Weekly Wrap Up | 11/9/25

Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ It was my birthday week and all I wanted was a good election day (there was no election here in Hawaii) and wow, the results all over the country made my heart so happy so that was the best birthday gift ever.

+ But the government is still shutdown and my hubby has missed 2 paychecks…going on 3. We are dipping into savings – but I cannot believe this admin is saying no to jobs, no to feeding people, no to affordable healthcare but yes to building a ballroom? I cannot wait for midterms!

+ It’s a four day weekend for my kids and my hubby too. We’re gonna go have a belated birthday lunch or dinner for me.

Blog Posts:

• Coldwire by. Chloe Gong | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Monthly Wrap Up | October 2025
• New Book Releases This Week | 11/4/25
• The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 11/4/25
• Top 5 Books That Are Song Titles | Top 5 Tuesday | 11/4/25
• WWW Wednesday | 11/5/25
• Atmosphere by. Taylor Jenkins Reid | Audiobook ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Tusk Love by. Thea Guanzon | Audiobook ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Reading Non-Fiction | 11/7/25

Books I Finished

• Persephone’s Curse by. Katrina Leno
• I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by. Kylie Lee Baker
• A Kiss of Hammer and Flame by. Amy De La Force
• Trail Rides & Starry Eyes by. Katrina Emmel
• Something Wicked by. Falon Ballard
• Atmosphere by. Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Currently Reading:

Vesselless by. Cortney L. Winn

Dead Fake by Vincent Ralph

Our Vicious Oaths by. N.E. Davenport

The Uninvited by. Nancy Banks

The Ordeals by. Rachel Greenlaw

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football
• Wicked: One Wonderful Night
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2025 – was only watching to see what Olivia Rodrigo would perform and wow Salt-N-Pepa got inducted in!!! Talk about bringing me back to my childhood – I grew up on their music. Their performance was so good! Olivia did amazing – I love the White Stripes. Twenty-One Pilots did amazing too! And OutKast getting inducted was awesome too – the music of my 20’s, I loved it! The Soundgarden tribute was amazing too – I still remembering being devastated when I heard Chris Cornell passed, Black Hole Sun was one of my favorite songs. The show was way too long and I was streaming it on youtube since we cancelled Disney+ – I wanted to see Cyndi Lauper – the music of my early childhood, of course lol but I had to do other things.

Music – Lux – Rosalia – I transcended when I listened to this!!! I LOVE IT. It’s definitely the kind of music that cleanses my music palate. I needed this. I even cried to Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti. I haven’t cried to music in forever….I grew up Catholic and I’ve had such a challenging relationship with it (mostly when I was young) and I’m at peace with it now, but it took so much growing. But one thing I always miss about going to mass…the music. Anyway, this album….does something to my soul. It’s on repeat!

Dunno if UMG will remove this video like it did with the last one but whatever…I love all the songs on the album, I can’t pick one right now! She sings in a few different languages on this album which is so AMAZING. I can’t understand any of the foreign languages, I know very little Spanish even though I took it in college but it was easier to practice in college because I went to school in Los Angeles and my Latina friends exposed me to so much music!! So I might have understood more back then but not now and it’s okay because this album makes me feel without having to understand what is being said.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

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