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Borrow Library’s… Are They Worth It?

there are these incredible things that I have only just discovered over the past two years, and they are called “Borrow Libraries”. a few places and people might have a few variations on the name, but we’re all talking about the same things. libraries (real ones) are great, and borrowing from them can be amazing…
Reading the Old Suspense Books from my collection

recently, i discovered every time i buy a new book (or several, as the case may be), i often forget and ignore the books that have been there the longest. So, in order to right this horrible wrong, i have committed to reading the OLDEST books that have been sitting there the longest. in this…
Finally Reading Old Fantasy from on my collection

i decided to go through my bookcase and do an inventory, and i discovered that there were a ton of books i wanted to read, but the ones that had been there the longest, were often at the end of the list. it seemed a shame, so i decided to abandon the new stuff i…
Mercy Calling: Jonah’s Life

So often we see the story of Jonah and The Whale as a cute Sunday school story that as adults, we tend to delegate to the other big and theatrical stories like Noah and the Ark, or David and Goliath. The whale steals it. We forget the allegorical point of the story (Babylon engulfing disobedient…
divergent book vs movie

okay, i finally did it. i read divergent. am i a long way from the hype of when it originally came out? yes. do i care? no. i watched the movie and read the book, so let’s compare. as is the case with pretty much every book to movie adaptation, it was condensed. the trials…
Book Content Is DREADFUL Today…. | A Christian Perspective on Reading

reading content as a Christian is hard. explicit content is the norm. evil and dark content is the norm. hearing about all the books that people are reading online is difficult, when you look up the trigger warnings and realise it’s not going to be a book for you. there are a lot of books…
Booktube FAILS | Reading Popular Books

Sometimes when other people love talking about a book they read, you want to read it too. That’s why recommendations are so amazing! BUT, sometimes they fall pretty flat… this is a post looking at those books. Youtube told me to read it, and I didn’t like it at all – let’s go Paris Apartment…
Why Do Fantasy Books Have TWO Different Storylines?

I’ve been on a fantasy reading kick lately, and have thrown myself into tackling some very long and complex books. This means that I have also discovered a trend that I didn’t notice until now… Something I have picked up over the past few years of reading, is that fantasy – particularly high fantasy or…
Reading My First Mistborn Book (Brandon Sanderson)

This is officially my first experience in the cosmere, and I was of two minds! So this is not my first Brandon Sanderson book, and I have watched all the fantasy writing classes that he ran and were posted to Youtube. So I know a bit about his writing, and what he brings to the…