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  Happy Monday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well.  How is it already the end of October already?  Anyway, I've now completed the 20 tasks of  Book Riot's 2022 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed this month required me to r ead a book  whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book)  and a horror novel by a BIPOC author  and I selected  Nightbooks  by J.A. White  and  The Good House  by Tananarive Due  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and what's coming up for November: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ Nightbooks  by J.A. White  was exactly what I needed.  I absolutely loved this and it was perfect to read for the spooky season, especially the audiobook edition!  I also loved the Netflix movie adaptation - it did a marvelous job of bringing Alex, Yasmin, Natacha, the stories, and the apartment to life.  I need to read more from this author asap.  If you're a fan of A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz, I have a feeling you&#

                    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. Happy Monday everyone!  This week I'm sharing some of my favorite tracks from Nox Arcana 's album Darklore Manor  in honor of Halloween.  Give a listen to Phantom Procession ,  Threshold of the Dead, Veil of Darkness, Belladonna, No Rest For The Wicked, Beyond Midnight, and Resurrected : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

  On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , 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 Freda'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  Halloween Reads  books,  The Unholy Cause  ( Supernatural  #5) by Joe Schreiber .  Supernatural is one of my favorite shows and I really hope this tie-in book lives up to it. Beginning:  Beauchamp was ready to die. 56: Dean looked past Castiel, into the office, at

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is a Halloween Freebie and I've decided to feature Upcoming Horror Releases I'm looking forward reading.  Without further ado, here we go in order by release date:  All the Blood We Share  by Camilla Bruce - Release date: November 22, 2022  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - Release date: January 17, 2023 All Hallows by Christopher Golden  - Release date: January 24th, 2023 Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie  - Release date: January 24th, 2023 Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen  - Release date: January 31, 2023 Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah - Release date: February 21, 2023 Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury - Release date: February 28, 2023 A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher - Release date: March 28, 2023 A Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown - Release date: April 4, 2023 The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro - Release date: Apri

                    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. Happy Monday everyone!  This week I'm sharing the  Transylvanian Lullaby as featured in the movie Young Frankenstein  (1974) as well as Erutan 's cover.  Without further ado, here we go! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Happy Sunday Funday everyone!  Today, I'm sharing The Horror Movie Book Tag in honor of the spooky season.  It's been way too long since I've completed a book tag, but this seems like the perfect time to do one.  Thanks to Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense for introducing me to this one and thanks to Royal Reader for creating it in the first place. Like Alicia, I'm going to be sharing both books and horror movies and shows.  Also all of my picks are going to be themed to each topic.  Without further ado, let's get to the tag! Zombie apocalypse: a book you would save when civilization ends - Death Warmed Over ( Dan Shamble, Zombie PI #1) by Kevin J. Anderson - This is hands down one of my favorite zombie books - and Dan Chambeaux, the lead character, is the zombie in question.  I love the tone of this story - a very noirish urban fantasy with a cool cast of characters and a great sense of humor.  I've read the first three books in the series so far and all of the

On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , 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 Freda'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  Halloween Reads  books,  The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions  ( Sherlock vs. Cthulhu  #1) by Lois H. Gresh .  You can't go wrong with Sherlock Holmes! Beginning:  The chair was a masterpiece of dimensions. 56: Holmes lifted me and put an arm around my shoulder

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Favorite Words, but I'm doing something completely different.  This week I'm featuring New Horror Releases I Can't Wait To Read.  Without further ado, here are the books I can't wait to read: Dead Flip by Sara Farizan The Depths by Nicole Lesperance Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates The Getaway by Lamar Giles House of Hunger  by Alexis Henderson How to Survive Your Murder  by Danielle Valentine Lord of the Fly Fest  by Goldy Moldavsky Nona the Ninth  ( The Locked Tomb  #3) by Tamsyn Muir The Weight of Blood  by Tiffany D. Jackson The Witch in the Well  by Camilla Bruce What are some of recent horror releases you're looking forward to? Have you read any of these books? As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!