That Cinderella Tag

EVIL STEPSISTERS: A BOOK/ BOOKS WITH CHARACTERS THAT YOU JUST HATE This part was hard because I've read so many books featuring characters that were extremely detestable.  But after a lot of mental battles, these two finally won.  The main character in Elisa Freilich's Silent Echo, Portia Griffin, is annoying as fuck. She's portrayed as this very powerful and talented siren...

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Top Ten Tuesday 2. Books That Celebrate Diversity/Diverse Characters

Hosted by The Broke and Bookish OMG! I really love this week's Top Ten Tuesday topic. Diversity in books have always been a well-debated subject in the publishing industry because admit it or not, most of the books that are sold in the international market usually feature Caucasian characters. While there's nothing bad about that, it gets tiring after reading more than a hundred books featuring...

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Mustering My Courage

Haha. I didn't know what came over me but I finally got the courage to post my first ever Wattpad story.  I wrote Fire and Water Sonata when I was still in my early twenties and dystopia (thanks to the Hunger Games!) was still all the rage. Fire and Water Sonata is about a rule-loving girl who grew up in a community called "Sanctuary" wherein the people's lives are dictated by the stars,...

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Top Ten Tuesday 1. Hyped Books I've Never Read

Hosted by The Broke and Bookish I don't know what really spurred me to join this bookish meme but I think it has something to do with missing the book blogger in me. Way back when I was still actively blogging about books, I've always find the time to participate in the said weekly meme as it's a good way to discover new blogs, meet other bloggers, and of course, I love doing the list!  This...

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Lyrics Writing: Super Crazy!

So I'm not really a person who's into music or poetry but with Dark Wave, the first book of the Darkbeat Quintet series, I have to pretend that I'm one or both.  I mean, it kinda defeats the purpose of writing about rock gods and there's not even a single song featured in the story.  Other uninformed people might say that I should have just borrowed some excerpts from famous songs...

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In Which I Am Procrastinating

So I was really planning to at least finish around ten thousand words for Dark Wave last week but that didn't happen.  I wasn't exactly procrastinating but some things caused me to deviate from my original plan.   As you can see, there are some changes on the blog.  One might say that those are very little changes to take up a lot of time but I'm such an amateur when it...

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Finally!

I’ve already lost count of the number of times that I’ve contemplated about starting a “my writing chronicles” blog but finally, here it is.  It really took me a while to think of an appropriate name for it since "http://www.vitajulii.blogspot.com" doesn’t really work for me. And what I really wanted from the start was something that would invoke feelings of curiosity, wonderment, and...

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