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  Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Recent Additions to My Book Collection.  Some of the books on today's list are ones I found at thrift shops, got for Christmas, or bought with gift cards.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title: The Big Bands, 4th Edition by George T. Simon The City of Dusk ( The Dark Gods #1) by Tara Sim Crown in Candlelight by Rosemary Hawley Jarman Leech by Hiron Dusk Operation Otherworld ( Operation Otherworld #1-2) by Poul Anderson Pickpockets, Beggars, and Ratcatchers: Life in the Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney The Revenge of the Hound by Michael Hardwick Silver Sandals by Clinton H. Stagg The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchanan What have you recently added to your book collection?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

                          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 some favorite songs from Derek Fiechter's Music.  I love the Fiechter's - all of their music is fantastic so it's tough to narrow it down.  Give a listen to Dark Fantasy Music - Dark Archaeologist , Medieval Autumn Music - Autumn Candlemaker ...

Happy Saturday (and Christmas Eve) everyone! Today I'm featuring my wrap up and mini reviews for both Magical Readathon: Orilium - Old Favour Pass & Reindeer Readathon 2022!  Old Favour Pass ran from Friday, December 9th through Sunday, December 18th and as part of the  Magical Readathon  is hosted by  G. @ Book Roast .  My goal was to read at least one and of the five books on my original tbr , I managed to finish two of them.  As for the Reindeer Readathon, I completed all nine of the books on my original tbr which includes the bonus points opportunities earning a grand total of 265.  That said I had a pretty great reading month.  Without further ado, let's get to what I read and my mini reviews: Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods & Such - Read A Contemporary Book ❋   ❋  ❋   ❋ The Burning  by Laura Bates  is a well written YA contemporary novel that is an absolutely brutal read. It tackle...

        On Friday's I take part in two 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 (and Christmas Eve Eve!) everyone! This week I'm spotlighting one of my  Reindeer Readathon 2022  books,  Forging Silver Into Stars  ( Forging Silver Into Stars  #1) by Brigid Kemmerer .  I've really enjoyed this author's book in the past so hopefully this new serie...

Happy Wednesday everyone!  How can 2023 be coming up so soon?  It seems like just yesterday that it was this time last year.  Then again, it also feels like an entire decade has passed, again this year as well.  Anyway, like 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 my resolution is to complete  Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge , which is always a brilliant way to challenge myself to read more widely, broadly, and out of my comfort zone.  There are twenty-four tasks to complete over the course of the year.  You can read one book to complete multiple tasks, or read one book per task.  In order to get the most out of this challenge, I will be reading one book per task.  Here's the list of the twenty-four challenge tasks and my proposed reading list.  This year, rather than complete these in official task order, I'm going to change things up a bit:  January Read a historical fiction book set in an Eastern country. My choice: The Silence ...