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    Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Favorite Heroines.  I have a long list, but these characters are some of my all time favorites!  Here we go, in alphabetical order by character name: Alanna from Alanna: The First Adventure ( Song of the Lioness #1) by Tamora Pierce   Celaena from Throne of Glass ( Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas   Cinder by Cinder ( The Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer   Deryn from Leviathan ( Leviathan #1) by Scott Westerfeld  Felicity from The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy ( Montague Siblings #2) by Mackenzi Lee   Jude from The Cruel Prince ( The Folk of the Air #1) by Holly Black Khalila from Ink and Bone ( The Great Library #1) by Rachel Caine  Lady Helen from The Dark Days Club ( Lady Helen #1) by Allison Goodman   Maggie from Trail of Lightning ( The Sixth World #1) by Rebe...

    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 new Fall Out Boy music.  I loved this band and it's just exciting to hear all new music from them again.  Give a listen to Love From The Other Side and Heartbreak Feels So Good : You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

    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 everyone! This week I'm spotlighting one of my most anticipated releases,  The Stolen Heir ( The Stolen Heir Duology #1) by Holly Black .  Holly Black is one of my favorites and it's awesome that this is a return to the world of The Cruel Prince . Beginning:  A passerby discovered a toddler si...

    Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is a Love/ Valentine's Day Freebie and I've decided to feature some of my Recent Favorite Sapphic Reads.  Without further ado, here we go in alphabetical order by title:  Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron The Girl From The Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag   Goldie Vance, Vol. 4 by Hope Larson It's Not Like It's A Secret by Misa Sugiura  Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo   Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Malice  ( Malice Duology  #1)   by Heather Walter   She Gets The Girl by Rachel Lippincott She Who Became The Sun  ( The Radiant Emperor #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan These Witches Don't Burn ( These Witches Don't Burn #1) by Isabel Sterling   Have you read any of these books?  What are some of your favorite sapphic reads?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog ...

  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 numbers from the 1955 musical It's Always Fair Weather  starring Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse.  It's kind of down beat and satirical which really worked for me.  Plus, you can't beat Kelly and Charisse - they're both so cool!  Check out I Like Myself , Baby You Knock Me Out , and Thanks A Lot, But N...

      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 everyone! This week I'm spotlighting one of my current Popsugar Reading Challenge books,  Legends & Lattes  by Travis Baldree .  I've heard a lot of great things about this standalone fantasy novel and I'm so glad to finally have the chance to read it. Beginning:  Viv buried he...

Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to my first 2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge update with mini reviews!  In January I completed 9 books out of a total 50 books for the  2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge . So far I've made great progress!  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the book I read in January: ❋   ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋  William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken  ( William Shakespeare's Star Wars  #7) by Ian Doescher  is delightful and I was grinning like an idiot while listening to this. I'm so glad I decided to listen to it on audiobook because the production is brilliant. I loved the introduction to the audiobook - that was a nice touch.  The narrators are so talented and do a great job of sounding like their screen counterparts. The real highlights are what Doescher does with BB-8 and Chewbacca - that was perfection. My review is also on Goodreads . ❋   ❋  ❋ I wish I was able to get into  My Sister the Ser...