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On Fridays, I participate in the weekly linkup called Friday Book Snippets, co-hosted by Anne @ HeadFullofBooks and Olivia @ Bemused and Bookish .  The directions for are pretty simple.  Share two snippets (a sentence or short paragraph) from a. the book's beginning and b. page 56 (or another page) in the book you are currently reading. No spoilers, please. Join the fun every Friday.  Previously, this was The Friday 56 hosted by Anne @ HeadFullofBooks and Rose City Reader .  In honor of SciFi Month 2026 , a celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @ Dear Geek Place , Imyril @ There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @ A Dance With Books , and Mayri @ Book Forager , all of my Friday Book Snippets posts will be featuring sci-fi books on my tbr for this month. Happy Friday everyone!  This week I'm spotlighting one of my Sci-Fi Month 2026  books,  The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen .  This author is a must read for me and I'm look...

  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.   In honor of SciFi Month 2026 , a celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @ Dear Geek Place , Imyril @ There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @ A Dance With Books , and Mayri @ Book Forager , all of my Friday Book Snippets posts will be featuring sci-fi books that one day I hope to read This Week's Neglected Book: . Terminal Uprising ( Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse #2) by Jim C. Hines Published: July 20, 2021 Genre: Sci-Fi humor My Copy: Format: Mass Market Paperback Pages: 326 Where I Acquired It: A thrift store Summary (From Goodreads): Human civilization didn't just fall. It was ...

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Today I'm featuring the sci-fi movies and tv shows in honor of  SciFi Month 2026 !  Sci-Fi Month is a month long celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by  Lisa @ Dear Geek Place , Imyril @ There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @ A Dance With Books , and Mayri @ Book Forager .  I have no idea how many of these I'll manage to get around to, but these are some  of the sci-fi movies and shows I'd like to watch soon.  You can visit my Letterboxd list featuring the movies and my Serializd list featuring the tv shows here if you are interested. Movies: Code 8 (2019) - I've had this movie on my watchlist for ages and since I've picked to watch it for my  Letterboxd Season Challenge  I figure this is as good of a time as any to finally give it a try. Colony (2026) - So I've actually already seen maybe the first two thirds of this at the movie theater, but do to a bad popup storm with a tornado warning e...

  Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl .  In honor of SciFi Month 2026 , a celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @ Dear Geek Place , Imyril @ There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @ A Dance With Books , and Mayri @ Book Forager , all of my Top Ten Tuesday posts will be sci-fi themed.    This week's topic is One-Word Reviews for the Last Ten Books I Read, but in honor of the month I'm sharing Sci-Fi Books I've Loved Since This Time Last Year.  I've enjoyed quite a few books from the genre so I definitely had plenty to choose from.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title:  Another Kind by Trevor Bream and illustrated by Cait May   Fugitive Telemetry ( The Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant Network Effect ( The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells Severance by Ling Ma Sunrise on the Reaping ( The H...

Happy Monday everyone! Today I'm sharing my thoughts on the book I read in October for Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia 2026, 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: October - 10B - Meet entry wardens (ah finally, the gates to the Capital of Darkmeadow, but you get stopped by the wardens.  This city has strict entry rules, you'll have to convince them to let you in.) - read a debut novel ❋ ❋  ❋ Friend Request by Laura Marshall  has a pretty great premise, but it's a bit underwhelming in the end. One thing I appreciated the most was the dual timeline from 1989 to 2016. My least favorite thing about the story was easily our main character. She's a little too whiny about everything which made me lose interest in her fairly early on in the story. My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph . Next Month: November - 11B - Pay ...

Happy Monday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my October update for my progress for both the year long reading challenges,  Beat The Backlist 2026   &  The 52 Book Club's 2026 Reading Challenge .  Beat the Backlist is hosted by Austine Decker and I completed 3 books for a total of 22 read out of 24 books on my tbr.  You can see my original tbr here .  For the The 52 Book Club's challenge, I read 2 book for a total of 50 out of 52 books.  You can see my original tbr for it  here .  I'm so close to being done wih both of them!  Without further ado, keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in October for these two challenges: ❋  ❋  ❋ I found a 1910 edition of  The Kingdom of Slender Swords by Hallie Erminie Rives   at a local antique shop and it really caught my attention and since the seller was only asking a few dollars I thought I'd give it a try. The Japanese stuff is really interesting and pres...