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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 back again!  Today, I'm featuring some more favorites from  Fantasy Meditations .  If you like, you can check out when I featured them last year here .  Give a listen to Cyprus , Petra , and Stonehenge : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

    Happy Sunday everyone! Today I'm sharing my thoughts on the book I read in March for  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia, The Boardgame , 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: ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ The Empress of Time  ( The Keeper of Night  #2) by Kylie Lee Baker  is a fantastic finale to this YA fantasy duology. I enjoyed book one, but it just got better from there. If you're a fan of mythology retellings, historical fantasy, morally gray leads, you'll have to give this duology a try.  This hasn't gotten nearly enough love as it should have, especially this finale.  I can't wait to read more from Kylie Lee Baker in the future. My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph . Next Month: April  - April's   book can be part of your Sprint Equinox TBR if you’re participati...

Happy Saturday everyone!  It's now that time to start my Spring Equinox 2025 classes at Orilium  for the  Magical Readathon , hosted by  G. @ Book Roast .  I've followed the  Novice Path , completed the  Traveller's Key , have  Geared Up , completed the  Spring Equinox 2022  and  August Equinox 2022 , visited  Old Favour Pass in 2022 , completed the  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia 2023 , completed the  Spring Equinox 2023  and  Autumn Equinox 2023 , and visited  Old Favour Pass in 2023 .  I completed the Spring Equinox 2024 , Autumn Equinox 2024 ,  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia 2024 , and Old Favour Pass 2024 .  I'm currently working my way through Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia 2025, The Boardgame .  Anyway, as usual, this Spring Equinox semester runs all of April.  I've decided to continue studying for the Calling of a Scribe as I ha...

      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  Beat The Backlist 2025  books,  Clytemmestra  by Costanza Casati .  It's been a long time since I've read this author, but I remember enjoying his style of fantasy. Beginning: Clytemnestra looks d...

Happy Thursday everyone! Welcome back to  Books from the Backlog , the 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 Hidden Stars  ( Rune of Unmaking  #1)   by Madeline Howard Published: 2004 Genre: Epic Fantasy Adventure My Copy: Format: Mass Market Paperback Pages: 391 Where I Acquired It: Thrift store Summary (From Goodreads): In a world devastated by the cataclysmic war between wizards and mages, the Empress Ouriána seized the throne, proclaiming herself the Divine Incarnation of the Devouring Moon. Appointing twelve priests to perform her rites, she rules with a tight rein of dark sorcery. The priests, once men, became twisted with magic, making them monstrous—mutated. Wherever th...

              Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books On My Spring 2025 TBR.  I'm featuring books I'm planning on reading for Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge from March through June and a couple of upcoming releases.  Here we go in order by months: March Here  by Richard McGuire  - I saw the  movie adaptation  which was pretty ambitious and a decent slice of life across different time periods.  I'd like to see what the original story looks like.  It fulfills the task to read a wordless comic. Night Life  ( Nocturne City  #1) by Caitlin Kittredge  - The  2015 task  I've selected is to read a book written by someone when they were under the age of 25.  This urban fantasy sounds series opener sounds like it has potential. When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi - T...