Animal Crossing Readathon Wrap Up (3/9-3/20/20)

Okay, well, I forgot to post this. But, here it is...

The link to the twitter page is here~>Animal Crossing Readathon

Any pictures I put up, unless otherwise stated, came from their twitter account and do not belong to me but the person/people who created it.

Okumuraflowers <<~~Her tweet is where I found the photo below with the prompts

Photo Link<<~~here is the link to her photo just in case you can't see it here/below.

Now, scroll to below the picture to see what prompts I got done and how I did. I will only put the names of each prompt and what I read for them, if I read anything for a particular prompt. And sorry about all the yellow in the picture, I know it's kind of hard to see but again, it isn't mine.

Prompts:

✅1. Resetti-No Good Tea Goes Unpunished by Bree Baker

✅2. K.K. Slider-No Good Tea Goes Unpunished by Bree Baker

❌3. Able Sisters-

✅4. Tom Nook- A Quiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung

❌5. Animal Crossing Game Cube- 

❌6. Isabelle-

Challenges: (from co-hosts)

❌1. Amiee: cosplay your favorite villager or do an animal crossing inspired up look

✅2. Tori: Post a screenshot of your pocket camp

✅3. Diana: post a picture of your TBR or a book you plan to read for it (posted books read)

(My Instagram is linked above) 

There were other things we could have done but I didn't include those. 

Happy Reading, Stay Safe & Sending love to everyone. 💜💜

Bridget 

Backlist Readathon Wrap Up (3/9-3/15/20)

Here are the prompts and the ones I finished. I finished two books for multiple links...I will link my thoughts in just one of them and it will say where it is linked.

☁️ Read your shortest backlist title: A Quiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung (linked) ☁️ Read a book on your backlist that intimidates you the most: ☁️ Read a backlist you added as a recommendation from someone else: A Quiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung ☁️ Read a backlist title you are most excited for: ☁️ Read a diverse backlist title (ex: lgbt rep, fat rep, poc, authors or characters with disabilities): A Quiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung (The diverse I used for this prompt is for mental health) ☁️ Read a backlist with blue on the cover: No Good Tea Goes Unpunished (#2) by Bree Baker (linked)

Two books for multiple links was semi intentional. I knew I wanted to read both and I saw the prompts and filled them into the ones they are at. Both were library books. A Quiet Girl in a Noisy World was an e-book.


Covers:

 

All Sales Final (Good Buy Girls Mystery #5) by Josie Belle

About This Book
Summary
📌Series: #5 
📌Release Date: September 1, 2015
📌Format: Mass Market Paperback
📌Setting: St. Stanley, Virginia
📌Page Count: 276 
📌Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Romance, Fiction
📌Date(s) Read: (Finished) March 17, 2020
📌Rating:   Book:  3/5   

My Rambles:

I don't remember right now exactly when I started this book. Maybe sometimes in February? I just know that I had to sit it down because I kept getting bored. It had aspects of the book that I wasn't expecting and just wasn't really enjoying. I want to say that right around the last hundred pages or so (maybe a bit more), it finally started getting really good and as it went on, it began to pick up. 

This is the final book in the series and as much as I loved the characters and see things wrap up nicely, I am glad I finally finished this book. I am going to miss the characters a lot. It has bargain hunting tips at the end of this book and if I remember correctly, it's that way for all of the books. 

I can say that if you like cozy mysteries and haven't read this series, it is very much worth the read. Just because this book isn't my favorite and didn't enjoy many parts of it, doesn't mean you, the reader of this blog, won't love it. I would suggest for anyone to pick up the first book and give it a good try, see what you think and move forward in the series if you like it enough. 

This series was written under a pseudonym and the name of this actual author is Jenn McKinlay. My favorite series by her is the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series. I just need to get book twelve. If it isn't out already, it will be out soon. Ready to get it when my budget allows. The books in the entire series is linked here~>Good Buy Girls Series.

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And, I just want to say, I hope that everyone is staying safe with this Covid19 situation we have going on. Only go out when necessary and hopefully during the least busiest times of day in your area. Stay safe in this time and use wisdom! I am sending love and prayers out to all of you! If you feel the need to go out, take a walk and make sure you keep a good distance from people you do not know. Not to be mean, but of course, for safety reason is how I mean this. 💜💜💜


Happy Reading,

Bridget

No Good Tea Goes Unpunished (Seaside Cafe Mystery #2) by Bree Baker

About This Book
Summary
📌Series:#2 
📌Release Date: February 26, 2019
📌Format: Mass Market Paperback
📌Setting: 'Charm, North Carolina'
📌Page Count: 330 (334 with recipes)
📌Genre(s): Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Romance
📌Date(s) Read: 3/9-3/13/20
📌Rating:   Book:  4.5/5   Audio:  5/5  Narrator(s): Therese Plummer


☼Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020
-a book by or about a journalist (side character was a journalist)

☼Booklist Readathon
-Read a backlist with blue on the cover

☼March Mystery Madness
-Book with 5 or more words in the title
-Book with a page count divisible by 5 (I am counting the story itself that end on page 330)

☼Animal Crossing Readathon
-Resetti: Don't forget to save! read a book of your choice while using a book mark 
-K.K. Slider: listen to an audiobook or read a book that has musical elements


My Rambles:

This is my second time having to type this blog because it kept just acting janky on me. So, I just deleted the entire blog and restarted. So, I may not have as much to say as I did before. 🤦‍♀️

This book I do believe I enjoyed it a lot more than Live & Let Chai (summary linked). It kept me interested throughout majority of the book. I didn't give it a 5/5 because it's a bit harder for me to give books 5/5 & it wasn't a favorite. 

I loved the characters in the book. The aunts, the main character and even the love interest! Even most of the side characters I enjoyed and have a feeling there will be some who show up in others, or at least the next one. 

Out of all of the suspects, did I keep one at least one or two (or more) in mind the during the most of the book? Yes. Was I right on the ones I thought of? Yes. I had mostly three that I kept in mind when they showed up in the book. One I didn't think much about until they had their "scenes" in the book sometimes. 

When it came to the "whodunit", I was not surprised at all when they were brought in as the killer. I am actually looking forward to the other books in this Series (linked). Three of the four already seem to be out. Hopefully I will be able to get to the third book fairly soon. But, with my mental health this week, I won't push it. That is what took me so long to get through it this week.  

Well, I guess I did have some more to say about the book but just not the same way. 

Rambles are done, for now!

Happy Reading,

Bridget

Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story by Debbie Tung

About This Book
Summary
📌Stand-Alone: 
📌Release Date: November 7, 2017
📌Format: e-book (library)
📌Setting: N/A
📌Page Count: 181
📌Genre(s): Graphic Novel, Nonfiction, Memoir
📌Date(s) Read: 3/11/20
📌Rating:   Book:  5/5   

☼Favorites of 2020
☼Backlist Readathon (3/9-3/15/20)
-Read your shortest backlist book*
-Read a backlist you added as a recommendation from someone else**
-Read a diverse backlist title (i.e.-lgbt, fat rep, P.O.C., Authors/Character with disabilities)***
☼Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020
-A book that has a book on the cover
My Rambles:

So much of this book is me! I could totally relate to so much. And even the parts that don't fit me, I still understood. I laughed at least once while reading this book. She had a boyfriend in the book and that part, right now, I can't relate to because I really don't want to put all of this on anyone (and yes, I've had boyfriends before...lol). I hope that if I do get into a relationship and/or married, I hope they do their best to understand as much as her boyfriend did. He sometimes wondered about things, which is normal when you don't deal with it. And chances are, I will probably end up with an extrovert too...lol..But until that time, I will continue to do my best to deal with it as best I can. 

I am a believer in Jesus/Yeshua so I do read my bible quite a bit. Maybe not as much as I should sometimes but I do read it more than I used to. This isn't me preaching, this is just me talking about my faith because it is a part of who I am. Anxiety & depression is just a part of ,my imperfection as a human being, among others. So, I have to go to God/Yahweh a lot. I do get counseling and it helps many times but not always because he is at our local mental health facility which isn't a Christ believing/talking place. I may have to start going to a place like that soon. I'd like to have someone who can work not only with what I am dealing with anxiety and depression wise but also Spiritually. But I do love my therapist. He's soft spoken and just calm. 

Okay...about the book right? 

Well, what else can I possibly say other than if you deal with anxiety and/or depression, you're an extrovert and trying to understand the introvert in your life, this would be a perfect book to read. I will try to get the book for myself and tell my mom to check it out on her tablet from the library. I think she tries to understand but I think this would help even more. I doubt she's into graphic novels but I will try to get her to read it. I wasn't sure about it either until I started it and it pulled me all the way in!

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*I chose this book because it was published in 2017 although I hadn't heard of it until this year.
**This book was talked about ZoeReads/Zoe Delaney so I counted it as a recommendation
***I chose this book for the diverse book because it talks about an introvert with a mental health issue

Judah's Wife: A Novel of the Maccabees (The Silent Years #2) by Angela Elwell Hunt

About This Book
Summary
📌Series: #2
📌Release Date: January 2, 2018
📌Format: Paperback 
📌Setting:Not Sure
📌Page Count: 384
📌Genre(s): Historical/Bibilical/Christian Fiction
📌Date(s) Read: 2/18-3/3/20
📌Rating:   Book:  4/5   Audio:  4/5  Narrator(s): Rachel Botchan

🌼Popsugar Reading Challenge:
    -a book with a main character in their 20's 
(Dual POVs so I am counting Judah as a main character and he was in his 20's)
My Rambles:

(Again, I began typing this out as I read it and in some parts, it may show)

This was a strong start for me & I really loved Leah & Judah! I had my moments I got a bit bored but I think it was more me than the book as this isn't a genre I'm used to, yet! I plan on getting used to it though. I want to read the rest of this series and some others in the Biblical Fiction area. 

There is a bit of a connection throughout each book, in one way or another. By scanning the summary of the next book and even this one to Egypt's Sister. Read each summary as you get to each book. I skimmed over the third books summary just to see if there was but without getting any possible spoilers (boy do I want to read it in its entirety! lol).

Now that I have finished this book, I can easily say that it was not an easy read! Not because it was a bad book but hard some hard to read moments. If you haven't read this yet, go into it prepared to want to set it down sometimes. If you cry with books, get yourself plenty of tissue and possibly some eye drops for the red and dry eyes because this book might take you there. I'm not a huge crying person when it comes to books (or period) but this was a struggle for me. I already was struggling with my mental health. This didn't make it any easier.

There is a trigger warning for abuse and talking about abuse. So be prepared for that. 

With all of that, it was a really good book. Not perfect, but really good. This got a 4/5 because it is our of my comfort zone still and I got bored a couple times but mostly because my mental health was already struggling. So, it was more me than the book itself.