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 Movies/TV Shows That Would Have Made Amazing Books (Submitted by Sabrina @ Notes From a Paper Plane Nomad), but I’ve tweaked it just a bit! Hello …
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Top Ten Tuesday: Secondary Characters Who Got Their Own Book
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 Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book, but I’m twisting it just a bit. Hello Readers! How are we in the last week of September?! …
Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Books of 2022
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 Favorite Books of 2022. Hello Readers! Happy New Year! Ready or not, 2023 is here. Trying to narrow down my favorite books of 2022 is …
My 2022 End-of-the-Year Reading Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! Happy New Year! Before we say goodbye to 2022, 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 …
Top Ten Tuesday: Christmas Songs Book Tag Mashup 2022!
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 …
Top Ten Tuesday: Unlikeable Characters You Can’t Help But Love
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 Unlikable Characters You Can’t Help but Love (These are villains, criminals, jerks, etc. that make you fall in love with them anyway, perhaps because they evolve by …
August 2022 Monthly Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! August was a mixed bag for us. My husband and son had their first bout of Covid, my oldest daughter returned home from an amazing month-long trip to São Paulo, Brazil, my middle child turned 21, and my youngest started dual credit classes (online this semester) through the local community college. And amid …
20 Books of Summer 2022 Wrap-Up
I enjoyed participating in the #20BooksOfSummer22 challenge hosted by Cathy @ 746 Books this summer. I managed to read 12 out of 20 books, which isn’t too bad since I chose all backlist books and no ARCs. My goal was to at least read 10. Participating in the Trope-ical Readathon last month helped me to …
My August 2022 Trope-ical Readathon Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! I had fun participating in the Trope-ical Readathon in August. It was my second time to participate, and I ended up reading 12 out of the 15 books I had planned, plus 1 extra book, which didn’t count for the challenges, but I was able to count for pages read. I ended up …
ARC Book Review | Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Title: Carrie Soto Is BackAuthor: Taylor Jenkins Reid Genre: RomancePublishes On: August 30, 2022Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 352 Synopsis: In this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime—from the New York Timesbestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination …