Poppy seed and lemon is one of my favorite flavor pairings, so I had to try these muffins!

And the leftovers will make for great breakfasts when I‘m in a hurry out the door!

#DinnerByTheBook

Visiting family always results in new books for me! 💖

After being informed of the mysterious deaths of her parents in Egypt, Inez finds she has inherited a fortune & a mystery. She travels to Egypt to find out what happened to her parents.

So disappointing. I was excited by “The Mummy meets Death on the Nile” & instead got weird pacing issues, inconsistent characters, & a romance I was actively rooting against by the end. Would have been a so-so, but the epilogue pissed me off too much. 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑

Vanja has finished serving Brunne, & is now fighting against injustice where she can. But then someone starts murdering royalty & leaving her calling card. & she has to clear her name.

A worthy end to this trilogy! Amazing character growth, so much folklore woven in, & non stop action! My heartstrings were pulled so much, but I did have to take breaks as I was too stressed 😅. Probably should have reread the first 2, lots of references.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

#WeeklyForecast

My hold on my book for #QueerBC came in over the weekend, and I‘m so excited to start it!

#BookReport

I really loved the finale to the Kingston Cycle! Soulstar was so good!

My hyacinths are blooming! Which means spring is here!
#BookSpinBingo #BingoBoard

#BookSpin Chaos Choreography, #DoubleSpin Spindle‘s End

#Roll100 The Joy Luck Club, Aftertaste, Spindle‘s End

#OokBOokClub Guards! Guards!

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Blinking Eye

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Road to Oz

#QueerBC The Sparsholt Affair

#ThematicCozies Sent to Death

#AuldLangSpine Wonderland

This past week has been pretty busy, with spring cleaning for family visiting. But I finally got my #MonthlyRoundup put together!

Give me your favorite heists!

The tagged book is probably one of my favorites. It gave me big Leverage vibes but YA fantasy, making me think everything‘s gone wrong.

Also, bonus points for a truly amazing full cast audiobook!

#SundayFunday I hope you all are having a wonderful day, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!

A wonderful event with both Margaret Owen and Tricia Levenseller (both delightful people) at the Under the Umbrella bookstore in #SaltLakeCity ! #SLC #AuthorEvent

And shout out to Margaret for being the first person, when I introduced myself, to say “Oh, like the fairy from Ferngully?” 🥹🥹

The Bob-Whites next adventure includes spelunking, ghost fish, & a mysterious voice on the wind.

This was the 1 I remembered the best from my childhood. The description of the eyeless fish really freaked me out as a kid. There were some interesting side mysteries, & I loved the side characters in Andrew‘s lodge. Although I laughed out loud when Trixie said “when has my 1st impression been wrong?” & a last minute kind of pointless twist.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Miners are dying in the mountain. & as Bennie tried to investigate, a mysterious woman is pulled from the heart of the mountain. A witch, who knows that the mountain is waking up, & it is angry.

Wow wow wow. Industry vs nature, & the rural communities caught between the 2. Fascinating characters, queer representation, wonderfully creepy magic, & a fantastic grasp of the scene of Appalachia. An author to watch for damn sure.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

The Kingston Cycle comes to a close as Robin tries to work to create a fair representative government, while helping the wrongly incarcerated witches rejoin society.

God this was good, but this was such an emotionally taxing time to listen to it. I loved all the characters & the gaslamp fantasy. But I was so stressed.😅Listening to people try so hard to bring about democracy, dealing w/ corruption, police brutality. Worth it, but rough.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

Happy April everybody! I‘m so ready for spring! 🌼🌸🌼🌸 #BookSpinBingo

#WeeklyForecast

I am so excited to start Holy Terrors! I‘ve loved this whole series so much!

#BookReport

I am loving Motheater so much!

Dorothy‘s visit to San Francisco is interrupted by an earthquake, where she falls into the earth. There, with her cousin Zeb, she meets up w/ the Wizard again through many adventures.

The way Baum writes animals suddenly realizing they can talk is always so funny to me. This 1 is very disjointed, w/ almost every chapter being a separate, contained adventure. I did love the fantastical elements of the lands under the Earth. 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

I love the Legendarium in Salt Lake City, Utah! A small, sci fi and fantasy focused bookstore, that creates such a cozy, welcoming, and inclusive atmosphere.

I‘ve taken all my family to it, recommended it to all my friends, and is one of my favorite places to just browse.

Plus, their teas are delicious! 💖

#SundayFunday Have a fantastic day, and remember to tag me in your posts!

My pick for #ThematicCozies this month! Hope I can get this in time! @julieclair

I‘m very excited for this line up!

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Aftertaste by Meredith Mileti, Spindle‘s End by Robin McKinley

#Roll100 @PuddleJumper

When one‘s mostly reformed con artist needs a new challenge, it is remarkable timing that the invention of the steam engine & pushback from a violent minority all happen at the same time.

I think this one, more than any other so far, has made me mourn the stories we could have gotten. Pratchett‘s depiction of a small, angry, vocal group driven by fear to upend all they don‘t understand, it hits harder this time around. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

This was a fun one, thanks for the tag @dabbe ! I‘ve seen more than I thought I had, but there were definitely some classics I need to get to.

But my favorites!
1. Hello Dolly
2. Star Wars
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

A choose your own adventure book for learning about gender identity, sexuality, & the differences between biological sex & gender identity.

Fairly basic, sometimes reductive & repetitive, & occasionally plays up stereotypes. But is also a fun starting point for anybody‘s journey into learning more about gender identity, while also briefly touching on the intersections of race, class, & disability & the difficulties facing those groups.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Darby returns to his small home town after losing his job. When he stumbles into the local bookstore & finds his younger self, he‘s forced to confront old choices & who he‘s become now.

I liked this liminal bookstore where Darby interacts w/ himself before he‘s come to terms w/ his identity, & “what would you tell your younger self”, but almost nothing else happens in this book.😅 Good characters, interesting relationships, but so slow.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView !

1. Walks, listen to music, text my sisters.

2. Poetry. Especially poetry about nature and finding the small joys.

#Two4Tuesday

#WeeklyForecast

Got the rest of my reads for the #TransRightsReadathon lined up for this week!

#BookReport

I‘m so excited to be diving back into Discworld this week!

Shoutout to the friends who know you so well that they have to send you a link as soon as they see it.

#BookAdjacent

https://youtu.be/XQ1HzVms5KQ?si=NV6_01SbPteKoarU

For Razia, growing up is complicated by being Pakistani in 1980s NYC, highly religious parents, & her developing feelings for a fellow classmate @ her new high school.

Oh, but this broke my heart. My parents weren‘t as religious as Razia‘s, but her complicated friendships w/ the girls in her community, academic pressure, the feeling that you need to follow your parents‘ plan, & the fear you‘ll disappoint them, all felt familiar to me.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Yes, several! My favorites have been Tamora Pierce, Lindy West, and Rebecca Thorne. Eoin Colfer was also a lot of fun.

I would have loved to be able to see Terry Pratchett or Ursula K Le Guin before they passed. ❤️

#SundayFunday Hope you all have a wonderful day, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!

The moon has turned to cheese. & what does everybody do? Hit up Reddit, buy books, throw Flip Off the Moon parties, & have an existential crisis.

This was very silly, but very fun. We get a whole bunch of POVs which frustrated me a bit as nobody got a lot of time, but I loved the different media types from Reddit to chat conversations. The jokes were great. I enjoyed this, but the way everything was left felt a little bit of a let down.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Throw together wedding planning, babysitting baby dragons, unexpected family, so many puns, & a coup to overthrow a despotic queen, & what do you get? My favorite in this series so far!

This built on so much from the first 2. We get so many established characters coming back, new friends w/ interesting complications, & more threads of world building. I‘m not a big fan of cliffhangers, but at least 4 is coming out this year. 😂 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

At least I‘ve got a book with me while getting this emissions test done. 😅

The Protectorate sets out the village‘s youngest baby every year to pacify the Witch in the Woods. Only, nothing is what it seems, & everything starts falling apart after the latest sacrifice is rescued.

Unexpectedly timely. A group in power, intent on keeping the population uneducated & hopeless; the cruelties those in power will force. I loved all the characters, especially Luna & Xan. It was a bit slow to start, but picked up.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

#WeeklyForecast

Got a #Roll100 read, the #QueerBC book, and my #ThematicCozies pick all coming up this week! 💖

#BookReport

Finished two ARCs this week, and I‘m almost done with The Girl Who Drank the Moon, which I‘m reading for a buddy read with a friend. 💖

Secret Staircase Construction‘s newest job in a specialized library is threatened when an actor for the opening event disappears & then is found dead.

Oops! This is 4th in a series! I did like it a lot! The use of the construction company, the location of a mystery themed library, so many twists & turns, & Tempest having such a great support system & relationships w/ her community. Definitely want to seek out the rest of this series!🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Freya Marske‘s skill with historical fantasy? Cinderella retelling? Ghost story? Queer yearning? Sign me ALL the way up! 💖

#CoverReveal

The tagged book was the book to get me back into reading science fiction after a long period where I refused to read the whole genre. I loaned it to my uncle years ago.

Haven‘t seen it since. 😂 Now, when I loan out books, I have duplicates to loan out.

#SundayFunday Have a safe and good day today, and don‘t forget to tag me!

When Shane‘s mother disappears trying to locate 2 lost children, it‘s up to Shane to follow in her mother‘s footsteps. & rescue them all.

I really do love the world building of this series. The ghost summoning, the interweaving of Lipan Apache history, it all meshes beautifully. The ending felt a little haphazard, & it was a little slow to start, but I loved all the characters, & I would happily read more in this series. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

I‘m positive this word has been shared before for #WeirdWordWednesday , but I had to take some books off of a bookshelf today because the shelf has developed a concerning curve to it. So it‘s been on my mind. 😂😂 #WeirdWords

I‘m going to need to buy another bookshelf. 😅

Had to go to the dentist to get a filling done! 😅

*takes deep breath* AAAAAAHHHHHH!

It‘s so pretty! And it‘s going to be released on my birthday! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 September 30th can‘t come fast enough. #CoverReveal

A collection of short stories from Tamora Pierce, including several in the world of Tortall.

While some weren‘t as strong, & I was disappointed there were no Emelan stories, they all had that little spark that reminded me why I fell in love w/ Pierce‘s writing. Including marvelously written, diverse, interesting women. My personal favorites were Nawat, The Dragon‘s Tale, & Mimic. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Yael is trying to escape the life their parents have planned. Margot is trying to save her family‘s business. Romance blossoms. Things become more complicated w/ a lost will, disapproving parents, & a patron not willing to let go.

Adorable! I wish the world building had been stronger, & I don‘t like time skips over important plot points. But I loved the characters, the setting was lushly green & cozy, & the romance was very sweet. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

#WeeklyForecast

I‘m so looking forward to starting the new Tomes and Tea book! ☕️

#BookReport

I loved the Earthsea graphic novel so much! I hope they do the entire saga! 🤞🏻

I attended an author event, this past week, with Rebecca Thorne for the third book in her Tomes and Tea series, and a book was part of the ticket price. So technically that.

But before that, after *makes sweeping gesture at November* I bought the tagged book, along with Prequel by Rachel Maddow and Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson.

#SundayFunday Have a wonderful day, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!

Got my reads for this year‘s #TransRightsReadathon all lined up!

Now, more than ever, it‘s important to uplift trans voices!

Claire has joined the UK‘s premier baking competition show. Her only worries are how good her bakes are, until the 1st body drops. Now, w/ a handsome viscount, she must investigate before the next competitor falls.

Charming! Loved the backdrop of Great British Bake Off w/ the serial numbers filed off. The mystery kept me guessing, & I loved all the characters! Could have done w/ less time spent on the romance, but that‘s a YMMV. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑