Color Wheel Picks My TBR // Purple Covers

And we're back! I'm currently behind on reading books for this color wheel challenge but that's okay... at least I am reviewing books on the regular. If you don't know I created this easy challenge to focus on reading books from my 2025 Reading List. I've reviewed books with yel…

ARC Review // Snow White and the Dragon (or, Sleeping Beauty and the Seven Dwarfs) by Kim Bussing

What would happen if Sleeping Beauty had to create a poisoned apple, and Snow White faced off against a dragon? Fairy tales meet Freaky Friday in this series, where there’s a magical mix-up for every princess!
As a baby, Rose was cursed to meet a mysterious fate on her thirteenth birthday . . . but …

Color Wheel Picks My TBR // Yellow Covers

I'm thrilled to discuss my reading challenge for the beginning of the year! I was thinking of ways to go through my 2025 Reading List and came up with reading books based on the color of the cover. It's an easy way to read randomly through my list and makes for a pretty challenge to share. …

Top 12 Favorite Books of 2024

I've finally gotten to my favorites list of 2024 which includes some middle-grade picks. These are my favorite books out of 148 I read last year. I had a great year discovering new authors and being blown away by storylines. I'm not the best person at writing about books I love or even revi…

Top 12 Middle Grade Books of 2024

I had to do a top middle-grade book list. I have fallen in love with middle-grade books more than ever these last few years. It's my most highly read age range by a small margin but still. I read 46 middle-grade books last year and I've narrowed it down to 11 favorites. I'm going to rep…

Top 12 Picture Books of 2024

In 2024, I made it a goal to read and track the picture books (not including Storytime books) I read throughout the year. I wanted to do this because I was no longer reading and reviewing picture books for my library's website. I missed discovering new books and there is so much variety out the…