Candy Bunny Reader

  What the title says.  

This book is the prequel to the Blight Harbor series, which consists of: The Clackity, The Nighthouse Keeper, and The Loneliest Place . You can read the review for the first book here ! Pennies by Lora Senf is set in the 1920s and is about a group of friends consisting of: Mae Von Rath (the great-great aunt of Evie from the original trilogy), Lark (whom we meet in the original second book as a ghost), Claret, and Brigid. The friends love to go exploring around their town, and one day a door to the Dark Sun side suddenly appears in the woods near their clubhouse.  The girls are told not to go near it, but one day several people in their town go missing, including Brigid's cousin, Emilia. The girls suspect an unusual boy named John Jeffrey Pope (usually called Johnny) must have done it, except everyone else doesn't think so. At the same time, Lark's aunt Meredith starts acting strange, too.  The girls find out that Emilia was taken to the Dark Sun side by Johnny, and he and...

I know, it's a very long title, but it's exactly what it sounds like. I will also give explanations for the ones I didn't like.  I just couldn't get into the Lunar Chronicles. I really didn't like Love and Gelato! Didn't care to read the next two books, even thought they follow different main characters.   I DNF'd Ao Haru at volume 3 (mostly didn't like Kou).   I don't actually completely despise Nana--I do have respect for the series's message overall (how people can easily be manipulated into toxic relationships and how hard it can be to get out of and it's not the victim's fault), but I personally still did not enjoy it. I prefer more uplifting romance series.   The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was just boring. I also found the MC to be kind of creepy.  The Indian characters in The Secret Garden are portrayed pretty offensively. The book also has that terrible ableist trope of the "disability that wasn't actually there" for o...

  Something I have been thinking about recently!     PS. I do not own Barbie. Barbie is owned by Mattel.

  I read a total of 11 books and I DNF 2. Links to reviews if applicable. 5 star books: How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Perisco Almost American Girl by Robin Ha Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa In the Name of the Mermaid Princess Volume 7 by  Yoshino Fumikawa and Miya Tashiro Always a Catch! Volume 1 by  Mayo Momoyo and Kaki Nagato Fall in Love, You False Angels Volume 2 by Coco Uzuki    4.5 star books: Fall in Love, You False Angels Volume 1 by Coco Uzuki Always a Catch! Volume 2 by Mayo Momoyo Kaki Nagato   The only 2-star book:   Firefly Wedding Volume 1 by  Oreco Tachibana   The two books I DNF: Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio

  You can click here to view Part 1, where I rank the movies from the 2000s.  Here are my rankings for the animated Barbie movies from the 2010s. I am a lot more opinionated this time around.  Again, these are just my opinions! I do not own Barbie. Barbie is owned by Mattel.  20.   Barbie in her Sisters in a Puppy Chase - Y’all, this is my least favorite Barbie movie ever. Barbie was so out of character in this movie, and I didn’t like how she was constantly putting her and her sisters in danger. 19. Barbie: A Perfect Christmas- It was so melodramatic and boring. 18. Barbie: Spy Squad- pretty boring. Also, they weren’t even good at being spies for the majority of the movie! 17. Barbie: The Princess and the Popstar- the main characters were really annoying. It’s also just hard not to compare it to the Princess and the Pauper. 16. Barbie: Princess Power— pretty forgettable. The character designs and animation were also kind of wonky. 15. Barbie:...

  I read a total of 15 books and DNF 7 books. I definitely read a lot of manga this month! I guess you can say it was Manga May . 😁 Links to reviews when applicable.  5 star books: 1. The Prince Who Fell from the Sky by John Claude Bemis 2. Huda F Wants to Know by Huda Fahmy --I should note that previously I thought these books were memoirs. They are not memoirs! They are fictional but they are loosely inspired by the author's life. 3. Our Not So Lonely Planet Travel Guide Volumes 2, 3, and 4 by Mone Sorai 4. I am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang 5. Somali and The Forest Spirit Vol 1 by Yako Gureshi  6. Super Boba Cafe 1 by Nidhi Chanani 7. Leap by Simina Popescu     4.5 star books: 1. The Wanderer by Sharon Creech 2. The Deceivers by Margaret Peterson Haddix 3. Ao Haru Ride volumes 1 and 2 by Io Sakisaka  4 star books: 1. Alice in Kyoto Forest 2 by Haruka Niwa and Mai Mochizuki 2. Sakura, Saku Vol 5 by Io Sakisaka The one book I DNF because I found it ...

Hello! This is a bit of a different post. If you've been on my blog long enough, you might remember a few months ago I started a series called "Favorite Books of All Time" , where I just listed off books that I read and love. I did it every month. There are 6 total parts which you can view here (takes you to the navigation page). Some of you might have noticed that I didn't post one last month. I am not posting one this month, either. In fact, I think I might pause on doing a Favorite Books post for a really long time.  This is because the posts took a long time to make. I would have to sift through my spreadsheets of all the books I have read and rated highly. It was a lot of them. I also tried to share 12 books every time, which also felt like a lot of work to me. I got a lot of other stuff on my plate going on right now. Also, a lot of my favorite books are underrated books that I have already mentioned on my page through my Underrated Books series. So making th...

  ...the movie was better. I gave the book version of Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 3 stars . Honestly one of the main reasons I even read the book was just to compare it to the movie. I can say now this is a rare case where the movie is way better than the book.  But here are some things I actually did like about the book: Sophie's sisters play a bigger role in the story We actually get some context as to why Sophie ran away from the hat shop without telling anyone (her stepmother was exploiting her as a worker) We get to see Michael/Markl's backstory on how he came to live with Howl. (Michael is his name in the book, his name is Markl in the movie) We get to see Howl's family, and they live in Wales Now here's everything I didn't like which is why I gave it a low rating: I could not stand Sophie and Howl's relationship in this book, it was sooo toxic!  Howl is such a bossy manchild and Sophie is really grumpy and cynical.  They also real...