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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 3rd Music Monday of Sci-Fi Month (if you want to know more about this go  here )!  This month all of the music I'm going to be sharing will be sci-fi related - this week I'm sharing some of my favorite music from the movie Panic in the Year Zero!   (1962) which starred Ray Milland (also the director), Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon...

Happy Sunday everyone! Today, I'm back with some more mini reviews of some of stories that I read within the last few months that I've been meaning to review - One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus , Lord of Shadows ( The Dark Artifices #2) by Cassandra Clare , and The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey . Of these three the newest Shadowhunter novel is my favorite, but all of these come highly recommend from me. Here we go: ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus has been described as The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars , and that's not wrong in the least. It's an addicting debut YA mystery and I'd love to read more from this author. I don't often read YA mystery (no particular reason there either), but this grabbed my attention from the get-go. I particularly enjoyed getting to know our core cast and see where the author takes them over the twisty course of this story. I also enjoyed the fact that we could follow...

  On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , Book Beginnings, hosted by  Rose City Reader , and 50/50 Friday is a new weekly link up and it is hosted by  Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader  and  Laura @ Blue Eye Books .  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.   Then, for  50/50 Friday, every week there's a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the...

Happy weekend everyone!  Today, I'll be sharing some mini reviews of some novels I tackled while back, but I still need to talk about because they are all marvelous stories - All Our Wrong Todays  by Elan Mastai , Cold Summer by Gwen Cole , and The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli .  All three of these come highly recommend from me.  Here we go: ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai is such a fun time travel story - and it's got a great sense of humor. There are a few moments when the technical stuff behind the time travel took me out of the story and kind of bogged things down, but for the most part it's incredibly entertaining and thought-provoking with quite an emotional punch. If you like Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and Back to the Future (particularly Part 2), then you will love this time travel sci-fi novel of the present day gone wrong. Thanks a lot for messing up the 2016 we should have had, Tom Barren. ...

❋  ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Jazz Bashara is a smuggler of harmless contraband on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon that's mostly populated by the super wealthy and tourists on a once-in-a-lifetime trip. After all, she's got bills to pay and her job as a porter barely covers the rent. She changes her tune when she's offered the opportunity to make a fortune by pulling off a seemingly perfect (and impossible) crime. Before Jazz knows it, she's walked straight into a conspiracy for control of the city and that her only chance of living relies on a plan that's even riskier than the first. When I saw this novel available to request on NetGalley, I crossed my fingers and hoped that I'd get approved. I fully expected not to for such a hyped up release, but when I read the notification saying I had I might have shrieked in excitement. Now that I've finished it, I can officially say that I abso...

❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Victorian Era London is a wonder that's known for it's fluid social roles, vibrant arts scene, and underground diabolic cults. Evadne Gray, a fencer, isn't interested in those first two and doesn't know about the last, but she finds herself in the city against her wishes to act as a chaperone for her younger sister, Dorina, an aspiring art critic. After Dorina meets their uncle’s friend, Lady Henrietta “Henry” Wotton, an aristocrat and aesthete, Evadne enrolls in a fencing school where she meets George Cantrell, a top tier fencing master. George shows her more than she bargained for - a hidden world of demons and their servants. George has dedicated himself to fighting demons and diabolists, and he needs Evadne’s help. In fact, Lady Henry might actually be a diabolist - and worse yet, Evadne suspects Dorina have turned as well. As soon as I realized that Molly Tanzer's newest nov...

Happy Tuesday and welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish !  This week's topic is Books I Want My Children (Or Nieces, Nephews, Godchildren, etc.) - since it's Sci-Fi Month , hosted by  Rinn Reads  &  Over the Effing Rainbow , I'm giving my list a sci-fi spin.  I'm sharing Sci-Fi Books I Want My Future Descendants To Read, both recent releases and classics.  Here we go, in alphabetical order by title and broken down by recent releases and classics (the titles are linked either to my review or to Goodreads): Recent Releases: Dark Matter  by Blake Crouch The Girl From Everywhere  by Heidi Heilig The Martian by Andy Weir Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Saga  by Brian K. Vaughan &Fiona Staples Classics: Frankenstein by Marry Shelley The Handmaid's Tale  by Margaret Atwood The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Kind...