We are introducing a new series on the blog: The Genre Guide! One of our goals at Alchemy Bookshop is to help you expand your reading life into books and genres that you might have not been originally drawn to. We have started with the essential Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) books as it seems to be …
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Even though all of us have our favored genres we are avid readers and our reading tends to be all over the map. Every month we like to reflect on the best books we read that month, and fan girl over the books that remind us why we love to read in the first place. …
2020 is the year of book binging. Collectively, the three of us read over 250 books this year. If we add the re-reads of the entire Ilona Andrews and Tamora Pierce series, we read over 300 books this year! Now we have always been prolific readers, but staying at home has exponentially increased our reading …
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Welp… that sure was a month! With all the pressure from the election and Covid spiking, November has been a wild ride. We here at Alchemy all had to re-imagine thanksgiving in a new way this year with our families. From no thanksgiving to a delivered thanksgiving, to a thanksgiving outside with masks… we did …
As we all know, I am and have been a pretty avid reader of romance novels, but smutty romance books are a fairly new avenue for me. I chronicled my first experience of reading a romance novel at a pretty young age. Since then I’ve been reading romance novels regularly. My foray into romantic erotica …
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Even though all of us have our favored genres, we are avid readers and read in genres all over the map. Every month we like to reflect back at the best book we read this month. The stuff that reminded us why we love to read. There were so many books to pick from this …
As I’ve become more immersed in true crime, there’s a particular niche that one author has generally held reign over- and that’s legal thrillers- and John Grisham. Now if you’re like me, it may have taken you a while to deign to read a John Grisham- nothing personal, John, but my PARENTS read every one …
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Every month we like to reflect back on the best books we read in the month. It’s our time to reflect on the things we are reading and why we loved them. Without further Ado here are the best books we read this month: Anne So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo In …
Have you ever latched onto a dream hard? You know, when you get really into a thing and decide that it’s your life’s goal to achieve said thing and that you are now obsessed with said thing? For me, it was backyard chickens. I was living the life of a city girl and I decided: …
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