Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Review: Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
Top Ten Tuesday: Thanksgiving Freebie
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!! This is a freebie week. Thanksgiving is my second favorite holiday right after Halloween. I always cook a big feast. We grill a whole turkey and I look forward to it every year. My husband makes the best homemade mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. This year, we are going to be sending our three daughters off to spend 5 days with my aunt and her partner. They will be leaving on Thanksgiving and be back next Monday night. This will be the longest that my kids have been gone and I am excited about the 5 days that I will get to spend with my husband because we have not been alone that long since our oldest was born 15 years ago.
I do have a stack of library books that I want to get to before my girls do get back home, but I know for sure that I won't be getting to all of them because my husband and I will be watching TV, gaming, shopping, cleaning the yard and spending time with our animals. Sorry for the ramble, but I am looking forward to my parental vacation and the books I want to get to.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
BLOG TOUR: Don't Look, Just Run by R.A. Clarke
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the DON'T LOOK, JUST RUN by R.A. Clarke Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: R.A. Clarke
Pub. Date: October 30, 2024
Publisher: Page Turn Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 272
Read for FREE with a Kindle Unlimited Membership!
Consider this book a cautionary
tale. The short stories, flash fiction,
micro fiction, and poems contained within this collection are the stuff of
nightmares—things you should’ve run from when you had the chance.
You’ll read a rhyming tale about a crafty northern witch with a deathly holiday
fetish, the journal of a troubled woman who's been offered revitalization in
the form of experimental skin therapy, and two flirty college students who
learn exactly why taking strange drugs is bad. Lock your doors and pull your
blanket up a little higher while you navigate a feud between neighbours that
spirals out of control, operate a camera with a thirst for blood, and even
chuckle while a family of vacationing demons let their hungry lil’ guy
trick-or-treat, human-style.
If you take away anything from this book, besides a cramp from turning pages
too fast or a case of spine tingles that won't quit—it should be this... Don't
look, just run!
About R.A. Clarke:
When she's not writing children's literature, Rachael Clarke enjoys writing short stories in all kinds of genres, including dark fiction, and horror. So not to confuse or frustrate her younger readership, Rachael publishes her short fiction under the pen name R.A. Clarke.
R.A. Clarke
has a dedicated Facebook page for fans of her work.
You're
invited (and very welcome) to join the community!
https://www.facebook.com/raclarkeauthor
Thank you
for reading!
Sign up for R.A.’s
newsletter! (scroll to the bottom)
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Giveaway Details:
1 winner
will receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card, International.
Ends December
3rd, midnight EST.
Tour Schedule:
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11/4/2024 |
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11/5/2024 |
Excerpt |
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11/6/2024 |
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11/7/2024 |
Interview/IG Post |
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11/8/2024 |
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11/9/2024 |
Excerpt/IG Post |
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11/10/2024 |
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11/11/2024 |
IG Post |
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11/12/2024 |
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11/13/2024 |
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11/14/2024 |
Review |
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11/15/2024 |
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11/16/2024 |
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11/17/2024 |
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11/18/2024 |
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11/19/2024 |
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11/20/2024 |
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11/21/2024 |
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11/22/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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11/23/2024 |
IG Review |
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11/24/2024 |
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11/25/2024 |
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11/26/2024 |
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11/27/2024 |
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11/28/2024 |
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11/29/2024 |
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Top Ten Tuesday: Oldest Books on My Goodreads TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.
The topic for this week is the oldest books on your TBR, meaning the earliest published. I am not going to share that because I do not want to go through my entire Goodreads TBR and choose the old ones. Instead I am going to share the top ten on my TBR shelf on Goodreads.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Review: Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long
I have had this on my Netgalley shelf since it released and I am just now getting to it. I honestly should have read this when it came out because I did not own two dogs then. The ending of this had me crying like a damn baby.
This is about a girl named Sena who loves on a stormy ice planet named Tundar. She is an orphan because her moms died in a race for this resource that is very sought after on this planet. There are corporations and syndicate bosses who go after this resource year after year and it is a very deadly race. Sena is against the race because it killed her moms but also because of her heritage. She is part Scavver and part non native. Her mom worked for the corporations and was about to die in a race when she met a scavver who ended up being exiled because she saved her life.
Sena is a pickpocket and thats how we first meet her. She hides from two corpos who are chasing her and she ends up getting into a cage with an injured fighting wolf. The wolf belongs to the syndicate boss Kalba who is no good from the very beginning. He knows all and sees all and he is very protective over his wolf. He makes Sena heal the wolf using scavver healing techniques and remedies.
Sena continues to get into trouble and pick pockets. She picks one pocket of a scientist and he ends up offering her a job to teach his team scavver techniques so they can survive the race to study the properties of the exocarbon. Sena just wants to get off world because she hates Tundar. She forms a close attachment to the wolf that Kalba named Iska which was Sena's mothers name.
They join the race to get away from Kalba and then go from bad to worse. It was so anxiety inducing. I was stressed everytime something happened to Iska or she got thrown while battling a bear or the goblins. I did not want anything happening to this wolf.
I kept thinking of my baby Si the whole time because she is a German Shepherd and she looks so much like a wolf. We call her our little wolf. I also thought of my cat Missy's death because there was a part where Iska was close to death and it had all of the flutterinf of eyes and muscle spasms and I just remembered watching my cat die in front of me last year.
The only thing that kept this from getting a 5 star was the constant reminders that the corpos were after the exocarbon. What the exocarbon is and all about the storms. How the corpos are changing the climate to make the exocarbon more accessible. I was annoyed by the middle of the book, but I am immediately jumping into the sequel because there is a new world and I am hoping that the same thing does not happen.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Review: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
I think I have found my favorite classic for this 4th year od my classic club challenge. I really enjoyed my time reading this, even though it took me a week and a half to get through it. It gave me the same feelings and vibes that I got while reading Stardust.
I never watched the movie growing up but I did grow up watching Robin Wright in Forrest Gump and Carey Elwes in Twister, Liar Liar and Saw. So I know that they are some amazing actors and can't wait to watch this movie this weekend.
I went for years not reading this because I thought I was not a fan of romance books, but if it is tied with adventure and some royalty, then sign me the hell up. A couple years ago I was watching a booktuber talk about this and she kept on about it being abridged and I was like great, now I need to find the original work.
Starting this book was confusing as hell and I almost skipped the introduction altogether because I didn't care about the author's thoughts. I stuck through it and it just made me even more confused about the original. I was also grossed out how the author acted towards the woman at the hotel pool and how he was attracted to her and her body. He was also very fat phobic towards his son and how his wife was babying him.
A good way through I realized that this book wasn't an abridged version of anything and it was part of the appeal. I laughed because I remembered that booktuber and how she felt about this book because she genuinely though there were important parts missing.
By the end of the book, I was starting to get bored and the Buttercup's Baby section was just not neccessary because most of the section was about Inigo and Fezzik.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
BLOG TOUR: Safecracker by Jesse Deroy
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SAFECRACKER by Jesse
DeRoy Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: Jesse DeRoy
Pub. Date: November 12, 2024
Publisher: Union
Square & Co.
Formats: Paperback, eBook,
Audiobook
Pages: 411
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/SAFECRACKER
Jesse Deroy’s debut is a taut and deeply inhabited dive into the criminal
netherworld that unfurls with surprising heart, wild specificity, and the
tactile pleasure of an intricate well-executed plan.
Grantchester “Duke" Ducaine was born and raised a thief, so working the
straight and narrow the last two years has felt like surfing without water. His
dad is in the pen and his sister is . . . well, Duke doesn’t like to think
about all of the things that are his fault. He’s got more pressing problems,
like a bookie who wants to break his thumbs, and a couple of possibly shady
Feds who want him to break into an unbreakable safe. When Duke agrees to take
the job, thinking he might have the answer to his problems, he discovers that
some things are best left unopened.
About Jesse DeRoy:
Jesse DeRoy is a former consultant, rock-climbing instructor, and award-winning journalist. Safecracker is Jesse’s first novel. They live in New York with their family.
Giveaway Details:
1 winner
will receive a finished copy of SAFECRACKER, US Only.
Ends November 26th, midnight EST.
a Rafflecopter giveawayTour Schedule:
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11/14/2024 |
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11/15/2024 |
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11/21/2024 |
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11/22/2024 |
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Destination Titles
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.
This weeks topic is destination titles. I love travel and I really enjoy books set in different countries and made up places. All but one of these I have read and I am hoping to read it before the end of the year because I am intrigued. I have gotten really into witches this year and Scotland has a special place in my heart.
Monday, November 11, 2024
BLOG TOUR: Would You Rather by Loris Owen
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the WOULD YOU RATHER by Loris Owen Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: Loris Owen
Pub. Date: October
25, 2024
Publisher: Quixar
Press
Formats: Paperback,
eBook
Pages: 214
Read for FREE with a Kindle Unlimited Membership!
The first two-in-one would you
rather and secret code book – double the puzzles means double
the fun!
A treasure trove of secret codes in letters, numbers and pictures.
Would-you-rather questions ranging from ick to incredible.
Hilarious picture clues guaranteed to make you giggle.
Difficulty builds gradually from 6 to 42 words.
This two-in-one book helps to improve:
- Observation (reveal the code and
spot the gaps)
- Concentration (don’t
accidentally mix up your key grid)
- If/then logic (test possible
letter matches and adjust to make sense)
- Critical thinking (solve
code and make tough decisions)
- Pattern recognition (recognise
frequent words in the code)
- Literacy (read, write and spell)
- Debating (tell friends and
family why your choice is the right one)
- Drawing and fine motor skills
- Creativity (funny questions mean
even funnier answers, especially with the help of the picture clues)…
- All while having loads of fun!
This book will make you think
Figure out the secret code using the instructions and the secret code breaking
key. Then prepared to be challenged by one-of-a-kind would you rather questions
from children’s and YA author Loris Owen.
This book will make you laugh
Enjoy hours of entertainment with head-scratching codes and imaginative
questions, all illustrated with funny and fantastical picture clues.
This book is for all the family
Great for screen breaks, rainy days, weekends, restaurants, road trips and
holidays, sleepovers and game nights. Designed for 9- to 13-year-olds but can
be enjoyed by everyone. If you're looking for unique puzzles, this secret code
book is for you!
This book will feed your brain
Honey badgers? Wormholes? Monkey puzzle trees? Discover all these and more
inside, along with a helpful vocabulary list and factual definitions. Use your
critical thinking and guesswork to solve the secret codes, with instructions
and extra hints included.
How to solve would you rather secret codes:
About Loris Owen:
Loris Owen
was born in Bolton and raised in Zimbabwe. She was taught to think sideways at
an early age by her dad, and went on to study English at Cambridge. After
roaming the world in search of adventure, she settled in the English Midlands,
where she can often be found behind mountains of post-it notes or reading to
ducks. If she can't be found, she's probably disappeared into a particularly
good puzzle.
Sign up for
Loris’s newsletter!
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Goodreads | Amazon
Giveaway Details:
1 winner
will receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card, International.
Ends November 19th, midnight EST.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
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11/4/2024 |
Puzzle Photo/IG Post |
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11/4/2024 |
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11/5/2024 |
IG Spotlight |
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11/6/2024 |
Puzzle Photo |
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11/6/2024 |
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11/7/2024 |
Puzzle Photo |
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11/7/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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11/8/2024 |
IG Review/LFL Drop Pic |
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11/8/2024 |
Puzzle Photo/IG Post |
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11/11/2024 |
IG Post |
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11/11/2024 |
Review |
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11/12/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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11/12/2024 |
IG Review/TikTok Post |
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11/13/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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11/13/2024 |
IG Review |
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11/14/2024 |
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11/14/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
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11/15/2024 |
IG Review |
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11/15/2024 |
Review/IG Post |
Review: Is This A Cry For Help by Emily Austin
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