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              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 a couple of my favorites from Fred Lykes .  His album Starbound is incredibly dreamy and it's so delightful to listen to.  Every song is fantastic and I could listen to it on repeat.  Check out  Dances with Moonbeams and Planetary Voyager : You are invited to the Inlinkz link...

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to my first 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge update with mini  reviews!  So far I've completed 8 of 50 books for the  2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge .  I'd say I've made great progress and have read some pretty good books already.  Without further ado, here we go in the order I read them in: ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett  is an absolute must read.  The X Troop and their story needs to be common knowledge.  If you haven't read this powerful history book, you need to move it to the top of your TBR. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋   All Systems Red  ( The Murderbot Diaries  #1) by Martha Wells  is a novella I've been told to read since it was new, but for whatever reason I kept putting it off.  Luckily, I finally decided to give it a chance and I really enjoyed it.  The audioboo...

  Happy Saturday everyone!  I hope everyone's been keeping as well as can be.  It's hard to believe it's already the end of the first month of 2022!  Anyway, that means that I've now completed the first 2 tasks of  Book Riot's 2022 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed this month required me to read a history about a period you know little about   and a   queer retelling of a classic of the cannon, fairytale, folklore, or myth  and I selected  Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail  by Barry Rosenberg and Catherine Macaulay  and  Cinderella is Dead  by Kalynn Bayron  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and what's coming up for February:   ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail  by Barry Rosenberg and Catherine Macaulay  was a fascinating read. I've always been interested in ear...

On Friday's I take part in two 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 PopCulture Readathon  books,  Unquiet Dreams  ( Connor Grey  #2) by Mark Del Franco .  This sequel was definitely an improvement over the first book in the series and I think the series has the potential to become a great one.  If you like T...

This January I took part in the  PopCulture Readathon , created and hosted by  Whitney @ bookswhitme  (with some assistance from  Lo @ Reading Parental ).  The theme was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and my goal was to black out the Big Baddies bingo board.  Luckily for me, I managed to complete my goal.  You can check out my original TBR here .  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read for this readathon:  The Mayor - Book w/a snake on the cover ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋ Girl, Serpent, Thorn  by Melissa Bashardoust  is a refreshing Persian Sleeping Beauty retelling with a nice dash of Rappaccini's Daughter mixed in. I really liked the tone and the style.  It's very imaginative and I certainly appreciated that it's a love story as well as a tale about our lead finding herself.  I definitely need to read more from this author in the future. My review is also on Goodreads . Dark Willow - Book w/a power hungry chara...

Happy Thursday everyone!  Today, I'm sharing three ARC mini reviews -  Castles in Their Bones ( Castles in Their Bones #1) by Laura Sebastian ,  (released February 1st, 2022),  Tattered Banners  ( War of the Last Day  #2) by Karim Soliman  (released December 21st, 2021), and  Where the Drowned Girls Go  ( Wayward Girls #1) by Seanan McGuire   (released January 4th, 2022).  I received  Tattered Banners  from the author in exchange for an honest honest review and the others   from NetGalley in exchange for honest reviews.  Read on to see my thoughts: ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋ Castles in Their Bones  ( Castles in Their Bones  #1) by Laura Sebastian  is a great new YA fantasy series opener.  I loved the dark fairy tale style of the story.  I saw another reviewer mention this, but it's definitely worth keeping in mind that it also has a dash of the English Tudor era politics with m...

    Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday of 2022 which hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is  New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2021.  I found quite a few great new-to-me authors in 2021, but these ten impressed me the most.  Here we go, in alphabetical order by last name: Mason Deaver Anna Elliott Stephen Graham Jones   Brittney Morris Trung Le Nguyen Alice Oseman Elizabeth Ross Erika L. Sanchez Koren Shadmi Krystal Sutherland Have you read anything from these authors?  Who are some of you favorite new-to-you authors you discovered last year?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

            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 a couple of Robson & Jerome cover songs.  That duo was composed of the two actors Robson Green and Jerome Flynn.  I had no idea that either of them could sing at all.  All the songs they performed from 1995-1997 were covers, but the interesting thing was that this all came from a scene...

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the IN EVERY GENERATION by Kendare Blake Blog Tour hosted by  Rockstar Book Tours . Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! About The Book: Title:  IN EVERY GENERATION (Volume 1) Author:  Kendare Blake Pub. Date:  January 4, 2022 Publisher:  Disney-Hyperion Formats:  Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Pages:  400 Find it:   Goodreads ,  Amazon , Kindle ,   Audible ,  B&N ,  iBooks , Kobo ,  TBD , Bookshop.org A new Slayer for a new generation... Frankie Rosenberg is passionate about the environment, a sophomore at New Sunnydale High School, and the daughter of the most powerful witch in Sunnydale history. Her mom, Willow, is slowly teaching her magic on the condition that she use it to better the world. But Frankie’s happily quiet life is upended when new girl Hailey shows up with news that the annual Slayer convention has been the target of an attack, and...