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Happy Sunday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my plans for the March 2026 Bingo Round of the  Trope-ical Readathon  which is hosted by  Jenjenreviews .  It will run the entire month of March and as usual I'm joining Team Fantasy this time around.  This time around we've got unique bingo boards to complete that are based around your choice of team.  There are 25 squares with different prompts in each, and I've made a full tbr for it.  You can follow along on  BlueSky  and  Discord , if you like.  I hope to earn a full blackout bingo, but who knows how many I'll be able to get to.  Keep reading to see the books on my tbr for this round: B Dark Academia My choice:  Katabasis  by R.F. Kuang  - I'm also reading this for my  2026 Popsugar Reading Challenge .  I'm really looking forward to this one. Mental Health My choice: Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman - This has been on my tbr for so long and I'v...

Happy Thursday everyone!  Today, I'm sharing my February update for  Bookforager's Picture Prompt Book Bingo 2026 .  In February, I completed 3 out of 4 read so far of a total of 16 books on my tbr.  Without further ado, keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in February for this challenge: 8. A cooking pot hanging over a campfire ❋   ❋  ❋ Showstopper  by Lily Anderson  is a solid YA horror thriller. I wouldn't call it a favorite, but it has its moments. I do wish the characters felt more developed and the satire/ humor elements didn't always hit for me. In a way it reminded me of the tv series Scream Queens , so if you enjoyed that tv series you may want to check out this novel. My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph . 1. A teacup and a saucer ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋  The Tea Dragon Society  ( Tea Dragon  #1) by K. O'Neill  was so stinking cute and I absolutely need to read the rest of this...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my second update for my February progress for the year long Read Queerly 2026 which is hosted by Alexx @  Enthralled Bookworm .  In February, I completed 3 books for a total of 5 read so far out of 16 total books on my tbr.  You can see my original tbr here .  Keep reading to see the sixteen books on my tbr for this challenge: 16. Start Game Button icon: A queer book featuring video games/gamers or even tabletop RPGs ❋   ❋  ❋ I absolutely loved the art of  The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll for Initiative  ( The Last Session  #1-5) by Jasmine Walls , but for the most part the only character I actually liked was Cassandra and maybe Jay. Everyone else is pretty self-absorbed and they're jerks to Cassandra. I wish we got to know Jay a little more though since the character never got much of a POV part at all. Honestly, when the group apologized to Cassandra, I was really wishing Cassandra woul...

      On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, currently hosted by  Anne @ My Head Is Full of Books , and Book Beginnings, hosted by  Rose City Reader .  For The Friday 56, you choose a book, a book you have just finished, a book you are about to start, your current read, and share a line or a few lines that grab you (but don't spoil anything) from page 56 or 56% of the way through the ebook. Post it and share your post's url on Anne's most recent Friday 56 post. As for Book Beginnings, you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires, and then link up your post's url with Rose City Reader. Happy Friday everyone!  This week I'm spotlighting one of my  All-the-genres on The StoryGraph  books,  Stone Blind  by Natalie Hayes .  I've been working my way through this StoryGraph challenge for over a year now and I'm finally getting close.  I've loved t...

Happy Thursday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my second update for my February progress for the year long  Beat The Backlist 2026  reading challenge, hosted by Austine Decker.  You can see my original tbr  here .  In February, I completed 3 books for a total of 6 read so far out of 24 total books on my tbr.  Not bad so far!  Without further ado, keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in February: 5. anthology of shorts: collection of short stories and/or poetry ❋   ❋  ❋ Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories  by Darcy Coates  is fine, but none of them particularly stood out from the next or had me wanting more. As a fan of the author, I'm glad I decided to try this. but honestly I could take it or leave it. I would have preferred less stories with more focus on those stories. My review is also on  Goodreads  and  The StoryGraph . 10. classics past or present: classic novel or ret...