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Category Archives: reading

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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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 | 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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book reviews, books!, reading, x

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

Review & Interview | The Secret Life of Dog Catchers

July 21, 2014by booksandbark 9 Comments

In April, I met Shirley Zindler, author of The Secret Life of Dog Catchers, in a coffee shop, by accident. They were out of places to sit, so we kind of stole the […]

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Wishing You a Wonderfully Ridiculous Towel Day 2014

May 25, 2014by booksandbark Leave a comment

My favorite holiday of the year is not Christmas. It is not Easter. No, it is not even the delightfully beautiful day of Halloween. My science-fiction loving side does not […]

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doctor who, Quotes, reading, science, x

My Thoughts on Paper Towns

May 13, 2014by booksandbark 2 Comments

Let me first just say how much I love this book’s cover. Secondly, let me just say I finished this book in a day. I read this book on the recommendation […]

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barkin' good book award, book reviews, book reviews/topics, reading, teens, Thoughts & Musings, x

In Which I Edit My Manuscript | Chapter 1

May 7, 2014by booksandbark 7 Comments

I actually finished editing Chapter 1 of my manuscript a while ago, but it’s a pretty long chapter, so I’ve been lazy typing it up. I’m still on my “Alpha” round […]

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2014 Bucket List, editing my manuscript, NaNoWriMo, Novel, reading, Thoughts & Musings, writing, x

A Piece of Writing Motivation for the Procrastinating Writer: WriMo Edition

April 2, 2014by booksandbark 4 Comments

Life gets in the way of things. It’s a fact of life, accepted by all, loathed by many. Life gets in the way of watching that Doctor Who marathon you’ve […]

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advice, NaBloPoMo+NaNoWriMo, NaNoWriMo, Novel, reading, Updates, writing, x

Book Review | Great Expectations 4 Stars

March 23, 2014by booksandbark 2 Comments

It’s Victorian-era England. Pip is just a simple forge boy chosen to entertain rich Miss Havisham and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. Though he finds himself falling for Estella, Pip […]

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Book Review | Divergent 3.5 Stars

March 22, 2014by booksandbark 3 Comments

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, life is split into five factions. When Beatrice is sixteen, she must choose a faction forever. Should she stay with her family, or should she […]

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The Art of Not Writing

February 26, 2014by booksandbark Leave a comment

The height of my blog’s popularity was in December and November, where I posted on this blog nearly every day… And more importantly wrote parts of my novel every day. […]

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NaNoWriMo, Novel, reading, Thoughts & Musings, Updates, writing, x

YA Plot: Getting Rid of Parents

February 17, 2014by booksandbark Leave a comment

Spoilers for plot of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, I Am Number Four, and Divergent. Don’t read if you are planning on reading/are partway through reading one of these books […]

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Hitting 100 Pages

December 26, 2013by booksandbark Leave a comment

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Wow… hitting 100 pages has been an amazing three-year journey for me and my […]

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NaNoWriMo, Novel, reading, Updates, writing, x

Hang On… Did You Just Say TOWEL DAY?!

December 25, 2013by booksandbark Leave a comment

TOWEL DAY It has recently come to my attention that there is a holiday called Towel Day. No, I’m not joking. It’s a real holiday. If you’ve ever read Douglas Adams’s […]

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reading, writing, x

The Bindi Biographies, Part I: Of Sleep and Squirrels

August 4, 2013by booksandbark 3 Comments

Every so often, our dog will go outside, bark at some neighborhood squirrels for a while, and then settle down on the mahogany-colored deck, whining in sadness. She seems to […]

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dogs, reading, The Bindi Biographies, writing, x

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I write. I read. I pet dogs. I also do some other things, like attending college and sleeping and watching unreasonable amounts of late ’90s sitcoms on Netflix. Native Californian and former new New Yorker.

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