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Mid Year Book Freakout 2024

This is a Tag, created by Earl Grey Books, that I happily do every June/July and sometimes even late in August, because it is an entertaining way to talk about how my reading is going towards the middle of the year. With little further explanation, let’s answer the questions: ____QUESTIONS____ 1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2024 Besides the 4-5 star books by Adrian Tchaikovsky and T.…

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Read or Unhaul 12/24 Books Challenge

We all have books in our physical or digital shelves that aren’t exactly a priority and for that same reason only remain forgotten and unread, year after year, in our shelves. Since I don’t like unhauling unread books, my idea for this challenge is to try reading around forty pages of 12 or 24 of these books and then decide if I want to continue reading them, or if the book isn’t for me and…

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March of the Mammoths, 5 Recommendations: #marchofthemammoths

Picture by ArtSpark on Pixabay March of the Mammoths is a very interesting readathon where you read a book of fiction or nonfiction that’s 800 or more pages in length. Originally created by Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse and Alex@BigAlBooks, this is a readathon I often try to participate in March. It takes a specially interesting book to make me invested in reading it beyond the 800 page limit.…

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24 Five-Star Predictions for 2024

Vilkasss, Pixabay This year I’ll be doing a new Reading Challenge where I plan to prioritize 24 books I predict will be 5 stars for me. This list will include books by already established favorite authors of mine, but also books by authors I’ve read one five or four star book the years before, and which have a high probability of another five stars in their backlist. Without much further ado,…

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My Favorite Books of 2023 Part 3: Horror, Mystery, Poetry and Historical Fiction

Though I mostly read Science Fiction and Fantasy, now and then I pick books in other genres too. I’m often surprised to place them among my favorites of the year. Poetry Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou Beautiful poems that touch deeply! No need for false complexity here, only honest simple words. Horror House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson This was part of the…

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My Favorite Books of 2023 Part 2: Science Fiction

By CDD20 on Pixabay Many of the books listed here are by my favorite authors and were books I was planning to read for my “2023’s Reading Books by My Favorite Authors Challenge“. My readings deviated from this challenge a lot though, by including the sequels of the Planetfall series by Emma Newman, two books of the Robot series by Isaac Asimov (an old favorite author of mine) and two sequels of…

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My Favorite Books of 2023 Part 1: Fantasy

I) Greek and Norse Mythology Retellings / Mythology Inspired Fantasy Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope #1) by Claire North The characters are deep, multi-layered and something to remember. It was a pleasure listening to the narration on the POV of Hera. Outstanding writing, I surely plan on reading more by this author. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes Beautifully written, poetic and deeply touching,…

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Best and Worst Book Series of 2023 #booktag

Today I’m doing a Booktube tag from bookslikewhoa to discuss the series I read in 2023. 1. What is the best series that you caught up with this year that is still a work in progress? I would have a couple of options for this question, but the Skyward Series by Brandon Sanderson. This is right now is one of my favorite series by the author. I say it’s a WIP because there are books planned in a…

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1980-2000 Reading Challenge - My TBR

This year I did a 2000 -2023 Reading Challenge that I’m continuing in 2024. In 2024 I will be adding this new challenge to my plans, and this is my TBR. I might change a couple along the way though to suit my reading mood. My TBR: 1980: The Snow Queen 1981: Max e os Felinos 1982: Pawn of Prophecy 1983: The Sentinel 1984: Dragons of Autumn Twilight 1985: Eon by Bear, Greg 1986: Any…

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Book Bingo Challenge 2024

Bingo Challenge Normal Mode: Note: You can substitute 2 squares if you consider them too difficult to find a book for. First Row:NovellaRainbow: LGBT+500+ PagesJumping Cat: Book with a cat on the cover or title.Red or White: Book with Red or White on the cover or title. Second Row:Robot: Non-Human characterBlack or Grey: Book with Black or Grey on the cover or title.Castle: Fantasy, Romance or…

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2024's Women/Nonbinary Authors Reading Challenge.

Inspired by the tarot arcana, this reading challenge involves reading women and nonbinary authors. The source of the texts below comes from Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards by Michelle Tea Queen of Cups“Half in our world and half in the world of intuition, love and psychic phenomena, the Queen of Cups sits on her throne.” Read 5 books by…

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Join My Discord Book Club Group!

Reading and Autumn go well together! I never mentioned here in my own blog that I have a Discord group where I discuss one book I am reading per month.  The invite link to the Discord group. This link will expire in 7 days, therefore if you read this post later comment below so I can send you a new link. Otherwise my profile on Discord is leticiatoraci, so you can add me there too. Our October…

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Reading Books by My Favorite Authors: Mid-Year Wrap-Up

We are now in the beginning of August so I wanted to talk about how this challenge is going.I changed my mind about reading some planned books and picked different ones that suited me better. This helped to balance this challenge better towards authors genders.The ‘still to read’ titles are the ones that are still in my TBR for the second half of the year. Brandon Sanderson Read: The Alloy of…

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2023 Bingo Reading Challenge: July Update

Now we are near the middle of the year so I wanted to update on how my 2023 Bingo Reading Challenge Hard Mode is going. I have so far read around 25 books for this challenge and also managed to complete the 5th Row on the Bingo Board (yay!). I changed a couple of previous choices for the prompts to accommodate the books I read where they would fit better. As stated in my Challenge post one of…

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Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag 2023

This is a Tag, created by Earl Grey Books, that I happily do every June/July and sometimes even late in August, because it is an entertaining way to talk about how my reading is going towards the middle of the year. Without much further explanation let’s answer the questions: Best book you’ve read so far in 2023The Witch’s Heart Genevieve Gornichec. Outstanding and deeply touching characters…

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My 40+ Book Unhaul: Part 3

This is the third and last part of this very freeing spring cleaning unhaul of books. Without delay, let’s talk about the books. If you wish to read the obligatory Trigger Warning please refer to the first and second part of this Unhaul. Otherwise let’s get the party started. 😉 The Winner’s Kiss (The Winner’s Trilogy #3) Rating: 3 stars. The 3 stars are here because this is very well written,…

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My 40+ Book Unhaul: Part 2

Continuing the series about the 40+ books I unhauled last month. The first part of this series is here. Trigger Warning (because we are on the internet and all kinds of people might read this post): Here are my reviews of the books I unhauled. They are mostly not very positive; so if you get triggered by negative reviews of books you own and like, don’t read this blog post. Another observation,…