Sunday Post #633

Sunday Post #633

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This week it was back to my normal lower amount of energy levels, which was a bit of a shame. I wrote another new discussion post and still have to finish another one that’s only half done currently. I also published a new discussion post this week about […]

Posted February 2, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 12 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: 10 Opening Lines From Books I Read

Lola’s Ramblings: 10 Opening Lines From Books I Read

For today’s post I want to share some opening lines I liked from books that I read. Thanks to Kit from Metaphors and Moonlight for giving me the idea for this post. I looked at some of the first lines of books I read in the past year or two and compiled them in this post. For this post I always looked at the opening line of the first chapter and ignored prefaces or prologues if the book had them. It was fun looking at opening lines and finding some that would be fun to share and I also realized […]

Posted February 1, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 5 Comments

Review: Ghosts of the Resistance by Janna Ruth

Review: Ghosts of the Resistance by Janna Ruth

Ghosts of the Resistance (Parisian Ghosts #3) by Janna Ruth My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: I’ve given the ghosts everything. Now they’re coming for my powers. All my life, I’ve talked to ghosts, helped them fulfil their last wishes, and made friends with them. I thought I had a good grip on the afterlife. Boy, was I wrong. There are things afoot in the beyond that make my nightmares have nightmares. After wiping a powerful ghost from existence, his followers are out for blood. My blood. As if that […]

Posted January 31, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Classified as Murder by Miranda James

Review: Classified as Murder by Miranda James

Classified as Murder (Cat in the Stacks #2) by Miranda James narrated by Erin Bennett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must catalog a killer in this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series. Suspecting that someone is stealing from him, the aging and eccentric James Delacorte wants Charlie to do an inventory on his rare book collection. Soon after they begin, Delacorte is found dead at his desk, leaving Charlie with the bigger task of solving his murder. […]

Posted January 29, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #1) by Malka Older narrated by Lindsey Dorcus My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Science Fiction Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university—and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse […]

Posted January 27, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 6 Comments

Sunday Post #632

Sunday Post #632

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? I got quite a bit done this week, which was nice. I actually felt energetic and it was good to be able to use that energy to get things done. The weather was kinda gloomy and grey again for several days and I am hoping for some sunny […]

Posted January 26, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 18 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: Reading Statistics for 2024

Lola’s Ramblings: Reading Statistics for 2024

For today’s post I wanted to share some of my 2024 reading statistics. I always track a lot of things for the books I read and I enjoyed looking at some of the statistics. Reading Statistics for 2024 Some Interesting Stats Total Books Read: 193 Author I read the most books from: Laura Greenwood, I read 20 of her books this year. Book I read most often: Doll Girl Meets Dead Guy by Lidiya Foxglove, I re-read it twice last year. Physical Book read: only 1, A Different Sort of Normal by Abigail Balfe. Oldest published book I read: an […]

Posted January 25, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 12 Comments