Top Ten Tuesday #266: Faves of 2019

Today’s Topic:  Favorite Books I Read In 2019 Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m finally back for another Top Ten Tuesday after being absent for a couple weeks. For this topic I couldn’t pick just ten so instead I’m sharing my top 15 of the past year. I highly, highly recommend any and all of these […]

2020 Challenges and Resolutions

Hi everyone! Can you believe 2020 is only a couple days away? This year has seriously flown by even faster than the last one. I think it’s because I was SO busy. I’m hoping I can take more time to relax next year. Today I’m sharing the reading challenges I’m participating in for 2020 as […]

2019 Reading Challenges Final Update

Happy Saturday, everyone! YES I’m still alive! Things have been hectic with the holidays but today I’m sharing my 2019 reading challenges final update and looking back at what I’ve managed to accomplish this year. This year I brought back the Retellings Challenge and signed up for a few more. I met most of my […]

2019 End Of Year Survey

2018 READING STATS Number Of Books You Read: 82 (so far) Number of Re-Reads: 4 Genre You Read The Most From: YA Fantasy 1. Best Book You Read In 2018? The City of Brass or Ninth House. I can’t choose. 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? Finale by […]

Top Ten Tuesday #265: Winter TBR

Today’s Topic:  Winter TBR Happy Tuesday! YAY! Finally an easy topic. I’ve skipped a couple weeks because I honestly didn’t have the mental capacity to think up freebie topics. TBR lists I can do, even if I never stick to them… All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban Be Not Far From Me by Mindy […]

Weekly Recap: 12/8 – 12/14

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week has been busy, to no one’s surprise. I’ve been scrambling trying to get ready for my family to visit for Christmas and it has been wild! I’ve finished redecorating my office and our guest room. Photos of the office coming soon, I promise! I also finally finished […]

Audiobook Review: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Title: The Bear and the Nightingale Author: Katherine Arden Publication Date: January 10, 2017Publisher: Del Rey Pages: 323 Add to Goodreads At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a […]

5 Goodreads recs I actually want to read

Every now and then I browse the Goodreads recommendations pages. Most of the time they’re books I know about and know I don’t care to read. Sometimes they’re books I already have on my physical TBR but haven’t added on GR yet. Other times I’ll see books I haven’t heard of but sound awful. For […]

2020 Retellings Reading Challenge

Hi everyone! The Retellings Reading Challenge is back for another year and I’m so excited to be doing this all again! Last year the challenge pushed participants to read retellings they may never have discovered and this year we’re back with an all new BINGO card full of new prompts! THE GUIDELINES This challenge will […]

Weekly Recap: 12/1 – 12/7

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This week I finally took a couple days off of candle making to do a bit of nothing. I desperately needed some mental health days and they were absolutely wonderful! Now it’s back to full time madness as I get the rest of my current orders ready to go […]

Book Review: The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

Title: The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1) Author: S.A. Chakraborty Publication Date: November 14, 2017Publisher: Harper VoyagerPages: 533Add to Goodreads Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she […]

How long is too long between books?

Since 2014 I’ve read YA books almost exclusively, although I do venture into adult fantasy and horror more often now. Something I’ve come to depend on is that my favorite series will release books every year. Any longer than that and readers start to wonder how they’ll ever wait for the next book. One series […]

Retellings Reading Challenge: Final Update & Giveaway

Hi bookworms! The Retellings Reading Challenge is drawing to a close already! I hope you’ve all met your goals and have read lots of amazing new retellings throughout the year. I’ve loved having the challenge group this year – the group reads have been wonderful! Now let’s look at what we’ve done this year: WHAT […]

Weekly Recap: 11/24 – 11/30

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! Whew, it has been a mixed bag this week! Not surprisingly, it has been busy but I suspect many people had crazy days this week. My husband and I didn’t really do much for Thanksgiving day so we saved ourselves having to cook for ten hours. Hurray! Instead, we […]