First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
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WWW Wednesday | January 9
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and was formerly hosted by A Daily Rhythm. It is open for anyone to participate, even without a blog you can comment on Sam’s post with your own answers. It is a great way to share what you’ve been reading! All you have to do is answer three questions and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
Continue readingTop Ten Tuesday | Most Anticipated Releases for First Half of 2019
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week they provide a topic and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. You don’t have to do all ten. Instead you can do three, five, fifteen, whatever you want. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here.
Continue readingReview | Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper #3) by Kerri Maniscalco
Title: Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper #3) by Kerri Maniscalco
Publisher: Jimmy Patterson
Published: September 18, 2018
Read as: US Hardcover
Average Goodreads rating: 4.15
My rating: 3
Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they’re delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly.
Continue readingFirst Line Fridays | January 4
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
2018 Wrap Up
Hello everyone, and welcome to Literary Weaponry’s End of Year wrap up! I won’t bore you with platitudes of how quickly the year went by (you already know that it went faster than a speeding bullet) but instead let’s get straight to the books, shall we?
Continue readingFirst Line Fridays | December 14
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
Bookish Naughty or Nice Tag
I found this tag at Fiction no Chaser. As usual, I wasn’t tagged but I snatched this up for myself anyway because it sounded fun. Bookish Santa may be giving me coal this according to this Naughty or Nice tag!
Continue readingBooks I DNFed in 2018
Choosing to not finish reading a book once you have started it has been a hot topic with readers for as long as I can remember. Once I joined the book blogging community it became even more apparent what a minefield of a topic it was.
Continue readingWWW Wednesday | December 5
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and was formerly hosted by A Daily Rhythm. It is open for anyone to participate, even without a blog you can comment on Sam’s post with your own answers. It is a great way to share what you’ve been reading! All you have to do is answer three questions and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
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