It’s another Sunday, and that means we have another discussion ahead of us. This week I want to discuss creative license. This is when an author intentionally strays from accepted facts to achieve an artistic goal. I’ve encountered this most often in historical fantasy—where the author changes an […]
The Black Bird Oracle Thank you to libro.fm and Penguin Random House Audio for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved […]
This week’s prompt was submitted by Angela @ Reading Frenzy and it’s such a great one. I’m going to talk about ten debut novels I enjoyed, meaning the first published book by an author. It is going to make me think a little harder than I would normally, […]
Long Island Compromise Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1980 a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in a cloistered town on the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and […]
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: “Paris past midnight is a magnificent creature, conjured […]
Welcome to today’s Top Ten Tuesday, where the prompt is a Throwback Freebie! I’m doing a lot of reflecting on the year so far, now that we’re more than halfway through the dumpster fire of a year that we’ve had. Sorry, I had to throw that in there, […]
June turned out to be a really enjoyable month for me, making this the best start to a summer that I’ve had in a really long time. I’ve continued attending physical therapy for my shoulder, and I’m not only feeling better than I was even before the surgery, […]
I almost always wear dark, muted colors, but when I think of my favorite color, the one that comes to mind is purple. There’s so many variations on this one color, and I’m really glad to say that I think there are ten books that I loved that […]
I finished May with 24 ARCs left to be read. We’ve only just gotten through June, and it is already hot. It feels like I’ve been doing stuff every weekend, which has been really fun. But I seriously struggle with the heat, so I’ve been having a pretty […]
There have been so many amazing books that were released in the first half of 2024, and it looks like the second half of 2024 has some pretty exciting books in store for readers. Which is really good news for readers, but bad news for our pockets. Since […]
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