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The (unofficial) 2016 Book Awards!

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Hello, Internet! Tons of people have been posting their favorite books of 2016 lately, and I will be doing that today, but I’m going to spice it up with a couple more things. I feel like 2016 was a good year for me, in terms of books. I opened myself into some books that I was hesitant to read, and I’m really proud of myself for that. Other than that, it was garbage fire on wheels kind of year. I think it was like that for a lot of people too. But we’re not talking about the depressing twelve months that was 2016, we’re talking about books. This year, I started reading more high fantasy books, which is a genre that I’m generally kind of intimidated by. Being thrust into a completely different world with unfamiliar terms was very unsettling to me, but I found that I really, really enjoyed it. I also started getting more into audiobooks. My thing with audiobooks is that I really only like to listen to them if I’ve physically read the book first. I just have this fear that if

November Wrap Up

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Hello, Internet! My, my, hasn’t the time flown by? I didn’t realize that I didn’t post a November wrap up, so I’m sitting at my kitchen table at eleven pm on a Thursday, writing it up. pro·cras·ti·na·tion prəˌkrastəˈnāSH(ə)n/ noun the action of delaying or postponing something. Right then. Let’s stop procrastinating (i'm hilarious) and get to the wrap up! This month I finished an astonishing six books! I’m actually really proud of myself. Not only that, but I re-arranged my bookshelf so that it looks like a rainbow! It makes me very happy. Sorry, I got off topic. Back to the wrap up! I started this first book in October and finished it in November, so technically I finished it in November, so we’re counting it. I read The Black Key by Amy Ewing, which is the third and final book in The Lone City series. And boy oh boy, what a great book! The series pulled me in right from the start, and this was just an amazing way to end the series. I’ll leave a link