I’ve changed my URL from oncebooked to theoncehooked because I feel like the latter is closer to the essence of why I started this blog in the first place, and it’s also much catchier in my head. “oncebooked” was actually a bad pun on my part for “oncehooked”, and my need to put something book-related […]
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After literally half a year of debating with myself, I finally bought a Kindle Paperwhite! I’ve put it off for so long that I had to take a friend with me to my local Officeworks so I wouldn’t back out. If I had gone on my own, I would’ve found reasons not to buy it. Having a friend […]
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The other day a man sat near me in the break room holding a book. Naturally, as inconspicuously as I could, I tried to look over at what he was reading. Not inconspicuously enough, because a co-worker sitting in front of me asked me what I was doing. Apparently my eyes looked like they were […]
Read MoreSo there I was, reading during my hour break at work, when my boss looked over at the book I was reading. He noticed the library barcode on the front cover and, surprised, ask me the question: “People still go to libraries?” My immediate response was confusion. For some reason, in that space of […]
Read MoreIf there’s anything I learned in 2015, it’s that I’m not very good at running a blog. I’ll make promises and schedules, but never stick to them, which resulted in almost half of year of, well, nothing. Of course, there’s the full-time job to blame (which started around August) which takes up a lot of […]
Read MoreI’ll be honest with you, blogging got tiring and reading became a job instead of a hobby. I pushed through books just to make it to my review deadline which really took the fun out of it. I felt like if I didn’t post regularly, there was no point in having this blog at all, […]
Read MoreMy books are my precious children. I cover them with clear adhesive wrap like an overprotective mother. When I read them, I make sure my hands are clean, refrain from eating, and try not to crease the spine too much. You could say I’m a tad obsessive. But who isn’t? I know plenty of book […]
Read MoreThere was no book review yesterday because… 1) The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater failed to keep me hooked, and 2) I have a fear of the unread. To address the first: I’m not saying it was a bad book. I can definitely see why people loved it. The characters are interesting and vivid, and the […]
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It’s time for another round of author appreciation. Today, I’ll be talking about the two authors whose books I adored when I was nine years old, in Year 4. The title of this post will make sense later on. First up: ODO HIRSCH About the Author: Odo Hirsch is the pen name of David Kausman, an Australia author of children’s […]
Read MoreApologies if this song is now stuck in your head after reading the title. Apologies if it wasn’t stuck in your head because you didn’t understand the reference, and now is, after clicking the video. Heh. Anyway, this morning, my friend I were talking about the dreams we had last night and then the conversation turned […]
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