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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.  Today, I'm featuring favorites from Yaelokre .  I just stumbled on this YouTube channel and I really like the sound. It's addictingly catchy and the art really suits it.  Give a listen to Harpy Hare , And the Hound , and Neath the Grove is a Heart : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

      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 Anne'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  Reindeer Readathon 2025  books,  The Bands of Morning  ( Mistborn  #6) by Brandon Sanderson .  I've loved this series so far, so I'm very excited to see how this one goes. Beginning: "Telsin!" Waxil...

      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: Phantom Heart ( Phantom Heart #1) by Kelly Creagh Published: August 17, 2021 Genre: YA fantasy romance retelling My Copy: Format: Hardback Pages: 528 Where I Acquired It: Half Price Books Summary (From Goodreads): Seventeen-year-old Stephanie Armand doesn’t believe in ghosts or spirits. Despite her six-year-old sister, Charlie, insisting a masked figure is hiding in her closet, and the rumors at school, Stephanie isn’t convinced her father’s latest renovation project–a crumbling Victorian mansion–houses the soul of a monster. So when the very charming (and paranormal...

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I've now completed all 24 total tasks for  Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge .  I completed the two tasks for December (a bit earlier than expected) which required me to read a  holiday romance that isn’t Christmas and a  “cozy” book by a BIPOC author and   I selected  Almost Midnight  by Rainbow Rowell   and  We'll Prescribe You A Cat  ( We'll Prescribe You A Cat  #1) by Syou Ishida .  Read on to see my mini reviews and hopefully the 2026 challenge will be announced: ❋  ❋ Almost Midnight  by Rainbow Rowell  was okay. but I feel like I could have just skipped it and wouldn't have missed much of anything. I'm going to be honest: the second of the two stories, "Kindred Spirits" set my teeth on edge more than anything I felt while reading these stories. And that's coming from someone who just likes to watch a Star War (even if sometimes they aren't always the best)...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is a freebie, so I've decided to continue that series I've been working on with Favorite Books Beginning With The Letter S.  Let's just say I had a lot of options for this letter and it was tough to narrow it down to just ten. Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: Saga, Volume 9 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater The September House by Carissa Orlando Shadows of Self ( Mistborn #5) by Brandon Sanderson The Ship of the Dead ( Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #3) by Rick Riodan The Silence of Bones by June Hur Silver in the Wood ( The Greenhollow Duology #1) by Emily Tesh Six of Crows ( Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo So You Want to Be a Wizard ( Young Wizards #1) by Diane Duane The Stranger from the Sea ( The Poldark Saga #8) by Winston Graham The Sundown Motel by Simone St. Ja...

    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.  I can't believe it's already the first of December!  It's almost 2026 already, wow!  Today, I'm featuring three recent favorites from  I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME .  Their sound is right up my alley.  I've featured their music one other time on November 2, 2020 which you can check out here if you like.  Give a list...