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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. Every since Puddles (aka Mike Geier) started appearing on Postmodern Jukebox , I've been following his music - I couldn't believe it when he appeared on season 12 of America's Got Talent !  He has an great voice and I always look forward to hearing his covers of popular songs. Folsom Prison Blues/ Pinball Wizard Smoosh Up & Dancing Q...

❋  ❋ I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Magic is leaving this world, making the witches who've relied on it forever absolutely helpless. Some are willing to accept it, while others are willing to do whatever it takes to stay in power. Alice is using her remaining power to solve the mysterious disappearances of those in occult circles of New Orleans. She knows the feeling as her family put in an asylum and she just recently got out. She's afraid that her family is connected, and the more she investigates the more she comes to realize that her fragile psyche may be in trouble. Figuring this out, though, may be her only way to get out from under her mother's thumb while determining the future of magic. The King of Bones and Ashes by J.D. Horn sounded like it would be exactly my kind of read. There are so many elements that I love - magic and witches, atmospheric setting (New Orleans), voodoo, warring families, and more. Unfortunately, ...

❋  ❋  ❋ I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. In order to do his job, Cole undergoes surgery to receive the implanted memories of murder victims. After he recovers from the eight hour operation, he can remember the thoughts of someone else - right up until the moment of their death that is. Sometimes these memories are fuzzy, but others are perfectly clear. Cole's cases completely consume his every waking moment, leaving him without much of a personal life but that's how he prefers it. He will do whatever it takes to solve the case and track down the killer. While Cole is working his most recent case, however, he begins to suspect that someone else is using the memory-transfer tech for another purpose altogether. Cole isn't far off, in fact, he's the only one standing in the way of a ruthless company harvesting people's most intimate memories and eliminating anyone standing in the way. The Memory Detective by T.S. Nichols has s...

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 hosts blogs. This week I'm spotligh...

❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Anda spends most of her free time playing Coarsegold Online, an MMORPG, where she can be a hero, meet people from all over the world, and make new friends. Things get complicated when she meets a gold farmer in the game. A poor Chinese kid plays the avatar who's job it is to collect valuable items in the game and sell them to players with money to burn. That's strictly against the rules of the game, but Anda quickly begins to realize that these things are less straightforward when a real person's livelihood is at stake in real life. I don't know how, but this is the first story by Cory Doctorow that I've ever read. I know, I can'be believe it either. Either way, In Real Life is a pretty great graphic novel. It's a lot of fun with all with quite a sense of adventure and it's good seeing Anda begin to come into her own as the story progresses. Doctorow also uses this s...

Happy Tuesday and Happy New Year!  I can't believe it's already 2018!  Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish !  This week's topic is Books I Meant To Read In 2017 But Didn't Get To.  Most of these are books that I'm waiting for the audio book hold to finally come in on - I've been on hold for some of them for ages!  Hopefully I will be able to start listening soon! Blue Tide  by Jenna-Lynne Duncan Daughter of the Pirate King  by Tricia Levenseller Dear Martin  by Nic Stone Final Girls  by Riley Sager The Love Interest  by Cale Dietrich A Poison Dark and Drowning  by Jessica Cluess - This hold actually just came in! Spellbound of the Lost and Found  by Moors Fowley-Doyle The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis Wicked Like A Wildfire by Lana...

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. So, I don't know about you, but I just realized "The Lady Is A Tramp"  wasn't written specifically for Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey (1957) .  Instead, it was originally a part of the 1937 musical Babes in Arms  and there are tons of very early cover of it from around 1937.  Below, I've included the scene from Pal Joey and a 1937 c...