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Review: The Rival by Emma Lord

At long last, Sadie has vanquished her lifelong academic rival — her irritatingly charming, whip smart next door neighbor, Seb — by getting the coveted, only spot to her dream college. Or at least, so she thinks. When Seb is unexpectedly pulled off the waitlist and admitted, Sadie has to compete with him all over again, this time to get a spot on the school’s famous zine. Now not only is she dealing with the mayhem of the lovable, chaotic family she hid her writing talents from, as well as her own self doubt, but she has to come to terms with some less-than-resentful feelings for Seb that are popping up along the way.

But the longer they compete, the more Sadie and Seb notice flaws in the school’s system that are much bigger than any competition between them. Somehow the two of them have to band together even as they’re trying to crush each other, only to discover they may have met their match in more ways than one.

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Mini Reviews: Winterween 2025 Wrap Up

Something I look forward to every January is the Winterween Readathon hosted by Gabby (gabbyreads on YouTube and @_myfictionalworld) and this year’s readathon just wrapped up.

The readathon ran from the 10th – 16th and it was so much fun! As I’ve done with both Winterween and Summerween in the past, I thought that since the readathon is now over, it would be nice to go over the prompts and what I read for each prompt in addition to sharing some mini reviews!

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TBR: 25 in 2025

Hi friends! I hope January has been treating you well! Historically, I’ve been bad at these challenges that are the x number of books for x year, but I wanted to try it this time around and split it into 5 categories. For some reason that made it seem less daunting to me than just picking 25 books at random.

So, get cozy, maybe pull up Goodreads or StoryGraph in case there are books on here that pique your interest, and let’s talk about 25 books I want to read in 2025!

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Review: No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally

To Brooke, image is everything. She works hard to maintain perfect grades, perfect looks, a perfect life—especially after “the incident” that threatened it all. Getting into her dream university puts her that much closer to a fresh start. How can she say no to celebrating with all her classmates?

Hanging out with her crush by the bonfire is the perfect end to the night. Except it isn’t the end. An old truck starts aggressively tailing Brooke and her best friend on the isolated road toward home. Someone thinks they know the truth about “the incident,” and they won’t stop until it’s all out in the open. This terrifying drive is about to bring out Brooke’s worst fears…if she survives it.

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Reading Journal: Beginning of the Year Spreads and 2025 Goals

Happy New Year, besties! I hope that the beginning of the year is treating you well!

With the new year comes new journal setups for me; it’s truly one of my favorite things to do in December. I love setting up a new journal, new monthly spreads, etc. and I had so much fun setting up my 2025 reading journal. December was a very busy and somewhat weird month for me, and sitting down every night to set up my reading journal was so relaxing and centering.

I stopped using my 2024 spreads in September of last year for no reason other than being extremely busy. The way that I had things set up made it a bit difficult to do with my schedule, so I rethought some of my spreads for this year and I think it’s going to help me stay on top of it.

All the journal kits used in this set up are from seasonjours, I love her illustrations and highly recommend checking out her stuff! 

Alright, get comfy and cozy and let’s get started!

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Wrap Up: December 2024

Happy last day of 2024, besties! We made it! As always with the end of the month it’s time for my monthly wrap up, but since it’s the end of the year I thought I’d also add a few other things, so this post is a bit longer than usual, but I hope you enjoy it!

Get comfy and let’s recap the last month of the year!

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Let’s Talk: My Top Reads of 2024

With the end of the year comes a lot of lists and reading wrap ups; I’ve done quite a few already myself, but my favorite one to do every year is my top books of the year list! 

It was both hard and easy to come up with this list — on one hand I knew some of the books that would be on this list right after I finished reading them, and then others I kinda flipped back and forth on but eventually I figured it out and I’m very happy with how the list turned out. I ended up deciding on 9 books that fall under my top books of the year category and then 8 honorable mentions. What can I say? I read a lot of great books this year! There’s not an order to how these books are listed, I could barely make the list itself, there’s no way I could actually rank them, so in both honorable mentions and top books of the year, the books are listed in the order that I read them.

Get comfy, grab your favorite holiday treat, and let’s go over my top books of the year!

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Film Review: Wicked (Part One)

Like every other theatre kid out there I’ve been waiting years for a film adaptation of Wicked — remember when we were told that a Wicked film was going to come out in 2019? The hype around this movie has been pretty insane, and of course, it had to come out during a super busy time for me. However, I finally got to see the film this month, and I definitely had a lot of thoughts, so I figured I had to share them with you all! Please note that there will be spoilers for the film, so if you haven’t seen it yet and you don’t want to be spoiled, wait to read this until you see it!

Get comfy and cozy and get ready to hear all of my thoughts on Wicked (part one…).

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Let’s Talk: My Favorite Things (Winter Edition)

Hi besties, it’s officially winter! I both love and hate winter, if I’m being completely honest — I love all the seasons, but with winter comes the dark early nights (it should not be getting dark outside at 4:30 pm) which wreaks absolute havoc on my mental health. Because of that, I make sure to focus on things that bring me a lot of comfort, so that’s the theme for the winter edition of My Favorite Things blog post!

Get cozy, and let’s talk about some of my favorite things to do during the winter!

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Let’s Talk: Did I Read All of My 2024 Anticipated Reads?

Last year I posted my most anticipated reads of 2024 (shhh ignore the fact that Truly Devious 6 is on here — I think at the time I wrote this there was talk of it coming out this year but it’s actually a different book, Death at Morning House, that Maureen Johnson released this year), and I thought that it would be fun to look back on that post and see if I actually read the books that I put on the list!

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