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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 featuring a couple of recent favorite synthwave compilations from  Solamnus Synthwave .  These both sound really cool and I like the little story that goes along with them.  Give a listen to Nexus and Shadowcastle :  You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

  ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋  ❋ I received an ARC from Reedsy Discovery in exchange for an honest review. Screen Portrayals of Detectives on the Spectrum in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, The Millennium Trilogy , The Bridge , Death Note , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , and Other Productions.  From Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, to the Scandinoir investigators Lisbeth Salander of The Millenium Trilogy and Saga Norén of The Bridge , to anime's L in Death Note , to Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , increasing numbers of crime shows and movies have featured detectives on the autism spectrum. Portrayals of such characters have been met with acclaim and criticism. Is the entertainment industry celebrating neurodiversity or is it reinforcing stereotypes? In The Autistic Sleuth , over two dozen characters appearing in filmed productions from around the globe will be analyzed to explore how film

                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  Mythothon  books,  Monster  by Christopher Pike .  Just look at that cover - this could be fun! Beginning: It began with blood. 56: "Did you go to the funerals?" Are y

    Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books That Provide a Much-Needed Escape, but I decided to feature my Favorite Books Beginning With The Letter F.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home ( Welcome to Night Vale #3) by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor   The Fade Out, Act One ( The Fade Out #1) by Ed Brubaker   The False Prince ( Ascendance  #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen   Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl The Fellowship of the Ring ( The Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis   Finna ( LitenVerse #1) by Nino Cipri Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley Foundryside ( The Founders Trilogy #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett Have you read any of these books?  What are some of your favorite books beginning with the letter F?  As always, thanks for vi

  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 recent favorite fantasy music compilations from  Blue Turtle .  This is my second time featuring Blue Turtle - if you'd like to see what I shared last time you can see that here .  Anyways, give a listen to Spring Hike and Forest Adventure : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Clic

Happy Sunday everyone!  Today I'm sharing wrap up and mini reviews of the August 2024 round of the  Trope-ical Readathon  which is hosted by  @jenjenreviews  and  @bookrob13 .  It ran the entire month of August and I was on Team Contemporary/ Literary/ Historical Fiction for a nice change.  As usual, there were fifteen total challenges to complete - two team challenges and thirteen common challenges and then your choice for the Team Book as well.  I managed to read 14 of the 16 total books on my original tbr so I'd say I did a pretty great job. My total points earned for the challenge comes to 5,931 - wow! If you'd like to see my original tbr, you can do that here .  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I completed for this round: Team Book: ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋  ❋   A Crane Among Wolves  by June Hur  ranks up there with my favorite reads of 2024.  I'm glad I started reading this author because she has quickly become one of my favorites.  I don't want to spoil anyth

              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 Mythothon books,  Zombie Abbey  by Lauren Baratz-Logsted .  I'm a fan of both  Downton Abbey  and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, so this sounds like it could be potentially

  Happy Wednesday everyone!  I hope everyone's been doing well.  I've now completed 16 tasks for  Book Riot's 2024 Read Harder Challenge .  The tasks I completed in August required me to read a  historical fiction book by an Indigenous author   and a book   t hat went under the radar in 2023.   I selected  The Night Watchman  by Louise Erdrich  and  Stateless  by Elizabeth Wein  respectively.   Read on to see my mini reviews and my plans for next month: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ The Night Watchman  by Louise Erdrich  is one of my favorites of 2024.  I wish I hadn't sat on it since she's one of my favorite authors, but I'm glad I finally decided to pick this up because it's just plain outstanding.  The story is even more meaningful knowing that it's based on her grandfather's life.  Plus, she does an excellent job narrating the audiobook edition of her story.  I can't recommend this work of historical fiction enough. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋   ❋ 

    Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books Involving Food Books Involving Food (That are Not Cookbooks) (Submitted by Cathy @ WhatCathyReadNext and Hopewell’s Public Library of Life).  I'm featuring five that I've really enjoyed and five that are on my TBR.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order: Read Heartless by Marissa Meyer Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen   Tweet Cute by Emma Lord With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo   A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher On My TBR Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee   Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee If You Can't Take the Heat by Michael Ruhlman   A Pho Love Story by Loan Le   A Taste For Love by Jennifer Yen   Have you read any of these books?  What are some of your favorite books involving food?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!