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Wyrd & Wonder - Week 4 Update

Happy Tuesday and welcome to my fourth weekly update for (and the final day of) Wyrd & Wonder!   Wyrd & Wonder  is a month long celebration of all things fantasy during this month of May.  It is co-hosted Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  Book Nook Reviews , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story .  Keep reading to see what I got up to since my last weekly update: My Wyrd & Wonder Posts This Week: Sunday Funday: Week 3 Update Music Monday: Pandora Journey Top Ten Tuesday: Fantasy Books I Want To See Adapted To The Screen The Friday 56 (With Bookish Beginnings): Differently Morphous ( DEDA Files #1) by Yahtzee Croshaw Music Monday: Fantasy & World Music By The Fiechters, Pt. 2 Top Ten Tuesday: Upcoming Fantasy Releases I Can't Wait To Read What I Watched This Week : ❋   The Order  (2019-2020)  - I was on the fence after I watched the first episode, but after watching the second I decided the s

Wyrd & Wonder - Top Ten Tuesday: Upcoming Fantasy Releases I Can't Wait To Read

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Today is the final day of  Wyrd & Wonder  (which has been a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  Book Nook Reviews , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story ) and it falls on a Top Ten Tuesday, which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl , so let's get to it. This week I'm sharing Upcoming Fantasy Releases I Can't Wait To Read.  Let's just say there are a lot of amazing sounding books coming up, and it was tough to narrow this down to just ten books.  Here we go, in order of release date: Lore Olympus: Volume Two ( Lore Olympus #2) by Rachel Smythe  - Release date: July 5th, 2022 Youngblood by Sasha Laurens - Release date: July 19th, 2022 Constantine: Distorted Illusions by Kami Garcia and Isaac Goodhart - Release date: July 26th, 2022 Violet Made of Thorns ( Violet Made of Thorns #1) by Gina Chen - Release date:

Wyrd & Wonder - Music Monday: Fantasy & World Music By The Fiechters, Pt. 2

              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!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  Book Nook Reviews , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story ), I'm sharing fantasy music every Monday this month.  This week I'm spotlighting

Book Riot's 2022 Read Harder Challenge - May Update: Romantic Outlaws & Blackout

Happy Saturday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well.  May went by so fast!  It's hard to believe that Spring is fully here and Summer is right around the corner.  I got in some good reading this month which means that I've now completed the 10 tasks of  Book Riot's 2022 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed this month required me to r ead a biography of an author you admire  and  an  anthology featuring diverse voices   and I selected  Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley  by Charlotte Gordon  and  Blackout  edited by Dhonielle Clayton  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and what's coming up for June: ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋   ❋ Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley  by Charlotte Gordon  is a biography that I was really looking forward to and I'm so glad to report that I've found a new favorite!  I've read some others in th

Wyrd & Wonder - The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Differently Morphous (DEDA Files #1) by Yahtzee Croshaw

  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!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  Book Nook Reviews , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story ), my featured book for the month of May wi

Wyrd & Wonder - Top Ten Tuesday: Fantasy Books I Want To See Adapted To The Screen

  Happy Tuesday everyone!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  Book Nook Reviews , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story ), Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl  will be fantasy themed each week this month.   This week I'm sharing some of my Fantasy Books I Want To See Adapted To The Screen (whether that's the big screen or the small screen, streaming or otherwise).  Each of the books below, as far as I know, do not have an adaptation on the way, but really need to.  Please, I need them! The Call ( Grey Land #1) by Peadar Ó Guilín The Epic Crush of Genie Lo ( The Epic Crush of Genie Lo #1) by F.C. Yee Ink and Bone ( The Great Library #1) by Rachel Caine The Lies of Locke Lamora ( Gentleman Bastard #1) by Scott Lynch Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto So You Want to be

Wyrd & Wonder - Music Monday: Pandora Journey

              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!  In honor of  Wyrd & Wonder  (a month long celebration of all things fantasy co-hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  Book Nook Reviews , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story ), I'm sharing fantasy music every Monday this month.  This week I'm spotlighting

Wyrd & Wonder - Sunday Funday: Week 3 Update

Happy Sunday Funday and welcome to my third weekly update for Wyrd & Wonder!   Wyrd & Wonder  is a month long celebration of all things fantasy during this month of May.  It is co-hosted Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , imyril @  There’s Always Room For One More , Ariana @  Book Nook Reviews , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Jorie @  Jorie Loves A Story .  Keep reading to see what I got up to since this time last week: My Wyrd & Wonder Posts This Week: Sunday Funday: Week 2 Update Music Monday: Adrian von Ziegler, Pt. 3 Top Ten Tuesday: Recent Favorite Historical Fantasy Books The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow What I Watched This Week : ❋   ❋  ❋.5 The Witcher: The Nightmare of the Wolf  (2021)  - I wasn't really expecting much from this animated prequel Witcher, but that was good. If you're a fan of the show you'll definitely want to check this out. Fair warning, as you might guess it is pretty gory, but the overa