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Category: Book Banter

Highly Anticipated YA Titles of 2013 (or Books I Needed Yesterday)

Posted on 15 January, 201328 January, 2013 by Ikhlas

So I have a bookshelf on Goodreads called ‘dying to read’. That list is kind of long, and every few months I have to go in and prune it, since some books that I was ‘dying to read’ eventually fall off my radar. Other books, on the other hand, stay on my radar, blinking furiously…

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Year in Review: Books

Posted on 31 December, 2012 by Ikhlas

So I read a lot of books this year. 80 according to Goodreads. Technically, I read more, since I love rereading favourites, but we won’t go into that now. ^_^ I’ve never done this before, but considering the fact that I posted a lot of reviews on the blog, compared to last year, I wanted to…

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Book Haul

Posted on 18 December, 201218 December, 2012 by Ikhlas

This past weekend was employee discount weekend at Chapters Indigo, which is where I work, in case you didn’t know. đŸ™‚ I’ve only been hearing about this highly anticipated weekend for about 2 to 3 weeks, but it was enough to get me excited and it didn’t take very long for me to start making…

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Compilation: Favourite Middle Grade Books

Posted on 5 November, 2012 by Ikhlas

After working in Chapters.Indigo for 2 weeks now, I’ve spent a lot of time in the teens/kids’ section, and more specifically, the middle grade section. As I work on scanning middle grade chapter books and series, I’m excited by some of the titles I go through, which all sound very exciting and full of great…

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Compilation: Books I Really Need To Read

Posted on 21 October, 201221 October, 2012 by Ikhlas

With so many classics being made into films nowadays, I started thinking about all the books that I have on my to-read list, which have been on there for quite some time. For some reason or another, they have never made their way to my bedside table (mostly laziness). Weirdly enough, I always feel an…

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