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Happy International Women’s Day! 💪 I thought this little gem of a book was perfect to celebrate and remember that like our sisters in the 1950s, women are still facing discrimination. With retro illustrations, Career Girls gives all too real tales of the gender pay gap, working moms, and the inequality women face at work. I got this lovely cross stitch kit from @cotton_clara as part of my February #booksthatmatterukbox 🌈 I plan to hang this in my library as a reminder to read more women! • • #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #books #readwomen #internationalwomensday #bookish #bibliophile #booknerd #strongwomen #whywestillneedfeminism #bookphoto #bookphotography #booksandfeminisim #careergirlsbook #feministreads #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B9eORUKgdVe/?igshid=4chnaqutc7h6

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Nothing beats a lazy afternoon in bed with your current read and a cup of special tea ☕️📖✨ Today I learned I passed all of my semester one exams! I’m chuffed to bits; so I rewarded myself with a lazy day in bed reading 🥳 I’m currently listening to the audiobook and reading along with my hardback copy of People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield. This was @goldsborobooks October premier club pick, and I’m kicking myself it’s taken me this long to pick it up because I’m *really* enjoying it! I’m just more than half way and can’t wait to see how it ends 💙🖤 I hope Monday’s been kind to you all - here’s to a great reading week! What’s everyone hoping to read? 📚📚 #peopleofabandonedcharacter #bibliophile #goldsborobooks #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #bookworm #booklover #bookstagram #ukbookstagram #evavsthealgorithm #historicalfiction #booksandtea #amreading #readersofinstagram #bookrecommendations #bookstagrammer https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUu6RvAkHC/?igshid=xet6nmkyhoq

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These are the books I’ve bought this past month. I just ordered six more today, so now I really need to take a break before buying any more 🙈🌼 QOTD: what content do you mostly enjoy when scrolling through instagram? These past few months I’ve found it quite difficult to find anything to write about, unless it being about a specific book, so I would love some inspiration from you guys, about what you like seeing on your feed🌼 #bookblogger #bookishlove #bookishfeatures #booknerdigans #bookgram #bookstagram #books #bookish #booklover #evavsthealgorithm #booklove #booksbooksbooks #booksofinsta https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvTfa3gnj0/?igshid=jkguceswa5p1

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Happy Monday! Yesterday I got this amazing #bookstack from my monthly book swap group 💗 I was excited to find so many good books that have been on my TBR backlist! #qotd Have you read any of these? • • • #bookhaul #usedbooks #redqueen #misscarterswar #adiscoveryofwitches #wheredyougobernadette #orphanpamuk #books #bookish #booklover #bibliophile #bookworm #booknerd #bookphoto #bookphotography #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #evavsthealgorithm #readersofinstagram #booksofinstagram #bookswaphaul #bookswap https://www.instagram.com/p/B706WzUg7u7/?igshid=v2iopyts2owu

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Happy 2020 bookstafam! It’s a new year and I’m so excited for what the year will bring ❤️2019 has been a rocky year with a lot of ups and downs but I’m proud of the person I became and how I handled being unemployed as well as having the support of my loved ones. I’m looking forward to improving even more in 2020 and making more memories. I have a lot of bookish goals for the year but I’m also trying to keep it relaxed as this is also the year I’m getting married 😍👰🏻 • • Here are some of my bookish and non bookish goals for the year: 🌸 Read 50 books 🌸 Read more books from the library and my owned TBR before buying books 🌸 Continue my Read Around the World challenge-completing one continent 🌸 Read more diverse authors/stories 🌸 Quality over Quantity- be less afraid of DNFing books I’m not enjoying 🌸 Do more reading challenges but don’t be discouraged if I don’t complete them 🌸 Be healthier and more active 🌸 Don’t let people’s opinions get to me as much and stop doing things to please others but to make myself happy 🌸 Date night with the fiancé once a month minimum • • #qotd do you make goals/resolutions in the new year? What are some of them? #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B6xXrmGAcdL/?igshid=iqczyrzdnx2e

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📖Current read📖 Happy Thursday! This week, I’m reading my first book for #nonfictionnovember 🍁 I’ve had this one on my shelf for a year now so this month I was finally motivated enough to read it! I’m about halfway through and enjoying it so far. The bookmark is one of my new ones that I ordered from @aliciamarksit and she has the cutest bookmarks so go check out her Etsy shop! 😍 #Qotd: how’s your week been so far? #lovebookstagrammers #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B4kioylAyUP/?igshid=953zjyidlk8r

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It’s #stacksaturday 📚 I decided to try my own #autumnbookstack and unfortunately I don’t have many orange or bright yellow book spines! I just got back from the zoo and I’m just a few hours I’m finally going to see the Joker movie 🍿 tomorrow will be sooner relaxing and reading as much as possible! What are your weekend plans? #lovebookstagrammers #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B3zWqCegZm8/?igshid=1oi4nk92wzwi1

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⭐️ BOOK REVIEW ⭐️ Happy Wednesday! I finished book 4 of The Selection series yesterday. Although I’ve been loving the series, this book just wasn’t as good. It took me a long time to get into the story and the main character is really unlikable. Just when there was starting to be development and I got more into it, they took a few steps backward, becoming irritating again. I was happy to see certain things in the book following the characters that I’ve grown to adore however this book almost felt pointless. I’m glad to have read it but I also wouldn’t have been sad if the series ended at 3 books 🙊 Overall I’d give this 4 ⭐️s just because I do love this series and despite the main characters many flaws, I do enjoy the new POV. #qotd if you’ve read the series, what were your thoughts on The Heir? If you haven’t, was there a series you’ve read where one book was frustrating and not as enjoyable? • • #evavsthealgorithm #bookreview #theselectionseries #kieracass #theheirbookfouroftheselectionseries #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #notjustaprettybook #yaromance #yaseries #bookphoto #bookishsocks #bibliophile #booknerd #readersgonnaread https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oCde-g1a0/?igshid=azq02j9koklz

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Bookish mail 💌 Happy Monday bookworms! Today I received my order from @alicia_marks_it and I’m so excited about all the fun wintery bookmarks 😍 she has the prettiest designs and high quality bookmarks! I had trouble picking just a couple so I may have gone overboard and ended up with more than enough (and they couldn’t fit in one photo) 🙈 swipe to see the rest of the bookmarks #qotd do you collect bookmarks? Do you have a favorite place to buy bookmarks from? #evavsthealgorithm #bookmail #bookish #bookstagram #etsypurchases #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #bookishlove #bookishprops #bookmarks #christmasbookmarks #aliciamarksitbookmark https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ipcXdAzUG/?igshid=1e0ogxk9cgu45

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Happy Friday! 💃🏻 So a long time ago @lavenfaerie tagged me to do the #alphabetchallenge and gave me the letter N. I finally got around to it and this is the result! Title - Norse Mythology Author - Neil Gaiman Character - Nathaniel I haven’t read either of these books yet unfortunately 🙈 I’m tagging a few of you here and giving you the letter O. Participation is of course voluntary and anyone not tagged who wants to participate is more than welcome to join in! Tag me in your posts so I can see what you come up with 💗 #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bei6pg3R7/?igshid=1t8fding3hzsi

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Happy Wednesday! Yesterday I received some book mail 💗 This is going to be one of my February reads as part of the #femibooksclub run by @femi.books Girl, Woman, Other has been on my TBR for a few months so I’m excited to finally get to read and discuss it! #qotd what are you reading? #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WW5r0gRXY/?igshid=1q5cjq69hoi22

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⭐️ BOOK REVIEW ⭐️ Bookstafam I’m obsessed with this series! I finished book 2 in a day which hasn’t happened for me since high school 🙈 I love the story and the characters (except Aspen, he annoys me) and the writing. It’s been an interesting page turner for me and I’m already starting book 3 😍 I’ve abandoned the rest of my planned TBR because I honestly can’t focus on anything else! I’m giving it all the stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #qotd what’s the last book you just couldn’t put down? #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Txbn0Ax9L/?igshid=16bca0qtyc67t

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⭐️ BOOK REVIEW ⭐️ “What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” Happy Monday everyone! Over the weekend I finished Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child.” The novella is a quick read focusing on Bride, now a young woman who reflects on her childhood and fighting for her mother to show her affection. Her mother, Sweetness, distances herself from Bride to “teach her life lessons” because Bride is blue-black or very dark skinned whereas Sweetness is lighter skinned. This causes Bride to make choices in an attempt to gain her mother’s love. I love Morrison’s books 💗 her writing style and the way she describes emotions and the setting always pulls me in. This was one of her darker books that I’ve read with a lot of descriptions of pedophilia/molestation so I would suggest not reading it if you don’t do well with darker books. I wish the story was longer because I felt like the characters fell a little flat and wanted to see how things ended up as there were also a couple of loose ends. Overall I enjoyed the book for addressing difficult topics like overcoming childhood trauma, neglect, and race. I will give the full list of triggers in my stories and CW/TW highlights on my profile. Overall I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 This book also fit for my #readingwomenchallenge and its the 3rd book for Team Castle Black #gameofthronesreadathon hosted by @whatjasread 👑 #Qotd have you read any books by Toni Morrison? #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B7QewUTA_rN/?igshid=1ssj5dk8di2su

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⭐️ REVIEW ⭐️ I finished my second book for the #gameofthronesreadathon hosted by @whatjasread and the first for the #readingwomenchallenge 💪🏻 Goodbye To All That is an anthology by different writers who loved New York City but ultimately struggled and left it. The anthology is inspired by Joan Didion’s book of the same title, following her own love affair with the city that never sleeps. Some writers came back, some grew up there and eventually left but overall, most of the stories were the same. It got repetitive and eventually I was rushing towards the end just to finish it. • • I really didn’t like the writing structure and style of Currency by Eliza Albert- it was annoying and that was the first one I skimmed. I also didn’t enjoy So Long Suckers by Rebecca Wolff. Marcy Dermansky’s essay, Maybe I loved you was my favorite as she now lives in Germany and I felt a connection to how she described living in a foreign country where she doesn’t speak the language and thinks maybe she did love New York but maybe she didn't. She just knows she misses her loved ones and is homesick (which is exactly how I feel). Other than the two I absolutely couldn’t stand and this single gem, the rest just blended together into one blob. • • It’s hard to rate an anthology especially when the stories are about the lives of others. So with that in mind, I give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5. It wasn’t the worst I’ve read but it was also underwhelming. #qotd do you read anthologies? What’s your favorite one? #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B7G0IoBg8jp/?igshid=pjz2mlo3gi6u

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Happy Monday! Of course right when I started getting better from my cold, I get sick with an even worse one instead 🙈 I’m spending my day off drinking tea and reading so I guess it could be worse! This photo is for my other year long reading challenge #20readsin2020 hosted by @evavstheworldvand @iirasbooks 🎉 not pictured are a couple of ebooks and any library books I find along the way that fit the prompts! #qotd have you read any of these books? What did you think? #evavsthealgorithm https://www.instagram.com/p/B6-ry2UgwAh/?igshid=11k9oojz9q8hv

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Happy Saturday! I finished organizing my books for the 3 different year long challenges I’m doing ☺️ This #bookstack is for the #readingwomenchallenge and it’ll be my first year participating! Most of the prompts fit with books I already own which was exciting but the others I’ll have to search for at the library. I’m most excited to read Just Eat It, The Blind Assassin, and God Help the Child ❤️ #qotd are you participating in the reading women challenge? Do you see any books here that you are also reading this year? • • #stacksaturday #evavsthealgorithm #readingchallenges #books #bookish #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #booknerd #booknerdigan #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #bookphoto #bookphotography #bookaesthetic #readersgonnaread #bookcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/B65uVmTAMro/?igshid=h3ru2gves2ru