DON’T @ ME. I AM 2000s GARBAGE and to be honest, my top 20 is always shifting depending on my mood. Anyway, I am just gonna embrace my identity and call it a day.
The Playlist
The Songs
1. All Star by Smash Mouth
This song played at every single one of my school assemblies and I still never got tired of it because HEY NOW, YOURE AN ALL STAR.
2. Hey Ya! by OutKast
3. Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
I’ve been listening to this song on repeat tbh and it makes me feel better.
4. Dirty Little Secret by The All-American Rejects
THIS SONG IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT AND THE MUSIC VIDEO AND I AM SO HAPPY.
5. The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
Okay so if I am venturing into my angsty teen phase, like this song is a really nice and positive in someways BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE ALRIGHT.
6. A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
This one is a cult classic and is gonna go down in the books. DON’T @ ME.
7. Love Song by Sara Bareilles
Everyone and their mom loves this song but like also, it has a really cool story behind it and its a fun beat and I am gonna make someone play it at my funeral.
8. Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne
I’d be a fake if I didn’t have any old school Avril on here before she turned into MELISSA.
9. Check Yes Juliet by We The Kings
I am at the point where I am just realizing that I am never gonna get my fav songs from my fav decade in this fucking list so NOW I AM SCRAMBLING TO MAKE SURE AT LEAST SOME of my favs are on it. Wow this is hard.
10. Everytime We Touch by Cascada
11. Hips Don’t Lie by Shakira
My name is an anagram for Shakira and Hips Don’t Lie is all I listened to in 5th grade.
12. Don’t Stop the Music by Rihanna
There was a period of time where I only knew the chorus and no idea who sang is and that was a rough point in my life.
13. I’m Like a Bird by Nelly Furtado
I am not sure I actually listened to this as much last decade but it was my anthem during my last trimester of college last year.
14. Boom Boom Pow by The Black Eyed Peas
15. Mr. Brightside by The Killers
This song was basically my vibe for the summer of 2017 and anyone who spend anytime with me can attest to me randomly bursting out into “GETTING OUT OF MY CAGE AND IVE BEEN DOING JUST FINE”
16. Potential Breakup Song by Aly & AJ
Does anyone know where they went?
17. Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy
My list would be sorely incomplete without my fav pop rock nerds.
18. I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! At the Disco
19. Halo by Beyoncé
This song is the perfect way to end any night in any decade.
20. Since You’ve Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson
This playlist is sorely lacking, I know. There are some of my fave 2000s songs I couldn’t cram into here but I tried to feature some of my fav artists once.
Hope you enjoy the playlist! Lemme know what your fav 2000s jam is (IF YOU CAN CHOOSE JUST ONE.)
Occasionally, when a book is written in verse(partly in this case) and I need to review it, I break out my incredibly rusty poetry skills and write a review in verse too. I usually try to imitate the style of verse in the book but you know, it isn’t always successful.
This Book
Between the Lines follows the story
of eight teens.
It seems like a lot and is occasionally overwhelming
and yet . . .
Nikki Grimes has somehow found the balance so it isn’t
too much.
Between the Lines is so ordinary and yet extraordinary in the way it tells the story of
eight different children and how they come to embrace the power
of poetry.
The story of these eight different children is bound
One of the worlds oldest libraries, it was founded by a woman in the ninth century and hosts some of the rarest texts known to us. It was also restored by a woman which makes it doubly as cool.
2. Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
I think as bookworms, we can all agree we would lose our shit if the remains of the Ancient Library of Alexandria were found but in the mean time, this awesome library that they build to commemorate it is noteworthy. It was also a $220 million project so…
3. Library of Congress (United States)
I know its kind of cliche to have this library on this list but I truly think that the Library of Congress is a bucket-list item and absolutely stunning.
I wanted to love #PrettyBoy Must Die and I did NOT. It’s not even entirely easy to pin point where it went wrong and why I am not here salivating over its goodness? It’s got a teen CIA agent who is undercover, a mystery and some twists. My issue was that even though so many exciting things were happening in the story. I was not invested in the happenings. I did not care about the main character or the secondary characters and I didn’t really care about what was going on.
I didn’t passionately dislike or like the book so I basically have no idea how to rate it. Objectively, its not a terrible book but I do think that the writing might be part of the reason why I…
Tess of the Road is not an easy book to read. At 544 pages it is long and those pages don’t fly by. In the traditional sense at least. Here is the thing about Tess though, it is a long book, it is winded and yet, I wouldn’t really have it any other way. The slowness can at times be exhausting but the book isn’t really about a big adventure that Tess takes. It’s about Tess’s character arc and her trauma. This book would NOT work if it was a speedy read you could flip through. It is a painful read but there is so //much// that Tess has internalized that it makes no sense if we could uncover her and her experience in a mere handful pages.
I love love love love writing tools and notebooks and nice paper and literally everything that gives me some semblance of control in my life. So, I spend a lot of my time window-shopping for these things and decided to compile some of the things I’ve had my eye on into a nice, handy-dandy list. Note that I am not an affiliate for any of these sites and receive NO money if you choose to click on buy links. But you know, lemme know so I can turn green with envy.
1. Brush Pens
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I might have waited too long to write this review because I am really scrambling to gather those thoughts. I’ve read several books by Caroline Linden and have really enjoyed her HRs. When I heard about her upcoming release and heard there was gambling involved, I was 110% in.
Here was my main problem though, I enjoyed the romance, I loved the story, I just didn’t love the Duke of Ware. He is completely insufferable and too pig-headed for my liking. He is intense and not in a good way. I warmed up a little bit to him, but for the most part, his pushiness and self-centeredness was not endearing in the list.
But if I hated the love interest, why did I enjoy the romance? Well, Caroline…
If you have ever read or enjoyed a romance novel, this book needed to be on your TBR yesterday. I was over the moon when I was approved to read an advanced copy and the book held up to every single one of my expectations + more.
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