Blog Tour: The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (Review, Excerpt)

She was in the wrong place…

Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers’ hideaway tucked inside a cave. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain’s bed…

He found her at the wrong time…

Known to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby actually transports essential goods and documents for the British government. Setting sail on a time-sensitive voyage to Portugal, he’s stunned to find a woman waiting for him in his cabin. Surely, his imagination is getting the better of him. But no, she is very real—and his duty to the Crown means he’s stuck with her. 

Can two wrongs make the most perfect right?

When Andrew learns that she is a Bridgerton, he knows he will likely have to wed her to avert a scandal—though Poppy has no idea that he is the son of an earl and neighbor to her aristocratic cousins in Kent. On the high seas, their war of words soon gives way to an intoxicating passion. But when Andrew’s secret is revealed, will his declaration of love be enough to capture her heart…?

About the Book

The Other Miss Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
Series
A Bridgertons Prequel (Jump to the Series on Amazon)
Genre
Adult
Historical Romance
Publisher
Avon Books
Publication Date
November 20, 2018
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2019 Beat the Backlist TBR

First things first: Beat the Backlist is a year long challenge, the focus of which is knocking older books off your to-read list. They can be any genre, any format, any length. There are just a few rules:

* The book must have been published in 2018 or earlier to count. It can be in any format (including an ARC/eARC) as long as the release date is earlier than 2019. 
* You have to start and finish the book in 2019 to count it. Any books started in 2018 and finished in 2019 do not count. Any books started in 2019 and finish in 2020 also do not count. 

* The challenge runs from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019

Sign up here if you're interested. This post also has a lot more info about the challenge and an FAQ and graphics and fun stuff like that. :) 

This year I'm participating in the Hogwarts House mini challenge as part of Hufflepuff house. You can read more about that here. 

I didn't do great in 2018 at the Beat the Backlist challenge, but that's partially because I set all sorts of weird extra perimeters around it for myself, mostly around only counting books I already owned physical copies of before the challenge started. I think my idea was trying to conquer Book Mountain (which is what I call the physical TBR shelves that are taking over my bedroom, which at least count contained 411 books - this is just physical books I own on my TBR and does not include ebooks or rereads... URGH). Not only did I NOT read many books from Book Mountain, the thing managed to GROW AND MUTATE over the year. Like, a LOT. 

ANYHOO. In 2019 I'm doing the challenge *as intended* thankyouverymuch, which is convenient because I'm so behind on ARCs that I have about 50 past due ones for books published in 2017 and 2018 that will also count for this challenge in 2019. SO BONUS, I can also use #BeatTheBacklist2019 to conquer my past due ARCs as well as Book Mountain, MWAHAHAHHAHAHA!

My goal for Beat the Backlist 2019 is 100 books (I know, lofty goals, right?) and to kick things off I put together a super tentative TBR list. This list is comprised almost entirely of past due ARCs (some aren't quite past due yet, but by the time 2019 rolls around they will be!) and books I purchased off Book Outlet and never read. That's right, I am a book dragon, sitting gloriously atop my hoard. ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR! I've created a Goodreads shelf for #2019BeatTheBacklist and my TBR is also below, if you want to see what I'm going to try to knock out. This is more just guidelines than actual rules, of course, and there's no way I'm getting through ALL of these, but the list does give me at least some sort of place to focus. :) 

How about you? Are you going to be a part of the Beat the Backlist challenge for 2019? How about the Hogwarts House mini challenge? If so, what house are you?
(My TBR list is under the cut, so click to read more if you got here on my main page, because it's loooooong.)

Discussion: 2019 Reading Challenges

I can't believe 2018 is almost over - where the heck did the year go? Of course with the end of the year approaching, sign ups for 2019 reading challenges are popping up all over the place. I feel like I over committed myself in 2018 and thus didn't quite do as great as I could have on any of the challenges, so I'm going to be more selective for 2019 and just commit to THREE challenges - two reading challenges and one blogging one.

Goodreads

There is, of course, the obligatory Goodreads challenge. For 2019 I'm setting mine at 150 books and LEAVING IT THERE, DANGIT. This year I hit my goal early and increased it, and while I'm probably on track to still hit my increased goal of 175 by the end of the year, I'm going to set it and forget it at 150. That's plenty of books, me! That's actually a really high goal, but I'm going to need it that high to reach the goal for my next challenge, which is...

Beat the Backlist

I did NOT do well at all on this one this year, but I'd also set myself a really weirdly specific set of side rules, specifically I was going to try to use this challenge to defeat my book mountain (which I know now is 411 physical books living in my bedroom...) This year I'm going to do the Beat the Backlist challenge as written and count all books published 2018 and earlier, so it will include my physical book mountain as well as that giant backlog of ARCs I need to conquer (which I've come to think of as digital book mountain...) and trying to cram as many Kindle Unlimited books in as a I can before my membership runs out at the end of February! I am going to smash this one out of the park this year, and I'm setting my goal at a whopping 100 books! (I'll do a separate blog post later with at least a partial TBR, but it's not going to have ALL of the books I have because my pool will have 65+ egalleys, over 400 physical books, plus a heckuva lot of KU books...)

If you're interested in this one, sign ups are open here.

Discussion Challenge

(hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight) I really enjoyed participating in the 2018 Discussion Challenge this year (#LetsDiscuss2018, even though I forgot to use the hashtag literally EVERY TIME I share a post...) and I think it pushed me to grow as a blogger beyond just posting book reviews, blog tours, and cover reveals. I don't see an official sign up open yet, but considering it looks like Nicole and Shannon have been hosting this challenge for a few years I'm hopeful that it'll be going on again in 2019, and I'm looking forward to participating again in 2019. ♥

Of course, I'll sign up for shorter challenges and readathons as they come up, but there are going to be the big year long ones I sign up for, and I am CUTTING MYSELF OFF AT THESE THREE, DANGIT.

Do you do official reading challenges? Which ones are you signing up for? And HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?!

Book Review: The Boyfriend Game by Stella Starling

The Boyfriend Game

Author: Stella Starling
Series: #BOYFRIENDSBYBLOVED, book 1
Publisher: ? (July 24, 2018)
Kindle edition, 302 pages (Kindle Unlimited)
Goodreads     |     Amazon

Summary
Fake boyfriends for a week? Yes, please. 

Carter Olson never expected he’d get a chance to date his older brother’s best friend, Rip Taylor.
Wished for it? Yes.
Fantasized about it? Possibly too much.
But ever thought it would actually happen? Not in a million years, since Rip is straight. But even if it’s just to try and win a gay game show, having Rip for a boyfriend—even a temporary/pretend one—is still the best thing to happen to Carter in... well, ever.
Especially because Rip’s so good at it.
Amazingly good, actually.
So good that Carter starts to hope that maybe it won’t have to end once the show’s over…

If there are two things Rip Taylor lives for, they’re having fun and being there for his friends, so a trip to Vegas to help surprise his best friend’s girlfriend with a big, flashy proposal sounds awesome. And even more fun? His bestie's plan to try and win some prize money for the wedding by signing the two of them up as contestants on the The Boyfriend Game.
The game show is sponsored by the gay dating app bLoved, and Rip is all in. He may be straight, but he's never been narrow, and when circumstances (a.k.a. a best friend who can't hold his tequila) mean that little Carter Olson gets roped into being Rip's fake boyfriend instead, that’s almost better… because who wouldn’t be able to be a convincing boyfriend to Carter?
After all, Carter’s hella sweet.
Kind of adorable, actually.
And really, really easy to get into character with…

Winning The Boyfriend Game? Rip and Carter have it in the bag.

The Boyfriend Game is a gay romance novel of approximately 75,000 words that contains some confusion about tops and bottoms, a straight guy who realizes he isn’t, an ice cube that melts much too fast, and the kind of luck that can only be found in Vegas. Every Stella Starling romance takes place in the same interconnected, contemporary world. The Boyfriend Game is a standalone book with cameos from other Stella Starling stories, a #boyfriendsbybLoved spinoff that takes place around the time of the epilogue from Ready For Love (Book One of the Semper Fi series). 

Blog Tour: The New Year Boyfriend by Zoey Gong (Review, Excerpt, Giveaway)

At 27, Winnie is on the verge of becoming an old maid. And she’s just fine with that. In medical school and studying for admission to an exclusive training program, Winnie just needs a few more years to get her life in order before she can even think about getting married.

But her mother has other plans.

Winnie’s mother orders her to return home for Chinese New Year to meet a young man she is sure Winnie will agree to marry if she only meets him. But Winnie won’t let anything—even her overbearing mother—stand in the way of her own goals and dreams. So she does the one thing she is sure will get her mother off her back—she hires a New Year boyfriend.

Kai’s life is a wreck. Working two jobs to help pay for his mother’s cancer treatments, Kai has no time for family, fun, or love. But when he sees a job advertisement for posing as a New Year boyfriend, he can’t pass up the opportunity for some quick and easy cash.

It was supposed to be strictly a business arrangement. But as Winnie and Kai’s worlds come crashing down around them, their fake relationship might be the only real thing they have left.

About the Book

The New Year Boyfriend
by Zoey Gong
Series
n/a; standalone
Genre
Adult
Contemporary Romance
Publisher
Red Empress Publishing
Publication Date
November 20, 2018
Purchase Your Copy Today!  JUST $0.99 THROUGH NOVEMBER 25TH!
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Discussion: Keeping up with reviews (aka my ongoing existential crisis AHHHH!!!)

If you're a book blogger, you likely know what it's like to be constantly behind - behind on your TBR, behind on reviews, behind on posts, challenges, discussions... Heck, just as a reader you may exist in a state of slowly being crushed by your TBR. I myself have 411 books in my bedroom. This is physical copies of books I have not read yet - so not counting books I want to reread and ebooks. This is my "short list" TBR, and started out as one three-shelf bookcase of books that were supposed to be immediately on deck to read next, and then it sort of expanded and grew until I had several bookcases in my room and now there are 411 books... But this book isn't about being crushed to death by Book Mountain! That's a post for another day, haha. Let's talk about writing reviews for all those books.

I try to write reviews for books I've read as soon as possible after finishing them, but somehow I let myself get behind and OH MAN, I am BEHIND. I don't know if I just finished a bunch of books really quickly (maybe? I did weirdly finish three in one day because I wrapped up an audiobook and read two novellas...) or if I just haven't made time to sit and write reviews... But I've got 6 books I've read that I need to write reviews for, and they're sitting there glaring at me and making me feel so guilty. AHH! 

I think a part of my problem is that I made a concentrated effort to read more Kindle Unlimited books before my subscription expires at the end of December, and there's no rating system or need for approval to get more ARCs to keep me timely in submitting reviews like with books I get from NetGalley or Edelweiss. So many books I've read this year have been ARCs/egalleys, and I want to get the reviews submitted into NetGalley/Edelweiss/BookishFirst so I can get the points/credit/percentage/rating so they will continue to trust me with more ARCs and egalleys. With Kindle Unlimited, writing reviews just takes up valuable time I could be spending reading more KU books before the clock runs out on my membership, and there's no payoff (for lack of a better word...) for me to take that time to marshal my thoughts and write a review. Because writing even a quick and not very good review takes time, effort, and brain power - ESPECIALLY when you've read a few books since you finished the book in question, and then you have to try to remember which details are actually from that book and what might be from another book you've read since then! (Which is why I try to write reviews before starting another book!!)

Two of my six overdue reviews are ARCs that I will need to write reviews for (and my goal is to finish them today). One is an audiobook I purchased, another is an audiobook from the library, and the other two are Kindle Unlimited books. 

What do you think, should I just write the ones for the ARCs and just write off the other four as lost causes? 

They were all OK reads - not bad, but not spectacular, or I'd have written reviews by now. I think three of the four of them could be summed up as "Cute, but nothing super special. A predictable but fun read." 

Do I really want to spend the effort to find more to say? Or should I just, as Elsa would say, let it go?

Do you write reviews for the books you read? If yes, do you review every book you read, or just books that stand out in some way? How do you decide?

Guest Post: Peekaboo's Corner - KissCon Weekend Affair

Shoutout to Peekaboo for this fabulous guest post on KISSCON - read on for the tea. (Did I use that right? I can't keep up with these kids and their slang.)

Here’s your skinny on the upcoming KissCon Weekend Affair in Chicago, put on by Avon. What you’re thinking right now is “what the hell is a kiss con, and how can I put my name on the list?”

The answer is this:

Avon Publishing is doing their very first three day romance novel convention. They’ve done day long events before, but this is going to be the big kahuna, and they’re pulling out all the stops.

You have three options for registration:

Butterfly Kiss (Price: $75)

You get in to the convention on Saturday, which means you get access to all the panels and book signings that happen Saturday, as well as access to Saturday Night Sparkles party (vintage and wine themed!)  PLUS you get two complimentary galleys from the publisher.

Sounds frickin’ amazing, right?

But wait! There’s more!

The Smooch (Price: $150)

Friday and Saturday access. So all panels and author signings, plus the Saturday Night Sparkles party, entry into the Friday night author mixer, and FOUR complimentary galleys.

French Kiss (Price: $185)

It’s always fun when there’s some tongue! You get everything seen above, PLUS early entrance to the author signing (beat those lines!), a ticket to the Sunday breakfast, and a commemorative mug, or other swaggity item.

You bet your cute tush this is the one I’m going for. It’s more expensive, but how often do I get to go to something like this. Also, let’s take a look at the guest list, shall we?

SALLY THORNE. SALLY THORNE IS GOING TO BE THERE.

Author of The Hating Game and 99 Percent Mine, which Elley and I both vomited 5 stars all over because they were sooooo good!!

Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system…

There will be tons of amazing authors, Sarah Maclean, Sonali Dev, Tessa Bailey, Beverly Jenkins, Eloisa James, and so many more! (Click here for the complete and glossy list.)

Not only will they be doing signings all three days, and attending the various parties and events, they will also be on different panels which look frankly amazeballs, such as “From Tame to Flame: Heat Levels in Romance” and “Feminist Friday: Romance edition”.

Yes please. To every single one of these. (Your complimentary link to the schedule resides here.)

All in all, it will be amazing. PLUS you get to hang out with your two favorite bloggers. (Us. I meant us.) Think you’ll go? Let us know! We will definitely have coffee and low-key stalk authors with you.

Book Review: What If It's Us by

What If It's Us

Author: Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
Publisher: Harper Teen (October 9, 2018)
Hardcover, 437 pages
Goodreads     |     Amazon

Summary
Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it.

Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend’s things.

But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them?

Maybe nothing. After all, they get separated.

Maybe everything. After all, they get reunited.

But what if they can’t quite nail a first date . . . or a second first date . . . or a third?

What if Arthur tries too hard to make it work . . . and Ben doesn’t try hard enough?

What if life really isn’t like a Broadway play?

But what if it is?

Book Review: Sealed With a Kiss by Ariana Nash (Pure Textuality PR)

Sealed With a Kiss

Author: Ariana Nash

Series: Silk and Steel, book 0.5

Publisher: Crazy Ace Publishing (November 6, 2018)

42 pages

Goodreads     |     Amazon

Summary

"You can have all of me for one night only. Say no, and I'll leave, but say yes and I'll give you a night you'll remember forever." 

As one of the few remaining elven assassins, Eroan Ilanea doesn't have much time for pleasure. Until a messenger arrives from a nearby village and suddenly pleasure is all he can think about. The kind of pleasure he's never surrendered to before. The messenger is a tease, a vision of elicit delights, and he'll be gone in the morning. 

This night, Eroan just might say yes... 

Sealed with a Kiss is a short, sexy, m/m story that takes place several years before events in the novel Silk & Steel (to be published in 2019). 

Check out my review of 

Sealed With a Kiss 

over on the Pure Textuality PR blog!

Book Review: Mistletoe Kisses by Marnie Blue

Mistletoe Kisses

Author: Marnie Blue
Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck (October 22, 2018)
Kindle edition, 150 pages
Goodreads     |     Amazon

Summary
For Officer Justin Weaver, Christmas is the most hideous time of the year. To improve his “holiday cheer,” he’s been put on Officer Kringle duty, collecting toys for the Ho-Ho-Patrol.

It’s a week in holiday hell.

Worse, it comes with an elf—his little sister’s gorgeous best friend—but Lilly Maddox isn’t so little anymore. And as an annoyingly festive reporter looking to make her mark, she’s there to document his every move.

Justin’s always had a thing for Lilly, but he refuses to go there with her. Ever. Not after watching what his mom went through as a cop’s wife. But now that they’re trapped in his squad car, avoiding her just got a lot more complicated…

Book Review: Calendar Girl by Georgia Beers (Pure Textuality PR)

Did you know I'm a reviewer over on Pure Textuality PR's blog now? It's true! I'll post a little note here when reviews go live on Pure Textuality's blog so you can be sure to pop over there and check them out.

Check out my review of Calendar Girl
over on the Pure Textuality PR blog!

Calendar Girl

Author: Georgia Beers
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (November 13, 2018)
233 pages
Goodreads     |     Amazon

Summary
For Addison Fairchild, success is a guarantee. Groomed since childhood to run a division of Fairchild Enterprises, she takes her birthright seriously. Maybe a little too seriously if you ask her friends. But work is so much easier than the rest of her life. Her employees hate her, her best friend is worried about her, and her last date was hide-in-the-restroom awkward. If all that wasn't bad enough, she's stuck with a new cheerful-happy-annoyingly-morning-person assistant just when the head of FE is about to choose a successor―a job Addison wants so badly, she can taste it. 

For Katie Cooper, money has never been important. That is, until her father gets dementia and needs full-time care. As the bills start to pile up, Katie takes a second job as a temporary personal assistant. Two minutes and one spilled cup of coffee later, she's sure she's not ready for Addison Fairchild―her hard head, her know-it-all attitude, or her gorgeous face. 

Forced to work together, Addison and Kate discover that opposites really do attract.

Book Review: The Decoy Date by Mira Lyn Kelly

The Decoy Date

Author: Mira Lyn Kelley

Series: The Wedding Date, book 4

Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (December 4, 2018)

Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages

Goodreads     |     Amazon

SummaryFake relationship. Real feelings. Big problems.

Brody O'Donnel doesn't believe in happily-ever-afters—at least, not for himself. But he wants the best for his vivacious, beautiful friend Gwen Danes, and he's tired of watching her pine for a clueless man. Figuring a little bit of jealousy will motivate the guy, Brody proposes a fake relationship. It's an outrageous plan, but Gwen figures there's no harm in it—until they share a passionate kiss she never saw coming.

Suddenly, Gwen's fighting a growing attraction to a man she knows she can't have. After all, he's just faking it...isn't he?

1 Year Blogiversary + Unbirthday giveaway

Today is my 1 year blogiversary!

Let's all congratulate us with another cup of tea

Because November is pretty great, next week is also my birthday. Imagine that - my blogiversary and my birthday, both in the span of a week!

To celebrate my 1 year blogiversary and my birthday, I'm hosting an Unbirthday Giveaway.

Unbirthday Giveaway

This one's going to be US only (international friends, feel free to read the fine print at the bottom of this post!) Giveaway will remain open for entries through November 30, and I'll choose and notify a winner on December 1.

The winner will receive an Unbirthday present, which will consist of:

• my favorite copy of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass 
• (if I can find another copy... because you can't have mine!!)
• 5-6 ARCs (all from 2018-2019, not Wonderland related)
• a copy of Mad Hatters & March Hares edited by Ellen Datlow
• Alice in Wonderland inspired coloring books & postcards
• cute tea things
• whatever else the Wonderland whimsy leads me to put in the package on the day I wrap it up

Now blow the candle out, my dears, and make your wish come true.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

INT friends fine print: Giveaway is US only - unless you're an INT person who wants to pay the difference in shipping, whatever it ends up being, in which case I'll happily pay the $13.65 flat rate I'd be paying to ship to the US and you can PayPal me the difference, LOL. If that sounds worth it to you, then BIRTHDAY FUN FOR EVERYONE! The package would be shipping from Shoreview, MN, USA, zipcode 55126 and would contain approx 10 paperback books as well as some other fairly lightweight other items. I may end up needed to use a large flat rate envelope, in which case I'd end up paying $18.90 US flat rate, which again I'd subtract from the total shipping cost if you wanted to enter the giveaway and pay for shipping to you. Sorry I can't be more exact about how much this thing is going to weigh, but if you wanted to pick 10ish paperbacks and a teapot (because Wonderland, right?) and put them in a box and weigh it, that should give you a good estimate for weight and allow you to estimate shipping costs to your country. 

Discussion: What to do with old ARCs

I recently won a box of ARCs, and while I'm super grateful to have won them, I'm also a bit at a loss as to what to DO with them. Of course I'm going to read the majority of them (duh!) and pass along some newer ones to other bloggers for review. But then some of them are ARCs for books that were published in 2015/2016, so I don't really feel right about passing them along, but I can't really just throw books in the garbage...

Edited to add: I've seen several authors put up posts PLEADING with reviewers not to pass on ARCs to schools/readers etc. These copies are meant for review purposes and are NOT "real books" (even though they're masquerading as them in pretty covers) and are filled with typographical errors and in many cases are missing entire scenes and things. One point brought up was that it does the reader a disservice to read an ARC instead of the finished, polished copy of the book and that these books are for REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY. ARCs are not the best version of the book, y'all. You are missing out on some glory and beauty by reading only the ARC and not the final version.

This is where you come in, bookish webiverse! What do you do with old ARCs? I know they're just draft copies in fancy covers, not meant to be forever books. (Don't let the cover fool you! These are not "real books!")

I have mighty aspirations to turn the pages into craft projects. Here are some of the ideas I found so far. Since the holiday season is approaching, you can see my mind kind of went hard in very Christmas-y ways... ;)

Bookish paper ornaments

I love this adorable monogrammed paper star ornament from Jaime Costiglio - check out her blog for step by step direction. 

These book page star ornaments are also really cute - you can find the how to guide over at Harbour Breeze Home. 

I must just be into star ornaments right now... this 5-pointed origami star ornament tutorial can be found over at Homemade Gifts Made Easy

And if you want to get a little fancier with your paper folding, this tutorial over at Krista Sew Inspired for (yet another) paper star ornament is glorious.

Bookish wreaths

This Christmas book page wreath is gorgeous, and you can find the tutorial over at Sparkles of Sunshine.

Another variation on the book page wreath is to use rolled pages fanning outwards. Vintage Paint and More has a good tutorial on how to get started on this type of wreath.

Origami & papercraft

I could always use book pages as origami paper to make things like lucky stars and flowers, and even if I turn out to stink at the art of folding paper there are non-origami ways of making paper flowers too.

Do you have any good ideas about what to do with ARCs for books that have been published for a while? Is it OK/good/better to pass them on to other readers? Should I try to "upcycle" them? 

Monthly Wrap-Up :: October 2018

2018 Reading Challenge

Books read in October: 15

Books read in 2018: 155/175

And now I'm kind of going "Whyyyy did I increase my challenge goal from 150 to 175 again? I could be DONE right now!" hahahahahahahhahaha arrrrghhhh *flumph*

#LetsDiscuss2018

hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight

Progress in October: 4

Total Progress: 23/21 - COMPLETE!

I'd set my goal at 21 to be in the 21-30: Chatty Kathy. I guess I'll set a new goal of 31 to hit "Terrifically Talkative" but DANG that's going to be hard to go with less than 2 months left in the year... CONSTANT VIGILENCE!
New Goal: 31

#2018BeatTheBacklist

hosted by Novel Knight

Progress in September: 0? 2?

Total Progress: 6/20? I'm not even sure... I set me own weird rules for this one to try to read my physical TBR mountain, but I've added to many new books this year and I can't recall what existed in my physical TBR before the beginning of the year and what didn't. I've read books published before 2018 which is what the actual challenge calls for... I might need to just abandon ship on this one, guys. 

#2018AtoZChallenge

hosted by Ginger Mom & the Kindle Quest

Progress in October: 0

Total Progress: 23/26

Letters remaining: Q, X, Z (The hard ones!) You guys, with Q, X, and Z remaining, I just might have to call it quits at 23...