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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for March 23, 2022
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Today’s topic is: Your favorite podcast and why
Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Adjectives in the Title
March 22, 2022 By 38 Comments
Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
This week’s topic is a fun one – Books with an Adjective in the Title!
Amazingly enough, these are all books I’ve read.
- Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester
- The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
- Blue Flag by Kaito
- Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda
- The Happy Sandwich by Jason Goldstein. Yes, this is a cookbook, but you have to love that title.
- Arrogant Officer: Falling for an Aries by Lauren Runow and Jennine Colette
- Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
- The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
- A Curious Incident by Vicki Delany
- Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
What’s on your list this week?
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for March 16, 2022
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Today’s topic is: Something “lucky” that has happened to you
Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Spring 2022 TBR
March 15, 2022 By 48 Comments
Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
Here are some of the books I’m looking forward to this spring. If no publication date is listed for a book, that means it has already been released earlier this month!
1. Gallant by V.E. Schwab
Why I Want to Read It: Ms. Schwab is a good storyteller.
2. Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel by Ibi Zoboi
Why I Want to Read It: I really enjoyed “Black Panther” as a film and want to learn more about these characters.
Why I Want to Read It: I haven’t read much Chinese science fiction and would like to change that.
4. Wild and Wicked Things by Fran Dorricott
Publication Date: March 29
Why I Want to Read It: I wasn’t immediately sure which classic novel this retelling was about. When combined with how many different themes were mentioned in the blurb, I was intrigued! Yes, I’m being a little vague with this reply on purpose. It’s better if you figure out certain things for yourselves.
5. Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, #2) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Publication Date: March 29
Why I Want to Read It: The first book in this series is still on my TBR. Maybe knowing that the sequel will be released soon will convince me to begin this series?
6. Gone Dark by Amanda Panitch
Publication Date: April 12
Why I Want to Read It: The comparison to the classic young adult novel “Hatchet” in the blurb piqued my interest.
7. Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast by Joan DeJean
Publication Date: April 19
Why I Want to Read It: This is a piece of American history I know nothing about!
8.History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights by Archie Bongiovanni
Publication Date: May 3
Why I Want to Read It: I would have loved to read this when I was a teenager. Luckily, adults can still read young adult books.
9. The Foundling by Ann Leary
Publication Date: May 31
Why I Want to Read It: I am well-versed on the history of how orphaned, abandoned, and unwanted children were treated, especially if they were unlucky enough to be sent to an orphanage or workhouse. It will be interesting to see how knowledgeable the author is on this subject. My hope is that she will do an excellent job exploring this topic from many different angles.
10. Private Label by Kelly Yang
Publication Date: May 31
Why I Want to Read It: Spring is the perfect time to read a romance novel.
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for March 9, 2022
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Today’s topic is: A book setting you’d like to visit and why
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Trope
March 8, 2022 By 25 Comments
Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
Today’s topic is: Books With Your Favorite Trope/Theme
What’s mine? Friends to Lovers, hands down. Here are a few…
1. Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
2. Friends Without Benefits by Penny Reid
3. Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis
4. Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
5. Wrong to Need you by Alisha Rai
6. Blurred Lines by Lauren Layne
7. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
8. What Are Friends For? by Sarah Sutton
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
10. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Any suggestions for me to add to my TBR?
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for March 2, 2022
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Today’s topic is: Tell us something about a pet
Book of the Month Poll Winner ~ The Purveli by Dianne Duvall
February 28, 2022 By 7 Comments
The Purveli by Dianne Duvall (Author), Kirsten Potter (Narrator),
Aldebarian Alliance, Book 3
Publisher: Self-published, Tantor Audio (Audio Publisher)
Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy, Romance, Action/Adventure
Rating: Best Book
Reviewed by Xeranthemum
Ava has always been different. Born with strong telepathic abilities, she lives a very isolated life until she is offered a job with an obscure network that aids powerful Immortal Guardians in their quest to protect humanity from the psychotic vampires who prey upon them. Suddenly, she doesn’t feel so different. For the first time in her life, Ava has found a place where she belongs. She’s happy. Life is good. And when her employers invite her to join a group of other gifted ones and a handful of Immortal Guardians on a journey to another planet, it becomes absolutely fantastic.
In no time at all, she is speeding across the galaxy aboard a Lasaran warship manned by two amazing alien races. It’s the dream of a lifetime… until a vicious attack by a mutual enemy of Lasara and Earth lands her alone in an escape pod with no habitable planet in sight and only one ship within range: one that carries the enemy who wants to know why the bioengineered virus they released on Earth long ago didn’t exterminate humanity and leave the planet ripe for their claiming.
Jak’ri doesn’t know how long he has been a prisoner aboard the Cebaun, but he fears the enemy’s twisted experiments will soon lead them to a virus that will eradicate the Purveli people. Despair grips him until a female from Earth is taken captive and reaches out to him telepathically. The gift that Ava said caused her such misery in the past soon becomes his salvation as the two of them form a fast friendship. Determined to distract each other from the horrors of their existence, they immerse themselves in telepathic communion during the day, then seek solace and adventure together in shared dreams. As their friendship deepens into love, the two hatch a daring plot to escape their captors. But the enemy will not let them go without a fight.
Can Ava and Jak’ri stand against so many and emerge victorious?
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for February 23, 2022
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