• Ramblings

    A busy busy bee *buzz*

    *emerges from the darkness* Hi…. I’m here! Did you think I disappeared? Oh, don’t worry. Me too. ANYWAY, through a series of really weird things it is February 9th and I have yet to post any of the things I’ve meant to do for the last week. Argh. Life. Why do you just want to fight me? I need to go back to pre-writing posts when I have the bandwith, so I can just post them. LOL. But alas, I did not do that. So here we are. This is just your reminder that is flu season, and please take…

  • Ramblings

    The sun finally emerges!

    I was supposed to write you all a review for Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail yesterday, but the day was so tiring I didn’t. Instead, I told myself I’d write it today. Then I woke up with a mild migraine and decided today is not the day either. So, you get a rambling post instead. Hahaha. At least I have been keeping up better with posts, and it’s feeling rather good to be honest. Although we’re due for another rainstorm soon, this week has been blessedly sunny. Yesterday the temperature even got up into the low 70s, and I was like…

  • Feature Posts/Weekly Memes

    Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022

    Happy Tuesday friends! Here is hoping that your Monday went smoothly, and you’re entering today with an overall good vibe. This is the last week of my current position and so I’m struggling a bit. But next week will smooth things out, and so I’m keeping it positive! Feeling pretty good about how well this blog is going too. But let’s get down to the prompt for today, shall we? Time to talk about some books! New-To-Me Authors in 2022 Anna E. Collins – Love At First SpiteI started off the year with a brand-new-to-me author, by way of Love…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

    Hart Ralston is a demigod and a marshal, tasked with patrolling the wasteland of Tanria. The realm the exiled old gods once called home is now a forsaken place where humans with no better options or no better sense come seeking adventure or spoils, but more often end up as drudges: reanimated corpses inhabited by the souls of those who’ve died in Tanria before. Hart tells himself that his job is simple: neutralize the drudges with a quick zap to the appendix and deliver them back to polite society at the nearest undertaker’s, leaving the whys and hows of the…

  • Ramblings

    Work Stuff and Exhaustion

    Man, this week got away from me. I was so proud because I managed to post on Monday and then suddenly I blinked and it was Friday. It’s just been one of those kinds of weeks where the days blend in to one another, and I’m just helplessly dragged along. My transition at work is going smoothly, but it has also been a lot to deal with. Training someone else, while simultaneously being trained? Well, it’s a lot. I’m not even surprised that my brain pushed all things about the blog out. Hahaha. Happily though, I have been reading! It’s…

  • Feature Posts/Weekly Memes

    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

    Happy Monday, and happy day off to anyone else who was able to have one today! I’m having a mild heart attack that it’s already the middle of the month. As a quick life update, I got a promotion! But the month of January was reserved for training my replacement and I can’t believe how quickly time has flown. Phew. At least it has been productive! I can even say the same for my reading. I’m actually on track this year, and reading things that I enjoy as well. It’s been so nice. That being said, let’s take a look…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer

    A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. THE LIBRARIAN OF CROOKED LANE is an intriguing new fantasy from C.J. Archer, the USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series. Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she’s descended from magicians, she’s skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she’s just an ordinary girl who loves books. She seeks the truth from a member…

  • Ramblings

    Yes, this is a post about the rain.

    If you’re on Twitter you’ve probably seen that #LARain and #flooding have been trending like mad, and that’s totally warranted. We’re on our third week of pretty consistent rain and, today in particular, has been a straight up DELUGE. (I love that word.) Living in a place that constantly bemoans the lack of rain, and then is never prepared for large quantities of rain, will never cease to crack me up. *sigh* This is basically our personality now. LA people love/hate rain with their whole souls. Luckily I was able to work from home today, because (see earlier infrastructure notes)…