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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.    Welcome back again!  Today, I'm featuring my three favorite pieces from  The Fantastic Four: First Steps  (2025) soundtrack which was composed by Michael Giacchino.  I really loved this movie and the soundtrack is great, but then again you can't really go wrong with Giacchino since he's so talented.  Give a listen to th...

    On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, currently hosted by  Anne @ My Head Is Full of Books , 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  Magical Readathon: Orilium - Autumn Equinox 2025  books,  Back to the Future  ( Back to the Future  #1) by George Gipe .  Okay,  Back to the Future  is one of my all time favorite movies and I j...

    Happy Thursday everyone! Welcome back to  Books from the Backlog , the weekly linkup I'm taking part of which is hosted by  Carole's Random Life in Books .  This is a great way to put a spotlight on books that I've had sitting on my shelf for awhile.  I don't know when I'll get to my weekly featured book, but I hope to some time hopefully soon. This Week's Neglected Book: The Women's War ( The Women's War #1) Jenna Glass Published: March 15th, 2019  Genre: Epic fantasy My Copy: Format: Trade paperback Pages: 576 Where I Acquired It: Local new and used bookstore Summary (From Goodreads): When a nobleman’s first duty is to produce a male heir, women are treated like possessions and bargaining chips. But as the aftereffects of a world-altering spell ripple out physically and culturally, women at last have a bargaining chip of their own. And two women in particular find themselves at the liberating crossroads of change. Alys is the widowed...

          Happy Saturday everyone! Today I'm sharing my thoughts on the book I read in August for  Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia, The Boardgame , an additional challenge to  G. @ Book Roast 's  Magical Readathon .  You can see my full tbr  here .  Without further ado, check out my mini review below: ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ I'm not familiar with The Twa Sisters but now I'm going to have to check out other retellings of it after reading  Sistersong  by Lucy Holland . I'll also have to try more from the author in the future. I really liked her lyrical style of historical fantasy which is a subgenre I can't resist.  If you like Natalie Haynes, Sophie Keetch, or Madeline Miller, I have a feeling you'll like Lucy Holland too. My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph . Next Month:  September  - September’s book can be part of your Sprint Equinox TBR if you’re participating and fit both promp...

      Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Books With Occupations In The Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life).  I've picked a variety of different occupations.  All of the books I enjoyed and would recommend, if you haven't already read them for yourselves.  Here we go in alphabetical order, by title: The Alienist ( Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1) by Caleb Carr All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward The Beekeeper's Apprentice ( Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #1) by Laurie R. King Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became Unlikely Spies During World War II by Elyse Graham Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ( Dirk Gently #1) by Douglas Adams Doctor Sleep ( The Shining #2) by Stephen King The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxfor...

    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.  Welcome back again!  Today, I'm featuring a four of my favorite tracks from the soundtrack of Superman (2025). I really enjoyed the movie and the score was composed by John Murphy and David Fleming, and incorporates the original John Williams score from the 1978 film.  Give a listen to Eyes Up Here , Raising the Flag , Look Up , and Punkroc...

Happy Sunday everyone!  Today I'm sharing my wrap up and mini reviews for both my August 2025 Bingo Round of the  Trope-ical Readathon  (which is hosted by  Jenjenreviews ) and Nevermore-athon (hosted by  Chaos in Bookland  with co-hosts amy from ‪@ AmyMcCaw ‬, Barbora from ‪@ bookworm.wander‬ , judith from ‪@ judithcakelover‬ , and Elena from @ they_read_and_spin ).  They both ran all of August.  I read all of the books on my original tbrs which you can check out here for Trope-ical Readathon and here for Nevermore-athon.  Keep reading to see my thoughts on the books I read for these challenges: Trope-ical Readathon ❋   ❋ The Briar King  ( Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone  #1) by Greg Keyes  has a lot of potential to be great, but it didn't make the cut. The dialogue style grated on me after a little while. It's like the author is trying to show off. Some authors can really do that with no issue and you're even happier f...