Aloha friends!

I am finally 99% better! I say 99% because I still sound stuffy but that could just be allergies. I’ve been doing last minute shopping for our trip and making sure I have everything set before we leave on Tuesday. I’m excited but also already exhausted lol…why is going on vacation always so exhausting? Especially when you are the one planning the trip!

I’ve been so busy thinking about the trip that I forgot that Thanksgiving is next week and Black Friday! I guess I’m going to do my Christmas shopping late this year. But I’ll worry about that when I come back. There is just so much to do plus my mom has surgery a week after we come back from our trip.

I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
• Books that I Still Have Not Read  | TTT | 11/14/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 11/14/23
• WWW Wednesday | 11/15/23
• BLOG TOUR} Plot Twist by. Erin La Rosa | Book Excerpt

Books I Read:

Iron Flame by. Rebecca Yarros

The Atlas of Us by. Kristin Dwyer

Currently Reading:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

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!

Aloha friends!

Okay well this week was better but my coughing got worse so it was another miserable week. My kids had a 4 day weekend but I did manage to go to urgent care after I was just tired of coughing. Apparently I’ve been dealing with allergic rhinitis on top of the virus that I was dealing with and the wildfire smoke made it way worse. So all that post nasal drip from my nose was just aggravating my coughing. The wildfire is out though and the doctor prescribed me some flonase because she said my nasal tissues were just inflamed. So let’s hope this will speed up my recovery before my trip! I feel better already!

I’ve been waiting for copy of the special edition of Fourth Wing and the Iron Flame books from Amazon and both have been delayed. Then I saw on tiktok how so many people were getting misprinted books and that made me cancel my orders, since I wasn’t getting them anytime soon anyway. Oh well, so I bought the Iron Flame ebook instead because I don’t have to wait for that!

I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: Iron Flame
• Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines   | TTT | 11/7/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 11/7/23
• WWW Wednesday | 11/8/23
• Plot Twist by. Erin La Rosa | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Betting on You by. Lynn Painter | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Monthly Wrap Up | October 2023

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

A Curse for True Love by. Stephanie Garber

The Atlas of Us by. Kristin Dwyer

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ Catching Fire, The Mockingjay (Part 1 and 2)

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!

Aloha friends!

Well, I was sick all week. I got a sore throat on Monday – but got through parent conferences. Tuesday was Halloween and I got through trick or treating but wow right after I was super exhausted and started to cough. I woke up Wednesday with a bad cough, congestion, body aches and chills. I tested negative for covid so I think I had the flu. The body aches and chills stuck around for 2 days and I even lost my voice but the coughing and congestion have been the worse. I barely had a fever but had lots of sweating (but it IS hot here in Hawaii). My birthday was yesterday and I didn’t have energy to celebrate but that’s okay because we leave for Osaka, Japan in 16 days. I’ll celebrate there! My main priority is to get better and get rid of this cough and congestion.

That was my miserable week and I didn’t get much reading done – but I did have fun with my kids on Halloween at least!

I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: Sword Catcher
• #5OnMyTBR: Witchy Books
• Spooky Book Covers  | TTT | 10/31/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 10/31/23
• WWW Wednesday | 11/1/23
• Most Anticipated Book Releases | November 2023
• Artifacts of an Ex by. Jennifer Chen | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Birthstone Book Covers: November – Citrine and Topaz

Books I Read:

Plot Twist by. Erin La Rosa

This Cursed Light by. Emily Thiede

Artifacts of an Ex by. Jennifer Chen

Currently Reading:

Her Dark Wings by. Melinda Salisbury

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ The Hunger Games ~ because The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes comes out in theaters soon, and I still need to read the book. But the Olivia Rodrigo song for the movie, “Can’t Catch Me Now” sounds amazing!

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!

Aloha friends!

I felt like my brain wasn’t functioning this week because I was worried about my mom’s procedure to remove her cancer cells. I was so relieved when I saw she was home and doing good but the next day my sister talked to the doctor and he gave her bad news. The camera inserted into her to help scrape off the cancer cells found smaller tumors that the CT Scan missed. So we are devastated but trying to think positive as we consider her options and she has a few but the one we are learning towards involves major surgery. But we want to get ahead of the cancer and eliminate it – that’s the goal and I feel like she’s in the early stages enough that she can beat it. 🙏🏼 So that was on my mind this week and weekend.

Then of course my son got sick, but I took him to urgent care and it’s not strep throat…or at least not Strep A which is what they test for. Anyway so we had a quiet weekend but a nice surprise last night when my parents came to sleep over. I was thinking they wouldn’t come over this weekend because my mom’s procedure and how she’s still in a little pain, but she’s feeling much better.❤️

I’m not in a reading slump but my mood is definitely in a slump hence why I haven’t been finishing a lot of books lately. But this weekend is my birthday and the book I’m looking forward to getting the most is Iron Flame!! So I hope my mood improves by then! Just have so much on my mind…sigh…and it’s the holidays, which is stressful enough without dealing with all my loved ones dealing with health issues. 🙁 Anyway I’m trying to get into the mood for my kids because Halloween is on Tuesday!

I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!

Blog Posts:

• Goodreads Monday: Witch of Wild Things
• #5OnMyTBR: Title Starting with an ‘E’
• Atmospheric Books  | TTT | 10/24/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 10/24/23
• Two Twisted Crowns by. Rachel Gillig | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• WWW Wednesday | 10/25/23
• Trick or Treat Round the Block Book Tag
• Starling House by. Alix E. Harrow | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Woman in Me by. Britney Spears | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ The Nightmare Before Christmas (the sing-along lol)

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!

Aloha friends!

I didn’t have a busy week but I don’t know where my time went! I think my heart has been heavy with all the things happening around the world. 😔

Also I am busy planning our Osaka, Japan trip which is in 4 weeks. My mom is having her procedure to remove her cancer (they found it on her ureter) this week so I’ve been thinking about that and wondering if she will be okay to come on the trip. Oh and I’m trying to get back to working out and eat better because my blood pressure was a little bit higher in my last doctor appointment. SO yeah I gotta work on that – self care and all that! That means I’ve been more tired so I think I finished only one book this past week. I’ve been reading slow…

I’m hoping I get get through more reading this week, but we shall see. Anyway, hope you have a good week!

Blog Posts:

• Vows & Ruins by. Helen Scheuerer | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Goodreads Monday: The Unmaking of June Farrow
• #5OnMyTBR: Apples & Pumpkins
• Throne of the Fallen by. Kerri Maniscalco | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Books with Weather Events in the Title/on the Cover | TTT | 10/17/23
• Happy Book Birthday | New Releases | 10/17/23
• WWW Wednesday | 10/18/23
• King of Pride by. Ana Huang | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Powerless by. Lauren Roberts | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• With or Without You by. Eric Smith | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Books About Haunted Houses
• Swarm by. Jennifer D. Lyle | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

+ Baseball – Phillies are still in it!

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!