About
Well hi! I'm Amanda.
I am an exhausted mama of two, avid book collector, amateur baker, and mood reader extraordinaire crafting honest and spoiler-free reviews in Minnesota.
In April of 2024, I started @amandabooked on Bookstagram, looking for other readers to talk about books with. I was just starting to rediscover my love of reading after taking a very long hiatus. I didn't want to bombard my personal page with all of my book chatter, so I started a brand new page in the Bookstagram community.
I expected to have a lot of fun with it - but what I didn't expect was to find an overwhelming sense of community and such nice people!! I have found so much support and so many friends who have been on the same journey of rediscovery as I am. I read books in 2024 that I didn't even have on my radar - books that two years ago I would've been waaaay too intimidated to read (looking at you, Tolkien).
As I rediscovered my love of reading, I realized that I love writing reviews, too.
And so, in early 2025, I decided that I needed to share my reviews on my own platform, as well as on Instagram. So here I am!
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