Always Me

  Happy Saturday everyone! Today I'm sharing my eighth update for my August progress on the year long  Beat The Backlist 2024  reading challenge, hosted by  Austine Decker .  You can see my original tbr  here .  In August, I completed 2 books for a total of 41 books completed out of 52 books on my tbr.  That's 11 books left!  Without further ado, keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in August: ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋  ❋ A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union of WWII  by Elizabeth Wein  is a must read work of YA Nonfiction.  If you're at all interested in women's roles in wartime, aviation, the Night Witches, the WASPs, or just appreciate Elizabeth Wein's style, this is a fascinating and incredibly readable. I've said it before but I'm always on the lookout for YA nonfiction and this one can't be missed especially if you appreciate Wein's historical fiction. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋ DNF'd @ p. 54 The Company of G

              On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice  ( Anne @ My Head Is Full of Books  is currently managing hosting duties), 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  Trope-ical Readathon - Team Contemporary/ Literary/ Historical Fiction  books,  Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries  ( Emily Wilde  #1) by Heather Fawcett .  I've heard

          Happy Thursday everyone! Today I'm sharing my thoughts on the book I read for August for the  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia , an additional challenge to  G. @ Book Roast 's  Magical Readathon .  You can see my full tbr  here .  Without further ado, check out my mini review below. Inspect a dark mysterious pool on the corridor floor - scary/ dark book (September - moved to August for the change to the Autumn Equinox to September): ❋   ❋ I loved Episode 13 but  The Children of Red Peak  by Craig DiLouie  just wasn't for me as much as I was hoping it would be.  The idea of this horror thriller stand alone is pretty great, but perhaps I would have preferred it in the audiobook format.  That said, I'm still looking forward to trying more from DiLouie in the future. My review is also on Goodreads . Are you participating in this challenge?  Have you read this book?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

    Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Posts I’ve Written That Give You the Best Glimpse of Me, but I decided to continue that alphabet series I've been working on with my Favorite Books Beginning With The Letter E.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gaiiley   Educated by Tara Westover   El Deafo by Cece Bell   The Electric Heir ( Feverwake #2) by Victoria Lee The Elfstones of Shannara  ( The Original Shannara Trilogy #2) by Terry Brooks   Ella Enchanted ( Ella Enchanted #1) by Gail Carson Levine   The Empty Grave ( Lockwood & Co. #5) by Jonathan Stroud   Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche ( Enola Holmes #7) by Nancy Springer The Epic Crush of Genie Lo ( The Epic Crush of Genie Lo #1) by F.C. Yee   Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone ( Ernest Cunningham #1) by Benjamin Stevenson   Have you read any of these books? What are some of your f

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 featuring a couple of favorite compilations from  beyondgirls .  I definitely enjoy their variety.  Give a listen to Tavern Tales and Epic Fantasy Tavern Feast : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Happy Sunday everyone!  It's now that time to start my Autumn Equinox 2024 classes at Orilium  for the  Magical Readathon , hosted by  G. @ Book Roast .  I've followed the  Novice Path , completed the  Traveller's Key , have  Geared Up , completed the  Spring Equinox 2022  and  August Equinox 2022 , visited  Old Favour Pass in 2022 , completed the  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia 2023 , completed the  Spring Equinox 2023  and  Autumn Equinox 2023 , visited  Old Favour Pass in 2023 , and completed the Spring Equinox 2024 .  I've also been working on the  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia 2024  as well.  Anyway, this time around the Autumn Equinox semester runs all of September.  I've decided to continue studying for the Calling of a Scribe as I have during my previous studies.  That means I'll be taking four courses: Elemental Studies, Inscription, Restoration, and Lore.  To complete each course, I'll need to earn an O in Elemental Studies,

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  (you can follow along on  Twitter ) and this round (officially the eighth) is based on the Yggdrasil and the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology.  This readathon is a bit different than previous rounds in that Louise created a gameboard for us that's inspired by Chutes and Ladders except it's more like Bifrost and Ratatoskr respectively instead.  Here's how we play the game: "You’ll start at the roots of the tree with the three Norns (or fates). Roll your die to follow the arrows, making your way up towards Asgard, the top of the tree."  Some squares have general prompts to add/ remove freebie books (pick whichever book you want or create your own prompts) to your tbr, some feature Worlds squares which have specific prompts, and some spaces feature a Bifrost or Rat

              On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice  ( Anne @ My Head Is Full of Books  is currently managing hosting duties), 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  Trope-ical Readathon - Team Contemporary/ Literary/ Historical Fiction  books,  Sky's End  ( Above the Black  #1) by Marc J. Gregson .  I don't know about you, but this so

      Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is a Relationship Freebie.  I was thinking about doing a list of characters I'd like to be best friends with, but I thought I do something different and feature characters I know be my archenemies (or at least just be really irritating to me if I ever met them in real life).  There are a couple of pairs since I couldn't separate them.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by character name: Daisy and Tom Buchanan from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Holden Caulfield from  The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Dorian Gray from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Count Olaf from The Bad Beginning ( A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Veruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Facto

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 featuring my favorite playlist from  Eclectic Lofi .  They have a few in this jazz noir series but the original is still my favorite of the group.  I love the noir genre of movies and this really hits the mark.  Give a listen to Jazz Noir Detective Music : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to ent