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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Posted on 24 September, 201124 September, 2011 by Ikhlas

I just wanted to remind everyone that a new YA novel by first-time author Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, this Tuesday September 27th, 2011. In the summer, I had the immense pleasure of reading the ARC of this debut YA novel and fell in love with the first line. Check out my review…

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Elevator Love Letter

Posted on 23 September, 201113 October, 2012 by Ikhlas

Her heel was broken. And to make things worse, it was raining. She sat under the green awning of the Starbucks, on the dry cement stairs, on the corner of Yonge and Charles.

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Meet Sarah Dessen

Posted on 22 September, 201123 September, 2011 by Ikhlas

So yesterday I had the immense pleasure of seeing and meeting Sarah Dessen! She was in Toronto, at the Eaton Centre for yesterday and today, talking and signing her latest novel What Happened to Goodbye. I’ve been a fan of hers since I was in high school, when I read Someone like You, and have been…

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Review: Rebel Angels

Posted on 20 September, 20118 November, 2012 by Ikhlas

Libba Bray’s Rebel Angels is the 2nd book in Bray’s well-loved Gemma Doyle trilogy. Rebel Angels continues the story of Gemma Doyle and her struggle with the magic of the realms, as she tries to fit in at Spence Academy for Girls and moves one step closer to finding her mother’s best friend and killer, Circe. After…

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You + Me

Posted on 17 September, 201113 October, 2012 by Ikhlas

You. You stand there, eyes open, glaring. You can’t understand what I’m saying. Why I’m saying it. All you know is what you want. What you need. You can’t hear me. And don’t know how to listen. You twist and you turn my heart, make me cry and beg for mercy. You don’t stop because…

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