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Fallen
By: Lauren Kate
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Age Range: Teen
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Series: Fallen (#1)
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal
Summary: There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce—and goes out of his way to make that very clear—she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret… even if it kills her.

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Current Mood: blah

AUTHOR: Hiromu Arakawa
RELEASED: February 27, 2018 by Yen Press
SERIES: 銀の匙 Silver Spoon [Gin no Saji Silver Spoon] (#1)
GENRE: Comedy, Coming-of-age, Slice of life
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Time for a change of pace.

Yuugo Hachiken flees the hustle and bustle of city life to enroll at Oezo Agricultural High School. At first he's just trying to outrun his problems, but instead he finds a place for himself in this quaint rural community. Between the classrooms and cowpatties, the boy becomes a man.

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AUTHOR: Kara (illustrator), Lee Chi-Hyong
RELEASED: January 1, 2003 by TokyoPop
SERIES: Demon Diary (#1)
GENRE: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★☆☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Raenef is the black sheep of the demon court, with minimal knowledge of magic and courtly etiquette. In order to help him claim his birthright as a demon lord, the demon masters send him the wise and noble teacher Eclipse to be his tutor. As Raenef and Eclipse begin their journey of discovery, they find that the bonds of friendship are stronger than the teacher/student relationship.

This volume also includes two bonus stories drawn by the same illustrator but by a different author; "Crystal Heart" and "Terra".

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AUTHOR: Ameko Kaerudo, Yorifuji (illustrator)
RELEASED: December 31, 2024 by Titan Manga
SERIES: The Elegant Courtly Life of the Tea Witch (#1)
GENRE: Romance, Adventure, Fantasy
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Come and read a manga that’s a cosy and comforting as a nice warm cup of tea! At the royal court, the weakest mage is the tea witch, who uses their powers to make tea for the noble lords and ladies… but Remy has some incredible powers that will result in all kinds of courtly intrigue! The first volume in a heart-warming and cosy ongoing series, The Elegant Courtly Life of a Tea Witch tells the tale of Remy, a lowly tea witch using her magic to brew the finest cuppa for the noble lords and ladies. All she really wants is a quiet life creating gorgeous displays for shop windows… but she’s slowly drawn into a world of intrigue as her incredible powers of transformation make her the gossip of the court… and the object of affection for a naïve princess!

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AUTHOR: Tina Yamashina
RELEASED: November 7, 2023 by Vertical Comics
SERIES: Virgin Love (#1)
GENRE: Romance, Slice of Life
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★★★☆☆
SYNOPSIS: “Looking for love, but afraid you’ll never find it?”

Come Live at the Love House! Six strangers, one house, one shared love. What could go wrong?

Successful, well-liked, and beautiful, twenty-six-year-old working woman Shoko Shoji seems to have it all. But behind her picture-perfect exterior is a secret that haunts to her chagrin, Shoko is still a virgin. Tired of making excuses for her total lack of dating experience, she signs up to live in the Love House, an experimental program seeking to test if six young singles can find romance under one shared roof. But will this change of pace be enough to help Shoko ditch her v-card for good, or will the trauma of her first broken heart jinx her forever to a life without love?

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These questions were written by roosto.

1. How often do you typically shower/bath?

I typically shower every three or four days.

2. Do you prefer showering or taking a bath?

My bathroom tub is not very spacious.

3. What's the longest you've ever gone without a shower/bath?

Three days, there was boil water advisory when the pipe burst into my apartment.

4. What's your favorite personal hygiene product?

I just use vaseline when I finish showering.

5. Do you shave your legs and/or beard? If so, how often?

Depends on my mood. Sometimes, I only shave my armpits and face in the summer.

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AUTHOR: Jean Meltzer
RELEASED: August 9, 2022 by Mira
GENRE: Romance, Contemporary
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight...

The perfect Jewish husband should be:
* A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor)
* Baggage-free (no previous marriages, no children)
* And of course—he must be Jewish

As the creator and CEO of the popular Jewish dating app J-Mate, matchmaker Dara Rabinowitz knows the formula for lasting love—at least, for everyone else. When it comes to her own love life, she’s been idling indefinitely. Until her beloved bubbe shares Dara’s checklist for “The Perfect Jewish Husband” on national television and charming news anchor Chris Steadfast proposes they turn Dara’s search into must-see TV.

As a non-Jewish single dad, Chris doesn’t check any of Dara’s boxes. But her hunt for Mr. Perfect is the ratings boost his show desperately needs. If only Chris could ignore his own pesky attraction to Dara—a task much easier said than done when Dara starts questioning if “perfect on paper” can compete with how hard she’s falling for Chris…

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Current Mood: blah

AUTHOR: Jenn McKinlay
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Scholastic, Inc.
SERIES: Summer Reading (#2)
GENRE: Romance, Contemporary
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading .

Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha’s Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and adventure. So when her favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, offers her a job in the Emerald Isle, Emily jumps at the opportunity. After all, Siobhan’s novels got Em through some of the darkest days of her existence.

Helping Siobhan write the final book in her acclaimed series—after a ten-year hiatus due to a scorching case of writer’s block—is a dream come true for Emily. If only she didn’t have to deal with Siobhan’s son, Kieran Murphy. He manages Siobhan’s bookstore, and the grouchy bookworm clearly doesn’t want Em around.

When Siobhan’s health takes a bad turn, she’s more determined than ever to finish her novel, while Kieran tries every trick in the book to get his mother to rest. Thrown into the role of peacemaker, Emily begins to see that Kieran's heart is in the right place. Torn between helping Siobhan find closure with her series and her own growing feelings for the mercurial Irishman, Emily will have to decide if she’s truly ready to turn a new page and figure out what lies in the next chapter.

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Current Mood: blah

AUTHOR: Io Sakisaka
RELEASED: November 14, 2023 by VIZ Media LLC
SERIES: サクラ、サク。 [Sakura, Saku.] (#1)
GENRE: Contemporary, Slice of Life, Romance
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★★★☆
SYNOPSIS: A mysterious boy comes to Saku Fujigaya’s rescue when she falls ill on a train, but he leaves before she can thank him. After this experience, Saku never ignores strangers in need of help to emulate the boy who helped her.

Saku Fujigaya would like to thank the boy who helped her, but all she has is a note signed “Ryosuke Sakura.” She discovers that a boy at her high school, Haruki Sakura, has an older brother named Ryosuke. She asks Haruki to deliver her thank-you letter to Ryosuke, but why does he refuse?

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Current Mood: cheerful

AUTHOR: Hiro Mashima
RELEASED: August 28, 2012 by Kodansha Comics
SERIES: Fairy Tail [フェアリーテイル] (#1)
GENRE: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: THE WICKED SIDE OF WIZARDRY

Cute girl wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards. But instead, her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates le by a devious magician. Her only hope is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels. Natsu’s not your typical hero – he gets motion sickness, eats like a pig, and his best friend is a talking cat. With friends like this, is Lucy better off with her enemies?

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Current Mood: indescribable

AUTHOR: Hajime Isayama
RELEASED: June 19, 2012 by Kodansha Comics
SERIES: 進撃の巨人 [Shingeki no Kyojin] (#1)
GENRE: Action, Science Fiction, Horror
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: The Desperate Battle Begins!

For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything...

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Current Mood: indescribable

AUTHOR: Greg Iles
RELEASED: July 1, 2000 by Berkley
SERIES: Penn Cage (#1)
GENRE: Mystery, Suspense, Science fiction, Political thriller, Legal Story
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: The New York Times bestselling author of Spandau Phoenix and Mortal Fear returns with a rich and atmospheric novel of high suspense

When recently widowed Penn Cage leaves Houston with his young daughter and returns to his hometown seeking peace, he finds something very different. Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money. Upon learning that his father is being blackmailed, Penn finds himself reopening the most highly charged murder case in the town's history, searching for the evidence that could bring down the judge who nearly destroyed his father years ago. As the town closes ranks against him, Penn is joined by Caitlin Masters, a young newspaper publisher, on a deadly quest to find answers to one of the darkest chapters of American history, a quest that pits them against the FBI, a band of brothers still fiercely guarding the tainted legacy of J. Edgar Hoover. But Penn's most dangerous journey must be made alone--into the abiding mystery of his own past, into the mind and heart of a woman he lost twenty years ago, and who still has the power to save or destroy him.

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Current Mood: discontent

AUTHOR: Tatsuya Endo
RELEASED: June 2, 2020 by VIZ Media LLC
SERIES: Spy×Family (#1)
GENRE: Action, Comedy, Shonen
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★★★☆
SYNOPSIS: Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment—get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!

Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath!

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Current Mood: content

AUTHOR: Ted Dekker
RELEASED: January 30, 2011 by Thomas Nelson
SERIES: The Circle (#0-3)
GENRE: Thriller, Christian Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★☆☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Four novels. Two worlds. One Story.

Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.

Black - An incredible story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and a terrorist threat unlike anything the human race has ever known. A virulent evil has been unleashed upon the people of Earth. The only man who can stop it is Thomas Hunter, an unlikely hero whose life is stretched between two worlds. Every time he falls asleep in one reality, he awakes in the other. Soon Thomas no longer knows which reality is real. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that his choices in each world impact the other--and that the fates of both rest in his hands.

Red - In one world, Thomas Hunter is a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the other, he's racing to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating global chaos through an unstoppable virus. Thomas must find a way to change history--or face the destruction of two worlds.

White - Thomas Hunter has only days to survive two separate realms of danger, deceit, and destruction. The fates of both worlds now rest on his unique ability to shift realities through his dreams. Thomas and The Circle must quickly decide who they can trust--both with their own lives and the fate of millions. And neither the terror of Black nor the treachery of Red can prepare Thomas for the forces aligned against The Circle in White.

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Current Mood: complacent

AUTHOR: Diane Hoh
RELEASED: January 1, 1995 by Scholastic Paperbacks
SERIES: Nightmare Hall (#29)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Mystery
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Salem U. is buzzing with holiday activities. Annie loves the holidays, until two of her friends have horrible accidents—and she may be next.

What Annie doesn't know is that one of her friends has a dark past. He has murdered a girl and now his mind is split in two. One part that of a student, the other that of a guilty killer.

He listens to "the voice in the mirror" that tells him that each new girl he meets is actually a reincarnation of the girl he killed, returning to expose him. The voice tells him he has no chance, unless he can eliminate the problem...permanently.

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AUTHOR: Diane Hoh
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Scholastic, Inc.
SERIES: Nightmare Hall (#15)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Mystery
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: It begins as a game.

When first-year student Parrie Moore meets the other girls at a party, joining them in their harmless game of Truth or Dare sounds like fun.

And at first it is. The dares are silly pranks that make them all laugh.

But gradually the dares become stranger, more dangerous. The game is taking on a life of its own.

Parrie is frightened. But it's only a game...or is it?

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AUTHOR: R.L. Stine
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Thorndike Press
SERIES: Fear Street (#16)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Urban fiction
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★☆☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Dying for a Date

Chelsea Richards is shy, lonely, and looking for love. She would give anything to finally go on a date. Soon there are two new boys in town, and both ask her out.

Too bad, one of them is a crazed killer. Poor Chelsea. Will her first date also be her last?

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AUTHOR: Carolyn Keene
RELEASED: January 1, 1988 by Grey Castle Press
SERIES: Nancy Drew Files (#1)
GENRE: Mystery, Fiction
AGE RANGE: Juvenile
RATINGS: ★★★☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Nancy Drew goes back to high school - but this time, the curriculum is murder.

No one has been able to catch the elusive thief who is stalking the nighttime halls of Bedford High. So Nancy goes undercover as a transfer student When she meets her contact, Daryl Gray, a gorgeous senior with blueberry eyes, Nancy thinks this new case would turn out to be a lot of fun. But she is dead wrong.

Dangerous secrets, run deep at Bedford, and Nancy learns the hard way when she takes Daryl for a ride in her Mustang - and the car ends up exploding in a ball of fire. Though her suspect list is long, Nancy is almost certain she knows who the thief is - until her top candidate is found sprawled outside the video lab, very dead.

Suddenly it's a whole new game, a game called murder. And Nancy is the killer's next target.

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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

- Virginia Woolf

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Current Mood: accomplished

You’re going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn’t it? I’m sure you’ll overcome this. You’ll walk again… soon.

― Kentaro Miura

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You've stumbled upon my blog. I'm Lia, and reading is my favorite pastime. If I have time, I'll read a book. I enjoy reading a lot of genres, including YA novels, romance, urban fantasy, and mysteries. I love getting lost in a book and exploring the characters' lives. I'm always looking for new books to read, and I'm always open to recommendations.

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[Book Review] Fallen

[Manga Review] Silver Spoon, Vol. 1

[Manhwa Review] Demon Diary, Volume 01

The Elegant Courtly Life of the Tea Witch Vol. 1

Virgin Love 1

The Friday Five for Mar 28

[Book Review] Mr. Perfect on Paper

[Book Review] Love at First Book

[Manga Review] Sakura, Saku, Vol. 1

[Manga Review] Fairy Tail, Vol. 01

[Manga Review] Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

[Book Review] The Quiet Game

[Manga Review] Spy x Family, Vol. 1

[Book Review] The Circle

[Book Review] The Voice in the Mirror

[Book Review] Truth or Die

[Book Reivew] First Date

[Book Review] Secrets Can Kill

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