Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Winter 2024-2025 

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Books on My Winter 2024-2025

Well, this is a nice easy post.  I love having the chance to highlight some of the books I’m really looking forward to and there are so many good books coming out in 2025 it’s really exciting.  Anyway, here are a few of the books I’m looking forward to during the last two months of winter plus a few books from the last month that I haven’t picked up yet but am still hopeful of doing so (I posted this post recently which also highlights some of the latest additions to my bookshelf – so if you don’t see these books below it’s because I’m trying not to duplicate):

Titanchild by Jen Williams

Here One Minute by Alex Lake

The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

Daughter of Chaos by AS Webb

The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron

The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones

The Sirens by Emilia Hart

You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pilego

The Vipers by Katy Hays

A Fortune Most Fatal by Jessica Bull

Friday Face Off: Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou

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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.  I love the sound of this one – it gives me Bluebeard vibes reading the description but I have no idea if that’s the case.  Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou.  This is a debut novel but there are two very different covers.  Check them out:

I’m guessing the first is going for a fairytale look with that shiny cherry – but, ahem, dripping with blood!  The second is very sinister isn’t it!  I really don’t know how to choose between the two.  I think simply because it’s so unusual 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.

Booking Ahead/WeeklyWrap Up

Sunday Post

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:

  1. The September House by Carissa Orlando

Outstanding Reviews

Monthly Wrap Up/What’s On My Plate November/December

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 :

  1. You All Die Tonight by Simon Kernick
  2. Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
  3. Blood by Sarah Pinborough
  4. 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:

  1. The Coven by Harper L. Woods
  2. The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
  3. Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne
  4. The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
  5. Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
  6. The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne
  7. Here One Minute by Alex Lake
  8. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H. G. Parry
  9. 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

BTB

This month I yet again have read no Backlist Books -I started the year so well!

Bookforager‘s Picture Prompt book bingo

PPBBC

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.

Friday Face Off: The Vipers by Katy Hays

FFO

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.

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