Challenges! How many us of choose them? Challenges! Ones we can depend on…to challenge and mold us into a better person than we were before? I have some and below are the one’s I’ll be tackling in 2023. Read on for more.

Veronica G. Henry’s The Foreign Exchange is reminiscent of a cozy mystery with Haitian voodoo elements.

For June 2023 I will be reading and discussing the following books: Empty Vows by Mary Monroe, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma. If you are interested in any of the titles, please consider joining me. I don’t want to read alone. 🙂 So join me this month in reading!

Remember when I said I had Darknesses on my nightstand and needed to read it soon? Well, I finally did it; it was quite an adventure. Darknesses by Lachelle Seville is a sapphic, gothic, Dracula-inspired novel that has had traction in the book community circles I follow. I chose the book purely by faith in the readers that suggested, and as usual, I didn’t know what I was getting into. That’s nothing new. Now, having finished the book, I wish I would have asked them why they enjoyed it.

Happy Hump Day and welcome to the WWW Wednesday post for January 18, 2023!

Beautifully written, Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration is heartwarming, and compelling, and shines throughout with themes of family and food, and their emphasis on passing down cultural traditions.

Ya’ll, time has been escaping me lately. I’m not sure where it goes. In this week’s Week in Reading (October 1-7, 2023) I accomplished quite a bit.

Happy Hump Day! It’s Wednesday, and in an effort to be more active in sharing and seeing what everyone else is up to in their reading, I am participating in this week’s WWW Wednesday. WWW Wednesday  is a weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words, where bloggers share the books that answer these three questions (the Three Ws): What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? If you want to participate and you have a blog, answer the three questions above and leave a link to your post…

Howdy and hello Dear Readers! I’ve been tagged to participate in the Horror Booktube Tag. Yay!!! This tag is making its rounds as part of Don’t Die July, a month-long, horror-themed collaboration between Ven of Ven’s_Corner and Noah of In-between The Lines. I’ve been tagged by Noah and will be tagging people as well. Hopefully, they will participate and share their responses. 🙂

What’s the purpose of this post? Realistically, weekends are more conducive to productivity for me and the blog. My weekdays are consumed by a full-time finance position in Higher Education, keeping home, reading, whatever else comes up and now drafting blog posts. Lately, I’ve shared ‘Weekend Reads’ posts to social media, and as of recently, I’ve realized how long-winded those have been. I tend to get passionate about whatever is going on in the media I’m absorbing, and before you know it I’m either ranting, raving, or rambling about it (lol). In retrospect, those social media posts really should have…

The Devil Won’t Keep Us Apart by Shane T. Clark is a suspense novel and revenge story crafted around a father-son relationship between an elderly man, Elmer Ray, and his next-door neighbor, Adrian Franklin. I received a gifted copy of the book in exchange for an honest review from the author via Booktasters, and here it is. 🙂

In October 2022 I managed to read 4 books. I say ‘managed’ because I traded my reading time for setting up my blog. It was important to me that I establish what I wanted the blog aesthetics to be before posting content more frequently. That and my sanity only allowed me to get through 2 picture books, a graphic novel, and an adult fiction novel. Book blogging is new for me and deciding what I want to post has been a constant back and forth. Thankfully I approach most things with the goal in mind to accomplish whatever’s at hand…