Monday, July 7, 2025
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Sunday Post #460: There's a Reason for the Late Post, But It's Not a Good One Lol
Thursday, July 3, 2025
2025 Mid-Year Check In: Reading Challenges
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Monthly Wrap-Up: June 2025
This was another rough reading month. Though not as bad as last month 😅 This month, I read a total of 4 books, which was about 916 pages. That's about 237 MORE pages than last month! So not too bad, but still pretty bad 😂
- 1 was a full-length novel, and 3 were manga
- 3 were part of a series, and 1 was a standalone
- No series were started or finished this month lol
- All 4 were finished copies
- All 4 were physical books
- All 4 were 4-star reads
- All 4 were traditionally published
- All 4 were by authors I've previously read
- 1 was an adult book, 3 were YA
- 1 was a mystery thriller, and 3 were action
Monday, June 30, 2025
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Sunday Post #459: The Stress...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Review: Cells at Work (Vol. 3) by Akane Shimizu
Title: Cells at Work: Vol. 3
Series: Cells at Work #3
Previous books in this series: Cells at Work #1 | Cells at Work #2
Author: Akane Shimizu
Genre: YA, manga, science, action
Publication date: March 2017
Published by: Kodansha Comics
Source: Borrowed from library
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Synopsis: Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she’s not alone... she’s got a whole human body’s worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets — everyone’s got to come together if they want to keep you healthy!
In this volume of Cells at Work!, we looked at the circulatory system, the common cold, and acquired immunity. As someone who loves medical science, I love this series and the way it describes things!
Monday, June 23, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Sunday Post #458: Disappointment
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Review: Cells at Work (Vol. 2) by Akane Shimizu
Title: Cells at Work: Vol. 2
Series: Cells at Work #2
Previous book in this series: Cells at Work #1
Author: Akane Shimizu
Genre: YA, manga, science, action
Publication date: December 2016
Published by: Kodansha Comics
Source: Borrowed from library
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Synopsis: Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she’s not alone... she’s got a whole human body’s worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets — everyone’s got to come together if they want to keep you healthy!
This series is so much fun! I have loved the anime for such a long time, and I am really glad to finally be getting into the manga! I love it! It’s just so cute and informative, and it honestly does a relatively decent job of explaining medical things and making them easy to understand using these anthropomorphic cells.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Review: The Romara Confrontation (Colonial Explorer Corps #5) by Julia Huni
Title: The Romara Confrontation
Series: Colonial Explorer Corps #5
Previous books in this series: The Earth Concurrence (#1) | The Grissom Contention (#2) | The Saha Declination (#3) | The Darenti Paradox (#4)
Author: Julia Huni
Genre: Adult, sci-fi
Publication date: April 24th 2025
Published by: IPH Media
Source: eARC from author for review
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Synopsis: Two civilizations. One planet. No second chances.
Lieutenant Serenity “Siti” Kassis has trained her whole life for first contact missions, but nothing prepares her for this—arriving at a promising new world only to find it already inhabited by an advanced, spacefaring civilization. As acting commander, it’s her call whether to push forward or back away. One wrong move could spark a conflict neither side can afford.
On Lunesco, Quinn Templeton is expecting a quiet lunch with an old friend when the planetary defense system flags an unidentified ship in orbit. Since the revolution, she’s learned to negotiate, but first contact with an unknown species? That’s a whole new challenge.
Siti and Quinn could navigate mistrust, politics, and the weight of history to build something neither of their people expected—a future together. But they have to meet first. And something--or someone--is trying to keep them apart.
The Romara Confrontation is book 5 in the Colonial Explorer Corps, and follows Siti, Joss, and Derek Lee as they meet the heroes of the Krimson Empire. If you haven't read either series, I recommend you start with book 1 of the CEC series. If you're short on time, you can jump in at book 4. This book can be read without reading Krimson Empire first. (But I hope you'll read it, too!)
I have been looking forward to reading this book since the author talked about writing a crossover between the Colonial Explorer Corps series and the Krimson Empire series. And it met all the expectations I had for this book. It was so good!
Monday, June 16, 2025
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Sunday Post #457: Library Fun
Saturday, June 14, 2025
2025 Summer Library Program
One thing I look forward to every summer is our library's Summer Program. I've been participating in it for like 6 years now, I think? I'm always terrible at it, but I find it fun nonetheless. Lol. This year, the program goes from June 6th to August 15th.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Review: Cells at Work (Vol. 1) by Akane Shimizu
Title: Cells at Work: Vol. 1
Series: Cells at Work #1
Author: Akane Shimizu
Genre: YA, manga, science, action
Publication date: November 2016
Published by: Kodansha Comics
Source: Borrowed from library
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Synopsis: A BLOOD-PUMPING JOB
Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she's not alone... she's got a whole human body's worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets—everyone's got to come together if they want to keep you healthy!
It has been a minute since I last read a manga, but I was very excited to read this one because I loved the anime when I watched it a couple years back. And the manga was just as good!
Monday, June 9, 2025
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Sunday Post #456: reMarkable
Monday, June 2, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Sunday Post #455: Bittersweet Meeting
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Monthly Wrap-Up: May 2025
This was my worst reading month yet 😬 Read 3 books, which was a total of 679 pages... 1144 pages less than the previous month 🫣 Which is particularly funny because last month was my best reading month 🫠😂
- 2 were full-length novels (1 a re-read) and 1 manga
- 2 were part of a series, and 1 was a standalone
- I caught up on 1 series
- All 3 were finished copies
- All 3 were physical books
- 1 was a 4.5 stars, 1 was 4 stars, and 1 was 3 stars
- All 3 were traditionally published
- 1 was by a new-to-me author, and 2 were by authors I've previously read
- 1 was an adult book, 2 were YA
- 2 were horror, 1 was action
Monday, May 26, 2025
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Sunday Post #454: In Limbo
Monday, May 19, 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Sunday Post #453: The Struggle is Real
Monday, May 12, 2025
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Sunday Post #452: Finally Some Good News!
Monday, May 5, 2025
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Sunday Post #451: Back From a Much Needed Vacation
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2025
I was hoping that April would be the month where I would start posting more... anyway, that didn't happen 😂 And I did miss the last couple of days because I was out of town visiting family, soo (I had a blast! I will probably talk a little bit more about it in my next Sunday Post). Anyway, in April I read 5 books again (that's been 5 books every month so far this year 😂). But this month it was 1823 pages, which is about 600 pages more than the previous month, AND also the month where I read the most, so that's progress!
- 4 were full-length novels, and 1 novella
- 2 were part of a series, and 3 were standalones
- I started 1 series, caught up on another, and finished 0 😅
- 3 were finished copies, and 2 were ARCs
- 1 was a physical book, 1 ebook, and 1 was a physical/audio combo
- 1 was a 5-star read, 1 4.5 stars, 1 4 stars, 1 3.5 stars, and 1 3 stars
- 4 were traditionally published, 1 was indie published
- 3 were by a new-to-me author, and 2 were by authors I've previously read
- All 5 were adult books
- 4 were sci-fi, 1 was horror
Monday, April 21, 2025
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Sunday Post #450: A Mini Vacation
Monday, April 14, 2025
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Sunday Post #449: I Thought I Was Getting a Break...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Review: Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes
Title: Cold Eternity
Author: S.A. Barnes
Genre: Adult, sci-fi, horror
Publication date: April 8th 2025
Published by: Tor Nightfire
Source: eARC from publishers via Netgalley
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Synopsis: Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago...
The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.
It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from...
I have really enjoyed the novels by S.A. Barnes. They aren’t quite 5-star reads for me, but they are definitely enjoyable and deliver on both the sci-fi and horror aspects! Plus, the mystery in this book was intriguing and I enjoyed trying to unravel it! And two pages into this book and I was already loving the premise of it as well! Halley has had it rough and accepts a shady job as a caretaker/security on this sort-of abandoned spaceship. And I say sort of because this ship holds a bunch of cryogenically frozen bodies.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Sunday Post #448: What A Catch
Saturday, April 5, 2025
2025 Quarter Year Crisis Book Tag
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Monthly Wrap-Up: March 2025
I... don't even know where the month went 😅 I had a really rough time this month, but I think I'm finally getting out of my rut. In March, I only read 5 books (again), which was about 1274 pages. That's about 20 pages less than the previous month 😅
- 2 were full-length novels, and 3 manga
- 4 were part of a series and 1 was a standalone
- I finished 1 series this month!
- All 5 were finished copies
- 1 was a physical book and 4 were an ebooks
- 1 was a 5-star read, 3 were 4-star reads, and 1 was 3.5 stars
- All 5 were traditionally published
- 1 was by a new-to-me author and 4 were by authors I've previously read
- 1 was an adult book, and 4 YA
- All 5 were fiction books
- 1 was high fantasy, and 4 were action
Monday, March 31, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Sunday Post #447: Oh the Chaos...
Monday, March 24, 2025
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Sunday Post #446: Just Trying to Survive
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Review: Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Death Games #1) by Kristen Simmons
Title: Find Him Where You Left Him Dead
Series: Death Games #1
Author: Kristen Simmons
Genre: YA, horror, Japanese mythology
Publication date: September 2023
Published by: Tor Teen
Source: Borrowed from library
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Synopsis: Four years ago, five kids started a game. Only four survived.
Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Dax, Maddy, Emerson, and Owen—have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead.
Together they return to the tunnel where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished—an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.
As soon as they begin, they're dragged out of their reality and into an eerie hellscape of Japanese underworlds, more horrifying than even the darkest folktales that Owen's grandmother told him. There, they meet Shinigami, an old wise woman who explains the rules:
They have one night to complete seven challenges or all of them, Ian included, will be stuck in this world forever.
Once inseparable, the survivors now can’t stand each other, but the challenges demand they work together, think quickly, and make sacrifices—blood, clothes, secrets, memories, and worse.
And once again, not everyone will make it out of Meido alive.
I enjoyed this book more than I was anticipating! Listen, horror books can be hit or miss, but this one was definitely a hit!
Monday, March 17, 2025
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Sunday Post #445: Trying to Relax