Book Tag Thursday: The Pancake Book Tag

As always for this segment, I will find awesome book tags throughout the vast, wide inter-webs and complete mini-challenges. I’ll hope you’ll have fun and participate with me as well!

Today’s Topic: The Pancake Book Tag

Created By: Blogs of a Bookaholic

THE RULES

As with any tag, I’ve created a couple of basic rules:

• Link back to the original creator in your post (that’s me!)
• Feel free to use any of my pancake graphics in your post, or create your own!
• Tag 5 other people at the end of your post, and let them know you’ve tagged them. 

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I appreciated how this novel explores culture and heritage. It brings up questions about how cultures clash, respecting others’ culture, and traditions vs a modern world. Its thought-provoking and it opens a large discussion about racism, ethnicity, and feeling conflicted about your upbringing. It’s so beautifully written and I love the way the author uses beautiful metaphors to explain some of the challenges that you have to overcome in life. (Review)

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Diana’s loud rebellious nature makes her an interesting character in To Love and To Loathe. I loved her open honesty and her wittiness in conversation with other characters in the novel. She’s very quick with words and even when she sometimes stumbles over herself at times she knows how to mend the situation and tries to make amends She made an entertaining heroine that readers will enjoy. (Review)

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This was a fun monthly pick for my local book club. The graphic novel is a collection of webcomic strips about a world where no men exist and focuses on a small community of women. Its light-hearted nature and tongue-in-cheek comedy will have readers laughing. I also like how it balances humor with tackling topics such as feminism, gender equality, and sexism. I think every time I read this book I could discover something new that I hadn’t seen before.

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This is Mimi Grace’s debut novel and it was so good! I’m so glad she released a new book this year because after reading Along for The Ride, I definitely wanted to read more of her works asap! It’s an entertaining novel with a road trip, enemies-to-lovers trope, lots of humor, and steamy romance! Plus how cute is this cover design?!

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The thing that stood out most to me about this series is that it’s not only focused on romance but mainly on self-love. It has an incredibly powerful and uplifting message on body image, finding yourself, and family; which was really refreshing to see. The romance blossoms between the two leads slowly as they both help each other to work out their own issues. I really appreciated this since most romance manga has the two love interests jump into the relationship within the first volume. (Review)

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Reading the book through Alaine’s (the MC) perspective is entertaining. She has a lively personality with her heavy sarcasm and humor, but readers see how she uses it to cover up how she’s struggling with all the recent events. She’s a talented writer with great wit and use of words. The final project is a great challenge for her and through researching the history of Haiti she becomes more connected to her heritage. You think you have her character figured out in the beginning, but you learn there are more layers underneath the surface. (Review)

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This was an interesting psychological thriller through and through. The reader can’t help but shake the fact that something isn’t right, but you’re unsure of where to look to find the missing piece of the puzzle. Since Natalie’s (the MC) memory is a bit cloudy, she becomes a bit of an unreliable narrator. We aren’t sure of what memories are true or not and the readers have to go off of clues hidden in conversations, mysterious emails, and her interactions with others. The suspense aspect definitely kept me on my toes. (Review)

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I honestly couldn’t think of any opposites attract romances for this prompt, because I end up liking a lot of the pairings I read in novels.

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First off, Iris Wang is such an unlikable character in this story. I did feel like she deserved some of the things that happens to her because she brought them on herself. The more Iris starts to open up the easier it is for her to connect with readers. But I still had trouble liking her as a character and connecting to her story. Her spoiled brat nature was a big issue for me when reading this book. It was a big turn-off for me! (Review)

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I enjoyed the overall setting of the camp and its lagoon setting. It feels calming but mysterious at the same time. The fantasy elements are thrilling too and it enhances the reading experience. I liked the tie into the West African diaspora and how the novel was incredibly rich in cultural aspects. I liked appreciated that the campers came from different diverse backgrounds. There was never a dull moment and each chapter bought new exciting things to the overall plot.  (Review)

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