2015 Challenge Review

So how am I doing on Challenges?  Not bad, not great (check the details here.)  I’ve been keeping on track so far, but I’ve hit a little bit of a wall this month.  I’ve been crazy stressed over some events I’m planning and just the general coming months and on top of that I finished …

Book to Movie Music: Soundtrack Saturday

So this soundtrack is comprised of (in my opinion) the most memorial instrumental tracks from book to movie adaptation.  There are so many adaptations out there, I only picked the ones where when I hear it I immediately connect to the story.  I would have added a track from Disney’s Three Musketeers and The Never …

Let’s Talk: Bookstore GPS

When I go to a bookstore, I have a very distinct pattern that I take.  I recently realized how important it was because I went out of sequence and found myself lost and slightly disenchanted.  So here’s the method to my madness when I’m surrounded by books. Obviously if there’s a coffee shop, I make …

Check the Shelf Review: The Story of Awkward

The Story of Awkward  by R.K. Ryals | website | twitter | Publisher/Year: Self-Published | April 10, 2014 Pages: 268 Series: Stand Alone Genre: YA Fantasy Format: EBook Source: Barnes and Noble Amazon | Goodreads Summary (From Goodreads) If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If …

L. Frank Baum: Bookish Belongings Birthdays

Today is L. Frank Baum’s Birthday and I thought it would be fun to celebrate with a Bookish Belongings themed to Baum’s literary contributions.  If you’re having trouble placing who Baum is, he most famously wrote the The Wizard of Oz and following books known as The Books of Wonder series.  Baum is an author …

Did Not Finish… Yet

So I thought I’d make a list of books I’ve started but for various reasons have gone back on the TBR shelf after a couple chapters.  Most the time its not because I’m not loving the book, I just don’t click with it in the moment.  Or sometimes when I get a huge pile of books, I start …

Check the Shelf Book Review: A Thousand Pieces of You

A Thousand Pieces of You  by Claudia Grey |website | twitter | Read By: Tavia Gilbert Publisher/Year: Blackstone Audiobooks | November 4, 2014 Time: 9 Hours and 18 Minutes Series: Firebird #1 Genre: Young Adult/New Adult, Sci-Fi Format: Audiobook Source: Cincinnati Library through Overdrive Amazon | Goodreads Summary (From Goodreads) Marguerite Caine s physicist parents are …

Be Kind Please Rewind: April

Lion King- My sister and I finally got to see The Lion King on Broadway.  It was great.  I found myself enthralled by how they made all the animals life like, not to mention the amazing singers.  There was even a jab at frozen that’s been added in.  I would so go see this one again. …

Check the Shelf Book Review: Flunked

Flunked  by Jen Calonita website | twitter Read by Kristin Condon Publisher/Year: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky | March 1, 2015 Time: 5 Hours 17 minutes Pages: 256 Series: Fairy Tale Reform School Book 1 Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy Format: Audiobook Source: Audiobook Jukebox Amazon | Goodreads   I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an …