Standing between the ceaseless sea and endless sky, I know I will love you until my last breath.
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Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Topic: Reading Goals I Still Want to Accomplish Before the End of the Year
I’m actually up to date and have over taken all goals for my 3 annual challenges so thought I would think about, and discuss with you guys, what you do in these situations regarding reading goals/annual challenges!
When you hit a challenge goal early, do you up your total or call it a win and keep it the same?
I normally up my Goodreads challenge number to set a new goal and for my other challenges. I just keep going to see what number I can hit!
When you’re thinking about the same goals for next year do you increase it to challenge yourself or do you keep the same (or lower) so there is less pressure?
This is where I struggle! I tend to keep mine the same as I’m scared of failure 🤣
Do you ever add in any new challenges?
I would like to add another next year but not sure what so if you have any in mind, let me know in comments!
The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.
Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?
October is here, spooky month! My son wants to decorate for Halloween already so I might let him do some inside but not outside until later on!
I’ve been on an audiobook storm this week as I had an audio arc and 3 library audiobooks come up from hold!
New Arrivals
It’s been a bumper book week!!!
Upon a Frosted Star by MA Kuzniar A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid To Cage a God by Elizabeth May Evocation by ST Gibson Scarlet Veil by Shelby Mahurin The Night Hunt by Alexandra Christo
What I’ve Read
🎧 Lady’s Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 Starling House by Alix E Harrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 Magnus Chase: Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 Magnus Chase: Ship of The Dead by Rick Riordan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
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Review – Audiobook Challenge Review – Yellowface by RF Kuang
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song–complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.
But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
June is acquaintances with hit author, Athena, and after an unfortunate pancake incident, June basically makes off with Athena’s manuscript!
‘So gorgeous I can’t help but give finishing it a try.’
I’ve spent a bit trying to think how I feel about this. I cringed, I raged at the audacity and my stomach was in my throat watching this all unfold and how June describes it all.
I don’t think I liked June, she was so blase about what she did but it was one of those situations where you can’t stop reading because you know it’s going to blow up and blow up spectacularly!
I read the physical book and listened to the audio at the same time and can recommend the audio!
Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Topic: Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book
* Manon Blackbeak – Throne of Glass * Tric from Nevernight – what happened….after * Jameson – Coldest Girl in Coldtown * Charles, Rathie, Jean, Marguerite – Vespertine
* Silas – Sorcery of Thorns * Lucien – ACOTAR *Delano – FBAA * Nova and Jinx – Rage by Cora Cormack * Lighthouse Crew – The Extraordinaires
The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.
Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?
It’s my last but one week at my current job and I’ve had a week full of training people so I’ve been brain tired this week!
My son had his top train track brace fitted this week and I’ve had a checkup at the dentist so it’s been a teeth week! My son also had his flu and covid jabs yesterday and he doesn’t feel too bad today!
My reading has been good and I found a firm 5 star favourite, House of Roots and Ruin!
New Arrivals
Well I’m waiting for a Waterstones delivery but, from the looks of my tracking, I think Royal Mail have lost it!
What I’ve Read
The Cursed by Harper L Woods ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75
Caged Wolf by Caroline Peckham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A Craig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
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Review – Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin Review – Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
A down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she can’t stand… only to discover there’s a fine line between love and hate.
After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she’s sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she’s ready to get back on her feet. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she marry before she can have the money. And well, dumped, remember? But Natalie is desperate enough to propose to a man who makes her want to kill him–and kiss him, in equal measure.
August Cates may own a vineyard, but he doesn’t know jack about making wine. He’s determined to do his late best friend proud, no matter what it takes. Except his tasting room is empty, his wine is disgusting (seriously, he once saw someone gag), and his buddy’s legacy is circling the drain. No bank will give him the loan he needs to turn the business around… and then the gorgeous, feisty heiress knocks on his door. Natalie has haunted his dreams since the moment they met, but their sizzling chemistry immediately morphed into simmering insults.
Now, a quickie marriage could help them both. A sham wedding, a few weeks living under the same roof, and then they can go their separate ways–assuming they make it out alive. How hard could it be? There’s just one thing they didn’t account for: their unfortunate, unbearable, undeniable attraction.
We met Natalie in Julian’s book. She was shamed and dumped because of a bad deal in New York and is back in Vos winery to get her head back together and get her trust fund before she goes off to set up her new company. But there are stipulations!
August, who we also met in Secretly Yours, is trying to realise his dream of making wine. But he’s not very good! When he and Natalie first met, sparks flew!
Natalie has a proposition for August which he readily accepts and then it all happens! Gawd I love a marriage of convenience read!
August is probably the hottest, dirtiest mouthed hero I’ve ever read whilst also being one of the sweetest and real guys ever! He speaks his feelings, no exceptions. Their segsual tension was off the charts!
And you know how I hate the 3rd act drama, well this had it but it was small, short and palatable so no hate from me on this!!!!!
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