February 2022 TBR + Life Update!

Hey guys! Long time no see! I hope you all are staying safe and having a great start to the new year so far!

Today I’m here for a bit of a life update and to talk about what I plan on reading during the rest of February!

LIFE UPDATE!

So the past 6-8 months since I last popped on here have been the craziest months of my life. Between work, school, and having a brand new puppy at the house, I haven’t had a lot of time to sit down and write blog posts and post videos.

Over the summer of 2021, I had some major life changes come into my life. We welcomed our first puppy, Mellori home on July 6th, just a couple of days before my 24th birthday. She has been such a blessing in our lives.

In the fall, I started the processing of working with my bachelor’s degree. I am proud to say that I am working on getting my degree in English at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. I am just starting my second semester there and can’t wait to share what I have been reading for my degree with you guys.

Also in the fall, I became an assistant manager at my job. A position I have wanted to be in for the past couple of years.

The combination of all of these things has led to me not having all of the free time I used to have. Hence why I haven’t been posting blog posts or videos. Hopefully this year I can back into the swing of things.

So with the life update out of the way, let’s talk what I plan on reading during the rest of this month!

FEBRUARY 2022 TBR!

• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (currently reading)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (currently reading)
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• The Selection by Kiera Kass

So, as you can see, this is going to be a major fantasy reading month. Lots of rereads of my favorite series and reading the continuation of it. Lots of books I’ve wanted to read for a while. Hopefully a ton of new favorites to talk about here and on YouTube.

I am going to play catch up on reviews so stay tuned on the blog to see all of my thoughts on these books (unless I have read them before. If that is the case, the links are above.) and more.

What’s new with you guys? Leave me your favorite book of 2021 and any thoughts on all of these books down below in the comments!

Stay Safe and Stay Healthy!

Happy Reading!

June Wrap Up and July 2021 TBR!

Hi guys!! Today I am here to do both my June 2021 wrap up and July TBR!!

I hope everyone is having a great summer so far and are staying safe and healthy. I know with a lot of states starting to reopen it can be exciting but just remember to keep safe.

So June was a mix of being calm and also crazy at the same time. I didn’t read a ton but towards the end of the month, I started to feel as though as I was starting to get out of this slump I’ve been in for the past 6 months or so. So thats pretty exciting!

With that being said, I thought I would go ahead and combine my wrap up with my July TBR to make it easier. Especially since i only read 1 book in June.

Now lets talk about my July plans. It’s going to be a big month of changes in my life. All for the best. I turn 24 in just a few days (July 8th) from when you guys are seeing this post. But the big thing that is happening this month is that we are getting our first puppy!! Actually the day after you guys are seeing this post is when she will be arriving! I’ll post a picture on this post and on all my social media!

Everyone meet Mellori (formerly Luna) our new Petite Goldendoodle Puppy!

So with all that out of the way, lets talk about my stats for june, my wrap up, and my tbr for july!!

JUNE STATS

• Books read: 1
• DNFs: 0
• Physical: 1
• E-book: 0
• Audiobook: 0
• Review books/ARCs: 0
• Read-a-Thons participated in: 0
• Pages Read: 418
• Genres:
  • Fantasy: 1
  • Science Fiction: 0
  • Contemporary: 0
  • Historical Fiction: 0
  • Thriller/Mystery/Horror: 0
  • Other: 0

• Star Ratings:
  • No Rating: 0
  • 1 star: 0
  • 2 stars: 0
  • 3 stars: 0
  • 4 stars: 0
  • 5 stars: 1

Books Read in June

• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (reread): 5/5

July 2021 TBR

• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• The Dynasty by Jeff Benedict
• The Octonumi by Trevor Alan Foris (my book club’s book of the month for July!)

Sorry fort the long post guys but I figured it would just be easier to combine the two into one! I have a nice short TBR to focus on when I have the time to read with the busy month ahead of me.

I have a full review for A Court of Thorns and Roses (as well as most of the series) up here on the blog so if you want to hear my full thoughts be sure to check it out. I will also have full reviews for any books I read this month up as soon as I can!

What did you read in June? What do you plan on reading in July? Let me know in the comments!!

Happy Reading!

(VERY LATE) MAY 2021 TBR!

Hey everyone!! Today I am here to do my extremely late May 2021 TBR!

So I didn’t plan on getting this TBR up so late but things just kind of got in the way. But we are finally here and getting this up!

So May up to this point has been very busy. With school finishing up and work being insanely busy as always, I haven’t had a ton of time to read. The last half of the month will be pretty tame as far as my work schedule goes so hopefully I can get some good reading in.

This month is also my 5 year aniversary of starting this blog as well as my YouTube channel so I’m reading a lot of past favorites in order to celebrate. Be on the look out for a special post here on the blog and a special video on my YouTube within the next couple of days!

With all that being said, here is my TBR for this month!!

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (currently reading) (my book club book of the month)
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (currently rereading)
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Star Wars Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover (currently rereading)

So there is my overall TBR for the month! Hopefully most if not all of these books will be finished by the end of the month! I will have full reviews for all of them (except for ACOTAR and Revenge of the Sith) as soon as I can!

What do you plan on reading this month?! Let me know in the comments!!

Happy Reading!

FIRST WRAP UP OF 2021 and APRIL TBR!

Hey guys!! So it’s now the middle of April and I’m finally here to tell you about the books I read in March of 2021! I’ll also be telling you about the books I have planned for reading during the rest of the month of April!

So I finally finished a book guys!! After being in a reading slump since November, I finished 2 books in the month of March!! Yay! Hopefully the rest of my reading year will go well for here on out!

For the rest of the month of April, I don’t have a lot planned. School is starting to wrap up for this semester but other than that and working, I’ll have a good chunk of time to do some reading.

With all that being said, here are my March reading stats as well as the books I read and my tbr for the rest of April!

MARCH STATS

• Books read: 2
• DNFs: 0
• Physical: 2
• E-books: 0
• Audiobooks: 0
• Read-a-Thons participated in: 1
• Total pages read: 658
• Genres:
  • Fantasy: 0
  • Science Fiction: 1
  • Contemporary: 0
  • Historical Fiction: 0
  • Thriller/Mystery/Horror: 0
  • Other 1 (1 nonfiction)
• Ratings:
  • No Rating: 0
  • 1 star: 0
  • 2 stars: 0
  • 3 stars: 1
  • 4 stars: 0
  • 5 stars: 1

Books Read in March

• We Should All Be Mirandas by Chelsea Fairless and Lauren Garroni (sent to me for review by the publisher): 3/5
• Star Wars Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover (reread): 5/5

April TBR

• Renegades by Marissa Meyer (currently reading)
• Queens Peril by E.K. Johnston
• Queen’s Shadow by E.K. Johnston
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (currently rereading)

So yeah there is how March went and all the books that I will hopefully get to in the next couple of weeks! I’m still running behind on reviews for any backlist books I’ve read soon once those are up, I will have a full review for We Should All Be Mirandas up here on the blog!

How has your reading been so far this year? Let me know in the comments!

Happy Reading!

MARCH 2021 TBR!!

Hey guys! Once again, long time, no see!! I took a very unplanned break from both YouTube and the blog during the month of February, but I am finally back!

Today I wanted to talk about the books that I am planning on reading in March 2021!

So…March. Hard to believe that it’s been almost a full year since COVID-19 all began. The thing that would change the world forever began what feels like just yesterday.

This month I have a bunch of stuff planned. For reading, YouTube, and the blog. I’ve been in a reading slump since November 2020 and I am trying my best to get out of it so hopefully this is the month that it will happen. I plan on doing a lot of rereading this month, so hopefully that will help me bet this slump!

With all that said, here is my TBR for the month!!

• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (currently rereading)
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (reread)
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• Star Wars Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover (reread)
• The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna (my book club’s book of the month!)

So yeah, you guys can definitely see the recurring theme with this month’s TBR but, once again I NEED to beat this slump at some point!

I have full reviews for the entire ACOTAR series up here on the blog as well as a review of Revenge of the Sith (all linked above)! I also have a full video review of Revenge of the Sith up on my YouTube channel if you would like to here my full spoiler-filled thoughts (check it out here)!

I am trying as best as I can to play catch up on backlist reviews but once those are all up, I will have full reviews for ACOSF and The Gilded Ones as soon as possible!

What do you plan on reading in March? Let me know in the comments!!

Happy Reading!

December 2020 Wrap Up and Life Update!

Hey guys!! Long time no talk! It’s been a hot second since I last posted here so I figured that I would pop in and talk about where I’ve been and what books I ended up reading during the month of December 2020!

So these past couple of months rounding off 2020 have just been crazy. I haven’t had much time to really do anything due to the fact that school was wrapping up for the semester and the holidays were quickly approaching so my work was way more busy than normal. I had this grand plan on doing Vlogmas on my YouTube channel for the first half of December and while it started off great, it quickly went down hill. I also had the plan of posting here on the blog everyday during December and I just found that I didn’t have the time to put the effort into it.

So I’m back and better than ever. 2021 is going to be a much better year (crossing my fingers) than 2020 was. I have a lot of plans for this blog this year so I hope you guys will stay tuned to see what I have planned!

So with that little life update out of the way, here were my stats for my reading in the month of December and what I read!

Stats

• Books read: 1
• DNFs: 0
• Review books/ARCs: 1
• Physical: 1
• E-books: 0
• Audiobooks: 0
• Read-a-Thons participated in:
• Total Pages Read: 173
• Genres:
  • Fantasy: 1
  • Science Fiction: 0
  • Contemporary: 0
  • Historical Fiction: 0
  • Thriller/Mystery/Horror: 0
  • Other: 0

• Ratings:
  • No rating: 0
  • 1 star: 0
  • 2 stars: 0
  • 3 stars: 0
  • 4 stars: 1
  • 5 stars: 0

Books Read

• Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire (ARC sent to me for review by the publisher): 4/5

So there is my wrap up for the last month of 2020 as well as my mini life update! Now that the holidays are out of the way, hopefully everything will go back to normal for the time being!

Since Across the Green Grass Fields was provided to me as an ARC so kindly by the publisher I will have a review for it up the day before its release on January 12th, 2021! I’m really excited to share my thoughts on it with you guys and thank you again to Tor for sending me a copy early! After that is posted, I will be back to writing all those reviews that have been on the backlist for the past year or so (whoops)!

What did you guys read in December? Let me know in the comments!

October Update and November 2020 TBR!

Hey guys! Long time no talk! It’s been a hot second since I lasted posted on here and I sincerely apologize for that. Today I’m herer to talk about my October “Wrap Up” which is honestly going to be more of a life update and then I’ll talk about the books I plan on reading this November!

So let’s talk about October. It was a hot mess of a month to say the least.

I finished nothing in October. I’ve been finding myself in somewhat of a mini slump since the school semester began in September. Trying to manage school with working basically full time, plus reading, managing 2 YouTube channels and a Twitch channel has been really hard these past few months.

So I had to put reading on the backburner in October.

But hopefully November will go a lot better. I am participating in NaNoWriMo this month (the day I am writing this post it is day 1) so that will be keeping me busy and of course school and work will be as well.

With all that said though, here are the books that I will (hopefully) be getting to this month!

• The Green Mile by Stephen King (currently reading)
• Keeper of the Lost Cites by Sharon Messenger
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E. Schwab (my book club book of the month)

So there is my TBR for the month. Short and sweet and hopefully (somewhat) manageable for my busy schedule.

As I have mentioned before, I’m still playing catch up on backlist reviews so as soon as those are published, I will have full reviews for all of these books up here on the blog!

What do you plan on reading in November? Let me know in the comments!

Stay Healthy and Stay Safe!

Happy Reading!

(LATE) SEPTEMBER 2020 TBR!

Hey guys!! Today I am here to tell you about the books that I plan on reading during the month of Setpember!

So we are already a few days into the month and to be honest, I have zero idea as far as how this month is going to go as far as reading. The day that I am writing this post (September 9th) is the same day as my fall semester of college begins. Work is just going to be its usual crazy self. I am also going to be starting to prepare for NaNoWriMo in November plus I have some other projects planned to do on top of all that.

So its going to be a crazy month.

With all that said, I do hope to get a good chunk of reading done. So here is my TBR for the month!!

• The Green Mile by Stephen King
• The Stand by Stephen King
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar (my book club’s book of the month for the month of September)
• House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

So there is my TBR for this month. A few chunky books on here but I do hope to read them all!

As I have mentioned several times before, I am still playing catch up on backlist reviews but I hope to get a good chunk of them written and posted for you guys this month! Once those are posted, reviews for all of the books mentioned above will be posted here on the blog!

What are you reading during the month of September? Let me know in the comments!!

Stay safe and stay healthy!

Happy Reading!

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AUGUST 2020 WRAP UP!

Hey everyone!! How are you guys? Hope you are all staying safe and staying healthy as always!! Today I am here to talk about all the books that I read in the month of August 2020!

So August didn’t exactly go as planned as far as reading. I must have been in some sort of mini reading slump because I felt like I wasn’t reading as much as usual.

But I did manage to read 4 books and complete my Goodreads reading challenge for this year (35 books) so that’s pretty exciting! And on top of that, nothing that I read this month got below a 4 star rating!!

So with all that said, here are my monthly stats and the books that I read!

STATS

• Books Read: 4
• DNFs: 0
• Physical: 2
• Ebooks: 1
• Audiobooks:
• Read-a-Thons participated in: 1
• Total Pages Read: 1,088
• Genres:
  • Fantasy: 2
  • Science Fiction: 1
  • Contemporary: 2
  • Historical Fiction: 0
  • Thriller/Mystery/Horror: 0
  • Other: 0
• Ratings:
  • No rating: 0
  • 1 star: 0
  • 2 stars: 0
  • 3 stars: 0
  • 4 stars: 2
  • 5 stars: 2

Books Read

• The Deep by Rivers Solomon: 5/5
• Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon: 4.5/5
• Slay by Brittney Morris: 5/5
• Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light Dark edited by Lou Anders: 4/5

So that’s everything I read this month! All books that I really enjoyed my time reading! Besides rereads, I haven’t given out a 5 star rating to a book this year since I read Kingdom of Ash back in March so to give out 2 this month it was a nice surprise!

As I’ve mentioned several times before, due to my busy schedule, I am still playing catch up on backlist reviews so once those are posted I will have reviews for all of these books up here on the blog!

What did you read in the month of August?! Let me know in the comments!!

The Handmaids Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margret Atwood

Synopsis:

“Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.

Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid’s Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renee Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.”