Junie Author: Erin Crosby Eckstine Genre: Historical Fiction Publication Date: February 4, 2025 Publisher: Ballantine Books Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening […]
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Author: Antonia Hylton Genre: Nonfiction, History Publication Date: January 23, 2024 Publisher: Hachette Audio In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, that New York Times bestselling […]
Happy Tuesday y’all! I hope February is treating you well so far. We’ve gotten a little light snow over the weekend, and I had a great time celebrating my birthday with family. Which is also why I’m so late in responding to comments and blog hopping. This week’s […]
Hello February! January has become a month full of joy mixed with a drop of sadness for my family since my father passed six years ago. We have always had a lot of January birthdays in the family, and my dad had one in January as well. But […]
I finished December with 18 ARCs left to be read. January was a great month. There are multiple birthdays amongst my extended family, and within my immediate family, my brother, sister-in-law, and I all have birthday in January. We also remember my father on his birthday, which was […]
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: Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your […]
Wow, this week’s prompt is a really great one, and it’s all about my top ten new-to-me authors I discovered in 2024. While I love reading books by the authors I love, I’ve also encountered some really great authors that I hadn’t read anything by. So I am […]
Blacklight Born Author: Alexander Darwin Genre: Science Fiction Publication Date: December 3, 2024 Publisher: Orbit Series: The Combat Codes Saga #3 Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The Grievar War has engulfed the […]
Ooof, and we’re back to work. This week’s prompt is most anticipated books releasing in the first half of 2025, and I must admit that I haven’t really stayed on top of upcoming books unless they come across my radar on social media. In the last couple of […]
This week’s prompt is a challenge, and it was submitted by Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits. I’m going to be talking about the earliest published books that are on my TBR. I anticipate it to be a challenge because I don’t typically read books that are older, and classics […]
