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Monthly Wrap-Up (February 2026)
Welcome to my February 2026 wrap-up post! It’s been a short month but also a long month…weird. I didn’t read or watch as much as I’d planned, but I still had fun!
Tag: diverse reads
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Monthly Wrap-Up (January 2026)
Since they were in the same universe and Your Knife, My Heart comes first within the world’s timeline (even though it’s published second), I decided to read Leave Me Behind first. I mainly worried that Your Knife, My Heart would potentially spoil Leave Me Behind. I’m happy to share that’s not the case! But I’m… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (January 2026)
My Top Reads of 2025
Goodbye 2025, hello 2026! Last year had some incredible moments for me (I made some amazing memories). But I’m also happy to look forward, toward what good things 2026 will bring. That being said, here are my top reads of the year which definitely count as kernels of happiness peppered throughout 2025! Note: I listed… Read More My Top Reads of 2025
My Top Reads of 2024
And so another year has gone by! While 2024 has brought some happiness, I’m definitely glad to have it behind me. On a happy note, though, I’m happy to be posting my top reads of the year post within the fist half of January! I’m taking that as a definite win (especially since I gave… Read More My Top Reads of 2024
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Mid-Year Freak Out Tag 2024
A bit late on the Mid-Year Freak Out Tag this year. But I suppose it’s better than being months late! For those of you who haven’t read my previous freak out tags yet, here are my Mid-Year Freak Out Tag posts from 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023!
My Top Reads of 2023
Here we are…another year gone. I honestly don’t know where 2023 went. It moved so slowly while in retrospect feeling like it went so quickly. It’s quite bizarre if you ask me. As I sat down to work on this post, I realized that I somehow missed creating a post for 2022. I did list… Read More My Top Reads of 2023
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Mid-Year Freak Out Tag 2023
I’m actually on time with the Mid-Year Freak Out Tag this year! (Last year I was late, and prior to that, I hadn’t done the tag for 3 years.) For those of you who haven’t read my previous freak out tags yet, here are my Mid-Year Freak Out Tag posts from 2018, 2019 and 2022!
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Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly (Review)
Alexei Lebedev’s journey on the Pacific Crest Trail begins with a single snake. And it is angling for the hot stranger who seemed to have appeared out of thin air. Lex is prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he isn’t prepared for is Ben Caravalho. But somehow—on a 2,500-mile trail—Alexei keeps running into the outgoing and charismatic hiker with golden-brown eyes, again and again. It might be coincidence. Then again, maybe there’s a reason the trail keeps bringing them together . . .
Ben has made his fair share of bad decisions, and almost all of them involved beautiful men. And yet there’s something about the gorgeous and quietly nerdy Alexei that Ben can’t just walk away from. Surely a bad decision can’t be this cute and smart. And there are worse things than falling in love during the biggest adventure of your life. But when their plans for the future are turned upside down, Ben and Alexei begin to wonder if it’s possible to hold on to something this wild and wonderful… Read More Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly (Review)
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao (ARC Review)
Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open.
The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers.
And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever… Read More Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao (ARC Review)
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Mid-Year Freak Out Tag 2022
So, it’s way past the halfway through 2022 point. But I haven’t done this tag in three years. Three years! So, I figured late was better than waiting another year, right? For those of you who never saw them or those of you who’d like to take a walk down memory lane, here are my… Read More Mid-Year Freak Out Tag 2022