Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Favorite Books I Read in 2019, but I decided to focus on my favorite reads from the past decade …
Month: December 2019
My 2019 End-of-the-Year Reading Wrap-Up
I can’t believe tomorrow will be the last day of the year AND the last day of a decade! I recently came across an amazing spreadsheet created to track bookish and blog stats provided by Kal @ Reader Voracious and I couldn’t resist plugging in all my books for the year! As someone who is …
Stacking the Shelves
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! It’s hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality! …
Top Ten Tuesday/Bookending Winter: Books I Hope to Find Under My Christmas Tree
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books I Hope to Find Under My Tree! I had so much fun participating in Bookending Autumn, I decided …
Stacking the Shelves
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! It’s hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality! (Link …
Top Ten Tuesday: Winter (2020) TBR
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Winter TBR! (Link to add on Goodreads through the book title.) I’m not including any of my reads for …
Book Review: Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
Title: Call Down the HawkAuthor: Maggie StiefvaterGenre: Young Adult, FantasyPublished On: November 5, 2019Publisher: Scholastic PressPages: 472 Synopsis: The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – …
Top Ten Tuesday/Bookending Winter: Christmas Songs Book Tag MashUp!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is a Freebie, so I decided to tackle another Book Tag! The Christmas Songs Book Tag was created by Jana …
Bookish Naughty or Nice Tag | Bookending Winter
This tag was created by Jenniely, but I discovered it from Sammie @ The Writerly Way! It looked like so much fun and I couldn’t wait to try it out! I’m predicting I’ll be on the Naughty list, or at least pretty close to split down the middle. I would say that correctly reflects my …
ARC Review: The German House by Annette Hess
Title: The German HouseAuthor: Annette HessGenre: Historical FictionPublished On: December 3, 2019Publisher: HarperViaPages: 336 Synopsis: Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess’s international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator—caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power—as she …