Diary of an Avid Reader

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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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just this post (again! haha)

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Your Shirt by Chelsea Cutler. If you want song recommendations, then you should check out my Spotify playlist: Music Monday!

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of the requirements and other adult things I should do for the board exam. I’m getting anxious, my friends.

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nothing. I’M SERIOUS! Hahahaha!

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that I could sort everything out without being panicky all the time.

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to keep motivated!

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orange sando, black shorts. Comfy comfy Sunday night!

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THRONE OF GLASS. I didn’t even expect that I’d be hooked on the story as early as two chapters in.

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midnight snacks right now. Meh.

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calming nerves.

F E E L I N G

refreshed because I just had an almost 3-hour nap when I got back home from the review center this afternoon!

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through songs on Spotify for my Music Monday 002 to be posted tomorrow!

All photos used in the header are from different sources on Pinterest.

more bookish stuff:

Hello guys! I have a new weekly prompt here on my Tumblr blog that is totally out of my comfort zone.

I’m not really a “fashion” person. I am just simple. I have mostly tees and leggings. But now, I want to kind of explore more of the “simple fashion” side.

So what I’ll be doing every Tuesday is to share THREE OUTFIT IDEAS that I love! One of which will be curated by me using just an Android application, and then the other two will be from the Internet!

MUSIC MONDAY 001

All my new found music (both old/new songs) that I'll probably listen through this week and beyond.

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The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde

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this first (well, not technically because I already did this a loooong time ago) Sunday Currently!

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Slide by Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean, Migos because I just wanna feel that “chill vibe” on a Sunday night.

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of my sorta abandoned bullet journal... I need to sort a lot of things out. I need to do a lot of things. So, I need to get a lot of planning on my bujo to keep my life together.

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my hands that still have the dish-washing liquid smell because I did our dishes this evening.

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to finally keep my life together, to be a little more mature as an individual, and to grow more as a person.

H O P I N G

to get a new video up on my booktube channel tomorrow! I could actually do this if my laptop would stop freezing every time I try to edit a video.

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pink sando, black shorts and the most essential while blogging: HEADPHONES.

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the information overload in math for today’s intensive review for the board exam. I really find math amazing, but unfortunately, it’s just not destined for me to be good at it.

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to finish The Brightsiders already but, first, priorities, ie: board exam review and blogging.

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a more productive morning routine to help me keep my life together!

F E E L I N G

happy to be finally doing this Sunday Currently again!

C L I C K I N G

nothing. I’m too invested in this blog post! Haha!

All photos used in the header are from different sources on Pinterest.

more bookish stuff:

more bookish stuff:

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Love.

They say it’s blind.

That you don’t choose who you fall in love with.

They say it creeps up on you when you least expect it. 

They say it doesn’t let go. I wish it were that easy. I’ve been in love before, and it happened the way they said it would.

For a while, it was easy and full of bliss.

Until he uttered those damn three words, and all hell broke loose. I don’t blame him for leaving.

Love is a beast, waiting to devour you at the first sign of weakness.

That’s what they don’t say. It’s been four years, and a lot has changed.

I never expected to see Jake again,but here I am, staring into those gorgeous eyes like they still belong to me. See, I’m Finley May Norwood, the girl who pushes love away when it becomes too much.

Now, Jake’s engaged to someone else, and I’m too late.

If only my heart could accept that.

It simply doesn’t.

Love. Be damned.

COVER REVEAL:

Release Date: 

ISAN Mary Ting Published by: Vesuvian Books Publication date: May 1st 2018 Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED.

SCIENTISTS WARNED IT WOULD HAPPEN.

Meteors devastated the Earth. World Governments developed plans to help surviving citizens. The United States disbanded and salvageable land was divided into our quadrants—North, South, East, and West—governed by The Remnant Council.

Struggling to survive, seventeen-year-old Ava ends up in juvenile detention, until she is selected for a new life—with a catch. She must be injected with an experimental serum. The results will be life changing. The serum will make her “better.” To receive the serum, Ava agrees to join a program controlled by ISAN, the International Sensory Assassin Network.

While on a mission, she is abducted by a rebel group led by Rhett and told that not only does she have a history with him, but her entire past is a lie perpetuated by ISAN to ensure her compliance. Unsure of who to trust, Ava must decide if her strangely familiar and handsome captor is her enemy or her savior—and time is running out.

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EXCERPT:

When the bodyguard with the gun directed the weapon at Roxy, something dangerous ignited in me knowing my team would be next. This foreign existence in my core wanted blood. It wanted death. It wanted destruction. I became a monster. Helix transformed me into a shallow shell to servitude—a perfect model of ISAN assassin.

I pulled my gun from the side of my boot and took aim. The bodyguard who had shot Roxy’s team went down first, followed by the others.

Don’t look at their faces. Don’t make eye contact. But I did look at their faces, and I did make eye contact.

Each guard held my foster father’s cruel face, his steel malevolent eyes. I saw the man who ripped the happiness out of my soul, who towered over me into submission, and molded me into a terrified little girl. For a heartbeat I froze, knees buckling, heart palpitating with trepidation and regret. I became that little girl. A rat, he had called me, and beat me until I stopped crying from missing my mother.

No more. No more. I am no longer that petrified girl.

Then, one after the other, as hunger for revenge drove me, as if each of the men was him, I shot them until they were all down.

Author Bio:

International Bestselling Author Mary Ting/M. Clarke resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. She enjoys oil painting and making jewelry. Writing her first novel, Crossroads Saga, happened by chance. It was a way to grieve the death of her beloved grandmother, and inspired by a dream she once had as a young girl. When she started reading new adult novels, she fell in love with the genre. It was the reason she had to write one-Something Great. Why the pen name, M Clarke? She tours with Magic Johnson Foundation to promote literacy and her children’s chapter book-No Bullies Allowed.

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