Bookish List: Groundhog Day

Hello everyone. Happy Groundhog Day. I am so ready for spring. Today I am bringing back a feature I started forever ago: Bookish Lists Bookish Lists is a sporadic feature. I love discovering similarities in everything, I wanted to create a feature to showcase books that have similarities whether they’re small ones, like characters with piercings or big ones, like characters who are assassins. Today’s post has been a long time coming. It is a post that I have been so excited to share and every time I remember it, the day has passed me by. 2026 is the year though. I am sharing nine Groundhog Day Trope books. Who hasn’t had a day they wish they could do over until they got it right? I know I’ve had several. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (Published February 14, 2010) For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—”Cupid Day”—should […]

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Posted February 2, 2025 by Amber in Bookish Lists / 0 Comments

My January TBR For 2025

Hey everyone. I’m disclosing my January TBR. It has been a very, very, very long time since I’ve been here. It is a new year and I am so ready to go back to my TBR-reading ways. After February of last year (that sounds so weird to type out), I hit the biggest podcast-kick ever and ended up leaving my audiobooks and TBRs behind. Before then, the last TBR post was..*checks notes* August 2023… Monthly TBR is a new feature where I discuss what books I plan to read every month. However, as it is a new year and I am (re)entering my bookish era, I am coming in full force. One of my goals is to read a little bit every day or at least one physical book a week. I’m not certain yet how I’ll determine what to read each week. I decided to go with wintery vibes for my […]

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Posted January 8, 2025 by Amber in Monthly TBR / 0 Comments

Looking Forward To: August 2023

Looking Forward To is a monthly feature where I showcase all of the books, music, shows, movies and everything else that I am looking forward to for the upcoming month. You can view past months’ posts here. It’s been a busy month with work so I haven’t been able to post this until now. This is always one of my favorite posts to do because not only does it remind me of everything I’m interested in, it may also introduce you to new things. Here’s my Looking Forward To August lineup! ~Books~ August 1: A Little Like Waking by Adam Rex The Bewitching Hour (A Tara Prequel) by Ashley Poston The Boy You Always Wanted by Michelle Quach Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin Damned If You Do by Alex Brown Guardians of Dawn: Zhara by S. Jae-Jones I’ll Tell You No Lies by Amanda McCrina The Narrow […]

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Posted August 13, 2023 by Amber in Looking Forward To / 0 Comments

Monthly Recap: July 2023

Monthly Recap is a feature where I recap my life, share books I’ve read, borrowed, and purchased, blog posts you may have missed, shows I’ve watched and give an overall count of my reading progress and more. Well, things have been okay lately. While getting things in order for my dad’s passing, I was off work from the 4th (holiday) through the 9th. My mom and I received my dad’s ashes and it feels weird. Everything pretty much feels weird right now. There are days when there’s so much grief and days when I don’t think a lot about it. I’ve been frequenting the coffee shop a block away from my apartment and I’m pretty much a regular now. It’s where I’ve been doing most of my blogging, other than the library. I like the atmosphere a lot. There’s plants on tables, board games and the occasional book on shelves. […]

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Posted August 7, 2023 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 0 Comments

My #ARCAugust TBR

Happy #ARCAugust! #ARCAugust was started at Read Sleep Repeat back in 2013. This is it’s tenth year! There’s no official post from Read Sleep Repeat but I’m doing it anyway! Kayleigh is also doing an ARC August event on her blog. This is an event to help readers get through their ARCs during the month of August. Like a lot of reviewers and bloggers, I have obtained a lot of physical and electronic ARCs over the year. I am not even going to be touching my physical ARCs…At least, I’m not planning on it. I have a ridiculously large Netgalley and Edelweiss backlist that I want to try to work on. ARC August is going to be my way of putting a very small dent in it. I am a big mood reader so I am going to give myself ten choices each from Netgalley and Edelweiss. This […]

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Posted August 6, 2023 by Amber in Blogging / 0 Comments

Monthly TBR: August 2023

Hey everyone. It’s a new month and that means I’m finally going back to creating a monthly to be read (rather, listened) list for myself. It has been too long since I’ve created a Monthly TBR. Writing my TBR posts in the past have always been really fun for me and I loved doing them. I haven’t done them as much lately but I’m getting back to it. Given my audiobook listening history, I’ll just be sharing what I hope to listen to. I am usually able to get through roughly 20 titles in a good month. Monthly TBR is a new feature where I discuss what books I plan to read every month. I’ll be choosing ten from Libby and ten from Hoopla. I’m not sure if I’ll get through all of them, the occasional hold will be available or I may decide to purchase a new release through LibroFM […]

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Posted August 3, 2023 by Amber in Monthly TBR / 0 Comments

Twenty-One Backlist Contemporary YA Books You Should Read

Ah, a Top Ten Tuesday post! I know, you’re asking yourself, “Amber, is this going to be a post simply rehashing your favorite books from past years?” and the answer is…most likely! It has been forever since I last participated in Top Ten Tuesday and I am rejoining at the best time! Over the past few years, I’ve listened to audiobooks which means I have been able to listen to a lot more backlist titles. I wanted to focus on a list for backlist contemporary YA. I’m excited to share what some of my favorites are. I can’t explain how much I love contemporary YA, it always gives me the chance to relate to characters in a real-life way that I can’t always find in other genres. Top Ten Tuesday was formerly hosted by the ladies at The Broke and The Bookish but is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader […]

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Posted August 1, 2023 by Amber in Top Ten Tuesday / 4 Comments

Looking Forward To: July 2023

Hi everyone. I always love looking ahead to see what I’m excited about, like doing this post at a reasonable time… That clearly did not happen. Nevertheless! July has had a lot of great books and media coming about so I’m posting this anyway. Let’s see if I actually have done anything with it… Looking Forward To is a monthly feature where I showcase all of the books, music, shows, movies and everything else that I am looking forward to for the upcoming month. You can view past months’ posts here. ~Young Adult Books~ July 4th All the Yellow Suns by Malavika Kannan Love & Resistance by Kara K L Chen, Kara Murder On A School Night by Kate Weston The Prince & the Apocalypse by Kara McDowell Stars Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best July 11th A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow Bellegarde by Jamie Lilac […]

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Posted July 30, 2023 by Amber in Looking Forward To / 0 Comments

Ocean Views Covers (Wondrous Covers Wednesday)

Hello everyone. We’re now halfway through the week and I could not be happier. Wednesday are always my favorite day and not only because of this lovely feature I’ve missed so much. Here is my newest edition of Wondrous Covers Wednesday. Please notice the lovely graphic I made for it. Wondrous Covers Wednesday is a weekly feature where I choose to showcase three covers with similar attributes and themes. Sometimes I will share more than three covers and sometimes I won’t necessarily love all of them but still want to share. You can view the page of past editions here. Wondrous Covers Wednesday Covers When I was putting together this post, I went through a ton of 2023 covers to see if anything spoke to me. I was originally going to do a general Water-themed post but when I saw these three, I knew I wanted to feature them. I […]

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Posted July 26, 2023 by Amber in Wondrous Covers Wednesday / 0 Comments

June Monthly Recap (2023)

It has been a while since I last posted. Here is my June monthly recap! Better late than never, right? My life is pretty hectic right now. Monthly Recap is a feature where I recap my life, books I’ve read, borrowed, and purchased, blog posts you may have missed, shows I’ve watched and give an overall count of my reading progress and more. I have been saving up money for the past year to go to ALA with my mom and we finally went! After hopelessly missing (both emotionally and physically) ALA of 2020 and 2021, we made it there. I had a mostly great time that I’ll be discussing later this month. We spent a whole week in Chicago. Everything had started great. Well, not the month itself but Chicago at least! Until… Unfortunately, on the second day of ALA, my dad passed away at home. My dad […]

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Posted July 24, 2023 by Amber in Monthly Recap / 2 Comments