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Hello everyone, and welcome to 16 days on the road with Between the Pages! I am traveling the east coast for around two weeks finding the best bookstores, exploring literary sites, and plundering my way through roughly 2,000 miles of land, through hamlets and cities, through rain and sun. This reader is up to the challenge. Are you? As promised, I will supply a daily report of my wanderings including the cities we explored, the sites we discovered, and the shops we visited. Without further adieu, here is day 1! (More exciting reports are to come, as driving was today's main {*only*} activity.) Day 1 CITIES We made it to three main cities today: Bristol, TN , Knoxville, TN , and Charlottesville, VA . Again, today's main activity was driving (and driving and driving and driving). Today was not my first journey to any of the three cities; however, this road trip shed new light on each one. BOOKSTORES Our first literary stop of the entire trip was a spontaneous one. The original pl...

Reading and writing, reading and writing, reading and writing: that's what I hope to keep doing all summer (with some swimming and seeing friends mixed in there too!). Here's another review! This is Stuart Turton's The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,  and it's a doozy.  SUMMARY THE RULES OF BLACKHEATH Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Understood? Then let's begin... Evelyn Hardcastle WILL die. And every day Aiden Bishop WILL try to identify her killer and break this neverending cycle he has somehow found himself in. But every time a new day begins, Aiden inhabits the body of a different guest at Blackheath. Some of Aiden's hosts will be more helpful than others. Some of Aiden's hosts are more capable than others. Some of Aiden's hosts start to overcome Aiden's true personality. Then again, who is Aiden? A...

Hello, everyone. In my quest to finish my junior year of high school (aka the hardest year of my life) on a high note, I have not posted a review on this blog for a while. My apologies for the lack of posts; however, it's summer. I'm back. Let's get into it with my first self-help book EVER: Atomic Habits by James Clear.  SUMMARY Atomic Habits by James Clear is, at the most basic level, a book about habits, as the title suggests: habit-forming, habit breaking, and strategies for integrating small changes into our daily lives. While the majority of the book is focused on teaching readers “an easy and proven way to build good habits,” as the title proclaims, James Clear’s overarching goal is proving that massive success does not require massive action, but rather that small, everyday changes will have a larger impact. Clear writes, “It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.” ...

Hello! Here is an article that recently ran in my high school paper about banned books by me! Enjoy! In 1982, Banned Books Week was launched in response to a surge in challenged books in school districts, libraries, and bookstores. Another wave of book banning is taking place now - 40 years later.  Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: these are just a few of the numerous titles that are banned and challenged classics, according to the American Library Association (ALA). Although HH's curriculum continues to include these books, in a lot of high schools around the country, books like these and other classics are being contested, as they have been many times in America’s history.  In 1982, District V. Pico, a Supreme Court case that ruled school officials cannot ban books in libraries for their content, sparked what we know today as the Banned Books Movement. That same year, the American Booksellers Asso...

I am finally getting around to giving you the quick facts on my reading last year! These stats are straight from my yearly spreadsheet. Enjoy! 33 BOOKS Dearly In Cold Blood Where the Crawdads Sing A Study in Charlotte The End of August A Case for Jamie Night Siddartha The Stranger Hamlet 12 Angry Men Good Girl, Bad Blood Mrs. Dalloway Kisses and Croissants American Royals They Wish They Were Us Majesty (Amerian Royals II) Kind of a Big Deal The Midnight Library The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Beach Read People We Meet on Vacation Box in the Woods Finlay Donovan is Killing It A Question of Holmes Poirot Investigates Just Mercy The Inheritance Games It Ends With Us The Royal We The Royals Next Door Frankenstein The Hawthorne Legacy TOP 3 AUTHORS Brittany Cavallaro Agatha Christie Emily Henry MY GENRES