First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “It only took twenty-eight years and one bad […]
Welcome back to another Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s prompt is books I meant to read in 2023 but didn’t get to, and I’m not going to struggle to reach ten at all. There were a lot of books that I planned to read last year, but just didn’t […]
This week’s topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2024, and it’s definitely a bit of a more labor-intensive topic than I was hoping for today. But, instead of changing the topic to an easier one, I decided to put my big girl pants […]
December was a busy month for me, just like I’m sure it was busy for a lot of you. It was also a time to evaluate what worked for me in 2023, what I wanted to carry with me into 2024, and what I wanted to leave in […]
Welcome to 2024! This week’s prompt is favorite books of 2023 and we aren’t getting a moment to breathe before jumping into best of posts. I’m still working through a few reviews I have to write, but I guess it won’t hurt to put those off until tomorrow, […]
Winter’s Gifts Thank you to NetGalley and Subterranean Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: gore, blood, racism, religious intolerance WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY OVER HERE When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra […]
Hello, and welcome back to reality. It doesn’t exactly feel like reality though, does it? This is the time of year where I just spend a week mostly wearing pajamas, eating cheese, and wondering what day of the week it is. And I’m not even a cheese person. […]
This week’s prompt is bookish wishes, and I’m excited to talk about some of the books that are on my wishlist. I have a range of books on my wishlist, which I’m going to share here. There are a ton of books on my list, but here are […]
Son of the Storm Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In the city of Bassa, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead, he prefers […]
This week’s prompt is books on my winter 2023-2024 to-read list and I’m actually kind of excited about this topic for a change. Why is that, you might ask? Because you might have noticed that while I work through an ever-growing backlog of ARCs, my list of pleasure […]
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