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Happy Saturday everyone and welcome to my fifth and final weekly update for  SciFi Month 2024 !  Sci-Fi Month has been a month long celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , Imyril @  There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Mayri @  Book Forager  (Image credit: Artwork by  Sxwx ) .  I'd say I checked quite a bit off my tbr and watchlist this month and I'm pretty pleased with that.  Keep reading to see what I've been up to since this time last week: My SciFi Month Posts This Week: Sunday Funday: Week 4 Update Music Monday: SpaceAmbiant Top Ten Tuesday: Upcoming Sci-Fi Releases I'm Looking Forward To Books From The Backlog: Silhouette ( Peacer #1) by Dave Swavely The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Conquistador by S.M. Stirling Intergalactic Book Tag What I Watched This Week : ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋ I watched the second episode of  Lost in Space ,  Season...

Happy Saturday everyone!  In honor of  SciFi Month 2024  which is hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , Imyril @  There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Mayri @  Book Forager  (Image credit: Artwork by  Sxwx ),  I'm sharing the Intergalactic Book Tag.  I saw it over on Tammy blog @ Books, Bones & Buffy .  I also did it last year and back in  2021 .  I will primarily be featuring books I've read from the past year.  Without further ado, let's get to the tag: SPACE: NAME A BOOK THAT TAKES PLACE IN A WORLD OTHER THAN OUR OWN My choice: Starsight ( Skyward #2) by Brandon Sanderson - I was absolutely blown away by this sequel and it's predecessor.  Such a pleasant surprise to find myself so hooked on them!  I'm really looking forward to seeing what's coming next.   BLACK HOLE: NAME A BOOK THAT COMPLETELY SUCKED YOU IN My choice: Ubik by Philip K. Dick - This w...

              On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Anne @ My Head Is Full of Books , 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  SciFi Month 2024  reads,  Conquistador  by S.M. Stirling .  By the way, SciFi Month is a month long celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Pla...

  Happy Thursday everyone and welcome back to  Books from the Backlog , the weekly linkup I'm taking part of which is hosted by  Carole's Random Life in Books .  Plus, this month I'll be featuring science fiction in honor of  SciFi Month 2024  (Image credit: Artwork by  Sxwx ) .  Anyway, this is a great way to put a spotlight on books that I've had sitting on my shelf for awhile.  I don't know when I'll get to my weekly featured book, but I hope to some time hopefully soon. This Week's Neglected Book Silhouette ( Peacer #1) Dave Swavely Published: November 13, 2012 Genre: Cyberpunk My Copy:  Format: Hardback Pages: 272 Where I Acquired It: A library book sale Summary Per Goodreads: Minority Report meets Blade Runner as a man must solve his daughter's murder only to find that the trail leads right back to himself in Dave Swavely's Silhouette , the first of the Peacer  series. A post-quake San Francisco is ruled by a priv...

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I'm sharing my eleventh and final  2024 Popsugar Reading Challenge  update with mini reviews!  I read 6 books this month for a total of 50 out of 50 books.  I'm pretty pleased with myself that I completed this challenge a whole month early!  Without further ado, keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read in November: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋ The Palace Job  ( Rouges of the Republic  #1) by Patrick Weekes  was a fun read and I'd like to continue the series in the future.  I will say though that I did have trouble focusing on my reading the day that I finished it.  I bet you can guess why: I finished this on November 6th, 2024.  At least, this novel did help me escape for a bit. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋   ❋  ❋ I've read a lot of 1 star a 5 star reviews for  House of Leaves  by Mark Z. Danielewski , but haven't seen a whole lot in the middle. Honestly, though, that'...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  For today's  Top Ten Tuesday  hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl , in honor of  SciFi Month , a month long celebration of all things sci-fi hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , Imyril @  There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Mayri @  Book Forager .  (Image credit: Artwork by  Sxwx )   The theme today is a Thanksgiving Freebie, but I've decided to feature Upcoming Sci-Fi Releases I'm Looking Forward To.  Without further ado, here we go in release date order: Among Serpents ( Above the Black #2) by Marc J. Gregson - 1/17/25 - Book one in this series was amazing and I can't wait for this sequel! The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton - 2/25/25 - After Mickey7 , I'd like to try this upcoming standalone. The Martian Contingency ( Lady Astronaut Universe #4) by Mary Robinette Kowal - 3/18/25 - This alternate history series has been really cool and I'm ...

Happy Music Monday everyone!  In honor of  SciFi Month 2024  (Image credit: Artwork by  Sxwx ) , all this November  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 sharing three favorites from  SpaceAmbient  which feature a lot of epic music of all kinds.  Give a listen to  Dreamstate Logic - Distortions of the Past, Astropilot - Predestination,  and  Cosmic Cadence - Drake Equation : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

  Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to my fourth weekly update for  SciFi Month 2024 !  Sci-Fi Month is a month long celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @  Dear Geek Place , Imyril @  There's Always Room For One More , Annemieke @  A Dance With Books , and Mayri @  Book Forager  (Image credit: Artwork by  Sxwx ) .  Keep reading to see what I got up to since last time: My SciFi Month Posts This Week: Sunday Funday: Week 3 Update Music Monday: Premium Music HQ Top Ten Tuesday: Sci-Fi Destination Titles Books From The Backlog: The Doctor and the Kid ( Weird West Tales #2) by Mike Resnick The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Noir by K.W. Jeter What I Watched This Week : ❋   ❋  ❋  .5 Paul McGann is easily my favorite part of  Doctor Who: The Movie   (1996). He's fun to watch as the Doctor once he gets going. To bad he didn't have more screen time than he did. My review is also on Letterboxd . ❋ ...

Happy Saturday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my TBR for the  Reindeer Readathon  which will run for the entire month of December.  It is hosted by  Erik @ Breakeven Books  with some help from  Noelle ,  Christine & Mo ,  Kristin ,  Hannah ,  Vanessa  and Steffany .  I'm on Team Mistletoe this year which is hosted by Erik.  I've been participating in this readathon since 2021, and I'd say I've got a great tbr put together for this round.  Without further ado, let's get to my tbr:  DASHER - 10 PTS - Read a book that is recommended to you on social media or is a list recommendation (YouTube, Goodreads, Google, etc.). My choice: Thief of the Heights by Son M. - I've read a lot of recommendations for this YA fantasy graphic novel and I can't wait to try it. DANCER - 15 PTS - Read a book genre that you feel matches your favorite music genre (i.e. Pop-Fantasy, Rock/ Metal-Thriller/ Horror, R&B-Romance, etc....