Stacking the Shelves #17, Sunday Post #14, Sunday Salon #9

Hey bookish friends! I hope you are having a fabulous weekend. Today I am taking it easy. I have been working on a puzzle, reading, and blogging. The rest of the day will be much of the same. Tomorrow is busy with church stuff. What are your plans for the weekend?

Top Ten Tuesday-No library month

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is books with your favorite trope/theme. While I am sure I do have favorite tropes/themes, it's not something I think too much about. So, I will be going in another direction today. Kami from Kami's Library Thoughts, is doing a "no library month" and I have decided to join her, a little belatedly. So, today I am going to feature the top ten books I own that I plan hope to read this month (especially since I have a few review books too). Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today.

Top Ten Books I own and hope to read this month:

Top Ten Tuesday-WOW Books

 Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is books that are too good to review properly. I know I have said this multiple times while I have been writing reviews, so will try to find 10 to share, hopefully ones that have not been overshared by me. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today!

Click on the cover to be taken to the review:

Stacking the Shelves #9/Sunday Post #6

Hey bookish friends! I hope your weekend is off to a great start. I am struggling with a few things today and it has increased my depression, so I am going to try to do things today that are relaxing 😁 What are your plans for the weekend?

Top Ten Tuesday: Character Names

Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is character names in the title. I am going to tweak it just a little bit. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today!

Top Ten Books with Character names that I hope to read in 2022:

Top Ten Tuesday-10 Books I Would Love to Own

Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!!  Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is most recent additions to my book collection. I have done this recently so will link them below. I think I will list ten books I would love to own as my topic for today. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today!

I have recently done two posts on what books I have added to my bookshelves. You can read post 1 here. Post 2 here.

So, here are 10 books I would love to own: 

I have Shift on my TBR list and my word for the year is "focus," so I would love to read this one.

 

Anticipated Releases for 2022

 Happy New Year!! I can't believe this is the last day of 2021. I am not sad to see it go and I always eagerly anticipate a new year. I am participating again in the Top 10 of 2021 hosted by Kimberly Faye Reads. Today's topic is books I am looking forward to in 2022. This will be an easy list for me to make since I started a Goodreads shelf a while back with my most anticipated releases of 2022, although most of them are in the early part of the year. The hard part will be narrowing it down to ten. So here we go: 

Best of the Best 2021

Today I am participating in the Top 10 of 2021 hosted by Kimberly Faye Reads. Today's topic is the best of the best books. I am excited to share my favorite reads of 2021. They were not necessarily released in 2021, I just read them in 2021. As of today I have finished 251 books and it will be difficult to narrow it down to just ten, so I am going to cheat just a little bit and do a couple of different categories. The books will not be in any particular order.

The Best Fiction I read this year: 

2021 New-to-me Authors

Today I am participating in the Top 10 of 2021 hosted by Kimberly Faye Reads. Today's topic is new or new-to-me authors. Well, hang on to your hats because this is going to be a long list. I made it a point to try new authors this year and I can guarantee you that I have NEVER read so many new-to-me authors in a year. I was trying to do the 2021 challenge by Cara Novack Lynch that had 75 topics, which helped to increase my new-to-me authors. Plus, I follow the Avid Readers of Christian Fiction Facebook group and they ALWAYS have great recommendations. I honestly had no idea there were SO many Christian authors that write in a wide variety of genres before joining this group. Of course, once I started this book blog I was introduced to even more authors (thank you!!).

Top Ten Tuesday-Books I wish Santa would bring me

 Happy Tuesday friends and 🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄!!! Today's topic is books I wish 🎅Santa 🎅 would bring me!  You can see all the details at That Artsy Reader Girl.  You are under no obligation to grant any wishes, however, it will be fun blog hopping to see other people's wish lists and maybe add some more books to my "want to read" list 😂 We did our bookish wish lists in June and I was able to grant 3 wishes! I am not sure how many I will grant today!

Top Ten Tuesday-New Authors

Happy Tuesday, friends! The theme for today's top ten Tuesday is if you like this then I recommend that. This was another hard one for me to wrap my head around, I just don't have the mental capacity for it. So, I decided to do a twist on it. So far this year I have read 132 new to me authors! I can barely wrap my head around that amount, but I was working on a reading challenge and it introduced me to new authors. So, I am going to try to narrow that down to the top 10 that I loved and can't wait to read more from/catch up on their backlist. Hopefully this will introduce you to a new author as well. To find out what our other bookish frJo are doing for Top Ten Tuesday check out That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday-Books I wish I could have read in one sitting

Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday! While I love to read it is rare to have uninterrupted time to just sit and read. I imagine it is the same with you. So, this week’s topic features books that I would read in one sitting (or would if I had the time!) I imagine this will be an easy list to make, especially since there were several books recently that I have not wanted to put down to do anything. Those are the types of books that I will feature this week. The hard part will be narrowing it down to just 10!! You know, typical book nerd problems 😂 Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. 

 A Lady in Attendance by Rachel Fordham 

A Lady in Attendance

Title: A Lady in Attendance

Author: Rachel Fordham

Publisher: Revell

Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance

My Review:

This book starts with a bang, with Hazel in a reformatory! Immediately it draws the reader in as we want to know what a lady would do in 1893 to be put in a reformatory! All questions are eventually answered and the book is a very quick read.

"The coarse gray fabric of Hazel's newly donned uniform felt uncomfortable and foreign against her skin."