HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi, everyone! I didn’t have COVID! I still don’t know what exactly I did have, but I’m just so glad I didn’t have the Big Bad. This week has been packed with candle making, reality TV binging, and puppy cuddles. I allowed myself a few days of down time to rest […]
Title: A Vow So Bold and Deadly (Cursebreakers #3)Author: Brigid KemmererPublication Date: January 26, 2021Publisher: Bloomsbury YAPages: 416Add to GoodreadsReviews for book 1 & book 2 Face your fears, fight the battle. Emberfall is crumbling fast, torn between those who believe Rhen is the rightful prince and those who are eager to begin a new […]
Today’s Topic: New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020 Happy Tuesday! Today I’m sharing new-to-me authors that I read last year and there were SO many good ones! I’ll be sharing the book that I started with for each author, although I read multiple books for several of them. I am so excited to grab some […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi, everyone! Another week, another drama. Picture it, Sicily, 2021. Everything was going fine. We got a new president, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Then, this past Thursday afternoon, my sinuses started feeling a little funny. Then the headache came. Then the fatigue hit. So Friday I got my […]
Title: The Blade Itself (The First Law #1)Author: Joe AbercrombiePublication Date: May 4, 2006Publisher: OrbitPages: 503Add to GoodreadsAmazon | Bookshop.org Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian — leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, […]
This post contains affiliate links. Read more about this HERE. Today’s Topic: Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To Happy Tuesday! Today I’m sharing books I definitely meant to read last year, but last year was what it was. I fully intend to get to them ALL this year! I’m going to […]
Title: Recipe For PersuasionAuthor: Sonali DevPublication Date: May 26, 2020Publisher: William Morrow PaperbacksPages: 464Add to GoodreadsAmazon | Bookshop.org Chef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy. How else can she save her beloved restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isn’t a complete screw up? When she’s asked to join the cast […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi, everyone! Despite my good intentions, the blog didn’t have quite as many posts as I’d hoped this week. One day, ONE DAY I am going to actually post a review for From Blood and Ash. It’s amazing and you should read it. That’s my mini review. On Tuesday I started […]
This post contains affiliate links. Read more about this HERE. This year’s PopSugar Challenge has a few categories that truly had me stumped (so it’s like most years). As a reader of mostly YA and fantasy it can be difficult to find things to read to fit the prompts, even when browsing the Goodreads group for […]
Title: Hate ListAuthor: Jennifer BrownPublication Date: September 1, 2009Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPages: 405Add to GoodreadsAmazon | Bookshop.org Five months ago, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi, everyone! Is anyone else looking forward to a week where nothing of note happens? I started off the year thinking things were looking up and it’s already a mess. Anyone else’s anxiety through the roof again? No? Just me? I feel like I’m counting down the days until I can […]
This post contains affiliate links. Read more about this HERE. We all know 2020 was a complete mess and I think I speak for a lot of us when I say it was tough to get through. There were moments I didn’t understand how we got there or how we would ever get out. Frankly, things […]
Title: KindredAuthor: Octavia E. ButlerPublication Date: June 1, 1979Publisher: Beacon PressPages: 287Add to GoodreadsAmazon | Bookshop.org The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th […]
Title: Into the Heartless WoodAuthor: Joanna Ruth MeyerPublication Date: January 12, 2021Publisher: Page Street KidsPages: 368Add to GoodreadsAmazon | Bookshop.org Epic, heartbreaking, and darkly atmospheric, Into the Heartless Wood is the story of impossible love between a monstrous tree siren and a boy who lives at the edge of her wood. The forest is a […]
This post contains affiliate links. Read more about this HERE. Today’s Topic: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2021 Happy Tuesday! Today I’m sharing the top ten books I cannot wait to read in the first half of 2020! It was really hard to narrow it down, but I managed to choose just ten […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi, everyone! Happy not 2020! I know it’s literally just a couple days later, but this year IS GOING to be better than last year. I insist. I forced myself to go on a run Friday afternoon and made my reading spreadsheet for the new year. I started two new books […]
Title: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4)Author: Sabaa TahirPublication Date: December 1, 2020Publisher: RazorbillPages: 516Add to GoodreadsReviews for book 1, book 2, & book 3Amazon | Bookshop.org Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off… The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody […]
Happy 2021, bookworms! I am determined that this year is going to be better than last year, so let’s start it out with a giveaway! For the next couple months I’ll be giving away one of my favorite reads of 2020 and this month it’s The Rage of Dragons, which was an INCREDIBLE start to […]
Well, 2020 did NOT turn out how any of us expected. Taking a look back at last year’s resolutions and goals, I can see that I literally failed almost all of them. What can you do? Covid and other unfortunate events really derailed any and all plans I had. I did manage to run a […]
This post contains affiliate links. Read more about this HERE. Today’s Topic: Books I Hopes Santa Brings Happy Tuesday! This week I’m sharing the books I hope to get from Santa this Christmas! There are so many good ones coming out soon but I’m hoping for a few backlist books too. Fingers crossed I actually […]
HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi, everyone! The last weeks have been BUSY! I had a million orders to make, package, and ship, but I finally got it all done. Now we have to wait and see if the USPS decides to get everything where it’s supposed to go. Between everything I had to get done […]
Happy Saturday, everyone! If you’ve seen a few of these posts on my blog you may have noticed my movie moods change a lot. I’m either in a horror mood, a really weird movie mood, or a rip your heart out romance mood. I’ll let you decide which one I was in this month. […]
2020 READING STATS Number Of Books You Read: 81 (so far) Number of Re-Reads: 6 Genre You Read The Most From: Fantasy 1. Best Book You Read In 2020?It’s a tie between The Empire of Gold and The Rage of Dragons. 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? […]
Title: In Five YearsAuthor: Rebecca SerlePublication Date: March 10, 2020Publisher: Atria BooksPages: 255Add to GoodreadsAmazon | Bookshop.org Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her […]
