Meet the author Alexandria Bellefleur is an author of swoony contemporary romance often featuring loveable grumps and the sunshine characters who bring them to their knees. Her special skills include finding the best Pad Thai in every city she visits, remembering faces but not names, falling asleep in movie theaters, and keeping cool while reading […]
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#Bookstagram is this magical corner on Instagram where book nerds come together and talk about books. You can find very aesthetically pleasing images of books and lust after meticulously organized shelves. Also, selfies of people reading in the most unrealistic places! I started my journey on #bookstagram when I started my first book blog three
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Summary CW: domestic abuse Have you ever witnessed your friend or family member in a toxic relationship? Have you yourself ever been in a toxic relationship? To an outside perspective it seems impossible why anyone would ever stay in an unhealthy relationship. But to the person inside the relationship…it’s not that easy. In this story,
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As a freelancer, every day is a new adventure. Depending upon which deadlines I’m juggling, I engage in a mix of research, Zoom interviews, brainstorming, pitching, writing, and yes, let’s be real, scrolling through my Instagram feed. But now that I’m an editor at a literary magazine (a magazine devoted to creative, hoity-toity, literary writing
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I often get asked “How do you read so many books?” One of the biggest things I’ve done to read more books is downloading an ebook app to my phone! I love to read during those in-between moments and am always surprised by how those moments add up. Here are three strategies to read more
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Sadness is my North Star. A number of years ago, as I was graduating college and asked about my prospects, I endured the writhing in my body. Where I was in life was not near where I worked towards. Over time, I recognize that sadness isn’t seasonal. It sure wakes me up. Luvvie Ajayi Jones
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The inevitable has arrived – welcome to #BookTok. TikTok has been a raging tidal wave that has disrupted the ocean of social media. With accounts that have hundreds of millions of loyal followers, it’s become a platform that every organization should consider adding to their portfolio. The beauty of TikTok is that there is a
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In today’s world, life can get busy. From Vancouver, CA to Miami, FL, oranywhere in between, people have commitments to family, work, cooking,cleaning, and social events. These everyday tasks can make it can seemnearly impossible to find time for yourself. Luckily, making and sticking tosmall lifestyle changes and developing new habits, all at home, can help relaxyour mind. It’s
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With Emma and Forrest In this segment, Emma has a conversation with Forrest, your @favoritelibrarian ! Forrest and Emma talk about the beauty of libraries and archives and give some of their favorite book recommendations (with book to movie adaptations and anime recs sprinkled in!). Follow and support our hosts: Emma: Instagram Forrest: Instagram Forrest’s
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Land of Big Numbers is a collection of short stories written by Te-Ping Chen who is a journalist with the Wall Street Journal. Drawing on her experience of living in China, Chen creates a portrait of how everyday life in China looks like as well as its diaspora. The stories also show the social, political,
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As glorious as a good readathon can be, there are also so many reasons not to do one. Weekend plans. Spring cleaning. Your next Netflix marathon. Gardening. Every minute in the day — every hour that goes by — something pops up to bump reading to the bottom of your list of priorities. Now, when
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Are you the type to slog through a book because you feel like you have to, even if that book isn’t giving you anything you want? Or are you team DNF? DNF, or translated from book nerd lingo, Did Not Finish. Our choice to put a book down says a lot about our choices as
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