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Happy Tuesday and welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish !  This week's topic is Books With Fall/ Autumn Covers/ Themes.  This time I'm taking a slightly different track - each of the books I've included on my list this week have the word "fall" or "falling" in the title.  I've only read one of these (the novel by Bethany Griffin - my review is linked below), but I did just have a book display at my library featuring these books.  Here we go, in order of title: All Fall Down  by Jennifer Weiner Fall of Giants  by Ken Follett The Fall by Bethany Gfriffin Falling for Rachel  by Nora Roberts Falling Stars  by V.C. Andrews Falling Through the Earth  by Danielle Trussoni Hard Fall  by Ridley Pearson In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent Night Fall  by Nelson B. DeMille The Sky is Falling by Sidney Sheldon Have you tried any of these "fall" th...

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. You know, I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I really like the sound of both I Prevail and Queens of the Stone Age .  I've been hearing their two newer songs, "Alone"  and "The Way You Used To Do" , on the radio quite a bit.  At this point, I don't think I'll get sick of them even with all of the airplay th...

  On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , Book Beginnings, hosted by  Rose City Reader , and 50/50 Friday is a new weekly link up and it is hosted by  Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader  and  Laura @ Blue Eye Books .  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.   Then, for  50/50 Friday, every week there's a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the host...

Welcome to my first official update for Fall Bookish Bingo hosted by  Bekka @ Pretty Deadly Reviews !  I haven't gotten a bingo yet, but I have managed to tackle eight books so far since the challenge began last month.  I'd say I'm off to a good start so far!  Read on for my mini reviews of these books: Yellow Cover: ❋  ❋  ❋ I had no idea that this story started off as a novel after having loved the Tim Burton film starring Ewan McGregor. As soon as I realized that fact, I had to try it for myself - and I tackled it as a part of #TheReadingQuest. While I ended up liking the book well enough I have to admit that I absolutely adore the movie. There are quite a few differences between the book and the movie, but I'd say the changes are to the film's advantage. Overall, though, I think the film has the tone and the spirit of the story, but it's presented in more of a linear fashion. Plus, the coda from the film gives the viewer a little peek...

Happy Tuesday and welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish !  This week's topic is Book Boyfriends/ Girlfriends (Which characters do you have crushes on?)  I've always been terrible at this, but below are some of my favorite fictional guys!  Here we go, in order by character name. Aragorn -  The Lord of the Rings  by J.R.R. Tolkien Atticus Finch -  To Kill A Mockingbird  by Lee Harper Atticus O'Sullivan -  The Iron Druid Chronicles  by Kevin Hearne Carswell Thorne -  The Lunar Chronicles  by Marissa Meyer Jem Carstairs -  The Infernal Devices  by Cassandra Clare Kell Maresh -  Shades of Magic  by V.E. Schwab Peeta Mellark -  The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins Reid -  The Upside of Unrequited  by Becky Albertalli Richard Campbell Gansey III - The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater Ro...

❋  ❋  ❋ I received a free ecopy of this middle grade fantasy story from Aurora Publicity and Kandi J. Wyatt in exchange for an honest review. Nine year-old Tania has separated from her family after a boating accident. She washes ashore in an unfamiliar woodland area that is populated by creatures called the Skiorians, Terrans, and Avarians. If she ever wants to see her family again, she and her new allies are going to have to trek for days through the magical and dangerous forest on an adventure of a lifetime. Journey from Skioria by Kandi J. Wyatt is a fun younger MG adventure novel that would be wonderful for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings . It's a short, quick read with good world-building. I liked getting to know the world that Tania has just been flung into after that boating mishap. Unfortunately, I didn't feel all that connected to our cast of characters. The writing is well done, but I still felt disconnected from Tania. I think part ...

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. If you've followed along with this weekly link up, you'll know that one of my favorite genres is bluegrass.  Anyway, The Farm Hands are currently ranking up there with my favorites - and I'm glad to see that they're getting more attention.  Here are a couple of my favorites: "The Old 109"  and "Dig in the Dirt" . ...