Month: March 2021

top ten tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my Spring 2021 TBR

Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Good morning friends! I hope it’s a lovely Tuesday wherever you are, and maybe it is starting to feel like spring out there for you. Spring is my absolute favourite season. I always feel like there is just something in the air that smells like rebirth as all the green starts blooming again.

In line with these thoughts, today’s TTT showcases books we are excited for this spring. I have chosen to solely pick books on my TBR that are coming out this rest of March until May. Let me know if you are excited for any of these up and coming novels in the comments below!

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3 star, YA

Review: Sadie by Courtney Summers

Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial―like podcast following the clues she’s left behind. And an ending you won’t be able to stop talking about.

Sadie hasn’t had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she’s been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.

But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie’s entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister’s killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.

When West McCray―a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America―overhears Sadie’s story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie’s journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it’s too late.

Courtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career. Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page.

TW: sexual abuse

Dark and heartwrenching at times, Sadie by now is a fairly common household name among YA readers and even beyond. But as a thriller? I’m not so sure it held that level of suspense, but there was definitely a mysterious allure to understand what happened to the titular character, Sadie.

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Let’s Talk Bookish – Do you run a booktube? Why or why not?

Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

Welcome to the another LTB in March, everyone! This is a weekly meme hosted by Rukky and Dani on their respective blogs, where we take community suggested topics about books/reading and discuss them and share our views!

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme, hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books & Dani @ Literary Lion, where they discuss certain topics, share their opinions, and spread the love by visiting each others’ posts.

Prompt for March 12 (suggested by Dani):
I recently started a booktube, as I’ve been longing to for ages and it made me think – if you blog and booktube why do you do both? If you only blog why have you chosen blogging over booktubing? Do you think one format does certain things better than the other? Do you ever want to run a booktube if you don’t already?

Such an interesting prompt for today! I have never been much of a video editor, nor do I really like recording them, so booktubing has never really been in the cards for me. Editing blog posts just feels much more natural to me, having have finished drafts of posts, and working at my own pace just feels simpler on a blog.

I myself have never been really that brave to even start a blog, it is really only by joining Andge here that I truly got into blogging about three years ago. I must say I have massively enjoyed the experience so far, and am glad to have taken it up. For me personally, these kinds of things are more fun with a friend, or at least not alone, and in that sense it is probably easier for us to coordinate blog posts over coordinating videos.

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