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It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

One of the main things on my Christmas wishlist this year was books, of course. As much as I'm looking forward to getting some of the books I asked for, the fact that it's getting closer to Christmas means I can't buy any books for myself right now. First of all, I need that money to buy presents for other people, and second of all, I can't buy presents for myself this close to Christmas. So basically all my book wishes are on hold until I see what I get for Christmas.

All is not lost, though. Today I got two books from the library that I'm happy about. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead and The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma. I've been hearing a lot about Nova Ren Suma and saw both of these books on a Book Riot list of books about dancers and knew I had to have them. If I love them enough, I may have to later buy myself my own copies so I can keep them forever and make notes in them. In addition to having heard of Nova Ren Suma before, I'm currently working on a project where one of the main characters is a dancer and so lately I've been trying to read more stories about dancers to get inspiration. If you have any suggestions or tips, leave them in the comments.

I recently signed up for an account on NetGalley where "professional readers" can request early copies of books from publishers. When I made my account, I requested almost every YA book about a girl I could find. So far, two of my requests have been approved and I'm really excited about it.

I've also been reading Red Queen  by Victoria Aveyard and I haven't gotten very far into it, but I'm enjoying it so you can look forward to seeing reviews of it and the two e-galleys I received soon!

- Carly

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