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Top Ten Tuesday: Recent Additions to My TBR

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 21, 2020 | 5 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl Fantasy Black Leviathan by Bernd Perplies: DRAGONS!! Gimme! The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker: ALSO DRAGONS!! Plus I’ve been wanting to read more Adult Fantasy and this one’s average Goodreads rating is super high! Ink in the Blood by Kim Smejkal: Tattoo magic! The concept sounds awesome! Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibanez: I found this one because my fave bookstore near me is hosting a YA panel and this author will be there, […]

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2020

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 7, 2020 | 3 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I also made a post back in December for my most anticipated releases of 2020 (with releases for the whole year) in which I also talk about 2020 releases I’ve already read or have my hands on! What are YOUR most anticipated 2020 releases for the first half of the year?

2019 End of Year Book Survey + Reading Stats

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 4, 2020 | 0 Comments

The end of year survey was created by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner Past surveys 2011 end of year survey 2012 end of year survey 2013 end of year survey 2014 end of year survey 2015 end of year survey 2016 end of year survey 2017 end of year survey 2018 end of year survey (Wow, I didn’t realize I’d been doing it every year for my whole blogging career!) 2019 Reading stats Number of books read: 69 Number of re-reads: […]

2020 Goals & Resolutions

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 2, 2020 | 1 Comment

I typically hate making New Year’s resolutions because it’s my belief that you should do so throughout the whole year, but I do still love them because it’s good motivation and something to look back on to see if I’ve accomplished my goals! READING RESOLUTIONS Read more than last year. I really wanted to get to 100 books in 2019, but I didn’t even make it to 75. I’d love to get back to reading 100 books a year – I used […]

Top Ten Tuesday + 2019 Novel Heartbeat Awards

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 31, 2019 | 2 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I usually do my end of year book awards every year, and this year I decided to go ahead and combine it with Top Ten Tuesday, since the prompt was favorite books read in 2019! Top ten books of 2019 *doesn’t include re-reads Top 5 science fiction Top 5 high fantasy Top 5 urban fantasy Best contemporary Top 5 audiobooks All of these were re-reads! (Aurora is on both lists […]

5 Star Books of 2019

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 28, 2019 | 0 Comments

Last year I saw Cristina @ Girl in the Pages post about her 5 star reading drought (which was originally inspired by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit’s post here), and I thought it was such a great post, so I did one of my own! It was really interesting to see what me 5 star reads looked like for last year, and I definitely want to start doing it every year! 5 star books of 2019 This number is usually low since […]