Candy Bunny Reader

Wow. I saw this tag from @bookishmarvel back in AUGUST and I'm only finally getting around to doing it. Well, it's about time! The book above (Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman) is not mentioned here. I read this book when I was about 13 years old, and I remember enjoying it at the time, but I do plan on doing a reread and a review of it soon, so look out for that! Last 3 Reads: People we Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney Among the Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix   Current Read: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle Future Reads: The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger As always, feel free to do this tag if you see it! What's next on your TBR? 

  @jacobthebookworm over on Instagram tagged me to do this tag! So let's do it! 1. Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish?  Yes! Publishing 101 by Jane Friedman. I checked it out of the library earlier this month and I kept taking pictures of so many of the pages to use for future references, but it was taking up a lot of memory on my phone, so I'm planning to buy the book instead. But I probably won't finish the book itself this year, depending on when I get around to buying it. Oh well! 2. Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year? I guess The Last Unicorn (pictured above to the right)? I usually associate fall/winter with fantasy.  3. Is there a new release you're still waiting for? Yes! French Kissing in New York by Anne-Sophie Johanneau. It's supposed to come out in January 2023. I read Kisses and Croissants earlier this year and I absolutely adored it! I hope this book is just as good. 4. What are three boo

  Trigger warning: Kidnapping A while ago I read the very first book of the Janie Johnson series by Caroline B. Cooney , titled The Face on the Milk Carton .  This is a YA novel taking place sometime in the late 80s or early 90s (the book itself was published in 1990), when pictures of missing kids were placed on the sides of milk cartons. Janie Johnson is 15 years old and lives a relatively normal life in her small town in Connecticut.  One day she accidentally drinks milk from the milk carton of one of her friends at lunchtime at school, and she recognizes that the picture of the missing girl on the side is actually...of her? It was a picture of her when she was three years old, and she was supposedly kidnapped from a shopping mall in New Jersey, and her real name is Jennie Spring. Janie cannot believe what she saw. She thinks there is no way she could've been kidnapped, since her parents are so loving and kind. So she at first thinks maybe this is all just or dream or there'

  I saw this tag also over a month ago at @paperbacksandicedcoffee 's Instagram page, and I decided to finally do it! The books in the picture above are other books that happen to be on my TBR list, but I did not have them as answers to the questions. They are (from top to bottom): King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry , Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan , and The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.   1. Next on my TBR: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle . I hope I love the book as much as I loved the movie. 2. Most recent addition: For my overall TBR? That would be Word by Word by Kory Stamper . It's a nonfiction book all about the history of the dictionary.  3. Most hyped: Overall? Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan.   4. From your favorite genre: Flip the Script by Lyla Lee . I really loved her book I'll Be the One, and I hope I'll also love this one! 5. From your least favorite genre: it's not that I don't like this genre per se; I just don'

I saw this tag over at @jacobthebookworm 's Instagram page about a month ago, and I decided to finally do it!  My last 5 star read: My Love-Mix Up by Wataru Hinekure (Manga) My favorite classic: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery A book that changed my life: Where the Mountain meets the Moon by Grace Lin A book I didn't like: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett A book I recommend to everyone: Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix A book I'm obsessed with: Loveless by Alice Oseman A book I'm excited to read: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Currently reading: People we meet on Vacation by Emily Henry Today was a short blog post! I just love doing tags. Have you read any of the books I mentioned? What did you think of them?

Did you know I also like to read manga?  Well, to be honest, I watch more anime than read manga. The last manga series I remember reading in it's entirety was Kitchen Princess back in middle school , which was more than a decade ago. For the last decade or so of my life I've only consumed manga-original stories through their anime adaptations. Sometimes the anime adaptations don't even cover the entire manga. They're more like advertisements to get you to go buy the manga (clever marketing, huh?) Additionally, there are probably hundreds of manga out there that have no anime adaptation attached to it. Go figure.  But I've decided to start reading actual manga again, and last week I finished the very first volume of  My Love Mix -Up by Wataru Hinekure.   In American marketing terms, this a YA contemporary romance manga series about three teenage friends (two guys and a girl, in this order): Aoki, Ida, and Hashimoto. Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, but he's too shy

  Cake Pop Crush by Suzanne Nelson is a middle grade book that I bought back in middle school at a Scholastic Book Fair in 2012, when I was in middle school. That was 10 years ago! Only now did I decided to start reading it. And boy, was it a great idea! I'm glad I never gave the book away. Cake Pop Crush is about a girl named Alicia Ramirez whose family owns a small, old-fashioned bakery called Say it with Flour. Out of all the bakery items you can think of, Ali likes to bake cake pops, inspired heavily by her favorite celebrity baker, Renata DaLuca. Her family's bakery Say it with Flour has fallen under hard times recently, but they get even more competition when a popular coffee chain opens across the street from them, called Perk Up. Ali and her friends and family have to think up creative ways to save the business from falling under, usually involving Ali selling her cake pops. At the same time, Ali butts heads with the son of the owner/CEO of Perk Up, named Dane. But as

  The title says it all. Here's why: the majority of the books I read and talk about on here are actually borrowed from my local library. A very small fraction of the books I read are books I actually own a copy of myself.  I don't buy any books unless I've read it before at the library, loved it, and I want to buy my own copy. Or maybe I just couldn't find it at all at my local library. Other scenarios where I have my own copy of some book include: The book was already in my house, bought by and owned by someone else (my parents, a family friend, etc.) and then they gave it to me.  It was gifted to me, so someone else bought it with their own money. I or my parents bought the book a long time ago when I was a child. Maybe I've already read it several times and kept it all these years, or I never read it as a kid but I'm glad I kept it because one day I might change my mind and want to read it.  I needed my own copy of the book to take notes and/or annotations f

  For some reason, it took me a really long time to read this book. The first time I tried reading it was way back in high school, and I only got halfway through it and I got caught up reading other stuff. Then I tried reading it again in August this year and, if you've been keeping up with me, I got caught up reading other things. I finally read the whole thing a few days ago. It was totally worth it!  Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein is about a boy named Kyle who loves to play games from the quirky businessman, Mr. Lemoncello. After submitting an essay at the last minute for a writing competition, Kyle and several of his classmates in his English class at school get to stay overnight at Mr. Lemoncello's new library in their hometown before it officially opens to the public! But it's not any normal overnight stay, because Mr. Lemoncello and the librarian, Dr. Zichenko, turn the library into one big escape room. Kyle and his friends have to wor

  I just read the very first Nancy Drew novel ever: The Secret of the Old Clock. I've known about Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene for a very long time, I just didn't read one until now.  Apparently there are over 500 Nancy Drew books published in the last several decades. I'm probably only going to read the original series. Luckily the books are really short and largely episodic. So you don't actually have to read them in order. I just started with the first one. I'm glad to report that I enjoyed it!  Of course, keeping it spoiler free, in this book we are introduced to 18-year old Nancy Drew solving her very first case ever. She takes on after her father, who is a lawyer, and gets a lot of his help throughout her adventure. Nancy is trying to uncover the mystery behind a supposed second will that an eccentric rich man in her community named Josiah Crowley left behind to his relatives and some friends of his. For some reason, the only known will that Crowley wrote befo