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Welcome to the first half of the 2019 Dystopia Reading Challenge!! This will be the first of two bi-annual link-ups for your reviews! So this link-up will cover January, February, March, April, May & June! The link-up will always be easily accessible by hovering over Dystopia Reading Challenge tab and selecting Review Link-Up from the drop down menu. :) HELPFUL LINKS: Dystopian, (post-)apocalyptic and sci-fi YA of 2016 Best Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Best YA Dystopia Novels LINK-UP GUIDELINES: Link up your book reviews under "Review Link-up" as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, Booklikes, etc. Make sure to use an email you check, because if you win the giveaway, I'll be using that email to contact you. Remember, each review you link up is an entry into the giveaway! :) Giveaway is open international as long as the Book Depository ships to you! :) Try and stop by some other reviews! Lets create a sense of community and get to ta...

**2018 READING STATS** Number Of Books You Read: 103 Number of Re-Reads: 4 Genre You Read The Most From: Young Adult Fantasy (seriously, it was overwhelmingly the year of catching up on all the fantasy novels.) 1. Best Book You Read In 2018? (If you have to cheat — you can break it down by genre if you want or 2018 release vs. backlist) Fantasy - A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOTAR #2) by Sarah J. Maas . I mean, I got my tattoo based on the book. So clearly I have a lot of love for it! Contemporary - A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi Sci-Fi - Definitely a tie between Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff and Nyxia Unleashed (The Nyxia Triad #2) by Scott Reintgen Dystopian - Ignite Me (Shatter Me #3) by Tahereh Mafi I mean, I finally jumped to team Warner so. Yeah. Plus Juliette is the ultimate badass by the end of it! 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? Tie between Warcross (Warcross #1) by...

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week! The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer . Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog! Pretend She's Here by Luanne Rice Captured by Alvin Townley More book mail from Scholastic. Thanks Scholastic! They both sound pretty interesting.  Spectacle by Jodie Lynn Zdrok So I got a request approved on NetGalley! Thanks Tor! It's pretty much a YA murder mystery that takes place in 1887 in Paris! The whole idea behind the book gives me a Stalking Jack The Ripper kind of feel so since I enjoyed that, I decided to request this!  Well, I didn't post a thing. Honestly, it's been another hard week for me. I lost what gains I was making with my depression. I spent a lot of this week curled up in bed or on the couch in tears. James came home to me cryi...

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week! The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer . Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog! Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury The Moon Within by Aida Salazar So more book mail from Scholastic this week! Thanks Scholastic! I actually squealed a little when I opened the package with Last of Her Name! I've actually been super excited about it and even thought about requesting the ARC. So I'm really happy I got one unsolicited. It's a retelling inspired by Anastasia but set in space! For those of you who don't know, the whole Anastasia legend is part of  how my daughter got her name. So I'm super into things based on it! :D  November Wrap-Up & December TBR 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge: December Link...

Welcome to the December Link-Up for the 2018 Challenge! Wow. It's the last month of the year! Sign-Ups for 2019's Challenge are up. I hope we all had a good reading year!  Each month you can link-up your reviews of dystopia challenge books. I hope it'll help you keep up with your goals! Linking up your dystopia challenge reviews also helps to let everyone see whats being read and to help others find new books! I know I read some of my favorite dystopia books based on seeing recommendations and reviews of them! You could possibly help someone find their new favorite book! :D LINK-UP GUIDELINES Link up your book reviews under "Review Link-up" as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, Booklikes, etc. Although I won't make it mandatory, I'd love it if you would comment on other reviews posted in the link up! Its a great way to get everyone involved and talking! DECEMBER LINK-UP

Welcome to the 5th annual Dystopia Reading Challenge! 2019 is my second year hosting it and I'm so excited about it! I'll be hosting some giveaways, we'll be playing bingo, and of course we are still going to earn our fun badges from years past! If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask them in the comments! THE GUIDELINES This challenge will run from January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018. You can join at anytime before December 1, 2018. Books must be read and reviewed in 2018. Audiobooks, re-reads, short stories, and crossovers are fine. You don't have to be a book blogger to participate! You can track your progress on Goodreads, Shelfari, Booklikes, Youtube, etc. Sign up below with your post, shelf, etc. and leave a comment letting us know what your personal goal is.  Can be combined with other challenges! Cuz who doesn't like reading books that count for multiple challenges?? Link up your reviews on the bi-annual post we'll provide! Use the hashtag #2...

So November wasn't that great of a month for me. Not much reading got done. I was pretty busy with holiday planning and birthday party planning. But also as the end of the month came around my depression really started to set in. The past week or so has been really hard on me and thus far, it hasn't got much better. It takes time for me to come out of a bout of depression when it sets in like it has. But I'm here, and I still want to socialize with you guys. I'm just not promising a lot of reviews for December. Sometimes I get lost in reading when I'm depressed, sometimes I can't focus on it for the life of me. So we'll see how things go. What I Read This Month: Obsession (Arum #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (4/5 Stars) Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg (3/5 Stars) Journey To The Black City (After: The New Earth #1) by Keith Mueller (4/5 Stars) A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (5/5 Stars) Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echols (2/5 Stars)...