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2025: Year of The Snake 🐍 What to read?

Snake is the sixth animal in the Chinese zodiac’s 12-year cycle, following the Dragon but preceding the Horse.

Hello, dearies! This one is a bit late, yes.

But it is 2025 and it is the Year of The Snake, so what should we read? Are there books related to snakes? 🐍

You know what is the first book I am going to name, right?

I think you do.

Friday Flashback: The Black Cat

The short story of “The Black Cat” delves into themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, tormented by mistreatment of his black cat and domestic violence, becomes consumed by paranoia and madness. His efforts to hide a crime result in his own downfall.

To be honest… I don’t remember when I read this or if I found it interesting, I know that I did read it and I had a book of short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, but I have moved a lot and my books are spread around various homes. I miss my books.

Anyway, let’s go read the description and perhaps some highlights from this story.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Genres: Classics, Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery

First Published: January 1, 1843

7 Nonsensical Tips for Readers

How’s your reading year going so far? Need some tips to continue? Check out some of these! 📖🌞

Welcome, dearies! 👋🪷

If you’re here, you must have been searching for fun non-sensical tips for readers. But what is nonsensical?

According to the dictionary:

adjective
1.
having no meaning; making no sense.
“a nonsensical argument”

Thus ends my learning/teaching portion of this post. 😆

What type of books do you give 5 stars to?

A book that earns 5 stars is one that captivates, evokes strong emotions, and keeps you engaged in the story. Not always but generally it goes like this. 😎

Spoiler alert, it’s not just the fantasy one… not always.

Hello, dearies! 😎

I was considering the stars system and the books, and I have always said that if I could give more stars to a book I would, which technically I can if I want but not on Goodreads of course. In life.

Anyway, as my latest read was a 5 star because that’s how much I liked it. I thought of this question, what type of books do you give 5 stars to?

Spoiler Time Sunday: Wizarding World of Harry Potter

New Section dedicated to those difficult questions and moments that would give away a book and how it all ends.

Hello, dearies! 📆

Welcome to a new segment? Special? Section? Category? Anyway, welcome to this new special, I’ll go with special. Spoiler Time Sunday, as the name indicates this will be about spoiler. 😎

Now, if you have read some of my book reviews you might know that I don’t like spoilers, giving them or receiving them, but sometimes I get questions or people come to the blog because they want spoilers, so I decided to oblige the masses and talk occasionally about a specific thing in a book, manga, or anime (movies and shows?) that would be considered a big plot twist, a change, something that cannot be viewed as anything but spoiler in my eyes. 😄

2024: Year of the Dragon – Let’s read!

It’s a New Year! ✨️

Welcome, dearies! 🐲

This is the official first post of the year 2024. Since this the Year of The Dragon, and one of my favourite creatures (animals?) then I have decided to create a reading list of Books that have dragons or shifters 😏 in them.

And as a challenge to myself (you can join in as well) I will do my best to read all of these books this 2024.

Daily Prompt: Always a book, never not a book

What is the greatest gift someone could give you?

It’s a new Year, dearies! 🐲

I saw this prompt and immediately thought of books, but to make more into the ‘greatest’ gift, I’d say a first edition of a classic like Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, or Frankenstein.

But I would take any book to be honest.

A Box Set with a saga or a trunk full of books. I’m not picky, yet, for some reason, I don’t get that many books as gifts. My fellow readers have gifted me gift cards from bookstores and I have done the same, but my family gifts me anything but… perhaps one time or twice.

So, the greatest gift someone could give me, would be a book. Paperback or Hardback, I’d take it. 😎📚

Book Characters to Hug

“He had known this was inevitable.”
The Queen’s Army

Hello, dearies! Welcome! 🤗📚

I know you like these characters as much as I do, if you don’t then you should, for real, go read these books and fall for these characters, it’s worth it.

If you are just curious, be prepared for a rambling of almost epic proportions. This post will probably make no sense, and this is a warning to bail while you can.

Thank you for staying! 💖

At times, I feel the uncontrollable need to reach inside a book, pull the characters out and hug them, bare in mind I’ll keep to the male ones, just because that’s how it is.

The Nothing Man: Review?

“Fiction only really worked if it was built like a lattice through which you were repeatedly offered glimpses of absolute truth.”

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Adult, Suspense

3⭐

Hello, dearies! 📝

Here’s another I wouldn’t have picked up from a shelf on a trip to the bookstore, yet I read it.

The Nothing Man is one of those books that didn’t have my full attention until about sixty per cent of it was already behind me.

I could have left it on the side, I could have stopped reading long before that half mark, but I pushed on, and I am sorry for those who are fans, but it didn’t amount to much at the end.

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