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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (11/25/18)
Apologies for the radio silence all. It’s been a rough last two weeks, and I’ve been trying to dig myself out of a funk that was so deep that I’ve actually barely been reading at all. I love the holidays, I really do. Family, friends, and food. All good things. However they also bring with them memories of loss, and this year we’ve added another loss to that list. It’s hard to separate the feelings I have right now, but I’ve been doing the best I can to keep on keeping on. So, I took a blogging break to let…
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Book Review: The Color of Lies by C.J. Lyons
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Color Of Lies Author: CJ Lyons Publisher: Blink Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: November 6, 2018 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ——————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy YA mysteries with diverse characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons comes The Color of Lies, a world drenched in color and mystery. High school senior Ella Cleary has always been good at reading people. Her family has a rare medical condition called…
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Book Hoarder? Who, me?
So, one of my promises to myself this year was that I was going to scale down. In every aspect. Scale down on the things I buy, scale down on the things I own, and also try to keep our house from turning into a storage unit. Oh, trust me. It’s not been easy. My book dragon tendencies keep urging me to look at book sale emails, and it takes all of my willpower to ignore them. *sigh* Being a bookworm is a hard, hard job. My rule lately has been composed of two separate parts: 1. If I don’t…
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Book Review: Girl at the Grave by Teri Bailey Black
Media Type: Ebook Title: Girl at the Grave Author: Teri Bailey Black Publisher: Tor Teen Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: August 7, 2018 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher —————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow moving, but well executed mixes of historical fiction and fantasy. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Valentine has spent years trying to outrun her mother’s legacy. But small towns have long memories, and when a new string of murders occurs, all signs point to the daughter of a murderer. Only one…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (10/22/18)
Good morning, and happy Monday reader friends! I’ve been chugging along with my reading lately and am, in fact, a whole book ahead of schedule to hit my 120 books this year goal :). The best part is that it hasn’t been a chore. I’ve kind of let myself sink into whatever I feel like reading, and not worry too much about finishing quickly. Hilariously, that’s been making me read faster. What are you going to do? Here’s what my reading looks like lately. I finished up two more Halloween Bingo books. Both Experimental Film by Gemma Files and The Girl…
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Book Review: Implanted by Lauren C. Teffeau
Media Type: Ebook Title: Implanted Author: Lauren C. Teffeau Publisher: Angry Robot Pages: Paperback; 400 Release Date: August 7, 2018 Source: Author ————————————— Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy quick moving science fiction with compelling characters! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N The data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink… or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller. When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she’s cut off from the neural implant community which binds the…
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Book Review: The Scythian Trials by Elizabeth Isaacs
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Scythian Trials Author: Elizabeth Isaacs Publisher: Vesuvian Books Pages: Paperback; 372 Release Date: October 23, 2018 Source: TLC Book Tours / Author —————————————— Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast paced stories with plenty of twists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Descendants of the Amazons, the Scythians work alongside prominent governments but answer to no one. Warriors living on the fringe of civilization, they live by one credo: Strength through Equality. Power through Knowledge. Nya Thalestris is the brightest Scythian of…
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Book Blogger Hop: Halloween Edition!
Book Blogger Hop: Halloween Edition! Happy Friday friends! It’s been a really long time since I’ve participated in one of these hops, mainly because we were posting infrequently for a while. I missed them! Getting to answer fun questions, visiting other people on their blogs, it’s a great way to network! I actually miss being up on what other book bloggers are doing, and so it’s one of my goals for the rest of this year and all of next year to start getting connected again. Let’s start things out with this book blog hop, shall we? ———————————————————————————– This week’s…
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Book Review: Begone the Raggedy Witches by Celine Kiernan
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Begone the Raggedy Witches Author: Celine Kiernan Publisher: Candlewick Press Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: September 11, 2018 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ——————————————- Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of all ages who love a good story about family, filled to the brim with magic. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N When witches kidnap her dad, Mup is swept up in a wild tide of magic that carries her to another world. Can she reunite her family and find her way back? On the night…
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Small Business Spotlight: Spooky Finds
It’s time for another small business spotlight post, and this time around we’re celebrating all things spooky! Or, at least, spooky cute? Heck, it’s just stuff that I would totally want to buy and now I’m sharing it with you. Let’s get started! ** note that all photos are the property of the store owners ** ========================================================= Double, Double, Toil & Trouble Pin by TheGrumpyUnicornCo Every witch needs her very own boiling cauldron to cackle over. If it’s pin sized, and ready to put on your lapel, I call that a win! Plus we have a Shakespeare reference here. So,…