Level up your reading life with 25 unique literary challenges, and reward yourself with 25 bookish surprises! I’ve been eyeing The Ultimate Reading Challenge by Weldon Owen for several years. Every holiday I’m obsessed with finding fun advent calendars, and The Ultimate Reading Challenge is the perfect blending of my love of books AND advent …
Tag: Ali Hazelwood
My Popsugar Reading Challenge for 2025
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 …
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 …
Top Ten Tuesday: My Winter 2025 TBR
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 on My Winter 2024-2025 To-Read List! Hello Readers! My blogging and reading year has been atrocious for many various life reasons—good and not so …
Top Ten Tuesday: Christmas Songs Book Tag Mashup 2024!
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 Freebie, so I decided to stick with my annual tradition of combining TTT and Jana’s Christmas Song Book Tag. You can check out my …
ARC Book Review | Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Title: Not in LoveAuthor: Ali Hazelwood Genre: Romance, New AdultPublishes on: June 11, 2024Publisher: BerkleySource: digitalPages: 384 Synopsis: A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science. Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as …
April 2024 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hello Readers! While I read sparingly the first few months of the year, my reading finally picked up in April. Just in time because I was getting behind on my advanced reader copies. 😉 We’ve had lovely spring weather, a mix of sunshine and rain, which always makes me want to pick up a book. …
My April 2024 TBR
Hello Readers! Anyone else relentlessly checking the weather for Monday, April 8th?? We happen to be in the path of totality for the solar eclipse. People will be flooding our area from all parts of the world. And we have personally purchased glasses, an attachment for my son’s telescope—as well as something for our iPhones— …
March 2024 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hello Readers! My reading in March was still down, but I did read two hefty books so I’m not feeling too bad about it. And technically I did cross off all the books on My March TBR, two of them just happened to be DNFs. I don’t like DNFing ARCs that I committed to read, …