Top Ten Tuesday – Extraordinary Book Titles

  This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Extraordinary Book Titles.    Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and has since moved to That Artsy Reader Girl beginning in January of 2018. For this topic, I decided to choose books where it was the title alone that really caught my attention and made me want to read the book.  That means none of these were…

Book Review: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

Synopsis   The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews,…

Rom-Com Book Review: Faker by Sarah Smith

Synopsis Emmie Echavarre is a professional faker. She has to be to survive as one of the few female employees at Nuts & Bolts, a power tool company staffed predominantly by gruff, burly men. From nine to five, Monday through Friday, she's tough as nails--the complete opposite of her easy-going real self. One thing she doesn't have to fake? Her disdain for coworker Tate Rasmussen. Tate has been hostile to her since the…

How to Start a Book Bullet Journal

At the beginning of this year, I decided in an attempt to simplify my life and get my bookstagram and blog more organized I would start a bullet journal, or BuJo for short, dedicated to those two things.  I am a planner by nature and I've done the bullet journal thing before so I knew that it would fit me.  But I also know what I like and what works for me. What…

Book Review: The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas

Synopsis As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork—or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas. But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a fever-paced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous Yuletide ball where the painting is one handshake away from being sold and…

Top Ten Tuesday – Character Traits I Love

Well, I am jumping on the Top Ten Tuesday bandwagon!  I love a good list and well this week's topic really drew me in.  Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and has since moved to That Artsy Reader Girl beginning in January of 2018. This week's topic is Character Traits I Love!  I happen to have some very strong feelings about this topic so I think this will…

Book Review: The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey

Thank you to Inkyaed Press for Young Readers and Netgalley for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.       From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother’s hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new…

Why You Should Try Audible Escape

  Let me start out by saying that I am an Amazon affiliate.  That being said, I would never recommend something I didn't truly believe in.  I use and pay for my own Audible Escape account, and I love it. Who is Audible Escape Good For?If you like romance and enjoy audiobooks than this is for you.  Personally, I love audiobooks, and you know I love romance.  In fact, the majority of my Wednesday…

Book Review: The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox

 New Oldbury, 1821In the wake of a scandal, the Montrose family and their three daughters—Catherine, Lydia, and Emeline—flee Boston for their new country home, Willow Hall. The estate seems sleepy and idyllic. But a subtle menace creeps into the atmosphere, remnants of a dark history that call to Lydia, and to the youngest, Emeline.All three daughters will be irrevocably changed by what follows, but none more than Lydia, who must draw on a…

Book Review: Fireborne by Rosaria Munda

Thank you to G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers and Netgalley for sending me an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.    Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone—even the lowborn—a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders.Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, despite backgrounds that couldn’t be more different. Annie’s lowborn family was executed…