Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Most Recent Additions to my Book Collection

Happy Tuesday peeps!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s topic is Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection or TBR List. I’m doing a mixture of these two prompts, but I want to note that there’s quite a bit of correlation with the new books and the stuff I’ve recently added to my To Be Read stuff.

It’s been awhile since I’ve participated in this post. I don’t have a particular reason why I stopped; I guess I just wasn’t feeling it for a while. Anyway, on with the post!

The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde: Recent acquisition, but not so recently added to my TBR.
A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand: A recent addition to my book collection, as well as recently officially added to my To Be Read pile.
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallero: Recently collected, but it’s been on my TBR for a bit.
Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne: A book I recently obtained, and it was on my immediate TBR for a bit, but now I’m not as sure. So it’s technically on the back burner.
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky: I saw this and got it ’cause it looked interesting. Not quite in my immediate To Be Read stuff, though.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: Recently acquired, but also already read. I just loved the book so much I wanted to own it.
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: A book I finally obtained, but has been on my TBR for some time.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab: Once again, a book I’ve already read, but one that I loved and wanted to own.
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie: Recent acquisition, and somewhat more recently added to my TBR as well.
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas: A book I finally recently collected. It’s in a weird position on my TBR, because I still need to read the first book in this series before this one.

What books have you recently added to your collection? Have they been on your TBR for a while, or are they new to that, too? What books are you looking to add to both in the future?

As always, thanks so much for reading, and I hope that you have an amazing day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Birthstone Book Covers: December 2024

Jeez, this last week. It was so busy and whipped by so quickly that it barely feels like any time at all has passed since I last posted. Wow. Anyway, Birthstone Book Covers.

Leslie @ Books Are the New Black created a fun monthly post called Birthstone Book Covers. Each month, she features book covers that are either the same color of that month’s birthstone or include the color in the title.

December has three birthstones – Tanzanite, Zircon and Turquoise. So shades of blue for this month! Yay!

Rules:

📚 Mention the creator (Leslie @ Books Are The New Black) and link back to her so she can check out your post.
📚 Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone.
📚 HAVE FUN!
📚 Nominate people if you want!

**Prince of Fortune** **by Lisa Tirreno**

**House of Sky and Breath** **by Sarah J. Maas**

**Drums of Autumn** **by Diana Gabaldon**

**The Last Magician** **by Lisa Maxwell**

**All the Light We Cannot See** **by Anthony Doerr**

What are your favorite books with blue-ish book covers? If you participated in Birthstone Books, which books did you choose this December?

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have the most amazing day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Weekly Wrap-Up: 1/2 – 1/21

Whoa. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve last done this post. Sorry about that. But I think I’ve had good reason, honestly.

I haven’t posted as much as I’ve wanted to this month, or as much as I’ve felt that I should be posting. So I would’ve had like one (or two) posts to highlight from the past week that I did. And I really didn’t feel like it was enough to do a Weekly Wrap-Up for. It seemed a bit overkill to me.

But now I’ve done four posts since, and I feel that’s more than enough to talk about, so here’s another one of these posts! Let’s get to it!

Friday 1/5: December 2023 Monthly Reading Wrap-Up

Three-ish weeks ago, on the first Friday of the year, I got around to posting my December 2023 Reading Wrap-Up. It was a sad, sad post to be sure – mostly because the only books I tried to read last month, I DNF-ed. But I posted the wrap-up nonetheless.

Monthly Reading Wrap-Up: December 2023

Thursday 1/11: My Most Anticipated Reads for 2024 (Part 1)

Around ten or so days ago, on Thursday the 11th, I finally posted my most anticipated book releases for January, February and March of this year. I had about five books on it, as seems to be the usual for me.

And of course, I’ll be back with three more of these types of posts this year, spanning three month intervals, since this is a quarterly post. So I’ll see everyone back in April with another one!

My Most Anticipated SFF Reads of 2024: Jan, Feb, & Mar

Wednesday 1/17: Can’t-Wait Wednesday

This past Wednesday, I participated in Can’t-Wait Wednesday for the first time in months. Literally forever. Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings.

Can’t-Wait Wednesday: House of Flame and Shadow

Friday 1/19: 2023 Reading Wrap-Up

On Friday, I finally, finally got around to posting my yearly reading wrap-up for 2023. It took me literally forever to get around to it, I know, but I finally did it! And I thought that it turned out pretty dang good, myself. My StoryGraph stats from last year are now there, deconstructed for all to see if you like.

2023 Reading: Another Year of Books

Books I’ve Read in the Last Weeks

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

💖🎁 Wrapping It All Up 💖🎁

Annnd… that’s it. I haven’t been as active as I’ve wanted to be on the blog, nor have I been reading books like I’ve also wanted, but I’m gonna change that ASAP. Cuz I love reading, and I love talking about the novels that I read, and I haven’t been doing that.

One thing that I have been glad that I’ve been doing as of late, is cooking. I’ve been making dinner most nights every week for the last couple, and I’m really happy with it. I love cooking – and baking – not just because I find it enjoyable, but because it brings back memories of the one who taught me to do both growing up (particularly breakfast), who is sadly no longer here. So it’s also an activity that I do to honor this person too, I guess.

So yeah, I definitely plan on continuing my cooking and baking. That’s a big part of the reason why I created the Reading & Recipes post that I need to get back to. Because I want to talk about what I’ve been cooking lately, too.

Back to the blog, I’m planning on finishing House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas this week, and to hopefully have a review out at the end of this coming weekend or next week. After that, and if I enjoy the book, then I’m going to continue the series. After that, I want to read the Emily Wilde sequel (or maybe I’ll read it in between the Crescent City books), and then I’ll read something else.

Anyway, thank you to everyone who continues to read my posts here. I hope you all have an amazing day/night!

See ya ~Mar