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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 Never Reviewed.  I try to write at least a line on what I've read on Goodreads, but I don't always feature everything on my blog.  Here are some recent favorite that I didn't feature on my blog for some reason or another.  All of these are linked to my reviews on Goodreads.  here we go in alphabetical order by title: Alley by Junji Ito American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky  by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart Home Is Where The Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose   The Jade Setter Of Janloon ( The Green Bone Saga #0.5) by Fonda Lee   Jade Shards ( The Green Bone Saga #0.75) by Fonda Lee Night Owls by A.R. Vishny The September House by Carissa Orlando To The Bone by Alena Bruzas White Bird by R.J. P...

    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 three favorites from The Baltimore Consort .  I started listening to them thanks to Pandora's Medieval Music Radio.  They primarily perform early music from the both Medieval and Renaissance times and they sound fantastic.  Give a listen to A Trip to Killburn , Parson's Farewell , and Danza...

  Happy Sunday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well this month.  We're now about halfway through February and I've completed 4 total tasks for  Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge .  The two tasks I completed in February required me to read a   romance book that doesn’t have an illustrated cover  and a   staff pick from my local indie bookstore.   I selected  A Taste for Love  by Jennifer Yen  and  The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien  by John Hendrix  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and my plans for next month: ❋   ❋  ❋ A Taste for Love  by Jennifer Yen  is a solid YA contemporary romance and classic literature retelling. Since I knew going in that this was a Pride and Prejudice retelling, I knew James was going to be the Darcy character, but this took too long to pick up for me. The contest starts maybe halfway i...

Happy Saturday everyone!  Today, I'm back for my February post of Birthstone Book Covers, hosted by  Foxes and Fairy Tales .  If you're new to it,  here are the rules - they're pretty simple: 1. Mention the creator ( Leslie @ Books Are The New Black ).  2. Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone. 3. HAVE FUN! 4. Nominate people if you want - if you'd like to do this, consider yourself nominated! February's birthstone is amethyst which is a purple which can be cool and blueish or a reddish purple raspberry.  In alphabetical order, here are purple covers of books I've really enjoyed that I haven't talked about all that often. Club Dead ( Sookie Stackhouse #3) by Charlaine Harris Drama by Raina Telgemeier Etiquette & Espionage ( Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger Fifth Grave Past the Light ( Charley Davidson #5) by Darynda Jones Loveless ( Osemanverse #11) by Alice Oseman Have your read any of these books?  What are your favor...

      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,  Roses in Red Wax  ( Darnalay Castle  #1) by Louise Mayberry .  One of my friends gave me this a little while ago and while historical romance isn't normally my...

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: Witches' Night of Fear (Witches' Chillers #2) Silver RavenWolf Published: 2001 (not sure why Goodreads says 1951?!) Genre: YA Urban Fantasy  My Copy: Format: Mass Market Paperback Pages: 284 Where I Acquired It: The Book Warehouse Summary (From Goodreads): When Bethany "sees" a murder before it happens, along with a mysterious three-eyed woman whose image keeps showing up in mirrors and glass, she and the other members of the Witches' Night Out coven decide to investigate. Together, they are drawn into a dark world of illusions and secrets, murder and magick, where nothing...