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    Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books I Was Assigned To Read In School, but I decided to feature YA Books Released When I Was In High School.  Most of these I came to after high school and some quite recently.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Crank ( Crank #1) by Ellen Hopkins Dairy Queen  ( Dairy Queen #1) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp ( Alfred Kropp #1) by Rick Yancey Inkheart ( Inkworld  #1) by Cornelia Funke The Lightning Thief ( Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan Looking for Alaska by John Green The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen Uglies ( Uglies #1) by Scott Westerfeld What are your favorite books that were released when you were in high school?  Have you read any of these books?  As always, thanks for visiting

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. Happy Monday everyone!  This week I'm featuring a three songs from Saleka as Lady Raven from the new M. Night Shyamalan movie Trap   (2024).  I really got a kick out of this movie and I'm glad I got to see it on the big screen.  It's good to see Josh Hartnett again and I hope we'll get to see him in more thriller and horror projects in the futu

            Happy Sunday everyone! Today I'm sharing my thoughts on the book I read for October for the  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia , an additional challenge to  G. @ Book Roast 's  Magical Readathon .  You can see my full tbr  here .  Without further ado, check out my mini review below. ❋   DNF'd @ p. 76 I just couldn't get into  Sword and Verse  ( Sword and Verse  #1) by Kathy MacMillan  which is very disappointing because it sounded like it would be right up my alley.  I wasn't interested in the characters or their world enough to stick with it.  I was more bored than anything.  Oh, well.  Time to move on to something else. My review is also on Goodreads . Are you participating in this challenge?  Have you read this book?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

    On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, currently hosted by  Anne @ My Head Is Full of Books , 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  and  Beat The Backlist 2024  books,  Fevre Dream  by George R.R. Martin .  This historical fantasy horror featuring vampires sounds like it could be intriguing.   Beginning: St. Louis, April 1857 Abner Marsh rapped the he

  Happy Thursday everyone! Welcome back to  Books from the Backlog , the newer weekly linkup I'm taking part of which is hosted by  Carole's Random Life in Books .  This is a great way to put a spotlight on books that I've had sitting on my shelf for awhile.  I don't know when I'll get to my weekly featured book, but I hope to some time hopefully soon. This Week's Neglected Book The Kingdom Beyond the Waves  ( Jackelian  #2) by Stephen Hunt Published: January 1, 2008 (This Edition: May 25, 2010) Genre: Steampunk Adventure My Copy:  Format: Mass Market Paperback Pages: 560 Where I Acquired It: A local Friends of the Library Book Warehouse sale Summary Per Goodreads: Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilization of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war, and disease with the creation of the perfect pacifist society. Without official funding, Amelia is forced to accept an offer of patronage fr

  Happy Wednesday everyone! Today, I'm also sharing my wrap up and mini reviews for  Mythothon , hosted by  Louise @ Foxes and Fairy Tales , which was based on the Yggdrasil and the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology.  You can see my original tbr here .  For this challenge, I managed to complete all 7 books on my tbr.  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I completed for this challenge: 1. Add Freebie Book ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋   Divine Rivals  ( Letters of Enchantment  #1) by Rebecca Ross  has really been hyped up and I've heard a lot of good things about it, so I was a little nervous going in.  As it turned out though, I really enjoyed it.  I don't know why I let this fantasy sit on my shelf for so long.  I hope I'll get to the second part in this duology soon and even read more from the author in the future. My review is also on Goodreads . 2. Add Freebie Book ❋   ❋  ❋ Monster  by Christopher Pike  is just one of those book that just perfectly fits the time period in which