Odyssey Award Update #4

At the beginning of 2022, one of my goals was to finish listening through the Odyssey Award winner and nominee audiobooks. I successfully completed this goal at the end of December (2022). While the winners and nominees for 2023 have already been announced, I feel a great sense of accomplishment of listening through the others. …

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Hump Day Happiness

What's making you happy this week? Creating fun things with the 3D printer at work Doing a bookmark exchange for book club Groundhog-themed cupcakes at work A church that prays. A church that cares. A church that believes in miracles. Going out to lunch with some of the Honor Girls Only ladies from church Helping …

Top Ten Tuesday: Debuts I Want to Read

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is 2023 Debut Books I’m Excited About. I'll be honest: I don't have a ton of debuts on my list for this year. (Only one!) Part of that is because I don't trust debut authors as much as I used to and I like to stick to favorite authors …

Inktober52 2023: Mighty

The dragon let out a mighty roar, the sound rattling Killian down to his very bones, and lifted its snout toward the sky. A stream of fire erupted from its mouth. Killian stumbled back, tripping over the broken stones of the castle.  Impossible, he thought. This was impossible. The dragons were centuries dead, frozen into …

2022 and 2023 Reading Journal

I somehow managed to complete my 2022 reading journal within the first couple days of 2023, which is frankly surprising. Usually, I'm way behind and have to catch up throughout the month of January, which only makes me get further behind in the new journal. I also did most of my 2023 set-up throughout December, …

Hump Day Happiness

What's making you happy this week? Celebrating my mom's birthday at Freddy's Participating in a small, virtual Q&A with authors Shannon Dittemore, Jill Williamson, and Stephanie Morrill (and Shannon specifically asking me how my day was going and saying she was glad I could make it) The kids at church being super excited about the …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Reread in 2022

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is a Freebie. Since I debated between listing 2022 backlist books or rereads for the December freebie, I thought I might as well do the other this week. I tend to reread a lot of books, so I thought it would be fun to look back at some of …

Inktober52 2023: Angel

“Where you going, pretty lady?” the tallest of the trio called out. One of the others laughed, one of those full-mouth-open laughs that sounded almost like a hacking cough.  Angelica turned away from them, pressing her phone against her cheek. There was nobody on the other end, but these guys didn’t know that. Didn’t need …

Characters of the Year Book Tag: 2022

I saw Anouk at Time for Tales and Tea do this tag, and I thought it was a lot of fun so I'm doing it as well. She mentioned that it originally came from A Brighter Shade of Hope, but it looks like the blog has been sort of deleted. This tag is all about …

Hump Day Happiness

What's making you happy this week? Rewatching The Legend of Vox Machina to prepare for season 2 Also, Season 2 of The Legend of Vox Machina starting off with such fun things Big fluffy snowflakes Chicken Lo Mein and Pork Fried Rice Cancelled plans Also, making new plans Theo wanting me to hold him the …