Top Ten Tuesday – Cover Re-Designs I Loved

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 cover redesigns that I really liked. Now, some of these are ones where I actually liked the re-design better and some of them are just, yay, pretty new covers, and now I own way too many editions of this novel. I know there are a lot of people who don’t particularly love redesigns but I do – it gives me an excuse to buy the books again and support the author more! I will say, I hate redesigns RIGHT in the middle of a series – that drives me INSANE.

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Music Monday {12}

Music Monday is a weekly post where you can share a song, a music video or anything musical related that you’re feeling awesome about that week. Here on What A Nerd Girl Says, I will almost always share a song that I’m super into that week and the music video, if any, that goes with it!

I feel like I really haven’t discovered any new music lately because I’m the kind of person that listens to the same music OVER and OVER again but I don’t think I’ve ever shared this song before and I super love it. I’m not a huge fan of Tyler Carter’s solo stuff outside of Issues but I super enjoy this song and have it on repeat all the time!

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Book Review: Hope and Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum

Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka “Baby Hope”) wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing.

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