Tag: books

WWW Wednesday | 10/23/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

Is Halloween next week?! I don’t feel like it’s been very Halloweeny this year – less decorations on our street (or maybe more will pop up next week?) – it kinda makes me sad thinking maybe the kids in the homes that used to decorate are now older or something and maybe that’s why there are less decorations. I hope to always decorate even when my kids are over it!! I have a feeling my daughter will never be over it, but who knows when they get older, right? I will do a little more decorating the day of Halloween only because I don’t want my sprinkler system to ruin some of the decorations.

What are you currently reading?

Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle – 23% – going kinda slowly but I’m pushing through!

The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard – 22% – I’m working on this one.

Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce – 10% – I didn’t finish this one last week, but maybe next week!

A Queen’s Game by. Katharine McGee – 13% – this one is…not what I expected. I may finish this one soon because it’s a quick read, but I don’t know if I love it.

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/20/24

Aloha friends!

This was a chill week, we are all back to our routine again. Took my kids to school, piano, Sunday school, and did my chores and errands all week. I am doing a little more decorating for Halloween outside, but have been waiting for my items to come in. And I got an Etsy order to do – my shop has been slow – but I almost haven’t added anything new to my shop in a year. I always get a little more orders during the holidays though so I guess some people are starting. I’m actually halfway through my Xmas list – woohoo! Yay me!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Bull Moon Rising by. Ruby Dixon

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat – I play it when I’m on the treadmill because since I can’t get to the Sweat Tour, I’ll sweat on my treadmill LOL.

  • APT. Rosé and Bruno Mars – what a SURPRISE! I love it!! It’s got me dancing! Love the video, it’s so fun!

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!

First Lines Fridays – Can You Guess What Book? | 10/18/24

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
  • Finally… reveal the book!

“People say you choose your friends, but my friendship with Hailey Tinrock never felt like a choice.”

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Can you guess what book it is?

Did you guess it? Have you read this one?

📖 ~ Yolanda

WWW Wednesday | 10/16/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

Well, Fall break has come and gone and oh it was nice to sleep in and just relax. Can you believe Halloween is in 2 weeks? Which means it’s almost November, which means it’s almost my birthday (which is right before election day – yay me – talk about anxiety for my birthday! lol). But that means it’s also almost Christmas – which means…my husband comes home for good! 😅 It’s been quite a 2 years of parenting alone but you know what? It’s also an accomplishment and I’m like, YEAH, I DID THAT! Yay for me! As I tell my kids all the time, you can do hard things and yes I tell myself this all the time when I’m feeling frustrated or discouraged.

Anyway…what have I been reading – take a look!

What are you currently reading?

Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle – 8% – finally started back reading this one! Will be finished this week I hope.

The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen – 20% – I’ll get to this one when I finish some arcs.

The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard – 11% – will be working on this one too this week!

Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce – 6% – hoping to finish this one soon!

A Queen’s Game by. Katharine McGee – 2% – just started this one!

Dark Water Daughter by. H.M. Long – 7% – I’m determined to finish this one before I have to return it!

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/13/24

Aloha friends!

It was a much needed Fall break for me and the kids but it did start off so busy. We did a Halloween event, then we also went to Dave and Busters and a cat cafe. We went to watch The Wild Robot which was AMAZING, but my face hurt from crying lol. Then we did some shopping at Target and the rest of the week we stayed home and chilled. So it’s back to our weekend routines sigh…when is Thanksgiving break? Haha, I’ll be waiting for that!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • The Wren in the Holly Library by. K.A. Linde
  • Filthy Rich Fae by. Geneva Lee
  • Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat – I LOVE this Brat roll out, seriously, and this remix album, so good. It’s been on repeat! I guess it’s a Brat autumn for me lol. 🍎🍁

  • The Wild Robot – oh my heart…this movie gutted me! It’s SOOOOOOO beautifully done, the illustrations, the colors, the animations are just everything. And all that from the book cover design? Like they really looked at the cover of the book and was like ta-da, here’s a movie that captures all of that. I was floored. I cried so many times (ok I am pms-ing) but still…I almost sobbed at one point. My daughter had to kept rubbing my hand lol. My kids and I loved it – 5/5! I can’t wait to watch it again and again on streaming.

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!

First Lines Fridays – Can You Guess What Book? | 10/11/24

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
  • Finally… reveal the book!

“F*ck the gods. I got so close. So damned close to finally reading my goal, finally seeing my curse broken, and maybe, just maybe, finally feeling the love of the one man I long for.”

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Can you guess what book it is?

Did you guess it? Have you read this one?

📖 ~ Yolanda

WWW Wednesday | 10/9/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

It is Fall Break for my kiddos and we had a busy weekend, and on Monday we went to see the movie The Wild Robot, based on the book by Peter Brown. And oh my did I cry 😭 so I’m glad it was just us in there with another family in the theater. My kids and I loved it! We loved the story and the art of the movie is just so beautiful. I can’t wait to rewatch it again when it is comes on streaming.

What are you currently reading?

Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle – 4% – very little progress

The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen – 20% –

The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard – 11%

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/6/24

Aloha friends!

How is everyone doing? Well, here we are in October!

The place where my son takes piano lessons, the Kroc Center Hawaii, had a Kroctoberfest and so I thought to take both my kids since I was going there with my son anyway. We actually went right at the time the event started and even found parking woohoo…and we got to enjoy some fun and games, but my daughter’s favorite was the butterfly tent. She got 2 butterflies on one stick – bugs love her and she loves them back!

My kids played tic tac toe and my daughter won – woohoo!
This is the butterfly my son caught – it’s loving that sugar water stick thingy!

The kids have a break from Sunday school today which is nice and I wasn’t planning on driving all the way into town but I told my daughter I’d bring her to Dave & Busters because she doesn’t remember the last time we did go (4 years ago LOL…and okay she was 3 years old). Also I told her there is this place that has crepes at the mall in town and now she wants to try it. So I guess we are going to have some fun in town today!

Tomorrow is Fall Break for my kiddos – we made it! 😅 Time to sleep in, maybe catch a movie (The Wild Robot), and just relax sigh…we totally deserve this break!

Anyway, I hope you all have a nice week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Eleven Houses by. Colleen Oakes
  • Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
  • Better Than Revenge by. Kasie West
  • Reckless by. Lauren Roberts

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Football

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!

WWW Wednesday | 10/2/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

Happy October everyone! How are we all doing? I’m happy knowing Fall break starts in 2 days for my kids…woohoo! I got to read more books this week which is good. I finished my October arcs woohoo…and let me tell you I had a lot. I think I had to post 8 or 9 book reviews on Amazon yesterday because that many of them were released yesterday! Anyway here is what I’m reading, just read and will read soon.

What are you currently reading?

Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle – 3% – very little progress

The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen – 19% – some progress, yay! Sometimes I take so long with my Kindle Unlimited books because the borrow time is so long!

The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard – 7%

Reckless by. Lauren Roberts – 4% just got this one yesterday!

What have you just finished reading?

Eleven Houses by. Colleen Oakes – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fangs for Nothing by. Steffanie Holmes – ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Quicksilver by. Callie Hart – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

The Road of Bones by. Demi Winters – ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 9/29/24

Aloha friends!

Here we are, the last few days of September and it is October in 2 days. Are we ready for Halloween? I think I will be once my kids have fall break which is NEXT WEEK! 🥳 You don’t understand how I need this break – they need the break but I mean, I do too. I’ve been driving all over the place, feeling the whole single-parent life (hubby comes back in December) on level 10 it seems this whole month. I’m like a train that keeps on chugging but I need to take a little break soon, so fall break is going to be divine. My kids wants to watch The Wild Robot, so we have a movie date planned. It’s still hot here so maybe we will go to the beach. And best of all we just get to sleep in. I really, really, REALLY can’t wait.

This past week was just filled with a booked weekend, doctor appointments, and my daughter’s school carnival (which is like walking around in a sauna). My son is practicing his Winter recital piece so even though it’s fall, I am hearing Christmas music being played on the piano every night LOL. 🎃🎄

Anyway, I hope you all have a nice week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Eleven Houses by. Colleen Oakes

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
  • Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace
  • Fangs for Nothing by. Stefanie Holmes

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Football

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!