I finished July with 35 ARCs left to be read. August feels like it went by in the blink of an eye, didn’t it? My finances took a big hit, with my car needing an expensive repair, 3 of my dogs needing vet visits, then my car needing […]
The House of the Witch Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: ableism, domestic violence, mention of child abuse, murder, parental abandonment, threat of rape, gaslighting, violence, torture, blood, abusive relationship, […]
There’s nothing like blog posts to really showcase my personality. This week’s prompt gives me an opportunity to showcase posts I’ve written that give you the best glimpse of me. This is a fun topic, because I get to browse through all of my post and show off […]
A Rose by Any Other Name Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. “A delightfully impish heroine… a tempestuous erotic connection… a captivating imagining of the life of the Dark Lady, the illusive inspiration for Shakespeare’s […]
The Temple of Fortuna Thank you to Jenny Lu & Union Square & Co. for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. The gripping final installment in Elodie Harper’s bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy. Amara’s journey has taken her far—from enslavement in Pompeii’s […]
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: “‘Shhh,’ her brother says. She’s giggling. She can’t […]
This week’s prompt is planes, trains, and automobiles AKA books featuring travel. It was submitted by Cathy @ What Cathy Read Next, and I get to talk about ten of my favorite books featuring travel in the plot. I love reading books about travel, since it lets me […]
July is over and we’re into August, which means we’re just a tiny bit closer to autumn starting and this oppressive heat breaking. It’s been really hot on Long Island, and there’s been air quality alerts most days. This isn’t the best kind of weather for asthmatics like […]
I finished June with 29 ARCs left to be read. July was a really tough month for me. The heat has been brutal for me, with my heat intolerance and my POTS (postural orthostatic hypertension syndrome) combining to make it a difficult month to get out and do […]
I think every one of us has read a book and wished that it had more of less of something in it. This week’s prompt is books I wish had more/less [insert your concept here] in them (for example: more/less romance, more/less world building, less info dumping, more/fewer […]
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