Bookish/Fandom Events Calendar

Hello everyone! So, earlier in the summer, I realized that a lot of author tours happen, however, 9 times out of ten, I don't hear about them until they're happening or done. I also realized that there are so many author tours going on, in so many places, that it's hard to keep track of …

Genuine Fraud by E Lockhart – Review

*this post includes affiliate links I have with Amazon* Hello everyone! So, during Book Con - check out my first recap here! - I managed to pick up Genuine Fraud* by E Lockhart. It was an insane process to get to it - Penguin Teen, y'all gotta do better - and it wasn't an anticipated …

DISCUSSION: #BooksForTrade FAQ + FREE Trade Tracker Download

Hello everyone! So last year (actually, a year to the day wow), I wrote a post about something called #booksfortrade and it helped quite a few people (well, I like to think I did) but it was missing A LOT. Therefore, I decided to make a kind-of part 2 and answer the FAQs I see …

DISCUSSION: Don’t Forget The Young In Young Adult

Hello everyone! Lately, there's been some discussion that pops up about the YA book community, specifically about the lack of teens/teen authority. Now what I mean by that is: there seems to be a lot less teens in the community (aka people 19 or younger) and, adults in the community seem to have more authority …

5th Blogoversary & Giveaways

Hello everyone! So yesterday was a bit of a special day as you can probably tell from the title. Yesterday, 5 years ago, I started Avid Reader/blogging. For those of you wondering how that is, considering I have about 3.5 years worth of posts on here, well I started on Weebly then moved to WordPress …