Goodbye for now.

Dear followers and friends!

I've been thinking about moving my blog for a while now and decided that today was the day! I will be moving my site and content over to a new wordpress site. This blog has been a passion project for me from the start because I enjoy sharing my love of reading and interacting with others who love it as well. 

However, I want to expand and I believe a wordpress site is the right direction for me. And hopefully, I will soon have a logo for my blog, something I've been dreaming of for years. 

Here is the link to my new site! I will be moving over all of my new content to it in the next few days. I hope you all will join me to keep spreading our love of reading! 

Top Ten Audiobooks on my TBR #226

Meme From That Artsy Reader Girl

   Top Ten Audiobooks on my TBR #226

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #246

The Meme Comes From The Book Dare

Books I Read Last Week:

Review: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

 Summary from Goodreads:

Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

Review:

Stacking the Shelves/Weekly Update #236

 Stacking The Shelves

Reviews:

Review: Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) by Robert Galbraith, Robert Glenister (narrator)

Review: Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

Friday Meme: Things Coming Out This Month That I Want To Read/See/Play # 154

Books: Week of 4/01

Movies: Week of 4/01

Review: Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) by Robert Galbraith, Robert Glenister (narrator)

Summary from Goodreads:

“I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse.”

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.

Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott—once his assistant, now a partner in the agency—set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.


And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been—Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that. 

Review: (spoilers for the Cormoran Strike series ahead!)

Waiting on Wednesday # 228 and Wishlist Wednesday # 228

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, where you pick a book that is coming out soon that you want to read.

Teaser Tuesday #91 and Top Ten Books On My Spring 2019 TBR #225

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #245

The Meme Comes From The Book Dare

Books I Read Last Week:

Review: Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

Summary from Goodreads:

Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone.

Enter Gavin: charming, talented, adored. Controlling. Dangerous. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape. 


Deeply affecting and unflinchingly honest, this is a story about spiraling into darkness—and emerging into the light again.

Review:

Stacking the Shelves/Weekly Update #235

 Stacking The Shelves

Reviews:

Review: The Everlasting Rose (The Belles #2) by Dhonielle Clayton

Review: My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

Friday Meme: Things Coming Out This Month That I Want To Read/See/Play # 153

Books: Week of 3/25

Movies: Week of 3/25

Review: The Everlasting Rose (The Belles #2) by Dhonielle Clayton

Summary from Goodreads:

In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Camille, her sister Edel, and her guard and new love Remy must race against time to find Princess Charlotte. Sophia's Imperial forces will stop at nothing to keep the rebels from returning Charlotte to the castle and her rightful place as queen. With the help of an underground resistance movement called The Iron Ladies-a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely-and the backing of alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, Camille uses her powers, her connections and her cunning to outwit her greatest nemesis, Sophia, and restore peace to Orleans.

Review:

Waiting on Wednesday # 227 and Wishlist Wednesday # 227

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, where you pick a book that is coming out soon that you want to read.

Teaser Tuesday #90 and Top Ten ARCS I Need to Read in April #224

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #244

The Meme Comes From The Book Dare

Books I Read Last Week:

Review: My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

Summary from Goodreads:

Meet Ellie, the best-intentioned redhead next door. You’ll laugh right alongside her as she shares tales of her childhood in St. Louis, whether directing and also starring in her family holiday pageant, washing her dad’s car with a Brillo pad, failing to become friends with a plump squirrel in her backyard, eating her feelings while watching PG-13 movies, or becoming a “sports monster” who ends up warming the bench of her Division 1 field hockey team in college.

You’ll learn how she found her comedic calling in the world of improv, became a wife, mother and New Yorker, and landed the role of a bridesmaid (while simultaneously being a bridesmaid) in Bridesmaids. You’ll get to know and love the comic, upbeat, perpetually polite actress playing Erin Hannon on The Office, and the exuberant, pink-pants-wearing star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

If you’ve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes of your favorite shows, what it really takes to be a soul cycle “warrior,” how to recover if you accidentally fall on Doris Kearns Goodwin or tell Tina Fey on meeting her for the first time that she has “great hair—really strong and thick,” this is your chance to find out. But it’s also a laugh-out-loud primer on how to keep a positive outlook in a world gone mad and how not to give up on your dreams. Ellie “dives fully into each role—as actor, comedian, writer, and also wife and new mom—with an electric dedication, by which one learns to reframe the picture, and if not exactly become a glass-half-full sort of person, at least become able to appreciate them” (Vogue.com).

Review:

Stacking the Shelves/Weekly Update #234

 Stacking The Shelves

Reviews:

Review: Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Review: Lizzie by Dawn Ius

Friday Meme: Things Coming Out This Month That I Want To Read/See/Play # 152

Books: Week of 3/18
Movies: Week of 3/18

Review: Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Summary from Goodreads:

Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart after her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an offer: for her to come and live with him for a year. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes.


In his enchanted house beneath a mountain, Echo discovers centuries-old secrets, a magical library full of books-turned-mirrors, and a young man named Hal who is trapped inside of them. As the year ticks by, Echo must solve the mystery of the wolf’s enchantment before her time is up—otherwise Echo, the wolf, and Hal will be lost forever.

Review:

Waiting on Wednesday # 226 and Wishlist Wednesday # 226

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, where you pick a book that is coming out soon that you want to read.

Teaser Tuesday #89 and Top Ten Backlist Books I Want to Read Soon #223

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #243

The Meme Comes From The Book Dare

Books I Read Last Week:

Review: Lizzie by Dawn Ius

Summary from Goodreads:

From acclaimed author Dawn Ius comes an edge-of-your-seat reimagining of one of the most chilling mysteries in modern history—Lizzie Borden.

Seventeen-year-old Lizzie Borden has never been kissed. Polite but painfully shy, Lizzie prefers to stay in the kitchen, where she can dream of becoming a chef and escape her reality. With tyrannical parents who force her to work at the family’s B&B and her blackout episodes—a medical condition that has plagued her since her first menstrual cycle—Lizzie longs for a life of freedom, the time and space to just figure out who she is and what she wants.

Enter the effervescent, unpredictable Bridget Sullivan. Bridget has joined the B&B’s staff as the new maid, and Lizzie is instantly drawn to her artistic style and free spirit—even her Star Wars obsession is kind of cute. The two of them forge bonds that quickly turn into something that’s maybe more than friendship.


But when her parents try to restrain Lizzie from living the life she wants, it sparks something in her that she can’t quite figure out. Her blackout episodes start getting worse, her instincts less and less reliable. Lizzie is angry, certainly, but she also feels like she’s going mad… 

Review:

Stacking the Shelves/Weekly Update #233

 Stacking The Shelves

Reviews:

Review: White Stag (Permafrost #1) by Kara Barbieri

Review: Beartown (#1) by Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith (Translator)

Friday Meme: Things Coming Out This Month That I Want To Read/See/Play # 151

Books: Week of 3/11

Movies: Week of 3/11