Something I’ve been looking at lately is the books on my TBR. I started doing a massive TBR purge at the beginning of 2022 because, honestly, enough time had passed since I had put many of the books on my Goodreads TBR that my interest in them had wained and it was time to free up some space. Yes, I know, there isn’t a limit to how many books you had add to your to-read shelf on Goodreads but if that number gets too big it makes me have a little internal panic. Easier on my brain to just tidy up.
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August Wrap Up
August 2021 brought the return of my reading mojo! Every July, like clockwork, I find myself in a reading slump but I am very happy to say that it seems to have fizzled into thin air in August. In fact, it was my most successful reading month so far this year. I thought I would never top the thirteen books I read in March but August is closing out with fifteen along with two short story romances that I didn’t record because they were largely skimmed. Here’s what went down with my reading and on Literary Weaponry during the month.
Continue readingFirst Lines Fridays | November 1

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book
Mini Review | Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle #3) by Jay Kristoff

Title: Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle #3) by Jay Kristoff
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: September 3, 2019
Read as: Audiobook from Audible
Average Goodreads rating: 4.5
My rating: 3 (generously)
Continue readingTop Ten Tuesday | Books From My Favorite Genre

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week they provide a topic and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. You don’t have to do all ten. Instead you can do three, five, fifteen, whatever you want. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here.
Continue readingReview | Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle #1) by Jay Kristoff and Aime Kaufman

Title: Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle #1) by Aime Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Published: May 7, 2019
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Read as: US hardcover
Average Goodreads rating: 4.32
My rating: 3.5
Continue readingReview | Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy

Title: Once & Future (Once & Future #1) by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Published: March 26, 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Read as: US hardcover
Average Goodreads rating: 3.68
My rating: 5
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