Random Musings of a Bibliophile

Here is a round up of all the books I chose not to finish, adult reads, and favorite reads of the last three months. The DNFs (with links to my reasons why on Goodreads): Wintersong  by S. Jae Jones Non-Fiction (with links to reviews on Goodreads): Samurai Rising  by Pamela Turner Adult Reads (with links to Goodreads reviews):   Acute Reactions  by Ruby Lang (contemporary romance) Always My Girl  by Samantha Chase (contemporary romance) Forever a Bad Boy  by Genevieve Turner (contemporary romance) Love Walks In  by Samantha Chase (contemporary romance) Made for Us  by Samantha Chase (contemporary romance) This is Our Song  by Samantha Chase (contemporary romance) The Best of the Best (links to my reviews): Patina  by Jason Reynolds A Sky Full of Stars  by Linda Williams Jackson

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly themed blog hop created by  The Broke and the Bookish  and now hosted at  That Artsy Reader Girl . This Week's Topic: Books That Take Place in Another Country For the purposes of this list, I excluded not only books that take place in the US (where I live) but also books that take place in England. If I added those the list would never end. Egypt: Australia: Ethiopia: (Read the whole series.) Canada: Bolivia: China: France:

I haven't been reading much this month. Not because I'm in a slump. I've just been doing mostly rereading. I am teaching a few English classes at our co-op next year and have started working on syllabuses. This is taking a lot of my attention and time right now. There are posts scheduled for next week, and I do hope to get some new to me books read soon so that I can post some new reviews. I've been so busy, I haven't been doing bookish posts on Instagram or Litsy either. Hoping to get back on that too. Thanks to all of my followers still here in spite of my erratic posting in recent months. I love you all.

I take the 2nd Friday fo every month to highlight some upcoming releases I am looking forward to that I hope are Future Favorites. Feel free to do your own post, just please link back to my blog and tell me about your post in the comments. One of my favorite books of last year was The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart  by Stephanie Burgis. I already had the upcoming companion novel down as one of my most anticipated reads of this year, but became even more excited after the release of the gorgeous US cover. Also there is the synopsis. Fairies. Intrigue. Sign me up!!!! Once upon a time, in a beautiful city famous for chocolate and protected by dragons, there was a girl so fearless that she dared to try to tell the greatest story of all: the truth. Silke has always been good at spinning the truth and storytelling. So good that just years after arriving as a penniless orphan, she has found her way up to working for the most splendid chocolate makers in the city (oh, and ...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly themed blog hop created by  The Broke and the Bookish  and now hosted at  That Artsy Reader Girl . Diplomacy in my own my name.                                           Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?            So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am never perfectly sober.                         Safety is an illusion. Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am lovable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? I guess love's kind of like a marshmallow in a microwave on high. After it explodes, ...

So not anywhere near as good as last month. February was a MONTH. Let me tell you. LOVED A Sky Full of Stars SO MUCH though. I'm still thinking about and unpacking that one. Did you have a favorite read in February?