Paiges of Books

Hi! Jana hosts Top Ten Tuesday @ thatartsyreadergirl This weekly meme was born out of our love of lists and bringing the book blogging community together. Each week, Jana will post a prompt and we readers will respond with our list. We also have the option of going rouge and doing our own thing. This week the theme is fictional crushes. I want to do my own thing and talk about book characters I would like to have as friends. 1- Cather from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 2- Simon from Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli 3-Sophie from 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston 4-August from One Last Stop by Casey McQuistion  5- Jo March from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 6- Laurel from One Day in December by Josie Silver 7- Jesper from Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo 8- Kate from Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli 9- Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson Universe by Rick Riordan 10- Tash from Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee 

-Sings No one else was in the room where it happens, the room where it happens, the room where it happens.- Hi! This is the post where I talk about other media I’ve been enjoying. I have not done one of these in months, and I missed doing them. The title is a pun on The Room Where It Happens from Hamilton. Tv and Movies I keep watching Food Network for background noise while I work on things and while reading. I don’t know what it is, I don’t really cook or bake, but I love watching other people make food. I really enjoyed Barbeque Brawl this season, it was tense, but I loved it. I also enjoy Guys Grocery Games, Chopped, Money Hungry, Guys Ranch Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, Restaurant Impossible, and Kitchen Crash. I really enjoy the variety and how many shows the Food Network has. I recently finished this season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on Disney +. I really loved this season, I just wish they had spread out the drama of the back half of the season more int...

Hi! Tressa hosts Can't-Wait Wednesday @ wishfulendings  This meme highlights new releases, usually unpublished, that we can’t wait to read. This meme is based on Waiting on Wednesday was hosted by Jill @ breakingthespine . This week I’m featuring What Once Was Mine by Liz Braswell. All information comes from Goodreads. Title: What Once Was Mine  Author: Liz Braswell Genre: Retelling Expected Publication: September 7 th , 2021   Add to Goodreads here Goodreads Summary   The 12th installment in the New York Times best-selling series asks: What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower?   Desperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good people of Corona search for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her—but mistakenly acquire the shimmering Moondrop flower instead. Nonetheless it heals the queen, and she delivers a healthy baby girl with hair as silver and gray as the moon. With it comes dangerou...

Hi! Jana hosts Top Ten Tuesday @ thatartsyreadergirl This meme was inspired by our love of lists and bringing the book blogging community together. Each week, Jana will post a prompt, and we readers will post our list. We also have the option of doing our own thing. This week, our topic is books I wish I could read again for the first time. I loved this topic so enjoy my list.   1- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 2- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Tylor Jenkins Reid 3- Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albetalli 4- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 5- A Court of Thornes and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 6- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 7- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 8- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 9- Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan 10- Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 

  This book was free from Edelweiss + Read Now. I read this book because it seemed like a fun read, and I picked it when I had been reading a lot of intense and heavy books. I had read the book Pippa Park: Raises Her Game was also by Erin Yun, and I really enjoyed it. This is a tough book to review, so I will talk about the back cover and how the activities inside relate to them. I wish I had a journal like this when I was younger because it was a mix of fun and questions that really made you think.       Me, Myself & I This book was a great way for a young person to explore all aspects of their personality. From quizzes to help you get to know yourself better to activity pages where you could post photos. One of my favorite sections on getting to know yourself was the spaces where you got to write an answer to a specific question, such as, how do you see yourself. I feel for a young person reading this book, you could learn a lot and really think. ...

  Hi! Can't -Wait Wednesday is hosted by Tressa  @wishfulendings . This meme is a rebrand of the meme Waiting on Wednesday which was hosted by Jill  @breakingthespine . The purpose of this meme is to feature a book, usually unpublished, that we can't wait to read. I couldn't find a link up this week, but I wanted to post anyway.  Title: Your Life Has Been Delayed Author: Michelle I. Mason Expected Publican:   September 7 th, 2021 Goodreads Summary Past and present, friends and crushes collide in a YA debut about a girl who takes off on a flight and lands 25 years later.   Jenny Waters boards her flight in 1995, but when she lands, she and the other passengers are told they disappeared . . . 25 years ago. Everyone thought they were dead.   Now contending with her family and friends fast-forwarding decades, Jenny must quickly adjust to smartphones and social media while being the biggest story to hit the internet. She feels betr...

  Hi! Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday. Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme Jana hosts @ thatartsyreadergirl This weekly meme was born out of a love of lists, and bringing the book blogging community together. Each Week, Jana will post a prompt, and we readers will post our list as a reply. We also have the option of going rogue, and posting a topic of our own choosing or a past topic. This week out topic is favorite places to read.   1- At my desk   I read a lot in my room and at my desk. I’m trying to find another method because I tend to stop reading and look at a notification that distracts me. I enjoy reading at my desk because it’s easy.  2- In bed I need to be wide awake to read in bed, but I might start doing it more. Reading in bed is less distracting for me, but it still can make me tired. 3- In the car Some weeks I spend a lot of time in the car. When I’m in the the car I’ll try to read a chapter or two, but it sends up being more like 3-4 depending on how lo...

  The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 16th, and runs through Sunday, August 22nd in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional.  For all Bout of Books 32 information and updates, be sure to visit the  Bout of Books  blog.  - From the Bout of Books team

Hi! for Theatrical Thursday this month I wanted to write a review of the In The Heights Movie Soundtrack. Rating:10/10 In The Heights had its first Broadway preview on February 14 th , 2008, and opening night on March 9 th , 2008. The musical closed on January 9 th 2011 after 29 previews and 1,185 performances. On Broadway’s biggest night, the Tony Awards, 2008, the musical won: Best Musical, Best Choreography for Andy Blankenbuehler, Best Original Score for Lin Manuel Miranda, and Best Orchestrations for Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman. In 2009, the Original Broadway Cast Recording won the Best Musical Show Album at the Grammy Awards. In The Heights featured a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes and music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel- Miranda.  In The Heights, both Broadway and the movie follows bodega owner Usnavi La Vega on his mission to get back to the beach in the Dominican Republic and features his interactions with neighbors in his Washington Heights neighborhood. Nina Rosario is a ...

Hi! Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa @ wishfulendings  This meme is an off-shoot of Waiting on Wednesday which was hosted by Jill @ breakingthespine . This meme highlights a book, usually unpublished, that we can’t wait to read. This week I’m featuring A Loot Like Adios by Alexis Daria. All Information comes from Goodreads.   Title: A Lot Like Adios  Author: Alexis Daria Expected Publication: September 14 th , 2021 Goodreads Summary   "Alexis Daria's A Lot Like Adiós is a charming, sexy spitfire of a novel! Between Mich and Gabe's crackling dialogue and their palpable yearning, I fell hard and fast for this book, racing through its pages until I finally closed it with an overflowing heart and a deep happy sigh. Romance readers, this is your new favorite book!" --Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation.   The national bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola returns with a seductive s...

  Hi! Jana hosts Top Ten Tuesday @ thatartsyreadergirl .  This meme was born out of a love of lists and bringing the book blogging community together. Each week, Jana will post a prompt and we readers will write a reply based on that. We also have the option to go rogue and do our own thing. This week’s topic was Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve More Love, and I was excited to make my list.   1- Abby from The Simon Universe by Becky Albertalli When people read the books in this series, I feel like they mostly talk about and love Simon and Bram. This is fine. I love those characters as well, but I also love Abby. I love Abby because she does theater, and she is a very sweet friend to Simon and the rest of their friends. In the later books, you see that she finds love and is true to herself. 2- Penny from the Simon Snow Trilogy by Rainbow Rowell   I know that most people that read these books probably enjoy Penny as a character. This is another case w...

Hello! Jana hosts Top Ten Tuesday @ thatartsyreadergirl This weekly meme was born out of a love of lists and bringing the book blogging community together. Each week, Jana posts a prompt, and we book bloggers get the opportunity to answer that with our lists. The other option is to go rogue and chose a different topic from the past or of our own. This week the topic is titles or covers that made me want to read the book. I wasn’t really inspired by this, even though I do have covers and titles that have made me want to read books. This is hyped books I’ve read and series I’ve read and loved. 1- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo 2- A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas 3- The Grisha Verse by Leigh Bardugo 4- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 5- The Simon Snow Trilogy (need to read book 3) by Rainbow Rowell 6- The Creekwood Universe by Becky Albertalli 7-Folk of Air Trilogy (need to read book 3 and the novella) by Holly Black 8-Red, White, and Royal Blue...

  Hi! Last month was a great reading month for me. I finished books that I had been reading for a while and I'm glad to have finished those.  Physical Reads The Assassins Blade by Sarah J. Maas ( 4 stars) The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su snd Kate Rodrick (5 stars) - Reread, Everything Will Be Okay: Advice to Young Women from a Former Young Women by Dana Perino (4 stars) With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo ( 5 stars- a favorite) Hamilton and Peggy: A Revolutionary Friendship by L.M. Elliot (4 stars) -reread Ebooks Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner ( 5 stars- a favorite) Call Me Athena: A Girl From Detroit by Colby Cedar Smith ( 4 stars) Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (5 stars)

  Hi! here are the books I plan to read in August both for the Among Us Readathon and for other challenges.  Physical books Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas The Downstairs Girl by Stacy Lee Us Against You by Fredrik Backman Working on A Song: The Lyrics of HadesTown by Anais Mitchell Ebooks Fools in Love by various (E-ARC) All’s Well by Mona Awad Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon