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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 Book Covers Featuring Cool/Pretty/Unique/etc, but I've decided to finish off that series I've been working on with Favorite Books Beginning With The Letter X, Y, & Z.  I've got just about enough titles when combining all three letters together. Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by Anne Gardiner Perkins The Yard ( Scotland Yard's Murder Squad #1) by Alex Grecian Yesternight by Cat Winters The Yorkist Age: Daily Life During the Wars of the Roses by Paul Murray Kendall You ( You #1) by Caroline Kepnes You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicity Day The Young Elites ( The Young Elites #1) by Marie Lu Zero World by...

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 two of my favorites from Marino .  I just started hearing his music on Pandora and looked up more of his music because I liked his sound.  Give a listen to Devil in Disguise and I'm Doing Fine : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Happy Saturday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my my first update on my January progress for the year long reading challenge called the  2026 Popsugar Reading Challenge .  In January, I completed 11 books for a total of 11 read so far out of 50 total books on my tbr.  I'd say that's excellent progress so far.I think I'm going to have good reading year!  You can see my original tbr here .  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in January for this challenge: 17. A book about your favorite event in the Winter Olympics ❋   ❋  ❋ An Unwanted Guest  by Shari Lapena  was hit and miss for me and it didn't hold my attention as much as I was wishing it would. My favorite part was that one of the characters has the same first name as me. That was a bit exciting! My review is also on  Goodreads  and  The StoryGraph . 38. A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title ❋   ❋  ❋ James and the Giant Pe...

      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  2026 Popsugar Reading Challenge  books,  Dungeon Crawler Carl  ( Dungeon Crawler Carl  #1) by Matt Dinniman .  This sounds like so much fun and it's been recommended to me more times than I can...

Happy Thursday everyone!  Today, I'm sharing my January update for  Bookforager's Picture Prompt Book Bingo 2026 .  I'm actually shocked I was able to get to 1 of the 16 books on my list so soon - and I'm quite surprised as to which one I was able to pick up first.  Anyway, without further ado, keep reading to see my thoughts on the book I read this month for this challenge: 10. A large, old key ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋ The Housemaid  ( The Housemaid  #1) by Freida McFadden  is a thriller I was originally planning to read on audiobook before I saw movie adaptation, but that never ended up happening since I was still 150 down the audiobook waitlist at that time. I ended up caving after months of waiting for the audiobook and decided to read the large print copy my mom had borrowed from the library (she had to wait awhile for the large print as well).  This might actually be the first large print book I've ever read.  Anyway, this thriller w...

        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: Katherine by Anya Seton Published: 1954, this edition August 1957 Genre: Historical romance My Copy: Format: Mass market paperback Pages: 637 Where I Acquired It: Yard sale Summary (From Goodreads): This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plant...