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\           Happy Thursday and Happy New Year everyone! Welcome back to  Books from the Backlog , the weekly linkup I'm taking part of which is hosted by  Carole's Random Life in Books .  This is a great way to put a spotlight on books that I've had sitting on my shelf for awhile.  I don't know when I'll get to my weekly featured book, but I hope to some time hopefully soon. This Week's Neglected Book: Grave Goods ( Mistress of the Art of Death #3) by Ariana Franklin Published: 2009 Genre: Historical mystery My Copy: Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 356 Where I Acquired It: A friend gave it to me. Summary (From Goodreads): When a fire at Glastonbury Abbey reveals two skeletons, rumor has it they may belong to King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. King Henry II hopes so, for it would help him put down a rebellion in Wales, where the legend of Celtic savior Arthur is strong. To make certain, he sends Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art o...

Happy Wednesday (and New Year's Eve) everyone!  Today I'm sharing my wrap up and mini reviews for the  Reindeer Readathon  which ran all of December.  It was hosted by  Erik @ Breakeven Books  with  Christine & Mo ,  Kristin ,  Hannah ,  Vanessa ,  Tina ,  Ahtiya , and  Steffany .  I was on Team Snowflake this year which was hosted by Tina and Steffany.  I actually managed to complete all the books on my tbr and earned a total of 260 points  You can check out my original tbr here , if you're interested.  Without further ado, let's get to my tbr:  DASHER - 10 PTS - A book where the combined sum total of all the numbers in the page count must be greater than 12. An example would be 392 (3+9+2=14)  +20 BONUS POINTS - CHRISTMAS TREE ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles  ( Ronan Boyle  #1) by Thomas Lennon   is an MG humorous fantasy I that I ...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday (the final one of 2025?!?!) which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf, but I've decided to continue that series I've been working on with Favorite Books Beginning With The Letter T.  Let's just say I had a lot of options for this letter and it was tough to narrow it down to just ten. Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: The Tainted Cup ( Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett A Tale Dark & Grimm ( A Tale Dark & Grimm #1) by Adam Gidwitz The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow The Three Locks ( A Sherlock Holmes Adventure #4) by Bonnie MacBird Throne of Glass ( Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas Through Wolf's Eyes ( Firekeeper Saga #1) by Jane Lindskold Titanshade ( The Carter Archives #1) by Dan Stout Trail of Lightning ( The Sixth World #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse Trapped ( The Iron Drui...

    Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying lately!  If you would like to play and I really hope you do, please see the rules and link up below. Rules: Every Monday share a few songs you've been enjoying lately.  It doesn't have to be a specific genre, new, or one of your favorites - just something you'd like to share with others.  If possible, share a music or lyric video of the song and your thoughts on the song(s), artist(s), and/or music video(s). If you would like to participate in Music Monday, please join the link up by sharing your post's url.  Welcome to the final Music Monday of 2025!  Today, I'm featuring favorites from  The Oh Hellos .  I just found them on YouTube and the sound is beautiful and catchy.  Give a listen to Soldier, Poet, King , Theseus , Soap , and Wishing Well : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I'm sharing my TBR for this year's Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia, The Boardgame.  This year's round is exactly like last year's (one book per month choose your own adventure style optional bonus challenge to  G. @ Book Roast 's  Magical Readathon ).  This time around though I'll just be starting from a different point and taking a different route on my adventure. Without further ado, check out my plans for this new adventure - to begin with we start at Orilium and adventure outward. Each number in a circle refers to the month of the year so you can only move to a larger number, but you can select different letter options depending on the path you have set out on.   January -  Start in the middle of the board and prepare for an adventure! Pick one of the below and stand on the selected tile. January has the same prompt for all number 1 tiles which is Book published in 2024 (well 2025, this time), saying goo...

Happy Saturday everyone! Today, I'm announcing my participation in another year long reading challenge that's new to me, Read Queerly 2026 which is hosted by Alexx @ Enthralled Bookworm .  2026 will be the 6th year for it, but somehow I'd missed it until now.  Anyway, the main goal of this reading challenge is to read books featuring LGBTQ+ characters and stories for the whole year.  The challenge features a 4 x 4 bingo board of prompts to help direct the challenge.  The challenge is also available on The StoryGraph .  Keep reading to see the sixteen books on my tbr for this challenge: 1. Coffee icon: Any queer book with/about coffee or coffeeshops My choice:  Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe  by C.B. Lee  - This cozy YA fantasy romance just sounds nice. 2. Black author: A queer book written by a Black Author My choice:  Model Home  by Rivers Solomon  - I haven't read much from Solomon, but this horror novel sounds like it w...