Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ I think I forgot to post a weekly recap last week! So just quick, last weekend was Thanksgiving weekend and we went over to my mom’s house for a Thanksgiving lunch. No one really loves Turkey so we did other foods, but it was fun as always and nice to be around family.

+ My hubby came back last weekend also – he got the keys to the house in Japan, met the neighbor who is a really nice older man who lives with his sister (I think they are both single?), but they took my hubby to the hardware store and to a piano recital and dinner. My hubby came home and said he would love to go back in March and take our son for spring break. We can’t all go because the price of tickets during spring break is ridiculous. Just for the two of them was a lot – so we have to plan a family trip in 2027. We have enough going on in 2026! I might have to back on the book buying ban because we have trips to plan!

+ My son’s piano recital was yesterday and that was great. He practices two months out so we’ve been hearing his Christmas piano piece since October! 😅

+ My kids have two of school until Winter Break! Yay! It’s a busy month for us.

Blog Posts:

• The Ragpicker King by. Cassandra Clare | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Your Knife, My Heart by. K.M. Moronova | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Monthly Wrap Up | November 2025
• Holiday Romances | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 12/2/25
• New Book Releases This Week | 12/2/25
• Top 5 Covers of 2025 | Top 5 Tuesday | 12/2/25
• WWW Wednesday | 12/3/25
• A Dance with Waves and Flame by. M.B. Reese| Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Hollow by. Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Festive Reads | 12/5/25
• Trail Rides & Starry Eyes by. Katrina Emmel | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Birthstone Book Covers: December – Tanzanite | Zircon | Tourquoise
• A Vow of Shadow and Blood by. Charlene Antrobus | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Finished

• A Vow of Shadow and Blood by. Charlene Antrobus
• We’ve Hit Turbulence by. Jessica L. Cozzi
• Your Knife, My Heart by. K.M. Moronova
• The Ragpicker King by. Cassandra Clare
• Hollow by. Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti
• A Dance with Waves and Flames by. M.B. Reese
• Oxford Blood by. Rachael Davis-Featherstone
• We Who Have No Gods by. Liza Anderson
• We’re a Bad Idea Right? by. K.L. Walther
• Smoke and Scar by. Gretchen Powell Fox

Currently Reading:

Song of the Stars by. Kaiti Mills

Mate by. Ali Hazelwood

The Swan’s Daughter by. Roshani Chokshi (audiobook)

Dawn in Ruins by. Magda Mizzi

Seven Deadly Thorns by. Amber Hamilton

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football
• Stranger Things (Netflix) – Season 5, Part one – so good!
• Sean Combs: The Reckoning (Netflix) – 😒

• Christmas songs!

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:

+ The week went by quick! I got a lot of reading done despite being totally focused on Brimstone by. Callie Hart. I had the need to go read some contemporary books because I think I’ve had enough of fantasy for right now. I’ll be back to it again this week, but I needed like 2-3 days reading contemporaries and that helped me knock off some arcs I have for January and February.

+ My hubby went to Japan yesterday, to get the keys to the house – he’s going to furnish it, etc… and my son at the last minute told me he had a gaming tournament at school. So I had to rearrange some schedules and be uber driver. I’m taking my kids to temple for Sunday school today since my hubby isn’t here and I’m wondering what else I can do in town. I can go to the bookstore but Barnes and Noble is expensive and I already bought books in the Book Outlet sale. 😅. Maybe I’ll just wait for them and read.

Blog Posts:

• A Curse of Shadows and Ice by. Catharina Maura | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Persephone’s Curse by. Katrina Leo | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• New Book Releases This Week | 11/18/25
• Top 5 Books I Meant To Read in 2025 | Top 5 Tuesday | 11/18/25
• WWW Wednesday | 11/19/25
• A Kiss of Hammer and Flame by. Amy De La Force | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  End-of-Year Reading Goals? | 11/21/25
• Brimstone by. Callie Hart | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Ordeals by. Rachel Greenlaw | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Finished

• All We Once Had by. Katy Upperman
• The Wolf and the Crown of Blood by. Elizabeth May
• The Ordeals by. Rachel Greenlaw
• Brimstone by. Callie Hart

Currently Reading:

Our Vicious Oaths by. N.E. Davenport

Drive Me Crazy by. Lizzy Dent

Smoke and Scar by. Gretchen Powell Fox

Sword Catcher by. Cassandra Clare – audiobook

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football
• Nobody Wants This (Season 2) – Netflix – it’s such a funny and cute show!

• LUX by Rosalia is on repeat!!
• Chains of Love – Charli XCX – 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:

+ I’ve read all my arcs for December so I actually have time to read books on the backlist or books that’s I’ve been eyeing on Kindle Unlimited, or books on my bookshelf that I haven’t touched yet! Whoohoo! Maybe I can even re-read some books. Imagine that! 😅🤭

+ My mom brought up maybe taking a trip to the Philippines in June 2026. Her mom, my one last grandparent still living, just made 103 years old. We had wanted to go this winter, but with everything happening and her getting her infusions for her cancer treatment, she wasn’t sure. But her last scan was so good, she has another tomorrow and hoping it’s good news and we can plan this trip so she can see her mom. I haven’t visited the Philippines since 2001!!!! So it’s long overdue and I want my kids to see where their grandparents are from.

Blog Posts:

• I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by. Kylie Lee Baker | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• New Book Releases This Week | 11/11/25
• Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 11/11/25
• WWW Wednesday | 11/12/25
• Spark of the Everflame by. Penn Cole | Book Review ⭐️⭐️💫
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Are “Special Editions” still special? | 11/14/25
• The Housemaid by. Freida McFadden | Audiobook ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Courting of Bristol Keats by. Mary E. Pearson | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Finished

• Dead Fake by Vincent Ralph
• Spark of the Everflame by. Penn Cole
• The Housemaid by. Freida McFadden
• Night Terror by. Vincent Ralph
• The Uninvited by. Nancy Banks
• The Courting of Bristol Keats by. Mary E. Pearson
• A Curse of Shadows and Ice by. Catharina Maura
• An Arcane Inheritance by. Kamilah Cole
• Vesselless by. Cortney L. Winn – DNF – I’m deciding not to continue this one, I’m just not invested and the world building is a tiny bit confusing

Currently Reading:

Our Vicious Oaths by. N.E. Davenport

The Ordeals by. Rachel Greenlaw

Drive Me Crazy by. Lizzy Dent

All We Once Had by. Katy Upperman

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football
• Nobody Wants This (Season 2) – Netflix – it’s such a funny and cute show!

• LUX by Rosalia is on repeat!!
• Chains of Love – Charli XCX – love it and can’t wait for the Wuthering Heights soundtrack

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 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

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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Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ What a week – daughter had a last minute costume change right before the day of her school Halloween parade. So I had to find stuff for that. We carved pumpkins and painted some. And we made some last minute Halloween decorations using my daughter’s artwork. She loves Dandy’s World on Roblox and constantly draws her own skins or versions of the characters on Procreate. I decided to print a few of them and stick them in the lawn.😅. It’s a mild kid horror game so I thought it was perfect for Halloween plus she was going as Dandy for trick or treating also.

+ Halloween day was so tiring! My daughter had a school parade which is always fun, but it gets hot in the sun. So for some reason that really made me tired, then I had to go to the store, then carve our extra pumpkin, then pick up the kids, feed them dinner and then get them ready for trick or treating. I stayed home this time to pass out candy and I really thought it would be packed because it was Friday but I think due to the high prices of everything and the government shutdown affecting people, my neighbors right next to me and across from me, who usually pass out candy each year…did not this time so I was like the lone house one a darkened section of the street – they also didn’t decorate. 😩 I still got a bunch of trick or treaters, mostly teens I’d say, so I was kind of sad knowing the little kids in the neighborhood have grown up – including mine! My son ran into friends and took off trick or treating with them for the first time. He had so much fun! My hubby took my daughter around the block. My son said some other blocks already had bowls without candy left and there I was with still a lot to give away. Sigh…I should have been giving kids handfuls but I didn’t in the beginning because I bought less candy this year due to it being expensive. And now I have a lot of candy in my house. 😅 I even gave a huge ziplock bag to my parents to take home to my nephews. Yesterday I was so tired and recovering from Halloween lol…but today I will be taking the decorations down.

+ It’s November and Tuesday is my birthday woohoo!

Blog Posts:

• The Death-Made Prince by. Lisette Marshall | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Julia Song is Undateable by. Susan Lee | ALC Review | Audiobook ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• New Book Releases This Week | 10/28/25
• Horror Books I’ve Read in 2025 | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 10/28/25
• Alchemised by. SenLinYu | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• WWW Wednesday | 10/29/25
• BLOG TOUR} Julia Song Is Undateable by. Susan Lee | Book Excerpt
• Blackthorn by. J.T. Geissinger | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The All Hallows Book Tag | 2025
• The House Saphir by. Marissa Meyer | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Birthstone Book Covers: November – Citrine | Topaz
• Fallen City by. Adrienne Young | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Finished

• Alchemised by. SenLinYu
• The Last Vampire by. Romina Garber
• Tusk Love by. Thea Guanzon

Currently Reading:

The Rebel and the Rose by. Catherine Doyle

Vesselless by. Cortney L. Winn

Atmosphere by. Taylor Jenkins Reid

I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by. Kylie Lee Baker

A Kiss of Hammer and Flame by. Amy De La Force

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football
• Baseball – World Series: that was a good competition between two good teams. Congrats Dodgers!
• Stranger Things (Netflix) – trying to rewatch from Season 1 since the final season is coming soon.
• Wednesday (Netflix)

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:

+ My daughter was sick in the beginning of the week and then my son didn’t have school on Wednesday. I’m just glad she’s better and this week is parent conference week so she gets short days at school for two weeks!

+ Halloween is on Friday – my daughter made her own mask, she’s Dandy from the Roblox game Dandy’s World. My son and hubby are characters from Demon Slayer (which they have been watching for the past few months – plus they went to the movie). ME? Halloween is always so HOT these days so I’m wearing a tank top and passing out candy. Usually I go around the block with my daughter but since they are all dressing up I told my hubby he can take the kiddos since I usually do it. 😅

Blog Posts:

• Starchaser by. R. M. Gray | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• New Book Releases This Week | 10/21/25
• Cozy/Atmospheric Reads | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 10/21/25
• Terror at the Gates by. Scarlett St. Clair | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• WWW Wednesday | 10/22/25
• We Fell Apart by. E. Lockhart | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Recapping Anticipated Reads | 10/24/25
• Moth Dark by. Kika Hatzopoulou | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Ship of Spells by. H. Leighton Dickson | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Finished

• Terror at the Gates by. Scarlett St. Clair
• Fallen City by. Adrienne Young
• The Death-Made Prince by. Lisette Marshall
• Quicksilver by. Callie Hart – reread

Currently Reading:

The Rebel and the Rose by. Catherine Doyle

The Last Vampire by. Romina Garber

Alchemised by. SenLinYu

Vesselless by. Cortney L. Winn

Atmosphere by. Taylor Jenkins Reid

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Football

I’ve been listening to a lot of oldies but goodies from the 80’s/90’s. But I also listened to EJAE’s new single! EJAE is Rumi’s singing voice in K-Pop Demon Hunters and it’s so exciting to see her putting out new music. EJAE – In Another World.

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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