Of Butterflies and Books

 Books Read- 18 DNFs-6 TRL (To Read Later)- 10 Physical books- 5 Ebooks-7 Audiobooks-6 Rereads-2 First in a Series-7 Continuing series/sequels-2 Finished Series-0 ARCS-3 Standalones-4 KU Books- 0 Manga/Comics/Graphic Novels- 1 Pages read- 4,117 pages Avg Page Count- 257 pages Hours Listened- 96 hrs Avg Hours- 19.2 hrs Ratings: 5 star ratings- 0 4.5 star ratings- 3 4-star ratings- 4 3.75 star ratings- 1 3-star ratings- 4 2-star ratings- 2 1-star ratings- 2 Avg rating- 2.84 Longest book/audiobook: The Court of the Underworld Vol 1 by Alessa Thorn- 814 pages/My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand- 48 hours Shortest book/audiobook: His Majesty The Demon King's Housekeeper Vol 5 by Saiko Wadori and Mika Kajiyama- 170 pages/Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross-11 hours Highlights of the month: 

 Hello, my fellow readers. We're so close to the new year. I'm excited about beginning the new year with many new and backlist books I've been meaning to read.  Starting with my monthly book challenge TBR. The prompts for this are: New to Author: Dragonfall by L. R. Lim Most recent purchase: Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare The most recent book on your TBR: Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun Vol 19 by Aidalro Continue/Finish a series: A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley Comfort read (a reread or a book by an author you loved): The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber Book set during your favorite season: TBD (To Be Determined)  For my TBR game, Shuffle:  Random Color on Cover (Green) Witcha Gonna Do? by Avery Flynn Previous TBR pick: The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera  Least read genre (Non-Fiction): To Be Determined One Word Title: Dragonfall by L. R. Lim Genre Wheel (Horror): Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington Finally, for this month's trop...

Hello, my fellow readers, we're all working on trying to read all the books we can for what's left of 2023. I'm already getting a jump on the goals I want to focus on for this coming year.  First, I want to focus on completing the series I've started and reading more stand-alone books in 2024.  I want to finish up to, but not limited to, 10 series and I want to read at least 50 stand-alone books. I also want to focus, as always more on my physical and digital TBR. I want to continue to focus on using my TBR game to help me choose books to read each month, as well as to help curb some of my spending habits. Other than that my main goal is to just focus on reading the books I want to read.  What are some of your reading goals for 2024? 

 Hello my fellow readers, I'm here to bring you my first installment of Trope Tuesday  where each month I will be attempting to read books with specific tropes from romance to fantasy to mysteries, and exploring where I feel these books either succeeded or missed the mark, for me, with these tropes.  So two out of three books I ended up reading were Wildcat  by Rebecca Jenshak, The Lie by Karla Sorensen, and I DNFed Meet Your Match  by Kandi Steiner.  I ended up rating Wildcat  3 stars and rated The Lie  2 stars. These books both approached the forbidden romance trope within the college sports romance trope. I thought Wildcat 's approach made the main love interests somewhat more likable than the couple in The Lie . I feel like the books were both able to integrate the sports and the romance together well together. I think the issue was I just wasn't in either of the romantic relationships that were going on in each of the books. Meet Your Ma...

 I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advanced copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Overall, I wasn't a fan of this book. the ending felt weak, and it felt like one of those where we got all the information up until the end. This is my opinion on this book and others could feel differently about it. Overall, I gave this book 1 out 5 stars. 

 Hello, my fellow readers. It feels like this year has just flown by. Now that we're getting into the new year, I really wanted to talk about some of my most anticipated books of 2024.  Ever since read Iron Widow , the sequel has lived rent-free in my mind and it seems as though we're finally getting a confirmation date as to when it's supposed to be released on April 30, 2024.   The next book is one I wasn't really aware of until about a month ago but the plot sounds like a lot of fun to me, how could I not want to check this out and that is A Fragile Enchantment  by Allison Saft. It kind of gives me vibes similar to the movie, The Wedding Planner with magic. I'll definitely be on the look out for this book on January 02, 2024, to read it as soon as possible.  Another book I'm excited about is the next installment in the Remixed Classics series with Gabe Cole Novoa's  Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix . I can't wait to read this take on Jan...

Hello, my fellow readers, somehow it's December. It's always interesting when coming up with monthly or seasonal TBRs because if I haven't said the words, I'm very much a mood reader, and different months or seasons throughout the year evoke different moods for reading. Fall is always in this interesting in-between where I want to read and/or continue the major book releases in summer while shifting into more paranormal, fantasy, or mystery/thriller reads that give you that spine-tingling feeling of the fall season. Winter, for me, is still in that realm because I do still to a degree have an interest in reading all of those genres and more, but I think I am definitely, as evidenced by my current TBR, looking to have most of my books be in a more cozy mood.   So to start, and I should add there may be repeats for some lists such as my TBR games because the TBR deities were somewhat kind to me this month with the prompts I got.  So first for my monthly book challenge ...

Books read: 17 DNFs: 11 TRL(To Read Later): 10 books  Physical books: 0 Ebooks: 9 Audiobooks: 8 Rereads: 3 First in a series: 1  Continuations/Sequels: 7 Finished series: 1 Standalone books: 9 Total pages read: 1,990 Total hours listened to: 80 5 star reads: 3 4 star reads: 4 3 star reads: 5 2 star reads: 2 1 star reads: 3 Avg. rating: 3.11 Avg pages read: 221 pages Avg hours listened to: 10 hours ARCS read: 4 Longest book read/ longest audiobook:  Glory and the Master of Shadows by Grace Callaway at 404 pages and The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata at 16 hours.  Shortest book read/shortest audiobook: I've posted reviews of these arcs on this blog: Her Princess at Midnight by Erica Ridley at 96 pages and Starting Over Scottish by Tricia O'Malley at 3 hours.  Rollovers to the next month- 5 Highlights of the Month: I've been loving this journey of falling back in love with historical romances, and I couldn't have found a better series to do that than thi...