I Miss This Blog

     I literally came and changed almost this entire blog and then left for months..... Without writing anything on any of my blog........ At all...... Shame on me.
     I really wanted to start fresh when I renamed this blog. I want to change the domain name, but I haven't figured that out yet. Can you even do that? I'm not sure you can...
     Anyway, I thought about deleting all my posts when I first decided to start fresh, but I decided against it because I feel like seeing my older writing shows how much I've grown as a writer just since I started this. So, my old posts that make me cringe now shall stay. If you don't like it, I'm sorry. Oh, but only a little bit. Just trying to be honest.
    


     So, I've made the terrible, but amazing, mistake of buying more books for my TBR pile. Now, if I'm being honest, my TBR pile is probably taller than my entire body. (I'm only 5 foot though so...) Honestly, it's probably like 40 feet tall at this point. AND I KEEP ADDING TO IT!!!!! WHERE IS THE LOGIC?! I DON'T SEE IT! YOU KNOW WHY!? BECAUSE IT ISN'T THERE!!! (I hope you read that in the sarcastic, annoyed tone that I wrote that in. If not oh well.)


    
     I have a few ideas for future posts, but they're going to take some time to put together. I've got three that I want to write sometime very soon. They're just going to take some putting together.



     So, now I am off to edit this blog a bit more and start putting together my next few posts! Thanks for listening! Love you guys!
                        
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No Longer A Muggle

     I have missed out on a lot not reading the Harry Potter series. For the longest time I wasn't allowed to read it because of the sorcery. Now, I'm finally allowed to enjoy the amazingness that is Harry Potter and the wonderful writing of the lovely J.K. Rowling.
     Now, if I'm honest I've only read the first book so to some of you I still may be a Muggle, but oh well.
     The book was really good and it was one of those books that I could really get lost in. I opened the book and suddenly I was at Hogwarts finding Fluffy or finding out that I was a wizard or dealing with the terrible terrible Durselys. For the time I was reading I was in another world entirely. To me that's one of the best things an author can do. If I totally forget about reality, then great! I love it!  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone did that for me.
     I have yet to finish the first movie. I started watching it, but had to stop to go to my grandparents house and when I got home I was ridiculously tired. I tried to watch it but ended up falling asleep. I have felt up to my eyes in homework, extra curricular activities, and the social life I manage to maintain even though my nose is usually stuck in a book.
     So if you haven't read the Harry Potter series you need to get yourself to the library and check out a copy. Engross yourself in the world of Harry Potter and enjoy.
                                                                                ~Books

Starting the Harry Potter Series!!!

     Hey guys! This may shock some of you, but I have never even picked up a Harry Potter book. For the longest time, my mom was really anti-Harry Potter because of the sorcery. Recently, she decided to let me read the series. I actually have the first book sitting in front of me while I type this. :)
     I can't wait to start reading!!! I hope I like it as much as everyone says I will. I do have one big question. Out of all the books are there any that I will need tissues while reading?? Don't tell mew why, just tell me which ones. Sorry the post was so short, but it's the best I can do right now I don't really have anything to write about.
                                     - Books (<<<This is my new sign-off.)

Young Adult Novel Frustration

     So being a Christian and loving YA books is really difficult. My cousin lent me her copy of An Abundance of Kathrines. I flipped through and found some pretty colorful if you know what I mean. I decided not to read it because of the colorful language.
     So here ids why I am frustrated: Most YA novels aren't the cleanest. Being Christian and reading YA is hard and I feel like it shouldn't be. Is it really that hard to find a clean word to describe something?

     Maybe this is just me. Maybe no one else cares about this type of stuff. Let me know if you agree,


    Now, I'm gonna make a request. Has anyone read any CLEAN  YA books that you liked? If so please comment the title or author. I need some recommendations. Help a fellow reader out please.


     Thanks in advance!

Change

     It feels really awesome to be back on this blog! As I grew a bit as a blogger/admin I realized I had other interests that I wanted to share with people. Now, that isn't exactly the type of thing you can do on this blog. This is a review blog. That being said, if you want to hear from me on a more random level, please check out my other blogs. They should be on here somewhere, but I'll check and make a post about them if they aren't.
     If you have taken a peek at this blog since 10:40-ish on August 29,2014 and have been following/ regularly checking this blog for a while, you may have noticed that I've deleted a large amount of my posts. I went through what I had written and made a few decisions. 1) I decided that I wanted this blog to be strictly about book reviews and book related things. Putting movies, websites, shows, etc. was not what I really wanted to do. So, I changed it.
     You may also have noticed that this blog changed a lot. I changed the title. It went from graceopolys (I have no clue what 9-year-old me was thinking when she made that the title of her blog and couldn't even spell it. But, that's exactly what she did. So...) to Loving Literacy. I also changed the look. I needed change to make this as successful as I wanted it to be. It needed to look better, to flow better. I needed it to be almost totally different.
     I did leave a few old posts, but they aren't the best written ones. Therefore, I am going to post alternative reviews on them and make the reviews a bit better. My reviews are too short. I think I was afraid of saying too much of what I thought and people disliking it. I now know that you can't let that be a worry. Voice your opinion, because odds are, there is at least one other person who thinks the same thing you think. I needed to not say that everything was perfect with s particular book. Every book has parts that could be made better. Even your favorite author who has been writing for years could use improvement in at least one area, because we can always get better and that is what thins blog is doing.

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     Wow! I was looking through my old posts. Next month will be 2 years of Graceopolys. That seems SOOOOOOOOOOO crazy!!! I also noticed that my posts get bigger as I progress as a blogger. I want to thank my viewers and followers. If you haven't alread y followed the blog follow please!!! It would be a great 2 year gift! Thanks!!! Bye! :)

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

     Now for those of you who have been viewing this blog for a while, you have seen my old Guardians of Ga'Hoole post. When I posted that I wasn't that far into the series. I still am not cause I got side tracked with my books after the middle of the 3rd book. Now I'm on the 4th book. I guess I'm still not really far into the series but it's really good so far. So many twists and turns. I would recommend it to anyone who asked about it.
                Gracie

                                                 Here they are pictures of the first 4 books. :)