Music Monday hosted by Lauren @ Always Me
Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer
It’s Monday What Are You Reading is hosted by Kathryn @ The Book Date
Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Marlene @ Reading Reality
Music Monday
I’ve been listening to my Halloween playlist these days so I’ll be sharing a couple songs from that list today 👻. They are songs that I could listen to at any time but I think are particularly relevant for the season.
1. A recent discovery for me but I enjoy that it’s both heavy and high energy at the same time!
2. Deeply atmospheric and gothic and I’m always a fan of a deep voice 🖤.
Wolf Pack by Dance with the Dead Feat. Gunship
Album: Dark Matter (EP)
Release Year: 2024
Genre: Dark Synthwave
All Hallows Ever by Type O Negative
Album: World Coming Down
Release Year: 1999
Genre: Gothic Metal / Doom Metal
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
Just Finished
I started this series at the start of October and adored the first book so I jumped directly into the sequel, Murder on the Lamplight Express. I listened to the audiobook on a train and it was so fun! These steampunk sci-fantasy mysteries have fantastic characters and twists.
I also recently finished Winnie-The-Pooh: The Graphic Novel. The adaptation into this format was well done and the art is clearly inspired by E. H. Shepard’s original with its own spin. I have a huge soft spot for Pooh and friends but I had forgotten just how charming and funny they are! A good way to introduce new generations to the Hundred Acre Wood.
Currently Reading
Doing a Dracula re-read with a couple of friends and enjoying it a lot so far. I read it for the first time many years ago and barely remember the details so I’ve loved revisiting everything with an adult eye.
I’m finally reading the 14th volume of Witch Hat Atelier and it’s stressing me out in the best way! The previous volume wasn’t my favourite but now we’re back on top form!
Gideon the Ninth is one I’ve been wanting to read for forever so I’m super glad it was picked for my IRL friend book club. I started it yesterday and only 3 chapters in but I’m already obsessed with the way this author describes everything!
Up Next
My read-through of Wynd continues and Book Four will be coming up soon!
Also coming up soon is a buddy read of Bless Your Heart which I’m super excited about! I’m hoping it’s everything that I wanted from The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires but it didn’t deliver🤞🏼.
On The Blog Recently
Bookish Lists:
– One Book Per Every Year I’ve Been Alive
– New This Month: 21 Outstanding October Releases
Blog Memes:
– Top 10 Books I Want to Read This Fall
Wrap-Ups:
– Monthly Wrap-Up│ September 2026
Review:
– DIRECT DESCENDANT by Tanya Huff│Review
Stacking The Shelves
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, whether it be physical or virtual. Reading Reality posts on Saturdays but you can post any day that works for you— don’t forget to visit the link-up on Saturday to join in on the fun!
I’ve missed doing these STS updates so I’m happy to say I’ve got two of my shelves to stack this week. My library borrows and my purchased e-book shelves are getting a bit of love and attention with two books each 😊! I keep an eye on the Google Play app for when books I want go on deep discounts and that’s why I jumped on those two titles.
Purchased EBooks
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss
- When The Magic Comes by Shereen Vedam
Let’s chat in the comments!
What are you currently reading? Or, what’s on your STS? If you participated in any of these memes this week feel free to share your links below 🖤.
If you’re anything like me, gotta take advantage of that getting things done energy as often as you can 😊
Love the Halloween playlist idea!
I used to read more steampunk. I need to get back to that. Added Morgan Stang to my list.
I read through some of your One-Book-Per-Year list on another page—so many good books! I, too, loved Library at Mount Char, among several others you mentioned. I also need a reread of Dracula, but I’m not sure I’ll get to it this year.
Hope you enjoy all the other books you’re waiting on and/or already reading.
Oh for sure, I totally agree, gotta harness that energy when you can! I love making playlists for different vibes so I’m glad you like the Halloween playlist idea too.
I really love Steampunk stories though I’ve read a few lately that were duds so I need to read more and I’m just so happy this series has been great so far. The world is a very foggy and dark and there are all kinds of monsters but also strange “scientific advancements” that are just normal in this world and I love the atmosphere and tone. Now want to read anything Morgan Stang writes.
Ahh thank you, that’s so kind! 🙂 Library at Mount Char is such a weird but great book, glad you liked it as well! 😀
Hmm maybe another year you’ll get a chance to do your Dracula reread. Thanks so much, Cheryl! 🥰 I hope you’re enjoying all your current reads as well.
Oh nice! Mostly new to me reads but I have been seeing a bit of The Unicorn Hunters around! I hope you enjoy these new reads and your current lineup as you get to read them!
Thanks for visiting my Sunday post!
I’m glad some of these are new to you and yes I’ve been seeing The Unicorn Hunters around a lot! I’m really excited for it! Thanks for visiting my blog, Jessica! 🥰 I hope you have a wonderful week!
I haven’t heard either of these songs before, but they both really worked for me. Also, Witch Hat Atelier is so much fun – I need more. 🙂 Thanks for linking up with me!
oh yay, glad to hear both the songs worked for you too! Yess, Witch Hat is great, just finished Vol 14 this morning and now I have to wait til the 15th is out in English 😭 lol. My pleasure, I’ve missed doing Monday Music!
You’ve got some great looking books on the go here. And well it never hurts to add to the shelves. Happy reading.
It sure never hurts to add to the shelves, you’re right about that 😉! Thank you and happy reading to you as well!
I think a lot of people are reading Winnie the Pooh again now! Always worth it.
I’m having a very slow reading month so far. I’m either too tired or too restless to concentrate for long.
Oh that’s wonderful, I do hope this new adaptation gets a lot of attention and as a result also gives fresh attention to the originals as well! Aw, I can relate to that struggle. Hopefully you can come back to reading when your mind is more ready for it, sometimes focusing on other things for a while helps me out when I feel like that.
I hope you enjoy your books. They look really good. Have a great week!
Thanks, Yvonne! Have a happy week as well 😄!!
Yay for new books!
I hope Bless Your Heart delivers for you.
Thanks for sharing your week, happy reading!
Yay indeed! 🥰
Thank you, I’m hoping so too!
Happy reading and I hope you have a fabulous week.
Sounds like you’ve got a great line up of books at the moment. Its lovely to see that you’re onto another Witch Hat Atelier book and I’m so glad to hear that you enjoyed the Morgan Stang series so much. I can’t wait to see your thoughts on Gideon The Ninth. I’ve heard so many incredible things and dont know how I’ve failed to get to it so far. I’ll also be curious to hear what you think of Bless Your Heart. Hope you enjoy all of your reads.
Ooh I have The Strange Case Of The Alchemists Daughter as an ebook too but have somehow never read it 🙈 its so exciting to see that you have The Unicorn Hunters out at the moment too 😍 I cant wait to hear what you think of it.
I hope you have a lovely month. I’m sure you have lots of exciting seasonal plans 🥰
Oh yes I think I got lucky with my current line-up, they’ve all been good. Witch Hat 14 leaves off on a cliffhanger though so now I’m having to wait til 15 gets translated into English (in Dec if I’m right). The Morgan Stang series took me by surprise, I’m loving them! I will try to write up a review for Gideon the Ninth then! I’ve heard great things for years to the point that it started feeling daunting so I’m glad I started it, it doesn’t feel nearly as daunting now. Thank you!
haha that’s funny! The ebooks really tend to pile up easy. Yess finally I’ll have another go at it soon! I will keep you in the loop of course :D! I hope you have a great month too!! It’s almost Halloween and really my only plans for the day are watching movies with my husband and cheese fondue.
How frustrating but at least thats not an overly long wait and timing wise its kind of like a bonus Christmas treat. As long as another cliffhanger doesnt follow anyway. I think what I find daunting about it is how much it sounds like it has going on. But I know so many people who love it and really need to hurry up and give it a try.
I realised this week that my new Kindle tells me how many ebooks I have…let’s just say I was happier with my head in the clouds there 😂 Thank you. That sounds like a lovely relaxed way to spend it at least 🥰 I just assumed as I know how busy you were last year around now.
Very true and oh that’s a really nice way of looking at it :)! Ahaha here’s hoping for no more cliffhangers lol. Yes that’s fair but I’m only about a third of the way through and so far I’m following just fine, I think based on what people were saying I was expecting it to be hard to follow (and who knows maybe soon it’ll fly off the hinges) but it’s not that hard (she says, kind of scared now 😂).
Ahahah oh my gosh, Kindle should have asked first like ‘is this information you want?’ not assaulted you with the truth out the gate! Yeah, I’m looking forward to it. What about you, any Halloween plans this year? 🙂
Here’s hoping 🤞 although at least they keep you invested I suppose 😂
Yay thats wonderful to hear, I’m glad it continues to be easy enough to follow 🤞 Maybe it just sounds wild as theres so much going on 😂
😂😂 It wanted me to be aware of thr craziness of my TBR.
Not really, I did think about rewatching Practical Magic but I got accepted for a book that comes out on Tuesday yesterday, have a readalong going on and am half way through another title that I’d ideally like to finish first so I think I’ll be spending it mostly reading 😂 I think I may be going to see Verity sometime too though…even though I failed in my plans to get the book read first 🙈
Loving your book haul. I really should do a re-read of Dracula. It has been a while.
Thank you! And I am thoroughly enjoying my Dracula reread, highly recommend it if you can make time for it! 🙂
My wife read Bless Your Heart and IIRC found it a bit predictable but good fun! I’ve been thinking about giving it a shot. Hope you enjoy!
Oh, interesting okay I’m glad your wife found it fun. For this type of story, I don’t so much mind if it’s predictable as long as the ride is fun, ya know? 🙂