Hello Readers! This will be my eighth 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. There’s an informative Goodreads group, as well as …
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My 2024 End-of-the-Year Reading Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! Happy New Year! Before we say goodbye to 2024, it’s nice to look back on our reading year and see what worked and what didn’t, what goals we met, what new bookish things we discovered, and what maybe we decided to let go. Sometimes it’s only while working on my year-end wrap-ups that …
My Popsugar Reading Challenge Wrap-Up for 2024
Hello Readers! This was my seventh year to participate in the Popsugar Reading Challenge, and I barely made it happen this year. I typically only allow myself to cheat with a few short stories or children’s books for those prompts that are extra hard for me to fulfill, but this year I ended up reading …
January 2024 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hello Readers! As usual, January was a loooooong month, but I’m not complaining. I needed it! I’m still trying to catch up on reading and blogging from my hiatus in December. I only read 4 books and 1 short story in January (for a total of 1,487 pages), but 3 of them were advanced copies …
ARC Book Review | The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Title: The FuryAuthor: Alex Michaelides Genre: Thriller, MysteryPublished On: January 16, 2024Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: Paperback via publisherPages: 320 Synopsis: A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder ― from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient. This …
My Popsugar Reading Challenge for 2024
Hello Readers! This will be my seventh 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. There’s an informative Goodreads group, as well as …
My 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! I finished my reading challenge for the year, and I think this is the earliest I’ve ever completed it. It’s nice to be done so I can focus on finishing up advanced reader copies, participate in Nanowrimo, and start picking up my seasonal reads. I enjoyed the challenge this year. I thought it …
June 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! Am I alone in wishing I had a few more days of June?? I need this summer to slowww down. Ha! I had to split my Wrap-Up and Haul posts this month since my haul was ridiculously large. I don’t feel too bad about it since I only actually bought a few books …
ARC Review | The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Title: The MaidensAuthor: Alex MichaelidesGenre: Fiction, ThrillerPublished On: June 15, 2021Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: physicalPages: 352 Synopsis: Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society …
My June TBR
Hello Readers! May was a great reading month for me. I got ahead on my advanced reader copies, and two of my most anticipated books for the year were released. I’m hoping to keep up the pace in June and continue to read ahead on my ARCs. I would love to have a no-ARC July. …