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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 sharing my four favorite stairwell covers from Lauren Paley .  I just happened to stumble upon her via YouTube and I'm so glad I did.  She has a marvelous voice.  Check out her covers of Misty Mountains Cold , Edge of Night , Deliver Us/ River Lullaby , and Skye Boat Song : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter...

  On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , 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 current  Mythothon  books,  Hollow Empire  ( Poison Wars  #2) by Sam Hawke .  I loved the first book in this series and I'm so glad to be back. Beginning:  You never get used to poisoning a child. 56: She fixed me with her star...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Book Titles That Sound Like They Could Be Crayola Crayon Colors.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical by title: Art in the Blood ( Sherlock Holmes Adventures  #1) by Bonnie MacBird Beneath the Sugar Sky ( Wayward Children #3) by Seanan McGuire Concrete Rose ( The Hate U Give #0) by Angie Thomas The Gilded Ones ( Deathless #1) by Namina Forna The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson Iron Gold ( Red Rising #4) by Pierce Brown Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, Rafael Albuquerque, Rafael Scavone, and Dave Stewart Shadowblack ( Spellslinger #2) by Sebastien de Castell Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith Have you read any of these books?  What book titles do you think sound like they could make a great crayon color?  As always, thanks for visiting and perhaps even commenting...

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 sharing three of my favorite covers from the string quartet, Eklipse .  They definitely deserve more attention.  Give a listen to Blinding Lights , Cry Me A River , and Weak Fantasy : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Hello everyone!  Today, I'm sharing my wrap up and mini reviews for the  Trope-ical Readathon  which was hosted by  @jenjenreviews  and  @bookrob13  and lasted for the entire month of March.  I participated on Team Science Fiction/ Fantasy.  Of the fifteen total challenges - three team challenges and twelve common challenges - I read completed ten of them (you can see my original tbr here ).  Not bad, if I do say so myself!  Keep reading to see my mini reviews: ❋  ❋ Space Opera  ( Space Opera  #1) by Catherynne M. Valente  is trying very hard for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but it never quite gets there.  It does have its moments though.  I have a feeling I would have preferred this in audiobook format.  That could have been interesting. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋  ❋ Stain  by A.G. Howard  is a retelling of that I really wanted to like.  I can't say that I've e...

  On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , 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 current  Mythothon  books,  Unshapely Things  ( Connor Grey  #1) by Mark Del Franco .  I found this at a used bookstore awhile ago and hadn't heard of it or the author, but so far it sounds like it could potentially be the start of ...

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books I’d Gladly Throw Into the Ocean (submitted by Beauty & Her Books ).  I don't often spotlight books I disliked or even hated, but let's just say these really rubbed me the wrong way.  My reviews are linked to the titles and without further ado here we go in alphabetical order by title: Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Fallen ( Fallen #1) by Lauren Kate Firstlife  ( Everlife #1) by Gena Showalter Flawed ( Flawed #1) by Cecelia Ahern The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Reawakened ( The Reawakened Series #1) by Colleen Houck A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell The Sinister Urge by Frances Newton Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Have you read any of these books?  What are some of your least favorite books?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting dow...