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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 some of my favorite tracks/ scenes from the movie Whisper of the Heart (1995) .  I watched the movie in the original Japanese a little while ago and absolutely fell in love with it.  I'll admit that I was surprised how big of a role the song Country Roads plays in it.  Check out the opening sequence featuring the Olivia Newton-John

Happy Sunday everyone! Today, I'm sharing my July reading plans.  I'll be taking part a brand new readathon called the Name-a-Thon  ( Twitter ).  It's hosted by Liv  and Olive will run for the entire month of July.  As you can probably guess by the name of this readathon, it's name themed.  The rules are pretty simple: you read books that start with the same initial of the letters of your name.  You can choose whatever name you like from first name, nickname, online name, blog name, etc, but you if you have more than one of the same letter in your name, you have to choose separate books for them.  No using the same book for multiple letters.  I'm planning on being ambitious using my first name and my blog name for a grand total of 14 books.  No guarantee I'll be able to get to all of these, but I'll give it my best try.  Without further ado keep reading to see what I plan on reading. L - The Lazarus Gate ( The Apollonian Case Files #1) by Mark A. Latham -

Happy Saturday everyone! Today, I'm sharing a quick little update I've made to my blog.  You might have heard that Feedburner's follow by email function is going to be discontinued next month.  On that note, I've decided to switch over to  follow.it  which is a free email subscription service.  Everyone who was subscribed via Feedburner's service won't have to worry about missing any email updates on my blog.  Those who are new can now subscribe via email at any time so you won't miss any of my future posts.  You can subscribe on my follow.it feed directly, fill out the form below, or on the form in its regular home in the sidebar of my blog.   Get new posts by email: Subscribe

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  Pride Month  reads,  The Smoke Thieves  ( The Smoke Thieves  #1) by Sally Green .  I loved Sally Green's Half Bad trilogy and I'm so glad to be jumping into a new trilogy, especially one that's already completed. Beginning:  "Everything re

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books On My Summer 2021 TBR.  I'm featuring upcoming July and August 2021 releases that I'm the most excited for.  Without further ado, here we go in order by release dates:  July Any Way the Wind Blows ( Simon Snow #3) by Rainbow Rowell - Release date: July 6, 2021 Six Crimson Cranes ( Six Crimson Cranes #1) by Elizabeth Lim - Release date: July 6, 2021 Survive the Night by Riley Sager - Release date: July 6, 2021 The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix - Release date: July 13, 2021 The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass - Release date: July 13, 2021 August How We Fall Apart ( How We Fall Apart #1) by Katie Zhao - Release date: August 3, 2021 Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar - Release date: August 17, 2021 Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Release date: August 17, 2021 Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis - Release

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 some more of my favorites from Seo Linn (you can see more of my favorites from them here ).  I like there brand of bilingual folk-pop in Irish and English.  Check out Siúil a Rún , Ar Scáth a Chéile , and Bloicíní : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter