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
Somebody by Jukebox The Ghost
Long Hair Don’t Care by Something Radical
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
DNF
Sadly, I ended up DNF’ing Season 3 of Phoenix Heart. I only had about 9 hours left to finish the entire series but a character I hated was getting on my last nerve and I didn’t want 9 more hours of that. The plot was also going in too many chaotic directions I didn’t enjoy. It’s a bummer because there were other aspects of this series I really loved but that’s just the way the cookie crumbled. 🤷🏼♀️
Currently Reading
I’m working on finishing When The Tides Held The Moon because it’s already overdue but I’m enjoying it a lot! I’m making good progress on finishing series with The Brightness Between Us. It’s blowing my mind and I think I’m loving it more than the first one!
Up Next
Coming up next up on the book pipe-line is Fragile Eternity (The third book in my Wicked Lovely buddy re-read). And I have Woman, Life, Freedom ready for July, where I’ll be joining a non-fiction buddy-read.
On The Blog Recently
I’ve been so MIA that I’ve only made one post since the last Catch Up Monday: May Flowers and Movies│Monthly Reset #10. It is what it is.
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!
This week for STS I have something slightly different to chat about. I saw an author I follow on Instagram share about a book bundle they’re part of for Pride and I jumped on the deal! It’s called Monster Manor LGBTQIA+ Book Fair 2025, it’s on itch.io, and the offer is available for another 4 days so I wanted to mention it in case anyone is interested. It’s a collection of 118 adult LGBTQIA+ Comics, short stories, novellas and novels for $25 USD and it directly supports indie queer and trans authors!
Since there are so many e-books, I’m not listing them all but the book that led me to the bundle is Phantom & Rook by Aelina Isaacs. There were also a few other titles in the bundle I’d already heard of and some new ones that caught my attention.
Some Other Titles of Interest
- A Flame In The Night by Morgan Dante
- In The Garden of Echo by H.S. Wolfe
- Kit & Basie by Tess Carletta
- Shadows Dark And Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson
- A Wolf Steps In Blood by Tamara Jerée
Let’s chat in the comments!
What are you currently reading? Or, what’s a song that makes you think of summer?🌞
I love the variety you have here! I too have been working out more now that summer is here (I’m a teacher, so some days are exhausting and working out just doesn’t happen). But for these two and a half months I get to be a stay-at-home-mom and I love it. My girl and I have adventures and read and cram as much fun into this short time as possible. Happy reading!
Thank you, Sarah! 🙂 Oh my, I can only imagine how tiring the job can be sometimes, that’s super fair! It’s nice that you’re able to go more often for now too though and I hope you have a fantastic stay-at-home mom summer 🖤! That sounds so delightful and like you’re making so many great core memories :D!
Your books look good. I hope you enjoy them all and have a great week!
Thanks, Yvonne! I hope you’re having a great week too 🙂
Huh, I don’t know if I knew that The Darkness Outside Us wasn’t a standalone when I read it — it was a while ago, but I was surprised now to see another book, anyway. I’ll have to look out for it! I wonder if it’d be best to do a reread of the first book though?
There is a big leap in time so imo the first one can be read as a standalone but I also think that if you want to read the second one you would 100% benefit from a reread as that one doesn’t function as a standalone at all!
I hope you enjoy these!
Thank you Cindy :D!!
Woman, Life, Freedom looks interesting. I am always looking for more nonfiction titles. There aren’t as many nonfiction recommendations compared to fiction in the blogging sphere and social media. Sometimes, life takes over – my blogging has also been rather sporadic, but that is fine.
I agree that Woman, Life, Freedom sounds great I don’t know much about what it’s about I only heard about it recently from a friend. Yeah that’s true, I think there’s more of a focus on fiction in the blogging world and I myself don’t read nonfic often so I really should more too! Yeah, that’s okay we do the best we can 🙂
Somehow, I don’t remember those songs at all, but they are good picks for the season! 🙂
Aha well there are just too many songs, and there is only so much brain-space to keep them all stored 😛! But I am glad you agree they’re good ones for the season 🙂
I haven’t heard Somebody in forever. Long Hair Don’t Care is fun! I don’t have a specific summer song, but I find myself playing my house playlist more often.
Yeah, I actually hadn’t heard Somebody in a while either until I started thinking of summery songs, I came back to it! That’s fair and house music feels summery too because of all the festivals and stuff, though I’ve never been to one of those lol.