Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ The weather got better, it stopped raining but the sun barely came out all week. But at least it gave me a chance to do some activities with my daughter like take her to the arcade one day and then the movies the next. We watched GOAT and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would!

+ Then the weather got bad again, for round two of rain 2 days ago. I’m glad there were no high winds, but the rain was pounding and with the ground still so saturated (I haven’t turned on our sprinklers in 2 weeks!), the North Shore has lots of flooding in that area and other places around the island. It’s awful to see the damage of the homes. ☹️ People have lost their homes but from what I know – no lives lost, which is good. But recovery is going to be awhile – for one, we need the rain to stop – we need that sun to come out and dry up all this moisture in the ground.

+ Spring break is over today, it’s been mostly a rainy and boring one for me and my daughter. My hubby and son have been enjoying Osaka and Kyoto – lots of walking! But they come home today, yay, we’ve missed them!

Blog Posts:

Books I Finished

• Never Ever After by. Sue Lynn Tan
• The Thorn Queen by. Sasha Peyton Smith
• Web of Vows and Vengeance by. Aria Ashbrook
• The Lies that Summon the Night by. Tessonja Odette

Currently Reading:

• The Summer of Second Chances by. K.L. Walther
• Japanese Gothic by. Kylie Lee Baker
• Storm Breaker by. Nisha J. Tuli

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ Bruno Mars, The Romantic, is on repeat!

+ BTS, Arirang – I have to learn these songs before the concert! I also watched the Netflix concert, but not at 1am in the morning when it aired in Hawaii. I was too tired to wake up but glad the replay was there, so I watched it when I woke up.

My daughter and I were bored and indoors because of the rain so we watched Spirited Away on my laptop when we had the power outage last week. And it was kind of the perfect thing to watch in the dark. ❤️ The following night my daughter wanted to watch another Ghibli movie but I only had Spirited Away on my laptop so I caved and signed up for HBO MAX (again – I don’t remember how many times I’ve cancelled already LOL). And we watched My Neighbor Totoro (we love that movie also), and then we had more time so we watched a My Little Pony movie. Then the next night we watched Ponyo. Ghibli films are really amazing! I’m glad my kids love them as much as I do. 🥹

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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Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ So we had warnings of severe weather, this week starting on Tuesday, and though it did rain hard during the night, the days were okay with scattered showers here and there, from Tuesday-Thursday. Then they called off school for Friday. Kids were excited for an early Spring Break…but Friday came and it was like a Category 1 Hurricane outside! but it wasn’t…it was just a storm with severe weather. The wind was whipping, the rain was going sideways, it was all day from evening to evening. We lost power at 11:30am and as I’m typing this on Saturday at 2:14pm, we still don’t have power so it has been now…27 hours. The food in my fridge is all bad by now. I’ve been throwing out things here and there. But I’m bummed because food is so expensive right now, not to mention gas…sigh…so it was QUITE a weekend. (Update on 3/15/26: power came back on at 11:30pm last night! Thank god!)

+ But my hubby and my son got to escape our power outage yesterday because they hopped on a plane to Osaka, Japan for Spring Break. I’m hoping the sun comes back out sometime this week so we can salvage my daughter’s Spring Break.

+ The power outage left me with just one thing I could really do because scrolling on social media ate up my phone battery. So I read a lot at least! Ebooks and physical books!

Blog Posts:

• The Poison Daughter by. Sheila Masterson | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• New Book Releases This Week | 3/10/26
• Book Titles With Numbers | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 3/10/26
• WWW Wednesday | 3/11/26
• Eternal is the Night by. Alayna Ravenwood| ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Immersive Reading | 3/13/26
• Life: A Love Story by. Elizabeth Berg | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Serpent’s Bride by. Kathryn Ann Kingsley | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Spotlight | Dawn in Ruins by. Magda Mizzi

Books I Finished

• The Serpent’s Bride by. Kathryn Ann Kingsley
• The Serpent’s Sin by. Kathryn Ann Kingsley
• While You Were Seething by. Charlotte Stein
• Seek the Traitor’s Son by. Veronica Roth
• Tethered by. Elayna R. Gallea

Currently Reading:

• Never Ever After by. Sue Lynn Tan
• The Thorn Queen by. Sasha Peyton Smith
• The Summer of Second Chances by. K.L. Walther
• Japanese Gothic by. Kylie Lee Baker

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ Bruno Mars, The Romantic, is on repeat!

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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Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ It’s wild times in the news these days and I’m losing myself in books because of it. 😞

+ I got caught in a lock down at my daughter’s school on Thursday. It was 5 minutes to the final ringing, I heard police sirens around the area, but that isn’t new. The school opened the side gate for parents to come in and then the bell started ringing, but 5 times. Teachers then were telling us parents to get inside a room because there was a lock down happening. I think my first thought was why are they doing a lock down drill 5 minutes prior to the end of school? No…the teacher or staff who had her walkie talkie said police were in pursuit of some guy and he climbed the fence at the front of the school. It barely lasted 10 minutes, but I had to text my son I’d be late to pick him up at his school (he was freaking out), and all I could think about was how I was so close to my daughter who was a building away yet still so far from her and I wanted to protect her. I did NOT like those thoughts…the police said they got him (I heard on the walkie), it was all clear but we had to wait for the all clear bell. Us parents went to our kids classrooms, and when my daughter’s teacher opened the door some of the boys ran out laughing but saying “whoa that was scary!”, and the girls…two girls were bawling their eyes out. Other girls had tear streaks and I just was anxious to see my daughter, saw her and she was okay and I gave her the biggest hug. As we walked through campus I saw girls with tears on their faces, I heard parents and grandparents explaining to kids how the school kept them inside to keep them safe. I heard a mom tell her daughter she almost cried (the mom).

My daughter seemed “fine” but I thought maybe it didn’t hit her yet? Because watching your classmates cry – I know it scared her – but she was trying to keep everything normal. In the car ride home, she said some of the kids grabbed their scissors, in case someone came through their barricaded door. These are 3rd graders! 😞. The were hiding under their desks trying to stay very quiet. 💔 At dinner time my daughter’s emotions spilled out – she was frustrated with something and then burst into tears. So we talked about it, I told her I was in the next building waiting to get to her and that I know how scary that was. I told her they did such a good job and the drills helped them prepare for a moment like this. This is their world…and it’s a scary one! I will say though, the school was very prepared and worked fast when that 5 bell system rang – especially because it was almost final bell, they got all of us parents into rooms and locked that door fast. I will say as parents in the room (4 of us and 2 staff) we failed at barricading the door. We didn’t do that at all. A parent even joked if we need to get under the table and we just did the nervous laugh thing.

Also, I gotta give it up to teachers and school staff. Their lives are on the line teaching in this day and age. I’m just glad everyone was safe and it wasn’t a worse situation! But it reminded me things can happen in the blink of an eye.

Blog Posts:

• Midnight on the Celestial by. Julia Alexandra | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Dragon and the Sun Lotus by. Amélie Wen Zhao | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Monthly Wrap Up | February 2026
• New Book Releases This Week | 3/3/26
• Dark Academia Books | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 3/3/26
• The Library of Amorlin by. Kalyn Josephson| ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• WWW Wednesday | 3/3/26
• A Vow in Vengeance by. Jaclyn Rodriguez | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Heart of Mischief by. Emma Noyes | ALC and ARC Review | Audiobook and Ebook ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Women Who’ve Shaped Your Reading Life | 3/6/26
• Toe to Toe by. Falon Ballard | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Half City by. Kate Golden | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Blood & Betrayals by. Jeanette Rose and Alexis Rune | Book Review ⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Finished

• Deathly Fates by. Tesia Tsai
• The Shippers by. Katherine Center
• Life: A Love Story by. Elizabeth Berg
• Half City by. Kate Golden
• Eternal in the Night by. Alayna Ravenwood

Currently Reading:

• The Poison Daughter by. Sheila Masterson
• Burn the Kingdom Down by. Annie Thorley
• Never Ever After by. Sue Lynn Tan
• The Thorn Queen by. Sasha Peyton Smith

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ Bruno Mars is on repeat – I gotta learn all the songs before the concert in 5 weeks! So excited!

+ Also Olivia Rodrigo made a cover of the song called The Book of Love – for the HELP (2) album created by War Child UK. War Child works in 14 countries – from Gaza to Ukraine, Lebanon to Sudan – to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children living through war. All proceeds and donations from HELP(2) support the War Child Alliance’s work around the world.

Check out the song below, it’s such a beautiful song 🥹 and don’t forget to give the album a listen!

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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