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Happy Saturday, everyone! I hope everyone's week was wonderful and everyone's start to their weekend is spectacular. I'm joining Stacking the Shelves hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality , in which every Saturday she and other bloggers share their recent additions to their shelves. It's not like my TBR list didn't need to grow anymore, but now it has to be the height of at least two basketball players.  Anyways, a few weeks ago, I had my birthday, and my mother graciously fed my love for infectious diseases and my pre-med existence. Thus, as this is the only post on my blog intended for those with a healthy sense of humor, I present to everyone a collection of pus-infected sores, graphic descriptions of diseases, and coloring! 1. The Infectious Disease Colouring Book 2. Graphic Guide to Infectious Disease  by Brian Kloss and Travis Bruce 3. Immunology made ridiculously simple  by Massoud Mahmoudi 4. Antibiotics Pharmacology Coloring Book With a final farewell, I jus...

After reading for over 20 years, anyone would believe that I would have some reader cred.  Reading Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone trilogy and her Six of Crows duology before Netflix released its show. Did that! Read J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in its entirety the day it came out. Did that! Shouted the lyrics of Dear Evan Hansen while reading its spin-off novel...before it came out! Sincerely, I did that! However, with all of these accomplishments under my belt, there are so MANY authors I have yet to read from. God only knows how many top hits from musicians I have yet to listen to, but, as this post and thankfully this blog are focused on books with legible words, we don't have to talk about me not listening to Taylor Swift's newest album... As I join That Artsy Reader Girl's Top Ten Tuesday prompt of the week, let's hop into the Taylor Swifts of authors! Shall we? 1. Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga Given the honor of hottest young ...

Albertalli and Silvera's  What If It's Us  showcases the love story of two boys Arthur and Ben and their many dates and adventures located in New York. An enthusiastic and nerdy Georgia-native, Arthur is head over heels over the bustle of the city and its many attractions, particularly Broadway's musicals and this new guy Ben. Although Yale-bound Arthur was initially focused on gaining experience from his internship at his mother's law firm, he cannot help but become entranced by the Ben from the post office.  Cutest boy ever. Maybe it's the hair or the freckles or the pinkness of his cheeks. And I say this as someone who's never noticed another person's cheeks in my life. But his cheeks are worth noticing. So, that's our first description of Ben, a boy from Puerto-Rican descent who is grieving his recent break up with his ex Hudson. Left with a box of gifts and previous stuff from this relationship, Ben visits the post office to deliver and finally remo...

Jason has a problem.  He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea―except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret.  Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools.  His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone miss...

Hello, and back again! Long time no write, but I also didn't read that many books while I was completing my Bachelor's. Now, as a graduate (woohoo!) and a new adult (wah!), I thought it was the perfect to revamp the blog - especially when my brother read more than me. This blog should really be his by now, then! 😎 Anyway, it's no secret that I am a fan of Rick Riordan's written conquests of "Percy Jackson and friends". Stories of the great Greek Olympians and Roman Gods have been told via spoken and written word for eons, so it's only right that I interrogate my brother based on the interesting renditions of these classic tales! I read The Hidden Oracle and The Dark Prophecy , or respectively Books 1 and 2 of The Trials of Apollo series, four or five years ago. I have yet to read the third book, The Burning Maze , which brings me great tears when I look at my (newly and) gloriously organized shelf. School was... difficult...in my time management departme...

Studying for the MCAT can be a terrifying experience if one looms over the reading material and hours of practice, but with efficient reading and studying, the preparation can be less scary. I will be summarizing the material from my Blueprint books to prepare for my test. Join me for the journey! _______________________________________ Much of modern medicine heavily relies on the research of doctors and teams of techs and participants. All of research has led to multiple discoveries in various areas of science, and each of these has independent, or X, and dependent, or Y, variables. ·         X is a manipulated variable that is expected to change Y in some way. X is the vertical axis on a graph. ·         As stated, prior, Y is expected to change with the manipulation of the X variable. If the effect of Y increases or decreases from the manipulation of X, then a cause-and-effect relationship can be inferred. O...

Being recruited by the CIA to join a top-secret intelligence program should be the opportunity of a lifetime. For Issa, it's a shot at creating a new and better life for herself and her siblings. For clever con artist Harper, it's a chance to bury the secrets of her troubled past and make sure that those secrets  stay  buried. But for Owen--honor student, star quarterback, and computer-hacking genius--it sounds like a trap. He's right.  Owen discovers that instead of auditioning for the CIA, they've all been tricked by a multibillion-dollar tech company into creating the ultimate computer virus. It's called Phantom Wheel, and it's capable of hacking anyone on Earth, anywhere, at any time. And thanks to six teenagers, it's virtually unstoppable.  Horrified by what they've done, the hackers must team up to stop the virus before the world descends into chaos. But working together is easier said than done, especially as the lines start to blur between tea...