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Music Monday: Fallout, Season 2

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying! If you would like to link up with me, please see the rules below. Rules: Every Monday share a few songs you've been enjoying. 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. Hello everyone! Today, I'm featuring some of my favorite songs featured in Fallout , Season 2. I loved season 2 even more than I did season 1. I don't know how I'm going to withstand the wait until Season 3's release! Anyway, I get a kick out of the variety of classic songs featured in the episodes. Give a listen to Uranium Fever by Elton Britt , Cocaine Blues by Roy Hogsed ...

The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1) by H.G. Parry

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 All-the-genres on The StoryGraph books, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians ( The Shadow Histories #1) by H.G. Parry . I've been working my way through this StoryGraph challenge for over a...

Books From The Backlog: Property of a Lady Faire (Secret Histories #8) by Simon R. Green

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: Property of a Lady Faire ( Secret Histories #8) by Simon R. Green Published: June 3, 2014 Genre: Urban fantasy My Copy: Format: Hardback Pages: 384 Where I Acquired It: Thrift store Summary (From Goodreads): Call me Drood, Eddie Drood. Some know me as Shaman Bond and most simply don’t want to know me at all. For centuries, my family has been keeping the things that lurk on the darker side of existence as far away as possible from humans like you, without you even knowing we’re there. Unfortunately for us, not everybody appreciates what we Droods do. Recently...

Top Ten Tuesday: Backlist Fantasy Sequels I Need To Read

Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week's topic is a Genre Freebie, so I'm featuring some Backlist Fantasy Sequels I Need To Read. Some of these have been on my tbr for quite a while too, but I did enjoy the previous books in the series I'm featuring. Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: The Dark Days Deceit ( Lady Helen #3) by Alison Goodman A Day of Fallen Night ( The Roots of Chaos #0.1) by Samantha Shannon Destined for an Early Grave ( Night Huntress Universe #3) by Jeaniene Frost The Fall of Babel ( The Books of Babel #4) by Josiah Bancroft The Last Uncharted Sky ( The Risen Kingdoms #3) by Curtis Craddock My Salty Mary ( Mary #3) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows Paladin's Strength ( The Saint of Steel #2) by T. Kingfisher Suicide Kings ( Eric Carter #7) by Stephen Blackmoore We...

Music Monday: Psych

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying! If you would like to link up with me, please see the rules below. Rules: Every Monday share a few songs you've been enjoying. 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. Hello everyone! Today, I'm featuring music from a new favorite tv show, Psych (2006-2014). I've always heard good things about it, but one of my local tv stations has started airing it (in order and everything) and I totally get the hype now! I'm currently into season 5. I love that it's been able to do different versions of the theme song. Give a listen to the theme song, the S...

2026 Popsugar Reading Challenge - February Update

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I'm sharing my my second update for my progress for the year long reading challenge called the 2026 Popsugar Reading Challenge . In February, I completed 7 books for a total of 18 read so far out of 50 total books on my tbr. More excellent progress, I think. You can see my original tbr here . Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in February for this challenge: 36. A book about a mob (fiction or nonfiction) ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ Dungeon Crawler Carl ( Dungeon Crawler Carl #1) by Matt Dinniman has been recorded to me so many times, both this series opener and the series as a whole. I'm glad I finally decided to pick it up and stop putting it off because it was a lot of fun. I wouldn't consider it perfect because there were some things that didn't work as well for me. Mainly, I don't think it needs to be quite as long as it is. I also think it's too repetitiv...