Countdown to 2025: Day 2 – Shopping – the last book added to your wishlist
2 December 2024
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Tags: American Rapture, CJ Leede, Countdown to 2025, Day 2, Shopping, The Last Book Added to Your Wishlist
Once again I am counting down to the New Year, as with the previous two years I shall be highlighting at least one book per day to fit the prompt on that given day. The main aim for this countdown is to highlight some of my reads during the past year and to shine the spotlight on them once again (although some of the prompts relate to forthcoming reads). Today is day 2 of the countdown to 2025 and a list of prompts can be found here if you wish to join me in counting down to 2025 and casting a spotlight on some of your favourite books (if you join in please leave me a link so I can check out your book choices).
Today’s Prompt : Shopping – the last book added to your wishlist:
29 Days Remaining
American Rapture by CJ Leede. This is a book that I’ve read glowing reviews for and would love to pick up a copy in the New Year.
Tomorrow’s prompt: Wrapping paper – a lovely cover
Booking Ahead/WeeklyWrap Up
1 December 2024
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Tags: Book Review, book-blog, Booking Ahead, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, reading, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up
Books read this week:
I’m very happy to say that I read one of my books this week and started a second. I’ve been catching up with reviews and blog hopping, I’m uptodate with comments, almost, and I’ve also started my Countdown to 2025. So, my reading might not be as strong as in past months but I’m making headway. Now, I just need to see if I can fit in a few more books before year end. This week I completed The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso. Review coming for that soon. I also started Strange Beasts by Susan J Morris – I suspect this will be a quick read, fingers crossed.
Next Week’s Reads:
Complete Strange Beasts. Then the skies the limits.
Reviews Posted:
- The September House by Carissa Orlando
Outstanding Reviews
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso
That’s it for me this week, what have you been up to, any good books to shout out about. Let me know.
Countdown to 2025: Day 1 – a book set in a cold or wintry climate
1 December 2024
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Tags: A Book Set in a Cold or Wintry Climate, CJ Tudor, Countdown to 2025, Day 1, The Gathering
Once again I am counting down to the New Year, as with the previous two years I shall be highlighting at least one book per day to fit the prompt on that given day. The main aim for this countdown is to highlight some of my reads during the past year and to shine the spotlight on them once again (although some of the prompts relate to forthcoming reads). Today is day 1 of the countdown to 2025 and a list of prompts can be found here if you wish to join me in counting down to 2025 and casting a spotlight on some of your favourite books.
Today’s Prompt : Snow – a book set in a cold or wintry climate:
The Gathering by CJ Tudor – unbelievably, my first book for last year’s countdown was also by CJ Tudor (The Drift) – what can I say, I love books with a wintry setting.
30 Days Remaining
Tomorrow’s prompt: Shopping – the last book added to your wishlist
Monthly Wrap Up/What’s On My Plate November/December
30 November 2024
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Tags: Book Reviews, book-blog, book-blogger, Books, Monthly Wrap Up, November/December, reading, What's on my Plate
I’m trying to post a wrap up for the end of each month, mainly to help me to keep track of my reading and at the same time look at what I’m intending to read during the month ahead (inspired by Books Bones and Buffy’s What’s on My Plate.
In this post I shall be looking at the reading I completed during November and also setting out what I’m hoping to achieve during December. So, I haven’t made great progress during November, or not nearly as good as I would have liked. I have caught up with comments and been blog hopping around (although I have more still to do). My reading has been sporadic at best, I think mainly due to the new time constraints imposed by learning a new language and the extra time out of the day, plus homework. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get fully on track with all my reads by the end of the year but I’m staying positive and hoping for the best.
Here’s what I read during November :
- You All Die Tonight by Simon Kernick
- Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
- Blood by Sarah Pinborough
- The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso – to be reviewed
For the month of November I had a lot of carry over books from October and so I shall be hopefully picking up some of these during the forthcoming month. Lets take a look at my review books for December:
None. I have a completely blank slate which is brilliant because I’m hoping to catch up with as many books as possible. Which are:
- The Coven by Harper L. Woods
- The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
- Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne
- The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
- Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
- The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne
- Here One Minute by Alex Lake
- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H. G. Parry
- The Queen by Nick Cutter
And two books sent to me by authors:
Land from Bjørn Larssen; and
Drown Deep by Phil Williams
Plus another unexpected review book that I’ve just started – Titanchild by Jen Williams
This month I yet again have read no Backlist Books -I started the year so well!
Bookforager‘s Picture Prompt book bingo
This month I’m ticking off the scroll and the pen using Blood by Sarah Pinborough. This is the fifth book in her fairytale series which I think the scroll and pen fits quite nicely.
PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2024 (TEXT VERSION)
| A microscope | |||
| A beehive (with four bees flying around it) |
So far this year I’ve read and reviewed a total of 108 books.
How did you get on during November?
Friday Face Off: The Vipers by Katy Hays
29 November 2024
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Tags: book-blog, Books, fiction, Friday Face off, Katy Hays, reading, Salt Water, the Cloisters, The Vipers
Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week I’ve chosen a book that is on my shelf waiting to be read The Vipers by Katy Hays. I have a coy of this for the new year and I can’t wait to pick it up. I loved The Cloisters by this author.. This title is being marketed under a different title in the US – Salt Water. Take a look at the two covers:
My favourite this week:
Have you read this book already? What did you think and which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Books and travelling with Lynn 