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: “A secret is a terrible thing. It starts […]
I have managed to amass so many books that I am really excited for this post. It isn’t going to take a lot of thinking back through lists of books that I have read and only vaguely recall. This week’s prompt is the first ten books I randomly […]
October went by in what felt like the blink of an eye, even though it wound up being more of a slower paced month. The month was a fun one, with a few birthdays and some holidays. For my family, it started out busy and slowed as the […]
I finished September with 15 ARCs left to be read. I’m shocked at how quickly October flew by. I love the colder temps, the crunching of leaves, even walking outside and noticing the smell of woodsmoke in the air. So much happened during the month, from having my […]
I can’t believe how fast October has gone by! It’s already the last week of the month, and today’s prompt is a Halloween Freebie, so I decided to lean towards my favorite type of spooky season books to read featuring witches. I’m going to try to include a […]
The Gendarme What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered… Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World War […]
Bog Queen Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. The story of an anthropologist’s monumental discovery and the clash of civilizations it sets off over the fate of the land that holds us. When a […]
Hello, October! September was a busy month for me with the Jewish holidays, which required a lot of prep work. Luckily, I managed to get it all done with Mom’s help, and the holidays were really nice. My sister even flew in to be with us, and to […]
I finished August with 19 ARCs left to be read. Hi all! This post is always scheduled for the first of the month, but I got a little delayed because of Yom Kippur. Our High Holy Days were really nice, for the most part. My sister came to […]
A Tangle of Time Thank you to Orbit and Oriel Voegele for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. From one of the most exciting and original voices in fantasy comes the second book following the adventures of the Hexologists, Iz […]
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