Tag: #rachelreads&reviews
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Apparently this is Princess Week so it’s good timing to post my thoughts on the story I never knew I wanted. The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of those movies that was a pretty excellent standalone with a creepy aesthetic and memorable characters that you think its fine as a standalone. But this book expands…
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Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura This fun manga follows a group of amars/okuta (women who don’t need men/adult fangirls) as they try to save their building from being sold to greedy developers by creating their own fashion line. Tsukimi is the star of it, and as you can guess from the title, her specific obssession…
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Raven by Kami Garcia I believe this is the start of Garcia’s Teen Titans books for DC Ink. Well they were the start for me at least and it gets right into the action of a fatal car crash. Raven has amnesia, and her mother is dead. Luckily, she still has her aunt and cousin…
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1. Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl This was the first book I read from the series even though it’s the second. My mom got it from some used books bin so yeah. Anyway the hilarious running around Nikki went through trying to juggle the three different parties literally made me breathless from laughter. That…
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When I saw this classic by Eiko Kadono in the library, I just had to read it and see how it compared to the movie. My conclusion is that it’s delightful in its own way. Inspired by a drawing by her 12 year old daughter, this is the book that inspired Kadono to make writing…
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I did it! I finally read Ella Enchanted. Now I just have to see the movie like the rest of the world. Anyway, I enjoyed the book. I can see why it is so beloved. As I’ve said before, Levine has a way of adapting the fairytale stories that are so well-known and making them…
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1. To start off simply, what were some of your big influences when you began writing?I’ve been writing in some capacity since I was in about third or fourth grade. At that time it would just be shorter stories, usually inspired by whatever we had to read for school at the time. That love of…
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Easy questions first, what are some of your favorite authors or books to read on your downtime? One of my goals this year is to read a poem every day. I signed up to a site that emails me one daily so all I have to do is open my email in searching of finding…
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