a . n e w . b e g g i n i n g

well. . .has it been 6 years already. It doesn't feel like all that time has passed to me. Maybe because life has been happening quickly to me. I miss the good old days when I used to just read and review. When this book community WAS my entire world. I miss it but that time has passed.

I decided to try blogging again. I know I've said that before but so far this year I've been very productive. I've been excersing, eating healthy, working on my designs on redbubble, I've begun to write again and have an idea for a business I want to try and see through. So I feel like coming back to my blog this time around I will be able to keep it up and not give up so easily. Plus I like this long form way of recording my life and the stages I go through.

I want to share so much with you all here. I don't know if I'll post book reviews, but I might if I really liked a book and think everyone should know about it. That feeling has never changed. I will just keep this as my personal space on the internet. My hope is that I can have you all here with me again. It's going to be interesting writing as my way older self. Seeing how my life changes in the next few years reaching 30.

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4th Blogoversary...Hi there

WOW, it's the 4th anniversary of my blog. I can't believe that back in 2012 I decided to enter the crazy online world. So much has changed since then. I've changed so much in that time. I feel it's time to get to my second love, writing. I have been neglecting this blog too much and I feel like I lost myself, hence the wandering part in the blog title.

I thought about changing my blog name several times after my 1st blogoversary and changing what this blog was about. Of course i still want to share my ideas on books, but I also want to chronicle my life, lay down some feelings, and generally let myself have a place online I can let it all go. So I finally decided to make Read-A-holicZ into Wandering Bookaholis. (O.0)

The name is a combo of many things. The Wandering part because I love to travel, take pictures, and write. The Bookaholis, comes from my Instagram name, which after learning about #bookstagram, I wanted to keep and connect to this blog. So I won't be posting about books 100% of the time, just about 80%.

I am also making a new place to share more fangirliness with you all. Some back story though, I created a monthly book subscription box, around 7 months ago, called LOVINGLY BOOKISH. It was stressful and crazy! I loved doing it though, and seeing all the happy comments people shared. I unfortunately had to close it down about a month ago. My health had deteriorated SO MUCH. I was continually fatigued, had 2 major surgeries, and I was overall sick.

It's been a month now and I'm feeling better, not great but better. I'm going to come back this year and have this blog be more about me. This coming week, I will be sharing some awesome news with you all and I hope you will join me in celebrating 4 YEARS OF BLOGGING! So in the meantime, you can enjoy this awesome video of K-Pop stars pronouncing Western names :)

until next time, stay bookish - xoxo lizzy

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Update: A break...again...

It seems summer has come and with it a whole lot of breaks. As you may have noticed, I haven't posted anything for a little more than a week. I've tried to post some things but they would just be filler, and I don't like to put up empty content. So I decided to take a break, relax, READ, and just work on getting back into things. I'm super drained of energy and busy as a bee. Reading in June has been non-existing...

I'll be around. Mostly on Instagram just taking some pictures of books XP I'll also be around on YouTube, I might film some things. But for the most part I'll be actually working on something pretty epic and crazy adventurous in my life. I don't know exactly when i'll be back but I'll see you soon. Until then...

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Announcement: I'm on YouTube and Co-blogger wanted!

Hey everyone, so I was going to do a cover battle for today but decided instead to give two very awesome announcements. NUMBER ONE is that I AM ON YOUTUBE! I've wanted to start a channel for a while but it never felt right. I was always stalling, or was just plain awkward sitting in front of the camera. Now though...I'm not that awkward *hopefully* but I honestly enjoy making videos and editing :) I've also cut them down so there like at most 3 minutes and 30 seconds long. I know more than that and I lost some people. My channel is called INAW, because I am in awe of everything ;)

You can check out the channel and the videos by clicking the picture below.

NUMBER TWO is that since I'll be far away in video land and since I ave neglected the blog so much, i decided that i need help. It's not like I don't read but I remember that when I had Karina here I could write more reviews because i wasn't going at it alone. So now...2 YEARS LATER. I'm looking for someone to share the blog with as a reviewer. What I'm looking for:

-someone who sticks to deadlines
-has experience writing reviews on goodreads, amazon, b&n, youtube, anywhere online
-MUST love reading and writing
-has either a twitter or facebook or instagram or youtube *or all of them*

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED please send me an email to [lizzy9rule@gmail.com]

with your name,
where have you posted your reviews in the past,
a link to said review,
and why you love to read

THAT'S IT! BYE SEE YA! LOVE YOU ALL AS ALWAYS ^3^

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HEYYYYYYOOOOO!

Hey my wonderful people of the internet! I hope you've all been good and HAPPY NEW YEARS (so late, lol) So yeah pretty much just here bored, working, and slowly wasting my life away doing nothing. Only good thing is that I'm now reading more and not just adult books but YA books too (\oOo/) And yeah I've actually written a review since I last wrote one, like, eons ago.

It's been a long time since I've written here and I felt drained of blogging at that time. I was actually sick (not deadly-look for a tomb-sick just regular sick) when I took that long blogging break, many centuries ago. Fear not, I'll be back, sooner rather than later. I have a few reviews for this week set up, one YA and one adult. Look forward to that; and your comments (Believe me, for me to feel ignored-its a scar I have from a long time ago, but never-mind that, for now). I just wanted to wish you all a happy new year and let you know that I'll be back in the blogging groove.

So Yeah thats where I'm at. Hope you like the new design and have a few surprises for you this week too, hopefully. (=^_^=)

As always I'm super grateful that all of you are here with me and haven't un-followed me in my break, for that,

I SUPER DUPER LOVE YOU!!!

EXTREME CYBER BEAR HUGS!!!!!!

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A few changes on the blog...and an update > >

Do you hear that...silence. It's been quiet around here, I've really been busy. I actually work now, go to school, AND go to church. It's pretty crazy being me right now. I LOVE being busy and just living, believe me I haven't been this happy with life since High School. Even though I never spoke about this I was REALLY depressed and it affected my life and this blog. Reading and blogging became a chore, I admit it, but that time in my life is over.

I'm ready to start over. I started reading again, not as many YA books anymore but more NA and adult books. So changes, I'll be adding adult reviews to the blog, I'll keep it clean :) I'll also be expanding the blog, since it's my little home on the net, I'll be posting reviews, discussions, spotlights on a whole slew of things; like fashion, beauty, music, I can't really just post books anymore because it does get boring to me, sorry *don't throw tomatoes at me* but I always wanted to expand and have tried but never could commit to it.

I'm actually surprised that I've been blogging so long because most of the things I do I can't stick with but blogging did. I've also been meaning to open a youtube channel and now I am with my sister, so if you want to check that out, click here, it's called M&N and it's also going to be an eclectic channel like this blog :) So it'll have books, music, fashion, and other interesting things.

Yeah so that's where I am and what I'm doing, I've thought about changing the name too but decided not to because Read-A-holicZ is my baby and it's close to my heart. So even though it won't be 100% books, i'll still keep the name. Hopefully you don't all leave me T_T Because to me everyone of you are special and when you comment it makes my heart happy. So I hope to hear from all of you all soon and know that I LOVE YOU!

That's it! Do you like the changes to the blog? Excited for them? Like the new design?
Let me know in the comments below, as always, much love - lisseth

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HEYOOOOO, GUESS WHO'S BACK, RAZ WE DO IT AGAIN!!!

Miss me? Well I'm back! This time for reals :) I MEAN IT *determination*

Remember that post I wrote like 2 weeks ago *was it more?? IDK* that no one saw, where i said i was changing the blog name and coming back...yeah well since then a lot of things have happened. Lots of good things :D

1) I got an ACTUAL job that I really like and get paid more than I would have thought

2) I KEPT THE NAME! No more changing, I <3 it too much

3) I made a whole new design. It's definitely more springy and my style :)

As you can read life has been good to me and I've started to enjoy reading again *plus now i can support my book buying binge XP* Remember Karina? She was co-blogger throughout the first year of the blog, well...she'll be making an appearance here from time to time. Just reviews since i can't post or read a ton of books like i used to.

Oh and some new features will be coming to the blog as well as some oldies will be making a comeback. You all know I LOVE K-POP, so yes k-pop saturday will be back and better than ever. Me and my sister will be giving my book loving and k-pop loving followers some yummy treats and doing some K-POP GIVEAWAYS!!! So stay tuned :)

Hmmm...what else...I can't think of anything else but yeah I'm back and this time I WON'T BE DEFEATED by lazy-ness. I'll be posting a WoW today, I hope you look, comment and share. I do this because I LOVE BOOKS and even if no one sees this, 1 comment makes my day brighter, So for being here I LOVE YOU ALL!! Until we meet again, my sister will be slapping me silly so i won't fall asleep at my computer and can actually post something XP

Wow I forgot something HUGE *I'm so brain-dead* I CHANGED MY NAME. Not legally but for the blog-o-sphere. My real name is lisseth Torres and I've used that name on here forever. But now that I'm learning Korean I decided to get a korean name, 숭 민낳[Sung Minnah] so from now on I'll be using Minnah as my name. I actually don't know I created it correctly but I like it :D Just wanted to tell you in case you were like "but wasn't your name Lisseth???"

THAT'S IT! DO YOU LIKE MY NEW DESIGN? MY "NEW" NAME? OR JUST LIKE THE GIFS?
LEAVE ME A COMMENT, MAKE ME A HAPPY GIRL :) - MUCH <3 MINNAH ^3^

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I'll be back when blogger lets me....

Hey everyone! Hope your all having a good day :) If you haven't noticed I changed my blog a bit. I got a new design, changed the layout, got a new button, oh and yeah *almost forgot* a NEW NAME!

I wasn't going to change it but since blogger *the meanie* won't let me edit my html, i can't do all the nice and pretty things i want >.< I really wasn't going to change my name since I've used READ-A-HOLICZ for 2 years now and the name is special to me but...I'm not the only one with a book blog called that *i've found 2 others* SO in light of me starting a new youtube channel and korean themed blog, I decided to get a more unique name.

What's the new name? NARA BOOK. Which is a play on words of my name which is Dianara. It's actually my middle name and I like it now because I can use it as my korean name 쏜 나라 [Sson Nara] *pretty right* Since blogger won't let me edit my html here i've also been playing around with my Tumblr html *since it was boring* and think i did okay for my first go at it. *See below, and if u like kpop click thy picture to see where I get my gifs*

I thought I would be able to blog but...my job, my life, and my family keep me too busy, so i won't start to blog until april *just a week away* I'll also be coming back with some interesting and gif-y posts XD UNTIL THEN BYE!!

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The Summer of me and You Tour Blog Tour: DAY 2!

AH A NEW DAY A NEW TOUR STOP! Yup Today is day 2!!! You can check out yesterdays CRAZY GIF KICK OFF PARTY HERE. Plus an awesome review and GIVEAWAY from Emily @ Fluttereal Flights XD So far everthing is going smooth.

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