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Happy Wednesday everyone!  I hope everyone's been staying healthy and happy.  March has been simultaeously the longest month and short at the same time.  Anyway, that means that I've now completed 6 tasks of  Book Riot's 2021 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed this month required me to read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color   and  an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn't about Black pain   and I selected  Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial  by Rabia Chaudry  and Slay by Brittney Morris .   Read on to see my mini reviews and what's coming up for April: ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ I recently got myself sucked into the podcast Serial , so I decided I ought to try Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry.  There's not a whole lot of new information in this book, but I still sped right through it.  I co...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Places In Books I’d Love to Live, but I've changed it up just a bit to Places In Books I’d Love To Visit instead.  I like reading about places that are at least a little dangerous, so wanting to actually live there's might be a bit of a stretch.  I wouldn't say no to a nice visit though.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: The Risen Kingdoms from  An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors ( The Risen Kingdoms #1) by Curtis Craddock Arnes from A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab Ankh-Morpork from Going Postal ( Discworld #33) by Terry Pratchett Marsyas Island from The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune The Great Library Ink and Bone ( The Great Library #1) by Rachel Caine Kekon from Jade City ( The Green Bone Saga #1) by Fonda Lee Copper River, Michigan from Libriomancer ( Magic Ex Libris #1) by Jim...

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 my four favorite songs featured in the movie  Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) .  I just recently watched the movie for the first time and was incredibly impressed by Oscaar Isaac's performance.  Knowing that he performed all of his own songs live in the movie really makes it even better.  Give a listen to Please Mr. Kennedy , ...

  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  Trope-ical Readathon  books,   Stain  by A.G. Howard .  It's been so long since I've read one of this author's books and I'm looking forward to it. Beginning: In one enchanted telling of old, a prince desperately seeks a princes...

  Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to my wrap up and mini reviews for  PopCulture Readathon  mini-thon aka The Midnight Society.  This  Are You Afraid of the Dark? themed mini readathon was created and hosted by  Whitney @ bookswhitme  and ran from March 14th through March 20th.  Of the five prompts, I managed to complete three of them.  You can check out my original TBR here .  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I completed: The Tale of the Long Ago Locket - Historical Fiction ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋  ❋ Conspiracy of Ravens  ( The Shadow  #2) by Lila Bowen  is a fantastic sequel to Wake of Vultures . This is exactly the kind of historical fantasy western that I needed in my life.  Sure, it's a little rough around the edges but to be honest that really worked in its favor for me.  I can't wait to read the third book in the series, Malice of Crows . My review is also on Goodreads . The T...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Funny Book Titles, but I'm narrowing it down to Funny Bookish Cozy Mystery Titles.  I don't read cozy mysteries often (generally I prefer my mysteries a little more hard boiled to say the least), but these are all on my TBR and all of them sound delightfully bookish with their clever titles.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: Books Can Be Deceiving ( Library Lover's Mystery  #1) by Jenn McKinlay   Buried in a Book ( Novel Idea #1) by Lucy Arlington By Book or By Crook ( Lighthouse Library Mystery #1) by Eva Gates The Cat of the Baskervilles ( Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery #3) by Vicki Delany Double-Booked For Death ( Black Cat Bookshop Mystery #1) by Ali Brandon Homicide in Hardcover ( Bibliophile Mystery #1) by Kate Carlisle A Killer Plot ( Books By the Bay #1) by Ellery Adams A Killer Re...

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 one of my favorite moments from Taika Waititi's Boy (2010) .  The whole movie is absolutely fantastic if you haven't seen it, but the end credit sequence featuring that Michael Jackson's Thriller Haka set to the song Poi-E by Patea Maori Club is perfection.  Some background on the movie: it's set in 1984 New Zealand and f...

Happy Sunday everyone! Today, I'm sharing my TBR for Mythothon  which is a mythology themed readathon that runs for the entire month of April.  It is hosted by  Louise @ Foxes and Fairy Tales  and this round it's based on Arthurian Legend.  There are three teams you choose (Morgan le Fay, Merlin, and Nimue) and I selected Team Merlin.  For the challenges, there is one team prompt, thirteen quest prompts, and one group book (which is not compulsory).  If you like, you can double up on prompts.  To be clear, the books you select to read to not need to be mythology related to count, they only need to fit the prompt.  You can follow the official readathon Twitter account  here  and you can follow along with participants progress via the  #Mythothon hashtag  as well.  Keep reading to see my TBR for the Mythothon readathon: Team Merlin Prompt - Read a book with a witch or wizard. My choice: Hollow Empire ( Poison Wars #2) b...