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new decade, new look, new content

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new decade, new look, new content

Hello my love doves! I have been gone for awhile and I apologise.

Now, you may have noticed that you don’t recognise this blog name. I was previously venusinbooks, but I recently changed to celinamarie as that domain had finally freed up. I felt I couldn’t go wrong by using my name if my interests or content change. I have also recently turned 30 this month, so this felt like a perfect time to start fresh again. My aesthetics are pretty much the same, but my taste in books have slightly changed since I no longer relate to ones targeted at a younger audience.

I haven’t posted and I haven’t been keeping up with any of your own content. This is mainly to do with the fact that I became a Waterstones Bookseller in September 2021! This has been my ideal job since moving from America to England. I get to be surrounded by books and connect with people who share my passion! While this does help open doors and grant me access to more proofs/books, I have been struggling to find a balance between work and my bookish socials. I mean.. it has been over a year!

I am hoping to try out a few scheduling ideas to fit in my blog and bookstagram posts because I do miss it and everyone within those communities! Speaking and connecting with you all is what got me through these chaotic times and I am so grateful to the ones who kept touch during my transition. I am going to be catching up on everyones blogs now that I had time to settle into my new job (already been promoted to senior bookseller). I will prioritise those who comment on this post as a thank you for checking in on me!

My socials have also changed a bit so you can check out my linktree for places to find me ♡

Thank you for reading,

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ARC Review: The Mad Women’s Ball

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ARC Review: The Mad Women’s Ball
The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much more complicated – for these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives or strong-willed daughters. Once a year a grand ball is held at the hospital. For the Parisian elite, the Mad Women’s Ball is the highlight of the social season; for the women themselves, it is a rare moment of hope.

Geneviève is a senior nurse. After the childhood death of her sister, she has shunned religion and placed her faith in Doctor Charcot and his new science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugénie, the 19-year-old daughter of a bourgeois family. Because Eugénie has a secret, and she needs Geneviève’s help. Their fates will collide on the night of the Mad Women’s Ball…
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The “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land” Book Tag

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The “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land” Book Tag

In case you aren’t aware, I am a HUGE Marina fan. I have been obsessing over this greek goddess for a decade now. Marina is always the person I look to for guidance and comfort. She is constantly bringing awareness to mental health and societal/global issues. I love all the resources that she shares and I am always reading her blog posts or listening to a podcast that she appears on. In celebration of her latest album release for Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land, I decided o start a book tag! I am new to book blogging, so I am not sure if her past albums have a tag. If they do, I will gladly take part in them! If not, I may turn this into a series..

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ARC Review: Ace of Spades

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ARC Review: Ace of Spades
Hello, Niveus High. It’s me. Who am I? That’s not important. All you need to know is…I’m here to divide and conquer. – Aces

Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until now. Because anonymous texter, Aces, is bringing two students’ dark secrets to light.

Talented musician Devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can’t escape the spotlight when his private photos go public.

Head girl Chiamaka isn’t afraid to get what she wants, but soon everyone will know the price she has paid for power.

Someone is out to get them both. Someone who holds all the aces. And they’re planning much more than a high-school game…
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ARC Review: Seven Days in June

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ARC Review: Seven Days in June
Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…

Eva Mercy is a single mother and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up unexpectedly in New York.

When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but also the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry – or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years.

Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect – but Eva’s wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered…
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