I’m at it again with the 2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge! I failed miserably last year after meeting every category in 2018, so this year I want to get back into the swing of things. Some of the topics are SO hard, especially considering that I rarely read contemporary outside of horror. Below I’ve listed some […]
Title: A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Cursebreakers #2) Author: Brigid Kemmerer Publication Date: January 7, 2020 Publisher: Bloomsbury YA Pages: 464Add to Goodreads Review for book 1 Find the heir, win the crown. The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the […]
Today’s Topic: Most Anticipated Book Releases for the First Half of 2020 Happy Tuesday! This week’s topic was really hard to narrow down! There are some I cut because of space and a one I left off because I’ve already read and loved it (keep watch for a review this week). There are definitely a […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! Yes, I am indeed still alive. Things got a little overwhelming between holiday candle orders and actually spending the holidays with family in town and I ended up taking an unintentional hiatus. I hate when that happens but I desperately needed some down time away from everything. In the […]
Happy Saturday, everyone! It has been awhile since I’ve done one of these! I actually watched more than this over the past month or so but I’m leaving out all my Christmas movie rewatches. Just know that I definitely did watch Krampus and Home Alone! THIS MONTH IN MOVIES Charlie’s Angels (2019) – I surprised […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Title: The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3) Author: Holly Black Publication Date: November 19, 2019 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 308 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 After being pronounced Queen of Faerie and then abruptly exiled by the Wicked King Cardan, Jude finds herself […]
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who’s celebrating or just enjoying a day off work or school! Today I wanted to do a book tag but also give away a couple books that I’m thankful to have received early copies of and LOVED! As usual, no one tagged me but I wanted to do the tag anyway. […]
Today’s Topic: Bloggers I’m Thankful For Happy Tuesday! I always hate freebies but today I wanted to say thank you and give a shoutout to ten blogging buddies who I’ve been friends with for YEARS! These are the people who have blog hopped back and forth with me even when I was being the absolute […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! This has been a HORRIBLE blogging week. Yikes. I suck. Shockingly, it has been another absolutely wild week down in Central Florida. My husband and I have been working hard on a thousand projects before family comes to visit for the holidays, the dogs had their nails cut, I […]
Title: The Deathless Girls Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave Publication Date: September 19, 2019 Publisher: Orion Children’s Books Pages: 304 Add to Goodreads They say the thirst of blood is like a madness – they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she’ll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old […]
