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Category Archives: books!

Two-Sentence Reviews | Ten Most Recent Reads

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Hello all! Lately my attention has been focused on my #bookstagram (find me @booksandbark!), but today I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday to review my ten latest reads. I’ve […]

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Required Reading: Reflections on 3.5 Years of College

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I attended my college’s commencement ceremony this week. A combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and my school’s lack of emphasis on winter grads (I officially earned my diploma back in […]

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6 Books to Read in 2021

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I know I say this every year, but: I really never thought I’d be writing this post for 2021. For newcomers, my “6 Books to Read in [Insert Next Year]” has […]

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5 Books I’ll Be Thinking of to Get Me Through Finals

December 2, 2020by booksandbark Leave a comment

It’s getting colder, holiday lights are coming up, and I’m scrolling through gift lists online, which can only mean one thing: finals are coming up. For me, a social science […]

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6 Stories to Tuck Into in 2020

January 6, 2020by booksandbark 1 Comment

New decade, same six-story feature. Well, not quite. The past ten years have seen my taste in literature transform itself in myriad ways. I’ve been writing these posts for the […]

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6 Books To Read in 2019

January 8, 2019by booksandbark 4 Comments

I started this feature back in 2017 and have always had fun writing it. Since I discovered a lot of favorite books and authors in 2018, I decided to write yet […]

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Bookstore Reviews // Lower Manhattan

October 17, 2018by booksandbark 2 Comments

Introducing a new feature: bookstore reviews! Book reviewing slows down quite a bit for me during the school year, since I don’t really have time to read (I’ve been perusing The Godfather since […]

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One-Sentence Reviews // Summer 2018

August 31, 2018by booksandbark 3 Comments

I read a lot of books this summer. By that, I mean nearly thirty books in a little over three months (a record for me!). This summer, I’ve both discovered more […]

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5 Ways Nonwhite Characters Are Exoticized

August 7, 2018by booksandbark 2 Comments

As a brown woman, I’m constantly struck by the ways in which nonwhite characters are exoticized and othered in works of writing. It’s really, really difficult to read a supposedly #diverse […]

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I Started A #Bookstagram

July 21, 2018by booksandbark 2 Comments

Hello friends! I know I’ve been absent from this blog for quite a while now. I’ve been out of school since the end of May, but I’ve been spending my time […]

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A Bookish 2015 in Review

December 30, 2015by booksandbark 3 Comments

I read a total of 58 books and 18,617 pages in 2015. That’s an amazingly large number of books, considering I had my first AP class and AP test at […]

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2015 bucket list, books!, x, yearly recap

Bookshelves: To Like Or Not To Like?

August 29, 2015by booksandbark 14 Comments

I HAVE VERY MIXED FEELINGS ON BOOKSHELVES. I realized this this morning when I woke up and found myself looking at my bookshelf (it has been placed near the foot […]

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Top Ten Tuesday // Because Diversity Is Awesome

July 20, 2015by booksandbark 13 Comments

Look at that! Is it already time for another Top Ten Tuesday? This week’s theme is DIVERSITY and books that celebrate such things. Now, I am quite diverse myself (well, not […]

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blog hops, books!, x

Let’s Play Diversity Bingo With NYT Bestsellers

July 19, 2015by booksandbark 7 Comments

I found this really cool Diversity Bingo Chart on Tumblr a while back and decided to give it a whirl with some of the bestselling YA books of today! I’ll only […]

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Top Ten Tuesday // My Newest Bookish Babies

July 13, 2015by booksandbark 25 Comments

AHHH I LOVE Top Ten Tuesday! I just discovered it last week, but it’s pretty amazing and I love the prompts and the community. Plus, all of my bookish blogger friends […]

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blog hops, books!, x

Top Ten Tuesday // Hyped Books I’ve Never Read

July 7, 2015by booksandbark 26 Comments

So, YES: I am finally hopping onto this bandwagon and participating in Top Ten Tuesday! (Mostly because I have NO IDEA what else to write about and every other blogger I know […]

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blog hops, books!, x

Book Review | When Reason Breaks

February 13, 2015by booksandbark 1 Comment

A Goth girl with an attitude problem, Elizabeth Davis must learn to control her anger before it destroys her. Emily Delgado appears to be a smart, sweet girl, with a […]

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2014 In Review

December 30, 2014by booksandbark 2 Comments

Happy penultimate day of 2014, everybody! Now, I’m not a big fan of recap posts full of blog stats and the like, but I’ve decided to do a (short… hopefully) recap […]

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2014 Bucket List, blog hops, books!, x, yearly recap

Book Review | Broken Skies (GO. READ. IT.)

December 26, 2014by booksandbark 5 Comments

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it! I was planning on writing a Christmas post, but, um, I have time management issues. And feels. So […]

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book reviews, books!, x

Top Books of 2014

December 20, 2014by booksandbark 2 Comments

I sadly didn’t jump on the bandwagon with Top Ten Tuesday last week because of finals, but I still wanted to share my top books of 2014! Considering I’ve only read […]

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Books! And Candy! (Another Tag)

December 18, 2014by booksandbark 2 Comments

If you hadn’t caught on, I’m using finals as an excuse to finish up the bookish tags I’ve been, um, tagged in. I was tagged in this one by Engie @ Musings […]

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blog hops, bookish things, books!, x

Book Review | The Program

December 16, 2014by booksandbark 7 Comments

In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With […]

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My Lovely and Long TBR (A Tag)

December 12, 2014by booksandbark 10 Comments

Hello friends! Of late, I have been neglecting the posts I’ve been tagged in. Well, I strive to change that. Three months ago in September (three months ago?!) Engie @ […]

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blog hops, bookish things, books!, x

Book Review | Earth & Sky: For Time-Travellers

December 9, 2014by booksandbark 6 Comments

Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as long as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing […]

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Confessions of a Dog-Earing Addict

December 3, 2014by booksandbark 14 Comments

Okay, okay. I admit it. Quit pointing the gun at me. *sigh* Yes, I do dog-ear books. It’s not an addiction, no. It’s just sort of a… habit. Hi Sabrina, […]

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bookish things, books!, x

Book Review | Gracefully Grayson: Beautiful LGBTQ+ Book

November 28, 2014by booksandbark 10 Comments

Alone at home, twelve-year-old Grayson Sender glows, immersed in beautiful thoughts and dreams. But at school, Grayson grasps at shadows, determined to fly under the radar. Because Grayson has been […]

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Book Review | Fangirl (AKA Is Cath Me?)

November 8, 2014by booksandbark 3 Comments

For Cather, life is pretty much about Simon Snow. Cath, and her twin sister, Wren, have been writing Simon Snow fan fiction for just about as long as they can […]

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Guest Author & Giveaway | Megan Crewe On Fast Drafting

November 5, 2014by booksandbark 6 Comments

I present to you Books and Bark’s first official guest blogger and author, Megan Crewe! This (awesome) guest post is part of the blog tour of Megan’s new YA sci-fi […]

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Book Review | The 100 & Day 21

September 30, 2014by booksandbark 4 Comments

In the future, humans live in citylike spaceships orbiting far above Earth’s toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced […]

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Loony Blurbs | LET THE LOONINESS COMMENCE!

September 28, 2014by booksandbark 10 Comments

Well, this is my first time trying out Loony Blurbs with Emily over at the Loony Teen Writer. Basically, you make up book blurbs based on titles! 😀 This is going […]

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blog hops, books!, x

(Book Blogger) Confession Time

September 18, 2014by booksandbark 16 Comments

Okay, guys. It’s Confession Time. Book blogger confession time. This is serious.  Caution: post not as long as it seems. Contains awesome GIFs and bookgirl feels. Sort of.  Which book most recently did you […]

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Book Review | The Innocent Assassins

September 14, 2014by booksandbark 5 Comments

There are three rules to staying an assassin at the corporation of Covert Operatives: (1) your parents must be deceased, (2) your contracts must remain confidential, and (3) you must […]

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Book Review | A Wolf Called Romeo

September 10, 2014by booksandbark 2 Comments

This book is so sad. Because you know stories about animal friendships are always sad. But because of that, it was quite amazing. Let me tell you why. (Caution: photographs […]

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Book Review | The Queen of the Tearling

August 25, 2014by booksandbark 8 Comments

The cover of this book is pretty much amazing. And I loved the premise. A lot of the reviews on Goodreads have been bipolar, and while I don’t think the […]

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Bookshelf Tag!

August 18, 2014by booksandbark 16 Comments

Well, now you guys get to hear all about my amazing (and really large and messy) bookshelf! Desiree B tagged me, and since I have probably overloaded you guys with book […]

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blog hops, books!, reading, x

Book Review | Cinder

August 15, 2014by booksandbark 13 Comments

I am reading so many good books lately. Yes, I liked this book. A lot. And you might think it’s easy to please me, because What’s Left of Me, which I reviewed […]

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Book Review | What’s Left of Me

August 14, 2014by booksandbark 16 Comments

If I had to sum up What’s Left of Me in one word, it would be this: FANTASTIC. It was one of the first good books I have read in a long time. […]

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Interview with Author Ellen Cooney

August 5, 2014by booksandbark 2 Comments

The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances releases today! I’m very excited, seeing as I reviewed the book, and gave it 4 out of 5 wagging tails. I’m even […]

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Book Review | The Mountaintop School for Dogs

July 28, 2014by booksandbark 6 Comments

Evie wants to leave her old life behind. Her ugly family life, her ex-boyfriend, the drugs. So she applies to The Sanctuary, a dog rescue center high up in the […]

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Reading Round-Up

July 24, 2014by booksandbark 6 Comments

Well, I am a horrible procrastinator, so instead of writing my review for The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, I decided to go through and make a list […]

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books!, reading, teens, x

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