Hello Readers! We could all use some good news, and over the past few weeks I’ve been seeing a plethora of bookish news that makes me smile. Maybe I’m spending more time perusing the internet? Maybe being forced to stay home has made the good things stand out more? Or maybe the stressful times have …
Tag: Cassandra Clare
My 2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge Quarterly Update
I’m four months into my current reading challenge, so I wanted to take the time to evaluate how I’m doing. The Popsugar Reading Challenge has 40 regular prompts and 10 advanced prompts. However, it’s fairly common for readers to turn the 40th prompt–read a book from a past Popsugar Challenge–into a prompt that includes a …
Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles That Should Be Band Names
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 Book titles that would make good band names. Hello Readers! I hope you are all staying healthy and safe. …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Read Because of Peer Pressure
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 Bought/Borrowed Becauseβ¦ (Fill in the blank. You can do 10 books you bought for the same reason, …
March 2020 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hi Readers! Well, at least the first half of March was great for my reading life. I finished up my Chain of Gold TBR and finally got to read Chain of Gold. And it was spectacular, but it did take me longer than I liked because I had to pack up our house in preparation …
Book Review: Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
Title: Chain of Gold (The Last Hours, #1)Author: Cassandra ClareGenre: Young Adult, FantasyPublished On: 3/3/20Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry BooksSource: PhysicalPages: 624 Synopsis: Welcome to Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, the celebration of artistic beauty and the wild pursuit of pleasure, with demons waiting in the dark. For years there has …
Top Ten Tuesday: Spring 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 Spring 2020 TBR! Hello Readers! I hope you are all healthy and safe. The world may feel unstable right …
Top Ten Tuesday: Authors Who Have a Fun Social Media Presence
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 Authors Who Have a Fun Social Media Presence! Hello Readers! March has arrived, and for most people in the …
My March TBR
Hello Readers! I managed to get caught up on my ARCs in February (and also had one of my best reading months in a long time) so in March I can spend a little time mood reading. One of my most anticipated books of 2020 comes out on March 3rd. I pre-ordered it last year …
Chain of Gold TBR: What To (Re)Read Before Starting Cassandra Clare’s Next Novel
STOP! SPOILERS AHEAD!! Let me start by saying, if you haven’t read all of the primary texts of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices in the Shadowhunter universe, you should probably ignore this post. If it’s your first reading, I suggest you read them in the order the author, Cassandra Clare, suggests, or at …