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Picking a Book for Inscription

If you remember, there was one open slot in my Orilium Spring Equinox TBR. I needed to pick a book for Inscription. I was going to put this off until I had at least one of the other two books on my TBR read. But, for reasons explained below, I decided to go ahead and do the selection now.

My long-awaited library hold for The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett became available to borrow, so I convinced my Camp Book Club friends that it should be our book pick for April. This automaticall...

March Reading Wrap-up

I didn’t realize until I started writing this post how many of the books I read in March were actually audiobooks. Out of the six books I finished, only two of them were in print (both ebooks). The other four were all audiobooks!

What I read in March:

Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton — As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve been slowly getting more and more into running. For most of my life, I’ve been a competitive swimmer, but we don’t have a lap pool where I...

It’s Orilium Spring Equinox TBR Time!

It’s that time of year again! Time to head back to the Orilium Academy for the Spring Equinox Magical Readathon!

I have four subjects I know I need to complete if I want to take another shot at advancing my Story Weaver calling from Novice to Apprentice. If you remember what happened last year, I completed the Spring session, and then failed to finish all the prompts I needed to complete in Autumn.

Lore: “The Legend of Dia” — This is an Orilium lore short story, and I’m pretty excited th...

February 2024 Reading Wrap-Up

February may be the shortest month of the year, but it turned out to be a big month for reading (at least for me). I finished five books!

What I read in February:

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher — This one took me a little while to get into, but once I got through all the backstory stuff and the characters started off on their adventure, I really enjoyed it. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett — Emily Wilde is exactly the sort of cozy fantasy that I love. This seco...

March 2024 TBR

This post and my February wrap-up are both going up late this month because I went on an unexpected road trip last week and forgot to post these before I left.

I considered re-doing them and combining them into one, but the February wrap-up is taking me a while to finish up, and all I needed to do to finish this one was complete the book list below.

So, an update in two parts. First up, I give you my already in-progress March TBR:

One tome, one FairyLoot hardcover, and a fantasy romance...

February TBR Progress

It is the last full week of this month, and I’m finally getting around to posting my TBR. In case you were wondering, that pretty much sums up how this month has been going for me.

I feel like I’m behind on everything that isn’t either race prep for the half marathon I’m running this weekend or reading. That is at least partly as planned. I wanted to have a bit of a break this month, but my to-do list keeps growing as I continue to ignore it.

I’ll deal with all that next week. Right now, I...

January 2024 Reading Wrap-up

We’re already more than a week into February, and I’m just wrapping up my January reading because I’ve been busy getting book two in my Mage Lore series published. Now that it’s out, I have a bit of a break, and I’m frantically trying to catch up on things like blog posts and house cleaning and errands, etc. But you don’t want to hear about that. You want to hear about what I read in January.

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Technically, I finished reading Kushiel’s Dart on the 4th of February, but I read almos...

Top Five Favorites of 2023

Time for a top five list! Seems weird to be finally getting to this halfway through January, but I did want to wait until 2023 was fully over before declaring my favorite reads of the year.

My five favorites of all the (fiction) books I read in 2023 (listed in the order I read them).

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty Jade City by Fonda ...

Reading Goals for 2024

Last year, I decided to give myself only one goal: read through my Fairyloot hardcover backlog. Specifically, I picked nine books I wanted to either finish or DNF and donate by the end of 2023. I didn’t accomplish that goal, but I did get pretty close. Seven out of nine isn’t bad.

More importantly, upon MUCH reflection, I don’t regret giving myself that goal. It was something that I really wanted to make sure happened. And it wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t made it a priority. Because of t...

The First TBR of the New Year

In keeping with my recent reading trend, I’ve started 2024 by selecting one ebook, one hardcover, and one audiobook to read first.

To kick things off, I’m diving right into a tome as one of my first reads. In fact, it is the most intimidating of the tomes on my TBR, and the one I’ve been wanting to read for the longest time. That book is: Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey. I’m almost embarrassed that I haven’t read this, yet. So many people have recommended it to me. I even recently recom...