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  Happy Monday everyone and 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 spotlighting a couple of songs from  Hannah Jadagu .  I've just started hearing her on the radio quite a bit recently and I think I've got a new must listen to artist.  Give a listen to Lose and What You Did : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

                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  Mythothon  (and  Magical Readathon: Orilium - Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia ) books,  League of Liars  ( The League of Liars  #1) by Astrid Scholte .  This just looks so tempting, doesn't it! Beginning:  "Becoming a criminal is a

  Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books On My Fall 2023 TBR.  Without further ado, here are the books I'm looking forward to reading this October and December: Ace of Spades  by Faridah Abike-Iyimide Bella Poldark  ( The Poldark Saga  #12) by Winston Graham Bookshops & Bonedust ( Legends & Lattes #0) by Travis Baldree Catch-22  ( Catch-22  #1) by Joseph Heller Chaos Terminal ( The Midsolar Murders #2) by Mur Lafferty Deathless Divide  ( Dread Nation  #2) by Justina Ireland   Little Brother  ( Little Brother  #1) by Cory Doctorow Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime  by Candace Fleming Vampires of El Norte  by Isabel Canas Vengeance of the Pirate Queen ( Daughter of the Pirate Queen #3) by Tricia Levenseller What books are you looking forward to reading this Fall?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

Happy Monday everyone and 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 spotlighting a couple of songs I love from another bluegrass band (well, could also be considered folk or country as well I suppose) called Thunder and Rain .  I absolutely love their sound and I hope you do too.  Give a listen to their cover of Sweet Child O' Mine and Cut the Wire : You are invited to the Inlin

                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  Mythothon  (and  Popsugar Reading Challenge ) books,  The Company Man  by Robert Jackson Bennett .  I have really enjoyed everything I've read from this author, so I'm really looking forward to this. Beginning:  The canal was a gray, rotting

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Favorite Character Relationships, so I decided to share some of my Favorite Found Families.  Most of these are from series, so with those I'm featuring the first installment of the series.  Here we go in alphabetically order by title:  A Darker Shade of Magic ( Shades of Magic #1) by V.E. Schwab The Diviners  ( The Diviners #1) by Libba Bray The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune Legends & Lattes ( Legends & Lattes #1) by Travis Baldree The Lightning Thief   ( Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet ( Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers The Raven Boys ( The Raven Cycle #1)   by Maggie Stiefvater  Senlin Ascends ( The Books of Babel #1) by Josiah Bancroft Six of Crows  ( Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo Vicious ( Villains #1) by V.E. Schwab Have you read any of these books?  What are some of your favor

Happy Monday everyone and 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 spotlighting a couple of songs I love from Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway .  I love her style of bluegrass and she has a beautiful voice.  It's tough to pick just two because they're all so great, but give a listen to El Dorado and White Rabbit :  You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to

                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  Mythothon  books,  Heart of the Sun Warrior  ( The Celestial Kingdom  #2) by Sue Lynn Tan .  I loved the first book in this duology and I can't wait to read this. Beginning:  Night cloaked the sky in darkness, dripping shadows across the earth. 5

Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to my eighth 2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge update with mini reviews!  In August, I read 4 books for a total of 43 books completed out of 50 books.  for the  2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge . I've made some great progress!  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in August: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋ Malibu Rising  by Taylor Jenkins Reid  is a novel I was really looking forward to reading.  For the most part, I've enjoyed what I've read from Reid and this was pretty great as well.  The characters are all so full and rich, but there are a lot of them to keep track of.  I wasn't expecting to hear about Carrie Soto and Evelyn Hugo get a mention in this story as well so that was really cool.  I highly recommend this especially on audiobook because Julia Whelan does a fantastic job bringing everything to life. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋  ❋ The Hunting Party  by Lucy Foley  is so far my least favorite novel by this author.  Honestly,

 Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books That Defied My Expectations, so all of those I'm featuring today were all pleasant surprises.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: Army of the Cursed ( War of the Last Day #1) by Karim Soliman Dairy Queen ( Dairy Queen #1) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock The Fever King ( Feverwake  #1) by Victoria Lee Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ( A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson Litany of Dreams ( Arkham Horror #13) by Ari Marmell Peter Darling by Austin Chant Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley  by Charlotte Gordon The Silver Blonde by Elizabeth Ross Twilight of Avalon ( Twilight of Avalon #1) by Anna by Anna Elliott Have you read any of these books?  What are some books you read that turned out to be pleasant surprises?  As a