Friday’s are for The Let’s Talk Bookish Meme which is a weekly meme created and hosted by Rukky@EternityBooks and Dani@Literary Lion and todays topic is: How Reading Affects Mental Health (suggested by Kristin @ Lukten Av Trykksverte)
In what ways does reading affect your mental health? – Reading can definitely effect my moods especially negative ones. If I am having trouble getting into a book or if I am feeling guilty because I want to read other books than ones I am “supposed” to be reading, then this can put me in a “mood” and I don’t want to do anything. It can also go the other way too, a good book can go a long way as a pick me up.
Do triggers, bookish controversies, and things like that affect your health a lot more than you let on? I don’t usually need trigger warnings but I do find them helpful to know whats coming in a book. There are a few things I don’t like reading about so it’s nice to know if I need to skip something because of them.
Does reading have an effect on your mental health?
🌎 Happy Earth Day 🌎 I saw my friend @plains_reading over on instagram do a conservation post and I decided to do one similar. As some of you may know I like to go birding in my spare time ( like I ever have any 😂). These are just some of my bird books that I have on my shelf! I like to pick up bird identification books from thrift stores in case I ever get to go somewhere again!
🦉 Birds of Arizona – one of my favorite places to go!
🦉 Birds of Missouri – Had a family reunion there so I got my book!
🦉 Birds of Georgia – Haven’t been yet but found at the ARC thrift store
🦉 Birds of Arkansas – Haven’t been yet but found at the ARC thrift store
🦉 Birds of Colorado – mine is so well loved, I use it all the time.
🦉 Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America– this is a comedy book and it is hilarious!
🦉 Hawaii’s Birds – My sister bought this for me the last time she went. Hoping to go back in the next few years!
🦉 Birds of New Zealand – Haven’t been yet but found at the ARC thrift store and you never know, I may go some day!
🦉 Bird Watchers Bible – An Identification book
🦉 Snapper by Brian Kimberling – is a fiction book that I haven’y read but I loved the cover and wanted it on my shelf 😁 from goodreads: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people
🦉 The Big Year by Mark Obmascik – Love this movie and the book is on my tbr. This follows one man as he tries to complete the big year which is an annual birding competition.
🦉 The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman – From goodreads: Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent.
Also I am so ready to start my veggie garden but we keep getting snow!! Have you been able to start planting yet?
Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam on Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!
The three Ws are: What are currently reading? What have you finished reading? What will you read next?
What are you currently reading?
Lover Unveiled by JR Ward – E-Book
Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson – Physical Book
To Love and To Loathe by Martha Waters – Audio Book
The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall – E-ARC
What did you recently finish reading?
These will all be in my Reading Round Up for April 11th – 20th
Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho – 4 Stars – Audio
Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno Garcia – 3 Stars
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse – 3 Stars
Like Cats and Dogs by Kate McMurray – 2 Stars
Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison – 3 Stars
What do you think you’ll read next?
Tools of Engagement by Tessa Bailey – Buddy Read
The Most Beautiful Girl In Cuba by Chanel Cleeton – ARC
It Had To Be You by Georgia Clark – ARC
What are you currently reading? Let me know in the comments below!
Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Shanah @the Bionic Bookworm and is now being hosted by Meeghan @Meeghan Reads. This week’s topic is top 5 debut novels. Here are 5 debuts from BIPOC authors that I have read.
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid – 4 Stars – 2019 – My review – From Goodreads: A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel – 5 Stars – 2020 – My Review – From Goodreads: Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer, takeout enthusiast, and happily single woman. The moment she realizes her parents’ latest dinner party is a setup with the man they want her to marry, she’s out the back door in a flash. Imagine her surprise when the same guy shows up at her office a week later — the new lawyer hired to save her struggling company. What’s not surprising: he’s not too thrilled to see her either after that humiliating fiasco. Jay Shah looks good on paper…and off. Especially if you like that whole gorgeous, charming lawyer-in-a-good-suit thing. He’s also arrogant and infuriating. As their witty office banter turns into late night chats, Liya starts to think he might be the one man who truly accepts her. But falling for each other means exposing their painful pasts. Will Liya keep running, or will she finally give love a real chance?
Ties that Tether by Jane Igharo – 4 Stars – 2020 – My Review – From Goodreads: When a Nigerian woman falls for a man she knows will break her mother’s heart, she must choose between love and her family.
Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho – 4 Stars – 2020 – Review Coming – Fromm Goodreads: Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love.
How To Fail At Flirting by Denise Williams – 4 Stars – 2020 – My Review – From Goodreads: One daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turn a Type A overachiever’s world upside down.
“Jennifer L. Armentrout has absolutely blown me away with this entire series! I’ve turned into a swooning fangirl!”
— Larissa Ione, New York Times bestselling author
The day you’ve been waiting for is FINALLY here!
The Crown of Gilded Bones, the highly anticipated third book in bestselling Blood and Ash series from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout is out now!
She’s been the victim and the survivor…
Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers.
The enemy and the warrior…
Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. But as the kingdoms’ dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy’s head.
A lover and heartmate…
But the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible—travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And as shocking secrets and the harshest betrayals come to light, and enemies emerge to threaten everything Poppy and Casteel have fought for, they will discover just how far they are willing to go for their people—and each other.
#1 New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. She spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Border Jack Apollo. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become of passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can.
Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her Wicked Series has been optioned by PassionFlix. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was an Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
She is the owner of ApollyCon and The Origin Event, the successful annual events that features over a hundred bestselling authors in Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult Fiction, panels, parties, and more.
Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend! We enjoyed some nice weather before more snow comes today. I saw this over on my friend Lin’s blog Beware The Bookwyrm, you can find her original post here.
Paperback or Hardback
Paperback all the way!! I like the feel of trade paperbacks the best, I ma not sure why but hardbacks are always hard for me to hold and try to read.
Bookstore or Online
I do both pretty equally but nothing beats going into the store and walking around and seeing what jumps at you to buy.
Series or Standalone
I prefer series, I like seeing a huge arcing story with smaller smaller stories in each book.
Sci-Fi or Fantasy
I enjoy both and have some favorite books from each genre but fantasy was my first love. I don’t read as mush of it now as I used too but I still have a few authors I will always pick up.
Audiobook or Physical Book
Physical for the most part but I do enjoy my audios.
Indoor or Outdoor
Im seasonal for this one. In winter I like to cozied up in my chair with a blanket but in summer I live for my hammock to read in.
Morning or Night
Can I say all day? I like to read all the time. Morning is nice because I get to start off my day with something I enjoy before my kids start my day. As for night I like to unwind and decompress by myself in my bed and read.
Binge-Read or Slow Read
Binge read! I don’t have patience for reading slow, it will usually put me in a slump.
Books that make you laugh or Books that make you cry
Make me laugh unless I am laughing so hard I cry.
Music or Silence
I like music or noise of some kind while reading. The silence distracts me and I need noise.
Hero or Villain
Hero for the most part but every once in awhile a villain will make its way into my good graces.
Six for Sunday is a weekly meme created by A Little But A Lot and today’s topic is fictional islands you’d like to visit. I have been racking my brain but couldn’t come up with any so I am going to list 6 books that take place on an Island. If you have a favorite fictional island let me know in the comments below!
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley – Frick Island – Out May 25th
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren – Hawaii – 5 Stars
Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Baja California – 4 Stars
Float Plan by Trish Doller – Many Caribbean Islands – 5 Stars
Shipped by Angie Hockman – Galapagos Islands – 5 Stars
Next Year In Havana by Chanel Cleeton – Cuba – 5 Stars
Hello Book Friends and happy Saturday!! It has been a long time since I have done my ABC challenge. It took me awhile to get back into blogging after the winter we had but Im slowly getting into the swing of things again. I have seen this challenge on a few blogs like One Book More and Meeghan Reads and thought it looked like a fun way to talk about some books I read before (and after) I started my blog and also some upcoming books I would like to read that are on my tbr. For the books I pick I will put in parentheses what number it is in a series, if it’s in one and the author.
Books that start with I
I Was Told it Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman – Contemporary Fiction
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane – Contemporary Romance
Immortal Born by Lynsay Sands (#30) – Paranormal Romance
In A Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston (#2) – Paranormal Romance
In The Company of Others by Julie Czerneda – Science Fiction
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs (#3) – Urban Fantasy
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling – Non-Fiction
Books on my TBR that start with I
In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware – Thriller
Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev – Contemporary Romance
In My Dreams I Hold A Knife by Ashley Winstead – Thriller
Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant – Horror
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley- Contemporary Fiction
Isn’t It Bromantic by Lyssa Kay Adams (#4) – Contemporary Romance
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey – Contemporary Romance
It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake by Claire Christian – Contemporary Romance
Do we share any of the same memorable books for the letter I? Let me know in the comments below!
Happy Friday!!!! I don’t know about you but I am so ready for this weekend. We got about 4-5 inches of snow last night so it might be a stay in and be cozy weekend. I am hoping to get some reading done, I have been a bit slumpy because I am not really enjoying my currant read so I think I am going to put it aside and start something else today.
There are many things that make me pick up a book but most of the time its because of the author or the cover. I try not to always rely on covers because I have definitely picked up some duds that way. I also take recommendations from youtubers that I follow who I know have similar tastes as me.
Do you check for good reviews?
Yes! I always look at goodreads reviews but sometimes not till after I have started reading.
Is the synopsis important?
Very much so, if the synopsis is not interesting to me I am not sure why I would read a book.
Do you have autobuy authors?
Yes!!! I have many autobuy authors that I will always pick up their newest book.
JR Ward
Christina Lauren
Nalini Singh
Karin Slaughter
Lisa Gardner
Lynsay Sands
Ilona Andrews
Juliet Marillier
What makes you pick up a book? Let me know in the comments below!
Alright friends I am here with my last thrift haul from March! I am also proud to say that I have only one haul so far for April and we are half way trough the month. Yay Me!!!! This post is going to be short and sweet today.
Have you read any of these? If so let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
The Last August by Brittany Cavallaro – #2 in The Charlotte Holmes series
Dark Wild Night by Christina Lauren – Loved this series and I am slowly collecting them in paperback.
Beautiful by Christina Lauren – Again loved this series and I am now going back to collect them in paperback.
Vengance by Megan Miranda – This is the sequal to Fracture and I would like to get to them soon. I love her adult and YA books!
Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn – I recently talked about this book in a tag post which you can read here. This book has been on my radar for years!! Its a little hard to find and I could have gotten it on Amazon but it was pretty expensive and I didn’t want to spend the money. So when I finally found at a used bookstore I was so excited!!! This is a Jane Eyre retelling set in Space!!
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