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Guess who finally got off her lazy butt and did something… MEEE! :) I read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children a few years ago and, although the book was tedious at the beginning, I enjoyed it. When I heard about the movie coming out I was curious, especially when I heard Tim Burton was directing it. However, I didn’t plan on going out of my way to see the movie until I heard that it goes into the plot of, not only the first book, but also the second and third books. After becoming more interested in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , I finally checked it out this weekend and… I really enjoyed it! Probably what surprised me the most is how accurate to the book the film was. I was expecting changes going in since I knew ahead of time that Emma’s peculiarity would be changed, but that was one of the biggest changes. With that said, I found that change odd, since it basically switched Emma and Olive’s peculiarities. Both characters still existed and served ...

Hello my fellow readers! So I was trying to think of a creative blog post to do and I thought why not show you some of my favorite pictures of my books! So sit back and enjoy these nice pictures! These are all pictures from my Instagram @agirlwithherbooks you can check out more pictures like these on there! Have you read any of the books pictured above? (I haven’t read all of them… opps! XD) Which of these books should I get to reading next? Keep Reading… Meagan!

Hello! So I recently finished rereading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children so instead of writing another review for a book I've already reviewed on my Instagram, I'm going to post my old review of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs on here; a book about children, monsters, and photographs… A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here - one of whom was his own grandfather - were more tha...