Get Lost in Literature

Happy Sunday! I hope you are all doing well and enjoying your weekend. The Sunday Post is a news meme created by Caffeinated Reviewer . I'm also linking up with Sunday Salon at ReaderBuzz . I will be posting on the first Sunday of each month and I hope you'll join me. Punxsutawney Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter and he nailed it. We got a blizzard. Everything was closed, there was a travel ban, and it took about two days for us to shovel out. I think the weatherman said before the storm we'd be getting about two feet, I think we got more than that... Someone said they thought we got 37 inches? But I'm not sure on our exact measurement. And it was on top of the snow we already had from a couple of weeks ago, so we have a lot of snow. My blog has really taken a boring turn, not that it was so exciting before. I haven't kept up with comments this past month, I haven't been as involved with my usual blog memes as I have been, and it took me forever to work up ...

"The stories made it sound so good. Fighting for a cause. Being a hero." He shook his head. "Why does everyone pretend it's anything like that?" Like with many fantasy novels, there is a war between good and evil. But this book starts after that war has ended and evil prevailed over good. A woman held captive by the aforementioned evil, turns out to be an undocumented prisoner and when she's discovered, her captors are determined to learn her identity. As far as anyone can tell, Helena Marino is a glorified nobody but somebody went to a lot of trouble to erase her memories. Enter the High Reeve, Kaine Ferron. He's cold, calculating, and vicious; he's one of the most powerful necromancers of all time. It becomes his task to repair Helena's broken mind and he's willing to destroy it trying. Book One of this 1000+ page novel is absolutely brutal. I think the story opening with evil in control was unique and set the tone for the whole story, but ...

Happy Sunday! I hope you are all doing well and enjoying your weekend. The Sunday Post is a news meme created by Caffeinated Reviewer . I'm also linking up with Sunday Salon at ReaderBuzz. I will be posting on the first Sunday of each month and I hope you'll join me. Today’s post is a recap of 2025 and my upcoming plans for 2026. January's weather has been positively glacial. We've had snow, we've had sub-zero temperatures, we've had everything but penguins. But according to the weatherman that seems to be going on all across the country right now. If you live in a state where snowy winters are not the norm: drive slowly if you have to go out, take aspirin for your back after shoveling, and curl up under a blanket with a good book and a hot chocolate when your day is over. I almost didn't post anything today. My blog has been inactive for a month. I normally do something in between reviews, and I've never really gone a whole month without posting a revi...

Happy New Year to you all!  I hope everyone’s holiday season was filled with positive vibes. The Sunday Post is a news meme created by Caffeinated Reviewer.  I'm also be linking up with Sunday Salon at ReaderBuzz . I will be posting on the first Sunday of each month and I hope you'll join me. Today’s post is a recap of 2025 and my upcoming plans for 2026. My month of December contained very little reading so I don't really have anything to share on the final month of 2025. Instead, I'm going to jump right into my yearly recap. 2025 In 2025 I gave myself two challenges: My Good Reads Challenge was to read at least 12 books, and my second challenge was to participate in the Pick Your Poison Challenge (a challenge that was discontinued this year) by reading at least 13 books off the list of subjects. (the list of books I read for the challenge can be found here ). I wasn’t sure I could read more than twelve books, but not only did I achieve the 13 books required for PYP...

I was looking for a yearly reading challenge that I’d be able to complete in a year, and I found the inaugural Speccy Fiction Challenge hosted by Book’d Out . The rules say, “It allows you to choose from the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, (though the focus is skewed towards the first two), and their myriad of subgenres.” And since I read a crapton of fantasy, I thought this might be an achievable challenge. There are 4 levels/goals: Spectator who can set their own goal, Squint read and review 3 books from 3 categories, Stare is 6 books, and Survey is 12. I’m aiming to at least achieve ‘Stare’ and read 6 books from 6 categories, but if I make it to 6 with time to spare, I’m going to try to get to 12. CATEGORIES: Published in 2026   A speculative novella (less than 250pgs)   A translated speculative novel   The first book in a speculative fiction duology/trilogy/series   Romantic speculative fiction   Speculative fict...

I discovered this reading challenge by Gregory Road in December of 2024, ten years too late to be a long-term participant. I was disappointed to learn 2025 was to be the final year of the challenge but made the decision to join in the fun while it lasted. The challenge was designed to be a reading challenge for people who struggle with reading challenges, offering a wide variety of topics for participants to choose from.  I challenged myself to the Baker's Dozen: 13 books - Choose one category from any of the thirteen topics provided except for the wildcard books,  thinking it would give me the best shot at actually completing the challenge. Thirteen would be one more book than my GoodReads Challenge so it seemed like an okay goal. Imagine how stunned I was that I hit book 13 by July, surpassing my GoodReads Challenge, and I hadn't had to go out of my way to track down suitable books. These are the categories and books I chose: 1. Basic Genres - Biography .  American Ph...