was "Forced" to Read For school: I'd tell you I lvoe you but then I'd have to kill you by Ally Carter I read this for a book review in our English class and I absolutely liked it! The Iliad by Homer Also for our Englsih class, I had a hard time gaping at everything, but...

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Review: The Darkest Minds and WW Read-A-Thon Update (1)

8:27 AM / BY Abby Joy
The Darkest Minds Author: Alexandra Bracken\ Published Date: 2012 Genre: YA, dystopia, sci-fi Rating: ★★★★.5 Synopsis:When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged...

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