Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker. 

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

 

"Because someone was looking at her.

She snapped her attention to the west gallery, where a dark silhouette waited in the window." Kindle loc. 9%*

*Quote comes from the eARC, therefore it and its location are not final.

 

 

 

 

 

TITLE: Down Comes the Night
AUTHOR: Allison Saft
PUBLISHER: Wednesday Books
GENRE: YA Paranormal
RELEASE DATE: March 2, 2021

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

 

This week's question is: Top Ten Books I Want to Read for the First Time Again!

 

*in no particular order

 

 

10. 13 TO LIFE by Shannon Delany--another one I'd love to relive from the beginning
9. HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE by J.K. Rowling--I mean, obviously!
8. FIRST GRAVE ON THE RIGHT by Darynda Jones--I adore this series and would love to be able to re-read it again for the first time!

 

 

7. FALLING KINGDOMS by Morgan Rhodes--I ADORED this series and would love to re-read it for the first time again! Plus side is binging the series with no cliffhangers! Lol!
6. INTERTWINED by Gena Showalter--yes, I would even love to read this for the first time again knowing there's no conclusion and everyone's lives are left in dire state.
5. HALFWAY TO THE GRAVE by Jeaniene Frost--such a great novel! 

4. OBSIDIAN by Jennifer L. Armentrout--Another one I'd love to relive!
3. OLD MAGIC by Marianne Curley--I soooo adored this one growing up! I would love to relive that first read magic!
2. DEMON IN MY VIEW by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes--of course, time is definitely an issue since this book is pretty old now, but it still holds a beautiful magic for me!

READY FOR THE BIG #1? CARE TO TAKE A GUESS? ;)

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1. CARAVAL by Stephanie Garber--did you guess right? ;)

Challenges Monthly Wrap-up: November

CHALLENGE 1: 2020 New Release Challenge

Crush by Tracy Wolff (9/29/20)

36/25 this challenge is in bonus rounds!

CHALLENGE 2: Print ONLY 2020 Reading Challenge

The Devil You Know by Trish Doller
Crush by Tracy Wolff

Finally completed this one! 45 real books read! Even though the blog host has disappeared from the blogosphere I still wanted to meet my goal!

CHALLENGE 3: 2020 Discussion Challenge

Series Spotlight: The Weather Wardens
Pancakes or Waffles?
Supernatural Finale

So since New Blogger has basically made a sucky platform to write blog posts I've found it difficult to do a lot of blogging like I used to. So my discussion ideas have been few and far between this year. Past years I made it past the top tier...there's still potential for that if I push myself, I've 11 posts to go for that! So we'll see. It'll be a happy accident if that happens!

CHALLENGE 4: Beat the Back List 2020 Reading Challenge

The Devil You Know by Trish Doller (6/2/15)

32/20 not bad, not bad at all! I had hoped to read more TBR books this year, but that didn't go over as well as hoped. But in the long run my TBR and New Release books are fairly close in numbers!

CHALLENGE 5: 2020 Series Enders Reading Challenge

Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder (Sentinels of the Galaxy)

I'm super proud of this challenge! I initially aimed low at the beginning of the year, but then I ended up kicking butt and raised my challenge number throughout the year! I've now surpassed the top tier! 22/15+

It's Monday! What are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. It's a fun meme where we gather to share what we've read last week and our reading plans for this week.

 

Last Week I Read:

Crush by Tracy Wolff (5 stars)

 

Currently Reading:

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft (ARC)

 

 

What I Plan to Read Next (Hopefully):

Watcher in the Woods by Kelley Armstrong

Other Posts of Interest:

Let's Discuss: Pancakes or Waffles?
Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays
Waiting on Wednesday
Random Thursday
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Book Blogger Hop
Let's Discuss: Supernatural Finale
Stacking the Shelves

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stacking the Shelves

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! The meme is now hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality.

 

I hope everyone in the US had a nice Thanksgiving despite our circumstances. Mine was a nice quiet affair. It was weird not to head out to the stores right after dinner. Very nice, but still weird. I pretty much did things out of order this year. I did Black Friday shopping early at all the various early sales. Then I did my Small Business Saturday shopping on Friday. I'll probably do some Cyber Monday shopping on Monday too! Mostly just at one site that I want to take a look at. How was your holiday and/or week? Have you started your holiday shopping yet? I am happy to say that I am nearly done! I might buy one more thing for my parents, which might be tricky since restaurants are closed in my county and I want to get a gift card for their favorite restaurant. I know I can probably order it curbside, I just feel like it might be a bit trickier since it's a Mexican restaurant and not everyone has the best English there and trying to do that kind of order on the phone might be tough. But if things open up again before Xmas I might be able to get more easily then. Here's hoping that things open up around the 14th!

 

This wasn't a bad week for books either! Check out what I got this week:

 

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo--Collector's Edition Fairy Loot-UK edition!
Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury--UK edition! I saw this on Goodreads in the contests a week or two ago and saw it was out in the UK already, so I had a well-timed TBD coupon, so I got it with that!
Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout--SIGNED! I plan to start this series once I get caught up on my review books!

November Fairy Loot Box!!

Then I also ordered a few other goodies that came in this week:

I also ordered the cute letter opener from the JLA shop and I got this Book Beau pouch as a surprise gift!

Then I ordered this cutie from Elissa J Designs on Etsy! It was a Friday deal which I only just realized she was having these special items on Fridays!

And then there was swag!!!

And then I won the October 2020 Series Enders Reading Challenge Wrap-up and got another Amazon gift card!

THANK YOU Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know!

And then all my early Christmas shopping just earned me another B&N gift card! Just in time too! LOL!

And that was it for me! A pretty good week overall! What did you get this week?

Let's Discuss: Supernatural Finale

 

Well...it's been a week since the series finale of Supernatural aired and I cannot keep silent any longer! I have thoughts and feels over how this last episode went and I've been dying to vent! I mean I vented with my mom about it because we were both of the same mind! I spent 15 years watching, loving, and adoring this show so here we go! If you haven't watched it yet and don't want to be spoiled, please stop here!

Supernatural Finale

Okay, somewhere down the line of the show, like maybe halfway through I always wondered, how would Supernatural end? Like really end? The boys have died and come back sooo many times that it felt like death was just a minor setback for them.

So when we got to the episode before the finale, the one where Jack becomes the new God I thought, that wasn't too bad of an ending. I mean, I guessed I hoped for a little more. Like what will Sam and Dean do now? But that wasn't the end. And as it turns out, the hunting monster business was pretty slow. And then it happened...Dean dies! For real this time! Aaaagh!!

Then the rest of the episode was just a montage of Sam living out his life with a faceless wife. I mean was it Eileen? Did she get to come back? Was it someone else entirely? I hate when shows make the spouse faceless, True Blood did that and it ticked me off then too.

I mean...in the long run, I always suspected that the show would have to end with the brothers' deaths. Like their final death and no coming back. I guess I was thinking it would be more on the "saving-the-world" basis though and not hunting mishaps.

The ending wasn't terrible, but I guess I just had hopes for something more and not 1/4 of the show driving me to tears with Carry on My Wayward Son playing in the background. I will admit I was taken aback when that didn't play in the series wrap-up and it was also a tiny bit of a letdown too.

Did I hate the ending? Not so much. Did I wish for something just a tad different? Yes. Most definitely. I don't think having Sam and Dean living HEA lives next door to each other would've been their "thing" and I would've been bothered by the ending had it gone that route, but maybe not as much. Although part of me expected Sam to just get into the Impala with Dean and Dean still says "driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole!" LOL!

Still, it was a wild ride for the last 15 years (minus COVID f-ing things up) and I was happy to be apart of it since DAY ONE! :D

So if you read this and watched the show, what were your thoughts on the finale?

Book Blogger Hop

 

 This meme is hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addict!

 

This week's question is: Do you own an e-reader? If so, what is your favorite thing about it? (submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews) 

 

MY ANSWER: Yes, I've own a Kindle for several years now. I admit, I don't use it a whole lot, but what I love about it is how I can get more approvals for ARCs by agreeing to read an e-version of it! So yay!