I recently started reading The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions by Michael Norton as my morning ‘learn something’ book. While I have only read the first chapter, it got me thinking about what rituals exist in my life/family. Rituals are different from habits in that rituals encompass…
Crocheting is my usual go-to when I want a repetitive craft using my hands. It keeps my brain busy without overloading or allowing me to overthink. And it goes great with audiobooks! Recently though, crochet has been frustrating. I’ve attempted more complicated patterns and have found that the concentration required is too big a task….
My feelings about You, Again are mixed. I enjoyed the first third, felt indifferent to the middle third, and then cried my way through the final third. I even set it down around 60% because I just wasn’t into it. After reading a few other books in a different genre, I came back to it…
Description The big bad wolf series revolves around Cooper Dayton, a BSI agent (an offshoot of the FBI, that handles “special” crimes) and Oliver Park, an agent with the Trust, a werewolf organization. They meet when Park and Cooper have to work together to investigate a series of deaths. Park is a werewolf and Cooper…
Book Description “Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.” Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored…
Book Description Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: stay busy, work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously…
Thoughts Masters of Death was a ride. Everyone came out to play: vampire, reaper, demon, angel, Death, godlings, and more. The dialog had me chuckling, cringing, and swooning. I am not typically a fan of angst or betrayal, but the emotions between Fox and Brandt were so well done. Their story is told through some…
THOUGHTS Bad Luck Charm has all the things for a great spooky fall read: witches, murder, mystery, spice, history, and cemeteries. Not to mention: the banter! It is told from the POV of Gwen, a occult shop owner in Salem, MA. She becomes the target of a coven of dark witches. Who comes to her…
If you would have told me I’d be crying over robots, I wouldn’t have believed you, but T.J. Klune made it happen. In The Lives of Puppets is a Pinocchio retelling that had me feeling ALL the feelings. If you enjoyed The House in the Cerulean Sea and/or Under the Whispering Door, you’ll get the…
I went into You & I, Rewritten thinking it was your standard rom-com – with the cartoon cover and a title that said ‘second chance’ to me, but that’s not really what I got. With my expectations being off, I didn’t like it as much as I anticipated. Synopsis Not to jinx it or anything,…
