Hello Readers! I’m trying to keep my TBR light for November since I’ll also be participating in my 10th (!!) year of Nanowrimo. I worked hard in October to get all caught up on my advanced reader copies, finish my yearly Popsugar Reading Challenge, and work ahead on blog posts, freeing up as much time …
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October 2023 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hello Readers! October was a bit of a whirlwind, but I did manage to complete My Popsugar Reading Challenge, as well as read the last ARC I currently have for 2023—although I did pick up an ARC for very early January 2024 and should probably read that before the year ends. 😃 Finishing my ARCs …
Top Ten Tuesday: My Fall Bucket List
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is a Halloween Freebie! Hello Readers! It’s Halloween!! But more importantly, Nanowrimo starts tomorrow. 😍 We’ve been getting a ton of rain and cooler weather, which …
ARC Book Review | The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
Title: The Good PartAuthor: Sophie Cousens Genre: Romance, Magical RealismPublished On: November 7, 2023Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s SonsSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 384 Synopsis: By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven’t Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she’s always wanted, but is it really a dream come true? At twenty-six, Lucy …
My 2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! This has been my sixth year to participate in the Popsugar Reading Challenge. What I like about this challenge is it pushes me out of my comfort zones a bit, but I can almost always find books off my own shelf to fill the prompts. And I think 2023 may have been my …
ARC Review | The Search for Us by Susan Azim Boyer
Title: The Search for UsAuthor: Susan Azim BoyerGenre: Young Adult, ContemporaryPublished On: October 24, 2023Publisher: Wednesday BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 320 Synopsis: “A sharp-witted and illuminating, impressive sophomore novel.” – Isaac Blum, author of the award-nominated The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen Two half-siblings who have never met embark on a search together for the …
Top Ten Tuesday: Atmospheric Books
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Atmospheric Books (The Novelry explains this concept as: “A novel feels atmospheric when the setting and the narrative are deeply involved with one another; when characters …
ARC Book Review | The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Title: The Unmaking of June FarrowAuthor: Adrienne Young Genre: Fantasy, MysteryPublishes On: October 17, 2023Publisher: Delacorte PressSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 336 Synopsis: One woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting. In the small mountain town of …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Weather Events on the Cover
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books with Weather Events in the Title/on the Cover (I’m picturing a list of titles with weather-related words in them like storm, rain, blizzard, flood, …
ARC Book Review | The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella
Title: The BurnoutAuthor: Sophie Kinsella Genre: RomancePublished On: October 10, 2023Publisher: Random HouseSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 403 Synopsis: Sparks fly in this delightful novel about two burned out professionals who meet at a ramshackle resort on the British seaside—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher. Sasha has had it. She cannot bring …