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Top Ten Tuesday: Cozy Reads

Published on October 21, 2025October 2, 2025 by Celeste11 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about cozy reads or atmospheric reads. I don’t tend to gravitate toward the cozy fantasy genre, but let’s see what I can dredge up from my reading or finished-reading pile. The first five are books I’ve read. The second five are books I haven’t read.

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

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Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Published on October 20, 2025October 22, 2025 by Celeste7 Comments

Today’s review is about KATABASIS by R.F. Kuang. It’s a standalone fantasy novel. Here, two PhD students decide to try to bring back their professor from hell after a magical accident.

Author: R.F. Kuang
Series: None
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Publish Date: August 26, 2025
Print Length: 560

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Book Blogger Hop: Entering Goodreads Giveaways

Published on October 16, 2025October 2, 2025 by Celeste8 Comments

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Book Blogger Hop post image was created by Coffee Addicted Writer.

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A Fae In Finance by Juliet Brooks

Published on October 13, 2025October 1, 2025 by Celeste6 Comments

Today’s review is about A FAE IN FINANCE by Juliet Brooks. This is the first book in the How to Do Business in Fairie series. While I picked this up for a good time, unfortunately it left me a bit wanting.

Author: Juliet Brooks
Series: How to Do Business in Fairie, #1
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: Orbit
Publish Date: October 21, 2025
Print Length: 414

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End of Summer Recap Book Tag

Published on October 9, 2025October 1, 2025 by Celeste10 Comments

I saw this End of Summer Recap Book Tag on Read You Leyre’s blog. It looked like fun, so here I am doing it for the first time. I’m choosing from books I read from June through September since I already did the Mid-Year Freak Out tag for this year. If anyone wants to join in, feel free! The blank questions are at the end for easy copy and paste into your own blog.

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