Shouting from the Shelftops #21

Shouting from the Shelftops is a bimonthly(-ish) feature to gush over book news that come to my attention, to celebrate good news amidst whatever the year is delivering to you. The basic mood for these posts is just Enthusiastic Screaming™. Okay it has been like 6 weeks since the last post, so there's a mix …

Top Ten Tuesday: Auto-Add Authors

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl, wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. The prompt for this week was 'Auto Buy Authors' but once again, I am going to change the topic a little, because …

Review: Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. She believed she knew every horror and was beyond surprise. She was wrong. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books By My Favorite Authors That I Still Haven’t Read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. This week's topic is about books by your favorite authors that you meant to read but didn't. I must confess, since Goodreads, my reading …

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Novellas/Short Stories

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. Sometimes you just don't want to sit through a whole novel. Sometimes you just want some extra material from the author. Sometimes there are …

Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I’ve Read In 2018 (So Far)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. Half the year has gone by and it feels so long since January. My time can best be described in the stories I've immersed …

Review: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor My rating: 5 of 5 stars The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Autumn TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. Welcome to my favorite season - autumn! Ah, I can already picture the landscapes bursting with color *heart-eyes* And autumn and books are like made for each other - you can actually …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Spring TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. Hooray it is spring - I and hope this new season releases me from this weird slump I've been in where I prefer sleep over books (cue gasp). And there are some …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Celebrate Diversity

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. This week is to celebrate diversity in lit, as in books which "featureminority/religious minority, socioeconomic diversity, disabled MC,  neurotypical character, LGBTQ". As I was making this post, I realized I haven't really …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books You Would Classify As ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS from the past 4 years

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. I like this list: because I can include books other than my all-time favorites Harry Potter and Twilight. Recent ones should also get notice, you know? Also, for a change, I'm going …

Top Ten Tuesday: 2014 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn’t Get To

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. This week I shamefully list out the books that I was so damn eager to read in 2014 but didn't get to. Now, if you remember, I had made this post way …

Review: Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor My rating: 5 of 5 stars By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Spring 2014 TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. This week's theme - Spring TBR! Rather than spring, it is a blistering summer here but whatevs - here's my top ten:   Both books are last in the trilogy - oh, …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Read In 2013

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. This week's topic is the best books I read in 2013. Last day of the year, so let's sum it up, shall we? I don't need to explain why these are the …