Hey everyone! I know I haven’t posted a TBR or a card challenge update in a while, so figured now was a good time. I’ve been in quite a bad slump the last few months but I’m trying to get myself out of it, especially since I’m behind on my goal for the year. That means a lot of mood reading, but I’m also trying to get back on my more structured picks such as through the cards.

I’m still working on some card challenges from previous months, but I do have audiobooks available for a number of them, so I’m hopeful I can knock those out pretty easily.

For this month I picked the following:

• Nine of Clubs: Anthologies – Love Beyond Body, Space and Time
• Ten of Hearts: Rich Pick – So You Want to be A Viking (he wanted to be kind and pick a short book)
• Jack: Under 300 Pages – Wolf’s Rain Volume 1
• Seven of Spades: Spin a Wheel – Nightbooks
• Three of Hearts: Random Color – The Ex Hex
• Four of Diamond: NetGalley – This one I’m leaving to just pick one on my list when I get to it.

Other than those I’m going to concentrate on ARCs that I have commitments to and mood read where I can. What’s everyone else reading this month?

Happy reading!

Hey everyone! I know I’m a little late in posting this, but I wanted to get it up nonetheless. I did draw cards for January so I wanted to share them – here they are!

• 2 of Clubs – Classic
• 8 of Spades – Netgalley
• Ace – over 500 pages
• 6 of Clubs – Middle Grade
• 3 of Clubs – Mom Pick
• 10 of Clubs – Ghost Stories

This months picks both excited and upset me, but here we are. For classis I decided to pick up Beauty and the Beast (the original story) since it’s been a very long time since I read it. My Netgalley pick will be Wingbearer by Marjorie Liu (which spoiler, I have read – so watch for my review closer to release date).

For over 500 pages (this is where I whimpered) I picked Skyward and the middle grade I picked was Malamander.

My mom was excited to hear that mom pick came up since it hasn’t happened since the first month I started this challenge, so she picked Our Last Echoes. Finally for ghost stories I went with Haunted Theaters which I’ve been meaning to pick up for a while.

Happy reading!

Hey everyone! November was a hard month for me. I had a number of things go sideways as well as some hard things going on, so admittedly not a ton of reading happened. I’m hoping to finish the year strong though. So without anything else, let’s get to the card picks for December.

First we got a queen, so that is of course a Calypso pick and this month she decided I was going to readh The Taking of Jake Livingston. We then got 9 of diamonds which was a fantasy, so I picked Thirteens. The next pick was a Jack, which means under 300 pages and at this point I was thanking the cards for being nice, for that one I’m going to pick up the next volume of Kamisama Kiss (I really need to finish this series as well as Fruits Basket).

We then got 7 of spades which is a wheel pick, so I did a random number generator to pick wheel 3. This was the romance wheel which has a mix of titles and authors on it, so it landed on Tessa Bailey and for this I’ll be reading Window Shopping. Next was 2 of diamonds which is middle grade and I picked Dark Waters which I have been wanting to read since it came out. Finally I had a little moment of crying because we got a king which means Rich’s stack of 5, and for that I picked Wintersong.

Other than that and some review books I don’t have any concrete plans for December, I’m just hoping I can get out of my slump and get back on track. What’s everyone else reading?

Happy reading!

Hey everyone! How is it already a week into November. Nanowrimo is in full swing, so there’s that. I’m already behind there but I have been writing every day, so there’s that. When it came to picking this month’s cards I was very much trying to go easy on myself, not just because of Nano but also because I would really like to make some progress on catching up on a number of things this month. Let’s get to the picks!

• Two of Hearts – Fantasy
• Five of Diamonds – YA
• Jack of Spades – Under 300 pages
• Two of Diamonds – Middle Grade
• Three of Diamonds – Random Letter/Title (I)
• Eight of Hearts – Random Letter/Author (T)

So like I said I went into this wanting to be kind to myself, so I took that theme seriously. For a fantasy I chose the seventh volume of the Buffy reboot comics. To be fair I’m kind of hate reading these right now, I want to give them a chance of course, but to me Buffy canon is the ultimate. I’m sure newcomers to the series would enjoy these new comics, but for me I keep hoping they redeem themselves.

For YA and under 300 pages I went with the next two volumes of Kamisama Kiss (19 and 20). Yes part of this was to go easy on myself, but this is also one of the series I want to finish this year and I’m so close (there are 25 volumes total) so I need to get through them.

For middle grade I chose the second book in the Crowns of Croswald series. It’s been a while since I read the first one and I definitely want to continue on with this series, so this was a good opportunity to do so.

I had a hard time finding a book that I wanted to read that started with an I, so this was an adventure. I finally settled on If Walls Could Talk, a cozy mystery I barely started a while ago when it was gifted to me. It ended up getting put down for no reason, so I’m glad to be getting to it.

I then got the shock of another random letter selection, this time for author name. Thankfully this can be either first or last name, so I selected Odsburg by Matt Tompkins.

So those are the picks for November! I know I’ll be able to get through the manga and graphic novel pretty quickly, but we’ll see what happens with the rest as well as the catching up I need to do! What is on everyone else’s TBRs?

Happy reading!

Hey everyone! Somehow we are at the end of September, I swear the month just started! This is probably going to be a brief post, but I’m excited to get to spooky reads in October. I’m also always trying to play catch up lol as 2020-2021 have really messed with me. Onto the card picks!

• King – Rich’s Stack of Five
• Six of Hearts – Random Kindle
• Seven of Clubs – Asian Author
• Queen – Calypso Pick
• Five of Spades – SciFi
• Five of Diamonds – YA

So far I haven’t picked one for random kindle, I figure it will be a mood read. For Rich’s Stack of Five I went with Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Tales of the Slayer. I have a huge stack of books by Asian authors, so that’s why that is specifically a prompt, for that one I picked Iron Widow.

For the Calypso pick we once again gave her three choices and she ended up going with The Lost Village, though it was close for a bit there.

Choosing a SciFi was a little hard since I don’t have a ton, but I picked The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. Finally I chose All These Bodies as my YA pick since I received a finished copy from the publisher and want to read it ASAP.

Other than that I’m hoping I pick up a ton of spooky books and as always work on narrowing my pile of TBR picks and review copies. Someday we will get out of this Pandora’s Box situation and things will get better.

Happy reading!

Hello everyone! Time to talk about what I plan to read in August. I may be taking on more than I can handle, but I not only did my card draws but also am going to do the Trope-ical readathon!

For my cards I drew the following:

• 3 of Diamonds – Wheel #3: The Proposal
• 6 of Diamonds – Horror/Thriller: Home Before Dark
• 5 of Diamonds – YA: My Best Friend’s Exorcism
• Jack of Spades – Under 300 Pages: Kamisama Kiss #18
• 5 of Hearts – BotM: The Guest List
• 6 of Hearts – Random Kindle: The Folcroft Ghosts

For the Trope-ical Readathon I tried to have as much crossover as possible with these picks as well as previous card picks. I’ve made a graphic to show my TBR for this readathon. If you want more information on it make sure to check it out on JenJenReview’s Blog post.

Who knows what I will be able to complete, we’ll just have to see. For the most part I just want to have some fun! Are any of these books on your TBR?

Happy reading!