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Happy Tuesday!! IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN. This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is a Halloween freebie, which is very exciting. Instead of my usual Top Ten Tuesday posts, I've decided to do something a little different today: a list of links! Here is a list of some past spooky posts …
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Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is brought to the book blogging community by That Artsy Reader Girl who wants us to share books that we really liked but can't remember much about. Honestly, there are SO MANY books that I could list here because I'm notoriously bad at remembering tiny details of books. …
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Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is one that I don't talk about often on this blog: pictures and visuals in books. Though I haven't read very many graphic novels or comic books, I have come across some memorable illustrations and creative uses of images in many of the books I've read. Here …
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Happy Tuesday!! It's the first Tuesday of October, and this week's Top Ten Tuesday theme is edging ever closer to the spookiest day of the year. Today I'll be sharing my Top Ten Favorite Villains, which were surprisingly difficult to name. Some of them were obvious-- how could I forget good old Voldy?-- but I soon realized that …
Author: Ransom Riggs Number of Pages: 396 Publisher: Quirk Books Release Date: January 1, 2014 "This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new …
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” ~ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs What interesting, funny, or awesome quotes have you discovered recently? Let me know in the comments section below! Yours, HOLLY
Author: Ransom Riggs Number of Pages: 352 Publisher: Quirk Release Date: January 1, 2011 "A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific …
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