Clear Ur Sh*t Mini Readathon – 2023 TBR

Hi all!  I'm once again joining the Clear Ur Shit readathon. I did pretty well last year and I'm excited to join in again this year -- I have many books I want to read as soon as possible. This is a mini readathon, which is a bingo board, before the official round at the …

MAGICAL READATHON: ORILIUM SPRING EQUINOX TBR (YEAR TWO)

Hi all! I’m very excited to return back to the world of Orilium in the Magical Readathon for the second year! I successfully completed The Novice Path in 2021, and the Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox last year. Now we return to the Spring Equinox for year two! Character: Just a reminder for my character and which guild …

Review: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

Abandoned by his father as a small child, Sir Gareth Inglis has grown up prickly, cold, and well-used to disappointment. Even so, he longs for a connection, falling headfirst into a passionate anonymous affair that's over almost as quickly as it began. Bitter at the sudden rejection, Gareth has little time to lick his wounds: …

2023 Anticipated Releases

Hi all! As it's the beginning of the new year, I thought it would be a good idea to share the 2023 releases I'm most excited for. As always, I share a list of anticipated sequels, first in a new series, and standalones. Let’s get into it! Sequels Prince & Pawn (Perilous Courts #3) by …

Best books of 2022

Hi all!' It's been a while, but I'm momentarily back to share my favourite books of 2022. As usual, I'm sharing my top 20 books of the year! 20 - 17 20. The Remaking of Corbin Wale: A soft romance between a baker who moves back to his home town, and a young autistic man …

Clear Ur Shit Readathon – Sign Up and TBR

Hi all! I decided this year I'm going to be joining the Clear Ur Shit readathon. I have tentatively made plans to do this readathon before but always gave up not long after it started. However, I recently finished my Classics Club challenge and the 2022 PopSugar Reading Challenge and I am bereft. I have …

I finished my goal of reading 50 classics books

Hi there! I'm so excited to announce I've finished my goal of reading 50 classics books in 5 years! In 2017, I joined the Classics Club, an online blog of readers who set goals to read between 50-100 books in a specific amount of time; usually 5 years. I joined with 50 books and a …

Mini classic review: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human can save this enchanted place by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, …

Mini classic review: The Princess Bride by William Goldman

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered …

Mini classic review: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some of them featuring liberally “edited” versions of the poems-did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson’s bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the …