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.
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.
Friday Face Off: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
22 November 2024
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Tags: book-blog, Books, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, fiction, Friday Face off, Heather Fawcett, reading

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 Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett, I can’t wait to read this, this series is just fantastic. Only two covers, take a look:
My favourite this week:
It’s so difficult to choose. I can’t do it – I love both themes for these books. They’ve been so consistently good.
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.
Top Ten Tuesday: Newest (aka latest Books On My TBR)
19 November 2024
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Tags: book-blog, book-blogger, Books, reading, TBR, Ten Newest Books on my TBR, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday

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 I’ve done the exact opposite of the prompt – which was earliest published books on my TBR. Instead I’ve chosen:
Newest (aka latest Books On My TBR)
For this week’s prompt I’ve chosen ten books that are not yet published that I am excited to start reading in the new year:
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Grave Empire by Richard Swan
Black Woods. Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
The Crimson Road by AG Slatter
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis
Once Was Willem by MR Carey
Senseless by Ronald Malfi
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie





































