It's official: I'm on hiatus

Hi everyone! You may (or may not) have noticed that I've been a bit MIA over the past month. Since Covid hit, I have struggled a bit with blogging and keeping up with everyone. A ton has happened over the past two years that has pulled me in different directions and moved my beloved blog to the back burner. Although I still love the community and all of my wonderful blogging buddies, I've spent the last month exploring new hobbies and finding new passions that are taking up quite a bit of my time. I'm still reading, but at this point it's mostly fanfiction with some audiobooks here and there. I've found my comfort area and right now it just...

Top Ten Tuesday #312: 21st Century Classics

Today's Topic: 21st Century Books I ThinkWill Become ClassicsHappy Tuesday! This is such an interesting topic! Not all of the books I chose this week are ones that I loved (or even liked), but they're all books I believe will stand the test of time and become classics. Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonCoraline by Neil GaimanThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader...

Saturday Screen Time #47: Superheroes and miracle workers

 Happy Saturday, everyone! I'm back with the first screen time update for 2022 and it's packed with movies and shows. Last year I started watching horror movies with a friend who lives in Canada so I'm watching those pretty consistently these days. I've FINALLY made it to a theater to see two movies in the past few months, and that was an adventure. Let's get into it!RECENTLY IN (NEW TO ME) MOVIESTHE BESTThe Batman - If you had told me ten years ago that I would be utterly obsessed with Robert Pattinson as Batman, I would not have believed you, but here we are. I expected to enjoy this movie, but I haven't been able to stop thinking about...

ARC Review: The Dragon's Bride by Katee Robert

Title: The Dragon's Bride (A Deal With A Demon #1)Author: Katee RobertPublication Date: March 29, 2022Publisher: Trinkets and Tales LLCPages: 185Add to Goodreads//I received this ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review//Briar Rose might have a name out of a storybook, but she learned at a very young age that no prince was coming to save her. She’ll have to save herself. Unfortunately, even that is an impossible task in her current situation—trapped in a terrifying marriage to a dangerous man.Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is how she finds herself making a deal with a demon. Freedom from her husband…in return for...

Top Ten Tuesday #311: Spring 2022 TBR

Today's Topic: Books On MySpring 2022 TBRHappy Tuesday! It's time for one of my favorite post topics of the year, seasonal TBRs! There are so many gorgeous (red and yellow??) books releasing this spring. I hope I can get to all of them! Survive the Dome by Kosoko JacksonWicked Beauty by Katee RobertHide by Kiersten WhiteBook of Night by Holly BlackFor the Throne by Hannah WhittenIn a Garden Burning Gold by Rory PowerHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteNettle & Bone by T. KingfisherA Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra RowlandWind Daughter by Joanna Ruth MeyerTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader...

ARC Review: The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

Title: The Lies I TellAuthor: Julie ClarkPublication Date: June 21, 2022Publisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkPages: 320Add to Goodreads//I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review//She's back.Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear, and by the time she's done, you've likely lost everything.Kat Roberts has been waiting...

Top Ten Tuesday #310: Enemies to Lovers

Today's Topic: Enemies to LoversFantasy RomanceHappy Tuesday! Today I'm sharing some of my favorite enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance books! There are some older and some fairly recent, but all of them were amazing, five star reads for me! Serpent & Dove by Shelby MahurinA Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid KemmererThe Wrath & the Dawn by Renee AhdiehCarry On by Rainbow RowellPestilence by Laura ThalassaCruel Beauty by Rosamund HodgeTo Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra ChristoFor the Wolf by Hannah WhittenFrom Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. ArmentroutA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted...

February Recap

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOGHi, everyone! To no one's surprise, I've barely posted. I haven't gotten off the struggle bus since 2020, but it's fine. I'll just be over here cuddling puppies and reading fanfiction. I did manage to read a couple of actual books in the month of February, but mostly I stuck to my comfort characters. I also watched the new season of Love Is Blind and started season two of Euphoria! In other news, I now have more hobbies than I have time for and one of them is going to be coming to the shop as a new product hopefully tomorrow! It couldn't be farther from candles, but I'm obsessed and I've made so many of them that I...

ARC Review: Gallant by Victoria Schwab

Title: GallantAuthor: Victoria SchwabPublication Date: March 1, 2022Publisher: Greenwillow BooksPages: 384Add to GoodreadsOlivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home—to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways.Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them. When she crosses...

Weekly(ish) Recap: 1/9 - 1/29

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOGHi, everyone! I hope you've all had a decent January! I've spent the month reading quite a bit, and not just fanfition! Yay, me! XD This month I've also made a new bookish friend IN PERSON! Can you imagine? We met up for lunch and it went really well. We got to talk about BOOKS, which is not something that usually happens outside of the internet for me. I then rewarded myself with Cold Stone (they have dairy free now!) for managing a positive social interaction. Hahaha! Anyone else with social anxiety? Little puppy is doing really well! He's still an absolute menace, but he's healthy in every way. He still has shark...

Top Ten Tuesday #309: New to me authors in 2021

Today's Topic: New-to-Me AuthorsI Discovered in 2021Happy Tuesday! Today I'm sharing new-to-me authors I found (and loved) in 2021. There are no 2021 debuts on this week's list! These are all authors who've published in 2020 or earlier who I'd never read before. So many I'm glad to finally know!Laura Thalassa | PestilenceAlice Feeney | Rock Paper ScissorsPenelope Douglas | CredenceSamantha Shannon | The Bone SeasonTalia Hibbert | Work For ItTasha Suri | The Jasmine ThroneA.M. Strickland | In the Ravenous DarkT.J. Klune | The House in the Cerulean SeaCaroline Kepnes | YouHarley LaRoux | Her Soul to TakeTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted...