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: “Freida was underwater. Her muscles contracted, shocked from […]
We’re still having some temperature swings, but they’re heading in the warmer direction for the most part. It’s bananas to think that I have seen climate change alter weather patterns and they keep getting more extreme. As if my brain needed one more thing to worry about, here […]
The Book Witch Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest opinion. She can hop into any novel, she just can’t stay there. Come along with the book witch in this magical and inspiring love letter […]
Cackle A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of The Return. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her […]
The Ferryman and His Wife Thank you to NetGalley and Algonquin Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes listeners on a quietly […]
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 […]
Call of the Owl Woman Thank you to K.M. Huber and SparkPress for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Call of the Owl Woman is a gripping coming-of-age story set in a land of prolonged drought where cunning sorcerers and brutal […]
Hey y’all! This week our prompt is a genre freebie, This can be a list of books sharing a common genre, or a narrowed list. We all know how much I love when books straddle the line between genres, so this week instead of picking a single genre […]
It’s Tuesday again, and I’m going to be aiming to get my blog hopping done earlier in the week. Last week I had an endoscopy/colonoscopy on Wednesday, and I just basically laid low all week long. I did manage to get a haircut that was long overdue, and […]
If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere like me, we’re heading into the long, hot days of summer. This week’s prompt is a summer-themed freebie, and my all-time favorite thing about any summer ever was the chance to go swimming. It didn’t matter whether it was a pool, a […]
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