Always Me

Happy Wednesday everyone!   I'm very excited to welcome you all to my leg of the  Number One Fan  blog tour !   Today, you'll find the details and summary for this novel,  an excerpt from chapter one, and an about the author,  Meg Elison.  Thanks for visiting my stop on this b log tour! Title:  Number One Fan Author:  Meg Elison ISBN:  9780778386155 Publication Date:  August 30, 2022 Pages: 352 Price: $16.99 Buy Links:  Barnes & Noble ,  Amazon ,  Books-A-Million ,  &   BookShop.org A headlong rush of a thriller/horror that is Misery for Millennials, about a bestselling author who is abducted by her biggest fan and must figure out who he is, where she is, and how to survive and escape, set against the backdrop of fan and convention culture, the literati and the #metoo movement. Bestselling fantasy author Eli Grey gets into a cab without checking it's hers, and unquestioningly accepts a dri...

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well.  These months just seem to be flying by!  Anyway, I've now completed the 16 tasks of  Book Riot's 2022 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed this month required me to r ead a classic written by a POC  and memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary  and I selected  The Color Purple  by Alice Walker  and  Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story  by Jacob Tobia  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and what's coming up for September: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋ The Color Purple  by Alice Walker  is a must read. It took me a bit to get into the style at first, but by the end it had really pulled me right in. I have a feeling that I might have preferred to listen to the audiobook edition a little bit more.  Hearing it might have helped me get into the style a little easier.  Either way, if you haven't re...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is a school freebie and I've decided to feature YA Historical Fiction That Should Be Taught In History Or English Class (if they aren't already). Here we go in alphabetical order by title:  Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Code Name Verity ( Code Name Verity #1) by Elizabeth Wein The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse Grenade by Alan Gratz The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis Have you read any of these books?  What books are on your list this week?  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 my favorite tracks from the album Lotus Land from the new age composer called Gandalf .  Thanks very much to both YouTube and Pandora for recommending this too me! I really love this sound.  He has a lot of music out there, but this is where I started with him....

Happy Saturday everyone! Today, I'm sharing my TBR for  Mythothon  which is a mythology themed readathon that will run for the entire month of September.  It is hosted by  Louise @ Foxes and Fairy Tales  and this round (officially the seventh) is based on Theseus and the Minotaur of Greek mythology.  In this readathon, we’ll follow the story of Theseus, and his victory in the labyrinth. Will we make it to safety, or be devoured by the minotaur?   Group Book:  Ariadne by Jennifer Saint - The group book is not required, but I've had this on my tbr for quite awhile and it sounds really good. We start at the circle in the middle of the spiral–our story starts with Poseidon, God of the Sea–then work our way out until we face the minotaur, freeing ourself from the labyrinth. Defeat the minotaur to complete the readathon. Completely optional, are the three Extra Prompts, which will let us finish off the story.  There are also have to two Life ...

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  Orilium  books,  Image  ( Angel: Season 2  #2) by Mel Odom .  Angel is one of my favorite shows and it's always good to see these characters again. Beginning: "Aren't you going to answer that?" 56: Anxious nausea swept over Wesley. Have yo...

  Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Completed Series I Wish Had More Books.  There are quite a few that I'd love to see more from, but these are the ones at the top of my list!  Here we go in alphabetical order by the title of the first book in the series: The City of Brass ( The Daevabad Trilogy #1) by S.A. Chakraborty Daughter of Smoke & Bone ( Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1) by Laini Taylor Daughter of the Pirate King ( Daughter of the Pirate King #1) by Tricia Levenseller The Epic Crush of Genie Lo ( The Epic Crush of Genie Lo  #1) by F.C. Yee Fable ( Fable #1) by Adrienne Young Jackaby ( Jackaby #1) by William Ritter Johannes Cabal the Necromancer ( Johannes Cabal #1) by Jonathan L. Howard Six of Crows ( Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter ( The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #1) by Theodora Go...

                      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 some of my favorite music from Joe Porter .  I love watching his videos on YouTube.  Makes me wish I had a fraction of his talent on percussion!  Here are three of my recent favorites: Cool Movie Music on Different Instruments! , Hip Hop & Rap with Coo...

       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  Orilium  books,  Infinity  ( Chronicles of Nick  #1) by Sherrilyn Kenyon .  I've been meaning to read this author for ages.  This series sounds pretty good. Beginning: Free will.  Some have called it th...