DNF Review: After by Anna Todd

Title: After (After #1) Author: Anna Todd Publication Date: October 21, 2014Publisher: Gallery BooksPages: 582Add to Goodreads Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into […]

Top Ten Tuesday #240: Favorite YA of the last decade

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Favorite YA Books  Released In the Last Ten Years Happy Tuesday! This week’s topic was a mixed bag. It was a lot of fun, but difficult! The more recent years were difficult because I had to choose between some great options! As I got closer to 2010, I had a hard time finding […]

Weekly Recap: 5/19 – 5/25

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! It has been yet another hectic week. The solar installation continued through Thursday, despite a completion date of a week earlier. Alas. I also worked all week to catch up on candle orders after my vacation, but I’m happy to report they’re almost done! This week I struggled yet […]

Aladdin Book Tag

Happy Friday, everyone! I am insanely excited to see the new Aladdin movie so I thought I should definitely do this amazing book tag, created by Amber at Du Livre! While I’m still a little unsure about Will Smith as Genie, I think this movie is going to be fantastic. Even the trailer gave me […]

Game of Thrones is over and I have a lot of feelings

I honestly don’t remember when I started watching Game of Thrones. I don’t think it was with the premiere of season one just because I know I didn’t have HBO back then. I do know I’ve been watching for several years and was highly invested in how the story played out for the main characters. […]

Top Ten Tuesday #239: Hands off

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Books That I  Refuse to Let Anyone Touch   Happy Tuesday! This week’s topic is actually pretty easy for me. I refuse to let anyone touch any of my books! 🙂 Okay, not really, but I am extremely picky about who is allowed to read them. There are a few editions […]

Weekly Recap: 5/12 – 5/18

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! I may have gotten back from vacation last week, but this week hasn’t been any less insane. My mom was in town until Wednesday and we had a lot of fun hanging out together, but I am exhausted! While she was here, the installation began on my husband’s solar […]

Book Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Title: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Author: Holly Black Publication Date: September 3, 2013Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 419Add to Goodreads Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once […]

ARC Review: The Haunted by Danielle Vega

Title: The Haunted Author: Danielle Vega Publication Date: June 4, 2019Publisher: RazorbillPages: 304Add to Goodreads From Danielle Vega, YA’s answer to Stephen King, comes a new paranormal novel about dark family secrets, deep-seated vengeance, and the horrifying truth that evil often lurks in the unlikeliest of places. Hendricks Becker-O’Malley is new in town, and she’s […]

Top Ten Tuesday #238: Page-to-Screen Freebie

Today’s Topic:  Five Movies That Were Better Than The Book,  & Five Books That Were Better Than the Movie Happy Tuesday! This week’s topic is a page to screen freebie and I decided to share five movies that were better than the book and five books that were better than the movie. Let me know if you agree or […]

Weekly Recap: 5/5 – 5/11

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week you may have noticed that I didn’t post… like, at all. It was for good reason though! I was on a Disney Cruise! I went zip lining, ate too much food, got a massage, and ran a 5k on Disney’s private island. It was a pretty great […]

May of Books Giveaway

Happy May, bookworms! This month I don’t have anything in particular to celebrate other than some incredible books! I am once again cleaning out some items and would love to give away some things from my personal library collection! This month I am giving away a copy of The Devouring Gray! This is a book […]

Weekly Recep: 4/28 – 5/4

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week I did absolutely nothing that I said I was going to do! 🙂 It has been extremely hectic as we’ve been preparing to go on vacation for the week. I meant to post more, I really did! But at least I managed to get up my early […]

Saturday Screen Time #32: NOT horror!

Happy Saturday, everyone! I’m back with another Screen Time and this time I didn’t watch a single horror movie! Mostly because my mom is in town. This week has been a lot of Marvel and I am loving it. I’ll be getting the chance to see Endgame again soon and I can’t wait to look […]

ARC Review: Finale by Stephanie Garber

Title: Finale (Caraval #3) Author: Stephanie Garber Publication Date: May 7, 2019Publisher: Flatiron Books Pages: 496Add to Goodreads Welcome, welcome to Caraval…all games must come to an end. It’s been two months since the last Caraval concluded, two months since the Fates have been freed from an enchanted deck of cards, two months since Tella […]