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Five Star Book Tag: the books that lived up to the hype, the ones that didn't, and guessing my future 5 star reads

If you're on Bookstagram, you've probably seen this tag floating around. Everyone's hopped on the trend at this point, so I figured I might as well think about the many layers of five star reading. This one was hard for me because I very rarely give books 5 stars. So often, they end up at a 4.5 in my spreadsheet or the reviews, and I mistakenly remember them as 5 star reads. So I tried to stay to the truth, but I also allowed a little wiggle room for my evolving memory over time. It was actually really fun to click around my spreadsheet and consider books from the whole time I've had the blog in compiling this list. I'm always a little skeptical of hype but always drawn in by it in the end, which I think is a theme that threads through this one. books I thought would be five star reads and were Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany I love a fangirl book, and I knew that this one would be good from the start because Kaitlyn Tiffany has written such inc...

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