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K-Drama Review: Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency

K-Drama Review: Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency

SYNOPSIS: Growing up an ordinary country blacksmith, Lee Soo (Seo Ji Hoon) had no idea he would ever rule all of Joseon; but, at the age of twenty-three, that’s exactly what happened. Now as king, Lee Soo is finding it hard to adapt to the restrictions of palace life, especially where matters of the heart are concerned. Having loved Gae Ddong (Gong Seung Yeon) for as long as he can remember, he…

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C-Drama Review: The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion

C-Drama Review: The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion

Synopsis: Fu Rong (Ju Jing Yi) is the second daughter of the powerful Fu family. But after a terrible mishap and a painful illness, she is granted the gift of foresight. Able to look into her own future, she can see great wonders – and unspeakable sadness. She sees herself marrying a dashing duke named Su Xu Jin (Zhang Zhe Han). But she can also see that a tragic and untimely destiny also awaits…

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C-Drama Review: The Untamed

C-Drama Review: The Untamed

Synopsis: In a land dominated by the mighty Wen clan, a young man named Wei Wu Xian (Xiao Zhan) strikes up an unconventional friendship with justice-loving Lan Wang Ji (Wang Yibo of boyband Uniq). When the duo unexpectedly stumbles across evidence implicating the Wen clan’s chief in a plot to bring mayhem to the inhabitants of their land, Wei Wu Xian and Lan Wang Ji decide to…

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K-Drama Review: Extra-ordinary You

K-Drama Review: Extra-ordinary You

Synopsis: Eun Dan Oh, a high school girl who is the only child from a rich family, has congenital heart disease. One day, she wonders why her memory keeps disappearing. She finally realizes that she is a character in the cartoon, and decides to find her real life and love. Meanwhile, a character that doesn’t even have its name, Seuli High Shool’s Student Number 13, lives like a background of the…

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C-Drama Review: General's Lady

C-Drama Review: General’s Lady

Synopsis: Shen Jin (Tang Min) is the daughter of powerful nobles who hold prestigious positions in the imperial court. She has lived a life of luxury and is used to all of the fineries of life at the palace. But her life changes forever when the Emperor arranges a marriage for her: She is to marry a highly successful general named Chu Xiu Ming (Caesar Wu), and live with him at his army’s military…

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C-Drama Review: Douluo Continent

C-Drama Review: #DouluoContinent

Hello friends! I’m back for the summer with a bunch of drama reviews (I’ve watched a boatload of shows during quarantine, so there are a lot to get through)! We’ll see if I can keep it up, but I was already writing and posting reviews to Facebook, so I thought I would move back to the ole blog, which is a much better platform for reviewing. Synopsis: Having lost his mother at a very young age,…

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Kpop Quarantine Rabbit Hole Challenge

Kpop Quarantine Rabbit Hole Challenge. Give me a virtual birthday present today! Pick a song to listen to and tell me what you think! Let me know who I left off the list that I should listen to! #Kpop #QuarantineChallenge

Since I know most of you are sitting at home, rather bored, now is the perfect time to jump down the Kpop rabbit hole! I know, I push kpop on you guys every day, but seriously, how many of you have actually taken 3 minutes to watch an actual performance or music video? Today’s quarantine challenge is to pick at least ONE song from this list (or more if you’re so inclined) and let me know what you…

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Book Review: Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3) by Holly Black

#BookReview: #QueenofNothing (The Folk of the Air #3) by Holly Black

If you’ve been following my posts for the past month or so, you’ll know that I said this series was one of my favorites from the past year. This third book was everything I wanted it to be.

After Cardan exiles Jude at the end of the second book, Jude is fuming in the human world. I honestly couldn’t believe she didn’t know what was happening. Cardan is so much softer than she thinks for most…

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Disney Rambles: Haunted Mansion Holiday

Have you ridden the #HauntedMansionHoliday??

I was very lucky to have a sort of spontaneous day at Disneyland last week! I was in CA for the Seventeen concert with my mom, and my brother just moved to LA for work, so we decided to drop in to celebrate the year of the mouse! (erm…rat, but mouse sounds better, right?)

I’m always thrilled to get to spend a day at the happiest place on earth, but I was doubly delighted to discover that…

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Reader Recommends: Favorite Webtoons!

Favorite #Webtoons! What webtoons do you have to read every week? #LoreOlympus @used_bandaid #Subzero @junepurrr #CatsCafe #MissAbbottAndTheDoctor #PurpleHyacinth #Soleil @nikkoyen #Empyrea @OHKATES #TheDevilIsAHandsomeMan @heythisisangle

Today we’re talking about our favorite webtoons! This is a very new thing to me. I found the Webtoon App a few months ago and now I’m hooked on a few different comics that you should definitely be reading! Check them out below and let me know what webtoons you love!

Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe

Every romantic loves a good Persephone/Hades retelling, and Lore Olympus is a delightful take.…

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Kpop Corner: Debut to Now - Seventeen

#DebutToNow What's your favorite #Seventeen song? #kpop

In honor of Seventeen’s world tour right (which I saw twice in the past two weeks!! AMAZING), we’re starting my favorite monthly activity: debut to now! We’ll take a look at a group’s debut song, and then their latest release to see how they’ve changed, grown, and matured as artists! And we’re starting with, of course, Seventeen!

Debut: Adore You (2015)

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Book Review: Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2) by Elizabeth Lim

#BookReview: UnraveltheDusk (The Blood of Stars #2) by Elizabeth Lim @LizLim

It’s going to be difficult to write an unspoilery review, but since this book doesn’t come out for another six months, I’m going to do my best.

Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars #1) was my favorite book of 2019. I loved everything about it. You can read that review here if you’re not sure you should read this series (spoiler alert, you totally should). Imagine my sheer delight when I was…

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Kpop Corner Throwback: Boom by NCT Dream

Kpop Corner Throwback: #Boom by #NCTDream What's your favorite NCT Dream song? Give me some recs! #SME #SMEntertainment #Kpop

NCT Dream is absolutely killing the game. I essentially discovered them last month. Like, I knew they existed because I had seen “Chewing Gum” on the hoverboards (that’s an insane feat, go watch it) but I was like, oh they are literal babies, moving on. Ok. They’re still literal babies, but these kids are insanely talented, and I’m loving the music they’re releasing. “Boom” SHOULD have been on my…

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Monday Moments: In the Heights

The #InTheHeights trailer blew me away! Are you excited to see this movie? #mondaymoments #MovieMusicals

The “In the Heights” trailer was released last month, and let me tell you, I am so excited about this movie. It looks like they finally got a movie musical right. And this musical is so beautiful. I haven’t been able to see it live, but you bet I’ve watched every bootleg copy I could find on Youtube. When people say “Hamilton” is Lin Manuel-Miranda’s greatest achievement, I look at them and say…

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Kpop Corner: Favorite Winter Songs

What are your favorite #wintersongs? These are just a few of my favorites! Check them out and let me know which ones you love! Give me all the recommendations for new songs! #kpop #Exo #Pentagon #SF9 #IU #Seventeen #Got7 #Astro #Shinee

If you don’t know already, there’s a kpop song for every occasion. Truly. There are so many genres within kpop, so many different types of songs, and many groups are ready to give us masterpieces based on the season. Lets look at some of my favorite songs to listen to under a comfy blanket with a steaming mug of hot cocoa!

Happy Winter Song by Pentagon’s Jinho and Hui

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TV Review: A Discovery of Witches

TV Review: #ADiscoveryofWitches

Matthew Goode and Theresa Palmer as Matthew and Diana

Synposis: Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the…

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Book Blogger Hop 1-3-20

#BookBloggerHop @coffeeramblings @coffeeaddictedwriter #bookbloggerhop #coffeeramblings

January 3rd – 9th – Do you have any New Year’s Blogging Resolutions? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

Read. Read a lot. Review the books I feel like reviewing. Don’t get bogged down with “I have to review every single thing I read” or “I have to get this post written if it kills me”. I took about two years off from blogging (and essentially from reading), and now that I’m…