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🔮 Reading & Lifestyle
📖 Current read: Burn
✨ Fantasy & Romantasy
📍 Somewhere in Velaris

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@whimsyandwingspans does it again with the book recommendations, and I’m running around telling everyone to read this series!!!

This is a simple world building series, slow burn, strong female character, who struggles with deciding when to ask for help, and honestly that resonates with me.

@authorpenncole you have filled my soul up with this series and I enjoyed every passing second of it! ❤️‍🔥🖤🤍

Diem, Luther, Teller, I love all my new friends 😭🫶🏼

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📖 Books You Couldn’t Pay Me To…📖

💭 QoTD: Do you like to hop on the IG Trends for posts?

🫣 So I finally got around to trying this trend out…and to be honest I was a bit skeptical on doing so because in a way it’s showing you what books I like and others I might not like…

🙂‍↔️ To be fair, we can’t all like the same things and we all have different tastes and that is 💯 okay! Just don’t come at me if you see I don’t like something, that’s all I’m asking. My books are a reflection of who I am and what I like. So here they are.

🥰 I also took the liberty of adding extra to the books I’ll never stop talking about because well, it’s my post and I can do what I want. My love for stories holds no bounds. Even if I can’t post every book I love on here, that’s okay because I show it in other ways. Again, this is just a trend post.

☕️ I don’t remember who tagged me on this one but if it was you then thank you. I’ll tag some just so you can have the same torture as me. 😆

🫶🏻 Happy Monday.

🗝️ trends | instagram trends | bookish trends | books I love | books I won’t read | books to read | recs

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Books you couldn’t pay me to…👀 Choosing rereads were tough so the ones I chose are because: it triggered me or made me feel way too sad (Slewfoot and The Fault in Our Stars), it was okay but I’m not obsessed (Powerless, Zodiac Academy and The Final Girl Support Group), or I didn’t like it at all (Home Before Dark)🖤 Tagging friends I’d love to see join in on this (but nooooo pressure 😉)
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#bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #canadabookstagram #booklovers #readingrecommendations bookworm booksta book trends

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Literally. Nobody asked. But I thought these were a fun way to share a mix of real, fun and stupid facts 😂💕 If I tagged you, you’re it (if you haven’t done one yet, I can’t keep track lol)🫵 (and I’m sorry, I’m posting this again - the last one had an error😅)
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#bookstagrammer #booklover #canadabookstagram #bookworm #meetthereader

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✨ Meet Me in Five ✨

💭QoTD: What was your favorite book or band growing up?

✍🏻 @jessies.integral.reads tagged me a bit ago on this trend and finally I was able to sit down and hash it out. Let me tell you - this was hard! I’ve lived a full life, read many books, seen and watched so many movies, gone to hundreds of concerts and nailing them down to five was just plain hard. 😆

📖 So, here I am. My fives. Do we have any in common?

🤍 Oh! I did forget some interesting random five facts about me at the end of this…

1. I’m a full fledge GenXer and wear my badge proudly.
2. I played Second Life for almost 19 years in which I created my own content, ran a successful event, and also owned the largest blogger support group in the game (kinda like a PR firm for us Bookstagrammers.)
3. I’m a Breast Cancer survivor. 💕
4. I travel alone A LOT. Being alone doesn’t phase me.
5. I once danced on stage with G Love and Special Sauce.

🏷️ Tagging some to see what you have for yours!

🗝️ Five facts | second life | music | movies | book series | meet me in five | challenges | genxer | red rising | top gun | tool | Dave Matthew’s Band

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𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆

Enjoy a stack of titles in order of length!
1 - Outlander
2 - Half City*
3 - Heir of Illusion
4 - Broken Souls and Bones
5 - Mother of Death and Dawn
6 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
7 - The Serpent and the Wings of Night
8 - The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

I’ve tagged a few friends if you’d like to participate, but no pressure!

I can always count on @jessies.integral.reads to tag me in a great challenge! 💕

🔖 booksta, bookstagram, bookstack challenge, romantasy, fantasy romance books, book stack

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🍃 Lost In | Letting Go Book Stack 🍃

💭 QoTD: If a book falls of a shelf while no one is around, does it make a noise?

✍🏻 I’ve been thinking about friendships lately. Found Family. About letting go and moving on.

📖 Personally, I’ve never been one to have a large friend circle. I’ve had close friends, those I consider best, and even one that is like a sister to me. Yet, as the years go by, those friendships have wavered and fluctuated. Ebbed and flowed. Burned hot then puttered out like a dying star.

🌳 Even though we flow through many friendships throughout our lifespan, it amazes me how some tend to plant roots down deep, while others just continue to move on, their seeds never planting into the soil of my forest (whether it be because I don’t tend or it’s not fitting.) Finding those connections are hard and it’s why at times I shut down, inadvertently closing myself off and preventing new connections to happen. And in doing so, those relationships that have been there for a while, may also succumb and fall. Never making a noise within the forest, as they move on.

🍃 But when I look at the bigger picture - when I go back and walk through my own forest, I realize the sturdier and taller trees are those that always didn’t need to be tended too. They took root and stayed because they knew I would need them today, tomorrow, or even years from now. Because true friendships, true found family, will stand tall next to you even if you’re not always there in that moment.

🤍 My stack was inspired by trees in a forest, the bronze stacks I saw @readingwith_love and @valeriia_books do. Tagging some to see your trees.

🗝️ book stack | friendships | friendship | bookish | writing | forest | found family | trees | sprayed edges | Bookstagram | letting go

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🪽 Heaven Help Me | Hell is Near Book Stack 🔥

💭QoTD: Do you let others influence your creativity or do you do YOU?

✍🏻 Oi. This place at times gets the best of me. Sometimes it’s the best place on earth. I feel seen. I feel heard. I feel complete. Other times I feel like I’m a walking soul falling through the many circles of hell trying to figure out my niche and the place I belong.

🪽 Believe me - I do hear you. I hear the statements: Take a step back. Do you. Ignore the haters. It’s your place. But, when I do take a step back, I feel more alone…invisible - that life is just turning faster and faster and I’ve missed my train. I’m waiting to catch up and it’s already turned the bend.

🔥 This place has been a saving grace. A place where I can be who I want to be and also be vocal when in my daily I keep it all hidden. It’s my slice of heaven in a world too massive and too big. But when the fantasy starts to crack and the reality sets in…is it really heaven sent or the gates of hell?

🖤 My stack was inspired by @tbrchronicles who tagged me ages ago to make a heaven/hell stack. Welcome to the chaos.

🏷️ Tagging some to see what you come up with.

🗝️ heaven | hell | book stack challenge | book stack | mental health | Bookstagram | fantasy | being seen | sprayed edges | writing | bookish thoughts

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🍉 Your Caption | Your Choice Book Stack 🍉

💭 QoTD: What’s your current read?

✍🏻 Within this space, the caption is the second fiddle. It’s not the star, it’s not the showstopper - it’s the back drop to the main event. The pictures and images, the capcuts and videos - they are the stars hanging in the sky. So, the words…the words tend to stay back, hoping to be discovered.

📖 Even though we speak of stories, of our love of books and reading, we’re to convey this all into images. A captured moment in time, a second to grasp your attention, to stay a while and linger. Stay, stay, stay. And in doing so, we have opened ourselves to have you hear our voice. Whether you choose to listen is up to you.

🤍 Captions allow myself to flex. This space is just a canvas, ready to be filled with the overflowing words of my brain. Even if the images don’t convey the words, my hope is that they capture and make you pause enough to continue to read. To sit and reflect. Take note of my thoughts. As irrelevant as they may be.

✍🏻 Captions are just that.

🍉 I was tagged by a plethora of people to do a watermelon stack. My take is purely vintage and visual. Cutesy and wordy. Tagging some but if you’ve already done one then you’re good.

🗝️ watermelons stack | book stack | bookish thoughts | words | writing | actions | captions | fantasy books | book challenges | current reads | romantasy | cozy fantasy books

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🏰 History We Make | Stories We Yield Book Stack 🏰

💭QoTD: Is there a time in history you love to read about?

⚔️ I’ve always loved history. In one way or another, wherever I went - I loved learning about the past. The stories that would unfold before my very eyes, weaved into monumental statues, glorious paintings, crumbling castles. To stand on the grounds, where people have fought, died and loved.

📖 Within our stories, we are beholden to history. We enrich our minds with revels, plays, and ancient times. We concoct our fantasies based on centuries past - pulling from what used to be and wishing for epic glory. Kings, Queens, Knights of the Realm. Castles that hold back our enemies and stand stoically on fields of dreams.

🏰 @readingwith_love and @boetbooks had tagged me in a royalty stack but I wanted to share my love of all things @d_a_n_jones who makes reading about history, especially medieval history, so much fun. His words inspire images so real, you feel as though you’re stepping into the past. If you’re a lover of this time - I implore you to read all his works.

(Also, the end pictures are from my time at Westminster Abbey…Edward V is entombed there.)

🏷️ Tagging some to see your Royal Stack.

🗝️ Castles | royalty | kings | queens | knights | history | medieval history | dan jones | book stack | book stack challenge | Bookstagram | history lover

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🔎 Book Scavenger Hunt 🔍

I love a good tag challenge, and this one was so much fun! Thank you @hartreadz for the tag 💕

𝙋𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧!
𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨?

📚 Book with a Morally Grey love interest:
Nocticadia - Professor Devryck Bramwell 🪱

📚 Series I’m scared to start:
The Legacy Series - it just intimidates me for some reason, but I’ve heard great things!

📚 Book that gave me a hangover:
Mother of Death & Dawn - the War of Lost Hearts trilogy is so unbelievably incredible that when it ended I felt a bit lost 🦋

📚 Book with “touch her and die” energy:
Heir of Illusions - Thorne 🐍

📚 Romantasy I’d reread in a heartbeat:
Oh, Bartholomew… The Knight & the Moth! 🗡️

📚 5⭐️ Romantasy read:
The Wolf King - I couldn’t love this series more if I tried 🐺 team Callum or team Blake??

📚 Book I bought for the cover:
The Scattered Bones - the @moonlightbookbox edition was so stunning I had to have it. And I’m SO glad because it’s now one of my favorite books 🦴

📚 Book everyone recommends, but I haven’t read:
Fear the Flames - I’m super excited to read this! Honestly no idea why I haven’t yet 🐉

📚 Book I will always recommend:
A Court of Thorns & Roses - this is the book that started it all for me. How could I ever stop recommending it 🥀

I tagged a few friends but no pressure!

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Reposting because it glitched the first time round 🥲 There’s honestly so much more that I could add to this, like to not worry about being ‘cringe’ and to just post the dang thing, but we’ll leave it at this for now. You all are amazing, creative, talented, kind and so genuine with your love of the community and connecting over stories. I hope you know how much you inspire, and you kind of helped me find a piece of myself I’ve been missing since childhood 🥹💕✨ tagging some of my favourites on the photo and here: @willseanyawn @jackysreadingcorner @4theloveeofbooks @booktalk.and.coffeee @wellread.badbehaved @sara_explores @gracedwithbooks @lolly.reads @ashandherbooks @peppers.library @the.woodland.reader @myrs.diary @forestandfiction 🎀
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#bookstagram #bookloversofinstagram #booksbooksbooks #canadabookstagram #bookworm

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