Category: The Sunday Post

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-19-25

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

This was an excellent reading week! Well, it was from my end of things. However, the end of the week went whack in an unexpected and unfortunate way. I was expecting Friday’s post to be The Serpent Under  by Bonnie MacBird for a blog tour from Random Things Tours – and clearly it wasn’t. The tour organizer for Random Things Tours is in hospital and may not be well for a while. I wish her all the best and hope for a speedy recovery. In the meantime, I’m holding onto that review (I really liked the book!) until I hear from her.

Second note, on this coming week’s schedule I have The Baby Dragon Cafe, because I honestly can’t resist the thing. That cover is just adorable and I’m expecting the same from the book inside. I debated whether to review it now or later, because it’s being published both, well, now AND later. The ebook is already out – and it’s only $2.99! The paperback, however, won’t be out until July 1. I have no idea what’s up with that but if, after reading my review you can’t resist, you can get it immediately and dive right in. Or perhaps that should be FLY right in. We’ll see.

Because Hecate has been the featured kitty three out of the past four weeks, I decided it was time to let the boys have their place in the spotlight this week. And so we have this gorgeous picture of Tuna and George, not just together but actually touching and not pretending that the other cat isn’t really the other cat. Although they look a bit disgruntled about it in the picture, they’ve actually become buddies over the last couple of months! Even if they don’t look all that happy about it!

 

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Winter Wishes Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in the January Wellness, Super Bowl & Valentine’s Day Giveaway Event!
$10 Gift Card or $10 Books in the Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Winner Announcements:

The winner of the New Year, New You Giveaway Hop is Angela C.

Blog Recap:

A- #BookReview: The Way Up is Death by Dan Hanks
Grade A #BookReview: Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire
A+ #BookReview: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Winter Wishes Giveaway Hop
January Wellness, Super Bowl & Valentine’s Day Giveaway Event!
Stacking the Shelves (636)

Coming This Week:

Martin Luther King Day 2025: Number 21 (#GuestPost by Galen)
The Hero She Loves by Anna Hackett (#BookReview)
The Devil’s Due by Bonnie MacBird (#BookReview)
The Baby Dragon Cafe by A.T. Qureshi (#BookReview)
Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto (#BookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-12-25

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand

Last week’s picture was of Hecate as the “Girl Cat with a Pearl Earring”, although I didn’t catch the resemblance to the famous painting until a few days later. This week’s cat picture is either Hecate surveying HER domain, or Hecate’s Winter Wonderland. After all, it’s always HERS, even if it’s seldom covered in snow.

We only got about 2 inches of snow here in Atlanta, but it was the heavy wet stuff and it stuck. (There’s a better picture of just how much snow and what it looked like fresh in yesterday’s Stacking the Shelves.) The whole of the ATL shut down in anticipation – which turned out to be a good thing as it doesn’t snow often enough here for there to be any plows or for people to get used to driving in it. (As I write this on Saturday the streets and driveways have already melted but the grass is still snow-covered.)

In the meantime, Hecate is keeping an eye on things just to make certain that the snow doesn’t do anything that she hasn’t given it permission for.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the New Year New You Giveaway Hop (Ends Wednesday!!!)
$10 Gift Card or $10 Books in the Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Blog Recap:

A- #BookReview: Holmes is Missing by James Patterson and Brian Sitts
A- #BookReview: Blood is Blood by Will Thomas
B+ #BookReview: Rebellious Grace by Jeri Westerson
B #BookReview: See How They Hide by Allison Brennan
A- #AudioBookReview: Free as a Bird by Hailey Edwards
Stacking the Shelves (635)

Coming This Week:

The Way Up is Death by Dan Hanks (#BookReview)
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire (#BookReview)
The Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (#BookReview)
Winter Wishes Giveaway Hop
The Serpent Under by Bonnie MacBird (#BlogTour #BookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-5-25

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

I don’t know about you, but I woke up on January 2 and it felt like someone flipped a switch somewhere, because suddenly after the holiday ‘twilight zone’ life snapped right back to normal. OTOH, I stayed up New Year’s Eve playing videogames instead of partying. There’s still a bit of a hangover, but it’s not nearly as debilitating late the next morning!

Howsomever, Hecate is still looking back wondering WTF at 2024 in her little rearview. Or over her cute but not so little kitty butt. I ask you, is that a face or is that a face? (I wonder if in her little brain, she’s looking back at Tuna’s look from last week and commiserating?)

But the show must go on! After all, there are new and more books to read in 2025, which is always a YAY regardless of what else happens. Although speaking of things happening, it looks like Amazon woke up one morning, remembered that they actually OWNED Goodreads, and decided to start playing with things. I know that Amazon sees all and knows all, but if you’ve linked your Amazon account and your Goodreads account they started combining stuff regarding challenges and display of books read that tells a little too much all in ways that may or may not work for you. They certainly didn’t for me and I had to fix a couple of things to make their ‘fixes’ go away. Hopefully that’s not the shape of things to come for the coming year but I’m not holding my breath. Or as I sometimes say, I wouldn’t bet my own money.

Still and all, HAPPY NEW YEAR and welcome to 2025!

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Books in the Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the New Year New You Giveaway Hop

Winner Announcements:

The winner of the Dashing December Giveaway Hop is Lisa B.

Blog Recap:

Grade A #BookReview: Unquiet Spirits by Bonnie MacBird
C #AudioBookReview: Merry Ever After by Tessa Bailey
New Year, New You Giveaway Hop
Most Anticipated Books of 2025
A- #BookReview: Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz
Stacking the Shelves (634)

Coming This Week:

Holmes is Missing by James Patterson and Brian Sitts (#BookReview)
Rebellious Grace by Jeri Westerson (#BookReview)
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis (#BookReview)
Blood is Blood by Will Thomas (#BookReview)
Free as a Bird by Hailey Edwards (#AudioBookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-29-24

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

The very last Sunday Post of 2024. Wednesday starts a new year, 2025. And OMG what a year it’s been and what a year it’s shaping up to be!

Fittingly, today’s cat picture is of someone peering out from safety, looking a bit scared and very concerned, wondering what this coming year is going to bring. The surprising thing about this picture is that the small, adorable, kittenish face actually hides a whole lotta Tuna behind it. (If you’re wondering, we’ll always know it’s Tuna because of the feets. Luna has little white toe shoes on her front feets and white boots on the back. Tuna has all black feets. It’s Tuna – and he’s clearly terribly worried about something. Just look at how big his eyes are!

But it is time to look ahead, even if those looks contain more than a bit of trepidation. This time last year, I was preparing, also with some trepidation, to start posting on Instagram where I’m @reading_reality. This year, it’s time to switch, at least mostly, from Twitter/X to Bluesky and Threads, and posts have already commenced although that endeavor is likely to be a work in progress as I switch from one set of ‘@’ to another. It helps that Bluesky and Threads will both post automagically – a feature that X, well, x-ed out some time ago.

I’m @readingreality.bsky.social on Bluesky and @reading_reality on Threads. And the widgets in the sidebar will be edited to reflect the additions. I’m honestly not sure what to do about Twitter/X, but then again, that’s true of a LOT of people right now.

I didn’t have many reviews this week, but the two I did have were for books that were among the best of the best this year – so that’s all to the good. I confess that I waited to finalize my Best Books post because I was sure that one or the other of this week’s books – if not both as turned out to be the case! – would make that list. I’ll let you in on which books I’m most looking forward to this year later this week.

In the meantime, I hope your holidays have been and continue to be happy ones! Hopefully we’ll be able to put at least Tuna’s worries to rest in the days ahead.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Books in the Dashing December Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Books in the Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Winner Announcements:

The winner of the Holiday Giveaway Hop is Elizabeth H.

Blog Recap:

Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop
A+ #BookReview: Echo by Tracy Clark
Christmas Day 2024: The Cats of Christmas (#GuestPost)
A+ #AudioBookReview: Blood Jade by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle
Best Books of 2024
Stacking the Shelves (633)

Coming This Week:

Unquiet Spirits by Bonnie MacBird (#BookReview)
Merry Ever After by Tessa Bailey (#AudioBookReview)
New Year, New You Giveaway Hop
Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz (#BookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-22-24

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

It’s only three more sleeps until both Christmas and Hanukkah. Are all of your presents wrapped and ready to go? This morning’s cat picture is of Hecate being oh-SO-helpful last weekend while we were wrapping presents. It took repeated applications of the Monster Vacuum to keep the cats off the dining room table long enough to get the job done. Miss Hecate kept popping back up on the table and/or getting underfoot much too quickly after each application – but it did work (mostly) and isn’t she adorable?

Last week’s readings didn’t quite go according to plan. In my head, I thought that the audiobook of Blood Jade was about 10 hours, and that I’d be ready to switch to the text on Wednesday to finish the book in time for a Friday review. My head was in error on both counts. The story is awesome, the narrator is marvelous – Natalie Naudus is one of my faves, especially for stories like this one – but the audio is more like 15 hours and I wasn’t ready at all to give up the fantastic audio in order to listen to the voice in my head who sounds much more like me than a professional narrator.

Very much OTOH, I expected – and I’ve started the book so I know I’m right at least so far – that Echo would be terrific and compelling. But it’s also set in a typical February in Chicago, and I wasn’t quite prepared to face THAT. (I lived in the Chicago area for more than 20 years and February sucks. It’s too damn cold, it’s still much too dark, and spring feels like it’s eons away even if it’s (probably, hopefully) not. Now I’m into the book and I’m sure I’ll get it done if I haven’t already by the time you read this. (I’m writing on Friday.)

One final note on scheduling. Officially, the Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop started yesterday, so if you want to get in on it immediately hop on over to Versatileer and check it out. Howsomever, I’ll be posting Reading Reality’s entry in the hop tomorrow, on Monday, December 23.

“Just one more thing,” to quote a classic TV detective of yesteryear. This is the last full week of 2024 – as difficult as THAT might be to believe. This year has gone by SO FAST. Nevertheless, 2024 is on its way out the door, which means that it’s time for Reading Reality’s Best Books of 2024 post, coming this very Friday.

There’s LOTS in store here this holiday week. I hope you’ll take a bit of time to stop by and see what’s up! Happy Holidays!

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in the Holiday Giveaway Event!
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Dashing December Giveaway Hop

Winner Announcements:

The winner of the Fall 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop is Nancy

Blog Recap:

Dashing December Giveaway Hop
A- #BookReview: Wedgetail by M.L. Buchman
B #AudioBookReview: Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur
B #BookReview: Miss Amelia’s List by Mercedes Lackey
B #BookReview: Love in Other Worlds edited by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Stacking the Shelves (632)

Coming This Week:

Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop
Echo by Tracy Clark (#BookReview)
Xmas Day (#GuestPost by Galen)
Blood Jade by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle (#AudioBookReview)
Best Books of 2024 

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-15-24

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand

December is officially, or at least officially-ish, half over. Not that December 31st really counts as December since everyone spends the whole day thinking about that last second when the year ends. I mean, we count down to it like its a rocket liftoff and everything!

This coming week is, more or less, the last normal-ish week until after the New Year – or at least as normal as things ever get at Chez Reading Reality.

Today’s cat picture shows a sort of normal that I’ll admit we weren’t expecting to see. The cat outside looks like he’s asking for some child in the house to come out and play with him. The cat inside is George, looking like he wants to go out and play – or at least figure out how the cat on the outside, who resembles him rather a lot, is related to him. Which he probably is. Because we got George in the neighborhood – George is our pandemic baby – we learned that George’s momcat had lots of littles roaming around the neighborhood. We were told she even had one more litter before she finally got trapped, neutered and released. Still, we know George has a LOT of siblings and niblings (collective term for nieces AND nephews just like siblings is the collective term for brothers AND sisters) running around the subdivision and probably nearby as well, so we’re thinking he’s related to George somehow. We’re pretty sure this handsome fellow is a fellow because he has the jowls of a male cat who either was never neutered or was snipped after maturity.

But no, we’re not letting George out to play. He has plenty of people and kitties and things to play with at home!

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Fall 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in the Holiday Giveaway Event!

Blog Recap:

Grade A #BookReview: Mechanize My Hands to War by Erin K. Wagner
B #BookReview: Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron
B #AudioBookReview: Cruel Winter with You by Ali Hazelwood
A- #AudioBookReview: Dead as a Dodo by Hailey Edwards
C #AudioBookReview: I Made It Out of Clay by Beth Kander + #Excerpt
Stacking the Shelves (631)

Coming This Week:

Dashing December Giveaway Hop
Wedgetail by M.L. Buchman (#BookReview)
Echo by Tracy Clark (#BookReview)
Miss Amelia’s List by Mercedes Lackey (#BookReview)
Blood Jade by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle (#AudioBookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-8-24

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

It’s beginning to look a lot like the end of the year is coming on fast. Entirely too fast! Which means both holiday presents to wrap and New Year’s Resolutions to make.

I’m not really talking about actual New Year’s Resolutions – because those seldom work. It’s more about cogitating on what changes need to be made for Reading Reality. Last year it was the decision to start posting on Instagram, something I’d been debating for a couple of years and finally made the plunge because Twitter was getting weird and I felt the need to start posting on a different – and less weird – social media channel.

And Twitter/X got even weirder and more toxic, so I think the Insta decision was a good one. But it’s looking like it’s time to bail on the whole X thing and that’s what I’m looking at now, both at Bluesky and Threads. If you have any thoughts or experience or both on either service, I’d be VERY interested in hearing about it!

With cats in the house, wrapping presents is always a problem. They ALL want to HELP. Which means playing with the wrapping paper. After all, if it interests us, it interests them even more! And we pay SO MUCH attention to THEM when they’re playing with it. Even better – at least from their perspective.

So, we brought the vacuum cleaner into the room with the big table. We’re planning to run the “Monster Vacuum” while we wrap. Based on past performance, we think a five minute blast of Mr. Vacuum will vacate the room for at least an hour!

Because that little story absolutely BEGS for cat tax, here’s a picture of Hecate looking rather dignified. This might become her “official” portrait.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Fall 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in the Holiday Giveaway Event!

Winner Announcements:

The winner of the Holiday Book Bingo Challenge Giveaway in the 2024 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon is Kai

Blog Recap:

Holiday Amazon/PayPal Giveaway Event!
A- #BookReview: How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis
A- #BookReview: A Snake in the Barley by Candace Robb
C+ #AudioBookReview: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
B #BookReview: The Hero She Deserves by Anna Hackett
Stacking the Shelves (630)

Coming This Week:

Mechanize My Hands to War by Erin K. Wagner (#BookReview)
Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron (#BookReview)
Cruel Winter with You by Ali Hazelwood (#AudioBookReview)
Dead as a Dodo by Hailey Edwards (#AudioBookReview)
I Made It Out of Clay by Beth Kander (#BlogTour #BookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-1-24

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | Ho-Ho-Ho Readation> The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

Welcome to the final month of 2024! Or OMG the holiday season is here. Or both. DEFINITELY both.

I hope that all who celebrated had a wonderful and filling Turkey Day this week. I also hope that, unless it’s your thing, you’ve managed to escape the Black Friday shopping madness. I’m just happy that internet shopping is a thing because the Black Friday crowds are NOT!

Tomorrow is your last chance to sign up and fill out your entries in the 2024 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon here at Reading Reality and at all of the other Elves’ sites and instas. If you’ve had a big holiday reading weekend, host Caffeinated Reviewer has the deets on ALL the Elves’ challenges right HERE!

Even though tomorrow is the last day of the Readathon, and you still have all day to post your bingo lines here or on Insta, Reading Reality will be posting the Holiday Giveaway Event! including an Event-Wide Amazon/PayPal Prize plus my own $10 Gift Card or Book giveaway. The first day of the Holiday Giveaway Event! is technically today, but today is Sunday and we’re still in recovery mode from yesterday’s All-Star Cat Wrestling Event!

Everybody  needed something at the vet yesterday, so EVERYBODY went. Two humans, four cats, a whole lot of growling and hissing and nobody was happy at all. Except possibly the vet. Although a tech did have to pretty much sit on George to get his part of the circus taken care of. None of them like TRIPS to the vet – although Hecate likes BEING at the vet because they tell her how pretty and well-behaved she is. George, however, is the only one who fights the process, literally tooth and nail, all the way.

But George has been featured quite a bit recently. Also, he wasn’t cooperative  AT ALL. Luna, very much on the other hand, although obviously quite peeved in this picture – she’s willing to own it and let her resting bitch face be preserved for posterity. (Not that she has any. That was fixed before she came to us.)

Seasons Greetings and Merry Meetings and Happy Holidays!

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book for Participants in the 2024 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon Holiday Book Bingo Challenge (ENDS TOMORROW!!!!!)
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Fall 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Winner Announcements:

The winner of Reading Reality’s Late Fall Giveaway Hop is Steph

Blog Recap:

A- #BookReview: Love You a Latke by Amanda Elliot
Grade A #BookReview: What Child is This? by Bonnie MacBird
B #BookReview: Eight Nights to Win Her Heart by Miri White
#GuestPost: Thanksgiving 2024
B #AudioBookReview: Only Santas in the Building by Alexis Daria
Stacking the Shelves (629)

Coming This Week:

Holiday Amazon/PayPal Giveaway Event!
A Snake in the Barley by Candace Robb (#BookReview)
How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis (#BookReview)
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (#AudioBookReview)
The Hero She Deserves by Anna Hackett (#BookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 11-24-24

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | Ho-Ho-Ho Readation> The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand

First things first, this is the first weekend of the 2024 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon. Have you signed up and started on your holiday reads, yet? I’m one of the Elves this year, and I’m hosting a Holiday Book Bingo Challenge. I also started on my own personal reads for the Readathon with a Christmas romance, but this week I have a couple of Hanukkah romances – and I’m ever so pleased to see more of those available each year. If you’re looking for books and/or audiobooks to peruse for your own participation, the Under the Mistletoe Collection of short stories and audiobooks have each been just the right size for an Xmas reading stocking and they’ve been terrific so far – I’ve finished three and am thinking about a fourth. (They’re a bit like the reading equivalent of potato chips – you can’t read or listen to just one!) They’re free with Amazon Prime, which is an even better excuse to treat yourself to a bit of light and fluffy reading!

Second, it’s the weekend before Thanksgiving. I don’t know about the rest of you, but the holidays totally snuck up on me this year. We’re going to have a pretty low-key Turkey Day – whether we get an actual turkey boob or not. Yes, I said “turkey boob”. There’s just the two of us. Galen doesn’t like the drumsticks. And there’s just the two of us. The amount of leftovers we’d have if we did a whole turkey for just us two humans doesn’t bear thinking about. Also this clowder of cats does not expect to eat ‘people food’ and we have zero desire to encourage such an expectation. So we just get a turkey breast and call that more than enough – which it generally is. Hence, ‘Turkey Boob’ – which we really need to pick up this weekend!

Then again, we might get a little Honey-Baked Ham. Those are yum, too! (And also not for cats.)

But speaking of cats, and also of this time of the year, today’s cat picture is one I’d like to call the ‘Changing of the Guard’. First, it’s utterly adorable that Tuna and George are cuddling now. But in this particular picture it seems as if Tuna has taken on George’s usual slightly suspicious expression so that he can keep watch, suspiciously of everything of course, while his buddy takes a well deserved nap from his general suspiciousness.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book for Participants in the 2024 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon Holiday Book Bingo Challenge
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in the Late Fall Giveaway Event!
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Fall 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Blog Recap:

A- #BookReview: Feuds edited by Mercedes Lackey
B- #BookReview: Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher
B #AudioBookReview: All By My Elf by Olivia Dade
Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon 2024 Holiday Book Bingo Challenge
A- #BookReview: The December Market by RaeAnne Thayne
Stacking the Shelves (628)

Coming This Week:

Love You a Latke by Amanda Elliot (#2024HOHOHORAT #BookReview)
What Child is This? by Bonnie MacBird (#2024HOHOHORAT #BookReview)
Eight Nights to Win Her Heart by Miri White (#2024HOHOHORAT #BookReview)
Thanksgiving 2024 (#GuestPost by Galen)
Only Santas in the Building by Alexis Daria (#2024HOHOHORAT #AudioBookReview)

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 11-17-24

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | Ho-Ho-Ho Readation> The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

It’s beginning to look a lot like…it’s getting much too close to the holidays! Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away, and it’s time for Caffeinated Reviewer’s annual Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon. Reading Reality is one of her elves this year, so my challenge post is coming up OMG THIS THURSDAY!

Speaking of the holidays, and the season, and everything, today’s cat pic is Hecate, managing to show off that she is both a bit round like a pumpkin AND has pumpkin colored patches on her underside that match the floor a whole lot more than I thought.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in the Late Fall Giveaway Event!
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Fall 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Winner Announcements:

The winner of the Thanks a Latte Giveaway Hop is Cindy

Blog Recap:

#GuestPost: Veterans Day 2024: Readings
A- #BookReview: The Bloodless Princes by Charlotte Bond
A+ #BookReview: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
A- #AudioBookReview: Crazy as a Loon by Hailey Edwards
B #AudioBookReview: The President’s Brain is Missing by John Scalzi
Stacking the Shelves (627)

Coming This Week:

Feuds by Mercedes Lackey (#BookReview)
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (#BookReview)
Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher (#BookReview)
Ho-Ho-Ho Readation 2024 Book Bingo Challenge (#2024HOHOHORAT)
The December Market by RaeAnne Thayne (#2024HOHOHORAT #BookReview)