Hey hey, book-dragons, how’s life? I am currently at my wit’s end (where else), and the cause is, unsurprisingly, the entire wedding industry (and also the Catholic Church but let’s not get into that). I won’t bore you with the details, but a gentle word of advice to my as-yet-unmarried readers… FUCKING ELOPE FOR FUCK’S…

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I’m in a foul mood, crumpets. No spirit for a preamble. Time to savage a book. Today, it’s Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility  – which is yet another of my library’s book club picks. Cover Talk We haven’t even opened the book and already I feel like I’m in West Egg. Or is it East…

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Guten Abend meine leckeren kandierten Nüsse. (Yes, I just called you my delicious candied nuts because I LOVE YOU that’s why). How goes it? All well and good in your cozy den of iniquity? Today, I will share with you a brief anecdote that just goes to show you that even your most hardened prejudices,…

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Hey hey, welcome to another edition of Less Than Sober Blogging. Tonight’s drink is the tears of my enemies on ice… jk, it’s vodka coolers cuz I’m a basic bish and A LOT OF THEM. I guess I should tell you why I’m Less Than Sober, right? I mean, the actual reason, not the vodka…

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A very spoooooooky hello to you, my perfect little pumpkin pies. How has the month of Halloween been treating you so far? I hope you wake up and blast this festive carol every morning to get you in the spirit of the season: Today I bring you yet another fun-size review (find the other three…

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Ignore that title, you are all perfect. How is life, mes petits mignons? Is that correct? I have no idea, my French lessons are a nightmare, the teacher is an absolute turnip (I am teaching myself). Life is good and God is great and every moment is a blessing, and I hope all things are…

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…his and mine are the same. – xo, R (& G)

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Welcome to our very first RiRi’d Review. Today’s book is Radiance by Grace Draven. THE PRINCE OF NO VALUE Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of…

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***NEW BLOG FEATURE KLAXON*** It’s a New Thing! Introducing… the RiRi’d Review. I reread books. A lot. Like, I think I reread as many old books as I read new ones. Someone one asked me why bother to read a book again if you’ve already read it. That person disappeared one foggy night on the…

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Sup bitches. My dragon-slayer is back from vacation which means I am a fully-functioning human again (or at least as good as I get). I spent two weeks moping around the house, too morose to do anything at all – even read (*GASP*). But in the 36 hours since he’s been back, I’ve managed to…

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