Fandom Foodie Friday {6} – Cinderella’s Pumpkin Bread

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Hello! Welcome to the Fandom Foodie Friday! If there’s one thing that always grabs my attention when I’m reading a new book or watching a TV show or movie, its the FOOD. Whether fictional or real, I often am left wanting to try ALL the foods. The only problem – I’m a terrible cook and an okay baker. So I’m taking recipes created by wonderfully creative people from all over the internet and figuring out if a newbie like me can figure them out!

Today, I made some fall inspired pumpkin bread – just in time for Cinderella to go to the ball!

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Boyfriend Book Review: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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The Boyfriend Book Review is a recurring column here on What A Nerd Girl Says.  My boyfriend, Daniel (read his bio here), is a reader as well. He suffered from what a lot of male readers suffer from – they only read white men! Well, of course, that didn’t really work with this Nerd Girl and he has been making a journey through my massive YA collection. Now we’ve started this column together, to review books that I’ve most likely already reviewed so that we can get a male perspective on it. We hope you enjoy!

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October Young Adult Author Events in Southern California

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One thing that I used to do a lot when I first started this blog was post a list of all the events that were happening in Southern California so that people could be aware when their favorite author was coming near. I used to go to SO many events and people were always asking me, how do you know about all of these! Honestly, its a mixture of bookstore newsletters, following authors on social media and so on.

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So here’s my monthly post of YA events happening in the month of October:

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September Books and Blog Wrap Up and October Goals!

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Welcome to my monthly recap, where I recap the previous month and share my reading goals for the next month! I used to just strictly share what books I’d wanted to read and what I’d read but I am trying a new thing where I share all the posts from the month as well, in case you missed anything and want to catch up! Let’s see how this goes.

September was a pretty good month for me! I really feel like things have picked up on the blog for me and I really feel like I’m reading a lot!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Book Title Countdown!

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The Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly challenge post previously hosted by The Broke and Bookish and now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. You can follow along for each weekly post here. This week’s post is all about books that have numbers in the title. Its kind of amazing how that happens….

I did my best to do books one through ten but it was hard and I may have cheated a little bit LOL

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