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dontdenymeshakespeare · 2 months

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Realmathon Week One

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#Bonnie Garmus #Books #David Grann #Fantasy #Fantasy Romance #Fiction #Historical Fiction #Judith Lindbergh #Life #Melissa K. Roehrich #Mythology #Nonfiction #Norse #Norse Mythology #Readathon #Reading #Reading Challenges #Realmathon #Romantasy

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 2 months

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72 Hours in The Reading Nook

At least once a year, Cassidy from CoverswithCassidy, Mel from Mel Lenore Reads and Lexie from bookswithlexie get together with one of their friends and do a 72-hour readathon in a specific location. There are two wheels to give you prompts throughout the weekend: an in your comfort zone wheel and an out of your comfort zone wheel. This round took place in the reading nook. I did a round last…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 2 months

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Polarthon

Last week I participated in Polarthon, a readathon hosted by Jade from Jadeyraereads and this year co-hosted by Beth from BooksNest and Steph from Steph Loves. It’s all about reading polar-related content, which for me meant the perfect excuse to read some fantasy and participate in sprints with a lovely group of humans. My first choice was The Circus Train by Amita Parikh. While it wasn’t polar…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 3 months

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New Substack Posts

Alongside my posts here on WordPress, I also have a Substack where I post some of my more essay-like bookish content. Last year, I started a new series where I was re-reading YA faves. I ended up one writing one piece for this new series, but I will be going back to that this year. January’s choice for this series was The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke. For those of you who don’t follow me on…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 3 months

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Atalanta

In some ways i feel like the pandemic happened and while other people were baking banana bread, I was finding Greek mythology retellings. They are now some of my favourite books, which feels a little weird for me to be “saying” because for so long retellings weren’t something I was interested in. Within the Greek mythology retelling space, though, Jennifer Saint is an autobuy author for me now. I…

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#Artemis #Auto Buys #Book Review #Books #Family Dynamics #Family Relationships #Goddesses #Gods #Greek Mythology #Greek Myths #Jason and the Golden Fleece #Jennifer Saint #Mythology #Mythology Retellings #Relationships #Retellings

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 4 months

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Favourite Reads of 2023

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 4 months

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Christmas & Birthday Book Haul

WARNING: I’VE INCLUDED FOUL HEART HUNTSMAN BY CHLOE GONG IN THIS POST. BECAUSE OF THIS THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR THE THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS DUOLOGY AND FOUL LADY FORTUNE IN THE BLURB I’VE GIVEN, As always I’ve combined these two lists because my birthday is two days after Christmas. They are in no particular order. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Salama Kassab is a pharmacy…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 4 months

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The Lost Bookshop

This is one of those books that I probably would’ve picked up anyway, but I picked it up this month because of a Patreon book club (check out the creator of that book club here). The Lost Bookshop is about books, bookshops, intertwined lives and there’s a little twist of magic. It’s right up my alley. There are so many things about this one that drew me in and everything in me told me that I was…

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#Adult #Book Review #Books #Books About Books #Charlotte Bronte #Contemporary #Emily Bronte #Evie Woods #Fiction #Historical Fiction #Magical Realism #Multi-POV #World War II

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 5 months

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End of Year Book Tag

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 5 months

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NaNo 2023 Wrap-Up

I “won”. I finished on a 10k day, I reached 130k for the project and I didn’t still finish my project. There’s a part of me that’s disappointed that I didn’t finish it, but I’m close, progress was made and I was deep in the depths of experimentation. Scriptwriting isn’t something that comes naturally to me, it does require more thought and I always knew that finishing the project was going to be…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 5 months

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NaNo Update No. 3

It’s day 20, I haven’t written anything yet today, but I’m at 47,936 words. If you’ve been reading all my weekly updates you’re probably getting a little tired of hearing this, but even though I like experimenting with scriptwriting, that’s not how I see myself as a writer. From late September onwards I knew that this past weekend (16-19 November) was not going to be my most productive weekend.…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 5 months

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NaNo Update No. 2

Note: Apparently I forgot to schedule this post, hence why it’s written from the perspective of a few days ago It’s day 13 and I’m at 35,483 words. Like I wrote in my first update, I’m proud of myself for where I’ve gotten in this project. I will never consider myself a playwright, a screenwriter. I will always consider myself a novelist more than anything, but I love experimentation. The fact…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 6 months

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NaNo Update No. 1

It’s day 6 and I’m at 15,822 words. I’m super proud of myself because I’m not a scriptwriter in any form. My writing passion will always be the novel and it will always be the format I feel the most comfortable telling a story in. The fact that I’ve made that much progress in less than a week feels good in a different way than when I’m working on a novel. Yesterday was one of those days where…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 6 months

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NaNo 2023 Project

I’ve been doing NaNoWriMo every year since 2011 and most of those years I’ve “won”. I love the way the writing community comes together and talks about their projects. It’s a highlight of my year and I love the opportunities that come with it. My main project for 2023 is going to be drafting a TV series. Not the entire thing, since I’ve already done five or the thirteen planned episodes, but my…

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#Atlantic Ocean #Cape Cod #Contemporary #Drafting #First Draft #Lake Life #Life #Massachusetts #NaNo Rebel #NaNoWriMo #Rough Draft #Scriptwriting #Wampanoag Bay #Writing #Writing Challenges #Writing Community #Writing Experiment #Writing Experiments #Writing Plans

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 6 months

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Preptober

I’ve been doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) every year since 2011 and most of those years I’ve “won”. It’s an event that I look forward to every year, mostly because it’s such a great community and I love the feel of so many people writing towards a common goal. It’s all virtual/online, but I don’t think that has ever hindered my enjoyment of the event. There will be a more detailed…

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 7 months

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Battleathon Week Four

My week four wrap-up for Battleathon

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#Amber V. Nicole #Battleathon #Books #Fae #Fantasy #Fantasy Romance #Gourav Mohanty #High Fantasy #Indian Mythology #J. Bree #Life #Readathon #Witches

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 7 months

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Battleathon Week Three

My week three Battleathon update

Battleathon is a readathon created by Mel from Mel Lenore Reads and co-hosted by many others in the BookTube and Bookstagram community. This one is a bracket-style readathon, that relies on star ratings, and while it involves dragons and there’s a fantasy slant, you don’t have to read solely fantasy books for this readathon. I will be reading mostly fantasy, though, because I feel like I haven’t…

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#Adult #Battleathon #Books #Fantasy #Life #Mark Lawrence #N. E. Davenport #Readathon #Tasha Suri #Young Adult

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