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Happy Wednesday and welcome to my fourth and final weekly update for Wyrd & Wonder 2023!   Wyrd & Wonder 2023  is a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  The Book Nook , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story  with artwork by  astromoali .  I can't believe it's already the last day of the month.  Without further ado, let's see what I got up to since my last update which has been a bit more than a week. My Wyrd & Wonder Posts Since My Last Update: Sunday Funday: Week 3 Update Music Monday: Adrian von Ziegler, Pt. 4 Top Ten Tuesday: Bite-Size Fantasy The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Before They Are Hanged ( The First Law #2) by Joe Abercrombie Music Monday: Fantasy & World Music By The Fiechters, Pt. 3 Top Ten Tuesday: Upcoming Fantasy Releases I Can't Wait To Read What I Watched This Week : ❋   ❋  ❋.5 If you're a fan of

Happy Tuesday everyone!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder 2023  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  The Book Nook , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story  with artwork by  astromoali ), Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl  will be fantasy themed each week this month.  This week I'm featuring Upcoming Fantasy Releases I Can't Wait To Read.  Without further ado, here we go: Lore Olympus, Volume 4 ( Lore Olympus #4) by Rachel Smythye - Release date: June 6th And Break the Pretty Kings ( Sacred Bone #1) by Lena Jeong - Release date: June 20th Ebony Gate ( Phoenix Hoard #1) by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle - Release date: July 11th Immortal Longings ( Flesh and Fable Gods #1) by Chloe Gong - Release date: July 25th Thornhedg e by T. Kingfisher - Release date: August 15th He Who Drowned the World ( The Radiant Emperor #2) by Shelley Parker-Ch

 Happy Monday everyone and welcome to my fifth 2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge update with mini reviews!  In May I read 5 books for a total of 30 out of 50 books for the  2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge . I've made some great progress!  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the book I read in May: ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋  ❋ Historical fantasy is one of my favorite subgenres and  Siren Queen  by Nghi Vo   was exactly the thing I needed.  I always love reading stories set in old Hollywood and I honestly have no complaints with this standalone novel.  Plus, the production of the audiobook edition was excellent.  I need to read everything Nghi Vo has ever written and I can't recommend this enough. My review is also on Goodreads. ❋   ❋  ❋ I obviously can't help but compare Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  by Philip K. Dick   to the movie Blade Runner .  Honestly, this is one of the few cases where I definitely prefer the movie to the original book.  There's a bit that I didn't qu

              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!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder 2023  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  The Book Nook , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story  with artwork by  astromoali ), I'm featuring some more of my favorites from Fantasy

  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!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder 2023  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  The Book Nook , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story  with artwork by  astromoali ), The Friday 5

Happy Thursday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well.  How is it practically summer already?  Anyway, I've now competed the ten tasks of  Book Riot's 2023 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed this month required me to r ead  an author local to you and  any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list  and I selected  Into the Bright Unknown  ( The Gold Seer Trilogy  #3) by Rae Carson  and  A Master of Djinn  ( Dead Djinn Universe  #1) by P. Djeli Clark  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and my plans for next month: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋ Into the Bright Unknown  ( The Gold Seer Trilogy  #3) by Rae Carson  is a great finale to what has been pretty fantastic YA historical fantasy western series.  I've always been interested in the California Gold Rush, and this has done a good job of putting a unique spin on the world.  There aren't nearly enough YA western or western adjacent novels out there, but this series does it justice.  I wish

Happy Tuesday everyone!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder 2023  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  The Book Nook , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story  with artwork by  astromoali ),Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl  will be fantasy themed each week this month.  This week I'm featuring some of my favorite pieces of bite-size fantasy (for the Wyrd & Wonder Prompt Challenge).  Without further ado, here we go: The Bane Chronicles ( The Bane Chronicles #1-11)   by Cassandra Clare The Deep by Rivers Solomon Heroic Hearts edited by Jim Butcher How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories ( The Folk of the Air #3.5) by Holly Black The Language of Thorns ( Grishaverse #0.5, #2.5, #2.6) by Leigh Bardugo Lost in the Moment and Found ( Wayward Children #8) by Seanan McGuire Opal ( The Raven Cycle #4.5) by Maggie Stiefvater Piranesi by

              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!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder 2023  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  The Book Nook , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story  with artwork by  astromoali ), I'm featuring some more of my favorites from  Adrian

Happy Sunday Funday and welcome to my third weekly update for Wyrd & Wonder!   Wyrd & Wonder 2023  is a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  The Book Nook , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story  with artwork by  astromoali .  More good progress again this week - it's been another good week! My Wyrd & Wonder Posts This Week: Sunday Funday: Week 2 Update Music Monday: Peter Crowley's Fantasy Dream Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Villains The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Daughter of the Moon Goddess ( The Celestial Kingdom Duology #1) by Sue Lynn Tan What I Watched This Week : ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋ Since last week I've finished off  Locke & Key , Season 2 (2022) .  I love how they wrapped up season 2 and I can't wait to see what's next.  The last couple of episodes really covered a lot of ground.  I was really pleased to see how the