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On Friday's I take part in three 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 current  Book Riot's 2021 Read Harder Challenge  books,   For a Muse of Fire  ( For a Muse of Fire  #1) by Heidi Heilig .  This has been sitting for way too long on my shelf and I'm glad I'm finally getting around to it.  I've really ...

❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ I received an ecopy from Reedsy Discovery in exchange for an honest review. One of humanity's colonies makes contact with an alien civilization that calls itself the Aurigan Empire. The empire politely demands the United Earth Military's unconditional and immediate surrender and sends wave after wave of warships. Strangely, the Aurigan ships are technologically inferior, lack any sort of effective weaponry and are easily shot down - or so the UEM claims. When the colony's investors start getting nervous, acclaimed risk assessment agent Luray Ulyssa Cayenne is sent to determine what is going on and whether the Aurigans truly pose a threat. What she finds is well beyond her pay grade, and what she does to uncover the truth could cost not only her freedom, but her very humanity. Enjoy a mysterious science-fiction story challenging the reader and asking difficult questions that will keep you awake at night. Luray ( Behind the Last Gate # 1) by Dennis Haupt caug...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books I Meant To Read In 2020 But Didn’t Get To.  I'm hoping to get to all of these some day soon.  Without further ado, here we go: The Camelot Betrayal ( Camelot Rising #2) by Kiersten White Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore The Deal with the Devil ( Mercenary Librarians #1) by Kit Rocha House of Earth and Blood ( Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab My Calamity Jane ( The Lady Janies #3) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows The Other Side of the Sky ( The Other Side of the Sky #1) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix TRUEL1F3 ( LIFEL1K3  #3) by Jay Kristoff The Unspoken Name ( The Serpent Gates #1) by A.K. Larkwood What books did you mean to get to last year?  Have you read any of these books...

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 recent favorites from  Fantasy & World Music By The Fiechters .  I've been on a bit of a kick of this family's music - they're so talented!  Give a listen to Medieval Music - Young Minstrel's Inn , Pirate Folk Music - X Marks The Spot , and Spooky Medieval Music - Old Medieval Library :  You are invited to the...

On Friday's I take part in three 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 current Book Riot's 2021 Read Harder Challenge and PopCulture Readathon  books,   Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite  edited by Zoraida Cordova .  I can never resist a good vampire story and this is a whole collection of them so I'm in l...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Resolutions/ Hopes for 2021, but I've decided to do something completely different.  I'm featuring the best sequels that I read in 2020.  Sometimes I feel like I don't give sequels the attention they deserve.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order: The Archive of the Forgotten ( Hell's Library #2) by A.J. Hackwith Aurora Burning ( The Aurora Cycle #2) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman ( The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #2) by Theodora Goss Going Rogue ( Spells, Swords, & Stealth #3) by Drew Hayes The Hod King ( The Books of Babel #3) by Josiah Bancroft A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery ( The Risen Kingdoms #2) by Curtis Craddock Peace Talks ( The Dresden Files #16) by Jim Butcher The Republic of Thieves ( Gentleman Bastard #3) by Scott Lynch Titan's Day ( Th...

This month I've been participating in the second round of the  PopCulture Readathon , created and hosted by  Whitney @ bookswhitme  (with some assistance from  Lorryn @ Reading Parental ).  You can check out my original TBR post here , if you like.  I met my goal of completing the Elm Street board and I'm planning on attempting the Adventures in Babysitting board as well to round out this month. Without further ado, check out my thoughts on the books I read for the Elm Street board and my TBR for the Adventures in Babysitting board: The Lost Boys - Vampire Lore ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ I can never resist a good vampire story and most of the stories featured in  Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite  edited by Zoraida Cordova  are pretty good. My favorites here are Seven Nights for Dying by Tessa Gratton, Senior Year Sucks by Julie Murphy, A Guidebook for the Newly Sired Desi Vampire by Samira Ahmed, Mirrors, Windows & Selfi...