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Happy Wednesday and welcome to my final and fourth weekly update for  Sci-Fi Month 2022 !  Sci-Fi Month is a month long celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place  and Imyril @  One More .  (Image credit: Artwork by  Simon Fetscher) .  It's been a bit longer than a week since my last update, but I thought I'd combine this with my final post.  Keep reading to see what I've been up to since my last weekly update and the most exciting - a giveaway (sorry, US only): My Sci-Fi Month Posts This Week: Sunday Funday: Week 3 Update Music Monday: Dark City (1998) Top Ten Tuesday: Upcoming Sci-Fi Releases I Can't Wait To Read The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Mort(e) ( War With No Name #1) by Robert Repino Celebrate A Subgenre: Apocalyptic Music Monday: SpaceWave Top Ten Tuesday: Cozy Sci-Fi Reads What I Watched This Week : ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋  ❋ I watched the final three episodes (12 total) of  Andor  (2022) and they were brilliant.  I watched th

Happy Tuesday everyone!  For today's  Top Ten Tuesday  hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl , in honor of  Sci-Fi Month 2022  hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place  and Imyril @  One More  (Image credit: Artwork by  Simon Fetscher) , I'm featuring some favorite Cozy Sci-Fi Reads   Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order: The Calculating Stars  ( Lady Astronaut Universe #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal Finna ( LitenVerse  #1) by Nino Cipri The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Universe ( The Thorne Chronicles #1) by K. Eason The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet ( Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers The Martian by Andy Weir Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir To Say Nothing of the Dog ( Oxford Time Travel #2) by Connie Wills Have you read any of these books?  What are some of your favorite cozy reads?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

Happy Music Monday everyone!  Today, in honor of  Sci-Fi Month 2022  (Image credit: Artwork by  Simon Fetscher) , I'm sharing some sci-fi inspired music. 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. This week I'm featuring four of my favorite pieces from SpaceWave.  Have you ever listened to their tracks?  They are perfect for reading to, working to, and more. Give a listen to Area 62 , THIS IS Cyberpunk Ambient Music , 2083 , and Cyberpunk Ambient :  You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

  Happy Friday everyone!  Today, in honor of  Sci-Fi Month 2022  (Image credit: Artwork by  Simon Fetscher) , I'm taking part in the Sci-Fi Month Challenge 2022.  Today's topic is Celebrate A Subgenre: Apocalyptic and I'm going to spotlight a book I haven't talked about in ages.  I absolutely loved it back when it was new, and it was even one of my favorite reads of 2015.   The book that I'm talking about is City of Savages by Lee Kelly .  As far as I'm concerned this debut novel never quite got the level of attention that it deserved.  It was exactly the kind of standalone sci-fi post-apocalyptic dystopian novel I was looking for and I can't recommend it enough.  It's a character-driven psychological story told from dual perspectives with great characterizations and world-building.   Check out the description: It has been nearly two decades since the breakout of the Third World War, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp ruled by island native Roll

    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 (Black) Friday everyone!  I'm hoping everyone had a nice Thanksgiving that celebrates it! Anyway, this week I'm spotlighting one of my  Sci-Fi Month 2022  reads,  Mort(e)  ( War With No Name  #1) by Robert Repino .  By the way, Sci-Fi Month is a month long celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by L

Happy Tuesday everyone!  For today's  Top Ten Tuesday  hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl , in honor of  Sci-Fi Month 2022  hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place  and Imyril @  One More  (Image credit: Artwork by  Simon Fetscher) , I'm featuring Upcoming Sci-Fi Releases I Can't Wait To Read.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order: Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogd en Heavenly Tyrant ( Iron Widow #2)   by Xiran Jay Zhao Light Bringer ( Red Rising Saga #6) by Pierce Brown The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown Some Desperate Glory  by Emily Tesh Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero What books are you looking forward to reading?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

Happy Music Monday everyone!  Today, in honor of  Sci-Fi Month 2022  (Image credit: Artwork by  Simon Fetscher) , I'm sharing some sci-fi inspired music. 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. This week I'm featuring my favorite songs from the soundtrack of Dark City (1998).  If you're a fan of film noir, The Twilight Zone , Blade Runner , and The Matrix , I have a feeling you'll love this cult classic as much as me.  Plus, it has a pretty killer soundtrack.  Give a listen to Awakening in a Strange Motel , Sway , Into the City , The Wall , and Memories of Shell Beach : You are invited

    Happy Saturday everyone and welcome to my tenth 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge update with mini  reviews!  In October I completed 2 books for a total of 48 of 50 books for the  2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge .  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in October: ❋ DNF'd @ 32% Spoonbenders  by Daryl Gregory  sounded like it was going to be right up my alley, but the opening just put me right off.  If you've read this, I have a feeling you know what scene I'm talking about.  I had a tough time getting back into the characters.  It just wasn't for me. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋ Lobizona  ( Wolves of No World  #1) by Romina Garber  is an excellent YA fantasy novel that deals with quite a few important, difficult, and timely issues.  If you're at all interested in magical realism, this is definitely worth picking picking up.  Now, if only there wasn't a romance then this could have been a five star book.  I'm definitely lookin

  Happy Sunday Funday and welcome to my third weekly update for  Sci-Fi Month 2022 !  Sci-Fi Month is a month long celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place  and Imyril @  One More .  (Image credit: Artwork by  Simon Fetscher) .  It's been a busy week, but I've got some things checked off my tbr.  Keep reading to see what I've been up to since last week: My Sci-Fi Month Posts This Week: Sunday Funday: Week 2 Update Music Monday:  Megamind  (2010) Top Ten Tuesday: Sci-Fi Books Already Released This Year I Want To Read The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Just One Damned Thing After Another ( The Chronicles of St. Mary's #1) by Jodi Thomas What I Watched This Week : ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋.5 I'll admit that I teared up several times during  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever  (2022), but especially during the Marvel Studios title sequence and during the credit scene. The visuals are fantastic and all of the cast do a fantastic job, but Tenoch H