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  Happy Thursday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well.  I know I say something like this every month, but how is it the end of the month already?  Anyway, I've now competed sixteen tasks of  Book Riot's 2023 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed this month required me to r ead  graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven’t before; or read one that is a different genre than you normally read and a cookbook cover to cover   and I selected  Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes  by Robin Ha  and  The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking  by Carolyn Keene  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and my plans for next month: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋  I've never had Korean food before, but it always looks so good when I see it in pictures or in movies and tv shows. Quite a few dishes features here in  Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes  by Robin Ha  sounded really good and I'd like to try them one day. Maybe I can try making some (if I can find an Asian

 Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Water and I've decided to narrow it down to Favorite Books With Sea In The Title.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: The Girl From The Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag The Girl The Sea Gave Back ( Sky and Sea #2) by Adrienne Young Given To The Sea ( Given Duet #1) by Mindy McGinnis The House In The Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune The Infinite Sea ( The 5th Wave #2) by Rick Yancey Red Seas Under Red Skies ( Gentleman Bastard #2) by Scott Lynch The Sea Of Monsters ( Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) by Rick Riordan Sea Of Swords ( Legends of Drizzt #13) by R.A. Salvatore Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel The Stranger From The Sea ( The Poldark Saga #8) by Winston Graham Have you read any of these books?  What are some of your favorite books with the word sea in the title?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even com

    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 playlist called Y ou are a spy who is about to be exposed from April .  I just happened to spot this on YouTube and I'll admit that the artwork of it definitely caught my eye, but the fourteen songs that make it up are absolutely perfect for the theme.  Unfortunately, I can't embed it down below do to restrictions on the

Happy Saturday everyone! Today, I'm sharing my TBR for  Mythothon  which is a mythology themed readathon that will run for the entire month of September.  It is hosted by  Louise @ Foxes and Fairy Tales  and this round (officially the eighth) is based on the Journey Through Hades of Greek mythology.  In this readathon, we "start by crossing the River Styx with Charon, the boatman, and enter the Underworld and the afterlife. From their, your goal is to ultimately reach the Gate of Ivory. However, along the way, there are other sights to explore – places for villains and for heroes. Will you (or your character, if you decided to create one) make it out? Make the journey as simple (5 prompts) or as winding as you’d like."  I'm not sure how much I'll be able to get through, but I've picked out a book to fit all of the prompts. By the way, you can follow along on Twitter as well.  Group Book  Daughter of Darkness ( House of Shadows  #1) by Katharine Corr and Eliza

                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  Trope-ical Readathon - Team Fantasy  books books,  The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England  by Brandon Sanderson .  I don't know about you, but this just sounds like a lot of fun. Beginning: I came alert, fists raised, an

   Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is a Genre Freebie and I specifically doing 5 Manga Series I Love & 5 Manga Series I Want To Start.  I feel like I don't talk about my manga reads very often, but these are some recent favorites and those I'm looking forward to reading.  Without further ado, here we do in alphabetical order by title: I Love: Blood on the Tracks by Shuzo Oshimi A Man and His Cat by Umi Sakurai Monster by Naoki Urasawa Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono I Want To Start: Black Butler by Yana Toboso Cat Massage Therapy by Haru Hisakawa Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa Library Wars by Kiiro Yumi Witch Hat Atelier by Kamone Shirahama What are some of your favorite manga series?  Have you read any of these books?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

  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 three favorite tracks from the album Night Music 10: Classical Favourites for Relaxing and Dreaming .  I just happened to pick up this 1990 CD at the same time as The Haunted House CD that I featured last week .  Anyway, this CD has some great music on it - several of them I'm already familiar with - but but give a listen to my fav

                    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  Trope-ical Readathon - Team Fantasy  books,  Mickey 7  ( Mickey 7  #1) by Edward Ashton .  This sounds really weird and I'm here for it! Beginning: This is gonna be my stupidest death ever. 56: "Maybe if you focused less on how I act whe