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  Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books With Nationalities In The Title.  I wasn't expecting to have quite so many that fit this prompt, but anyway all of these are books that I liked quite a bit!  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin American Panda by Gloria Chao American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez The Italian by Ann Radcliffe The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Have you read any of these books?  As always,...

Happy Sunday Funday and welcome to my final and thirteenth weekly update for Summer of Horror 2026 (my fifth of August), a celebration of all things horror running from June through August and hosted by Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy .  I can't believe it's all over!  These three months really flew by, didn't they!  I can't believe I finished my original tbr and checked off quite a bit of my watchlist to.  Keep reading to see what I've gotten up to since last week. My Summer of Horror This Week: Sunday Funday: August Week 4 Update Music Monday: Holiday Sweater Top Ten Tuesday: Horror Locations I Really Don't Want To Visit The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Koko ( Blue Rose Trilogy #1) by Peter Straub Music Monday: Nobody What I've Watched This Week : ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ The Boroughs - Netflix - I finished up the last three episodes of The Boroughs and it was a lot of fun. It's a shame it was cancelled because I definitely would have continued on with it. My ...

  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! In honor of the final day of the  Summer of Horror 2026 , a celebration of all things horror running from June through August and hosted by Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy , I'm featuring music from the Nobody  YouTube channel.  This channel makes a variety of great playlists and the one I'm sharing feels like a perfect fit for today.  Give a listen to a ...

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I'm sharing my my eigth update for my August progress for the year long reading challenge called The 52 Book Club's 2026 Reading Challenge .  You can see my original tbr here .  In August, I completed 3 books for a total of 46 read so far out of 52 total books on my tbr.  Only 6 books to go!  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in August: 49. From the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ Poems and Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien  was on my tbr for quite awhile and I had been eyeing it at the library for a long time. While I wouldn't call all of the stories and poems featured here favorites, it was just good to read more from Tolkien that I wasn't already familiar with. My favorite short poem from this was easily The Cat. As far as I'm concerned, that one was absolutely perfection. My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph . 44. Literary Device: Personification ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van...

  Happy Sunday everyone!  I can't believe it's already the end of August!  Today I'm sharing my my eigth update for my progress for the year long reading challenge called the 2026 Popsugar Reading Challenge .  In August, I completed 3 books for a total of 44 read so far out of 50 total books on my tbr.  Only 6 to go!  You can see my original tbr here .  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in August for this challenge: 26. A book with a character who navigates infertility ❋ ❋ The Children of Men by P.D. James  would be a different story for me if I hadn't already seen the movie that it was adapted from. For me, this is definitely a case of the movie being far, far better than the book that inspired it. I will say though, world-building is the strongest element. A lot of what took this down was the characterizations. I wasn't interested in anything happening to any of them. My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph . 20. A ...

Happy Sunday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my eighth update for my August progress for the year long Beat The Backlist 2026 reading challenge, hosted by Austine Decker.  You can see my original tbr here .  In August, I completed 1 book for a total of 18 read so far out of 24 total books on my tbr.  6 to go!  Without further ado, keep reading to see my thoughts on the book I read in August: 20. recs in real life: recommended by a family member or close friend ❋ ❋  ❋ ❋ The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland  is a must read history book. Even though the author's style didn't always quite work for me, I still think that more people need to know this story.  It's depressing that it feels so timely. My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph . Are you participating in this challenge?  Have you read this book?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting dow...