Facing Burnout

November 22, 2021. I have been facing burnout lately. That feeling that we've all felt before when extreme stress and strain negatively affects our well-being and work. So I talk a little about why my posts schedule had to change because I've felt burned out the past few weeks.

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Book Review: Huntress by Malinda Lo

November 15, 2021. When the elements of the world have been thrown out of balance, its inhabitants are forced to figure out how they can continue to survive as their kingdom suffers hardship from reducing resources. The oracle stones have been cast. Kaede, who struggles with her studies, and Taisin, gifted in yielding her magic, from the Academy of Sages have been selected to embark on a treacherous journey across the lands into the Fairy Queen’s domain to find a way to bring balance back into the world. The journey proves more dangerous than anticipated. The girls’ skills, knowledge, and tenacity are put to the test. Along the way, they realize they are also being tested in matters of love.

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Book Review: Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards

November 8, 2021. Five strangers all get into a car, desperate to make it home for the holidays before the growing snowstorm gets the better of them. But from the moment Mira decided to accept the offer of the ride, she knew it was a bad idea. Things get worse while the group is out on the road. As the snowstorm thickens, their road trip becomes more dangerous, and Mira slowly realizes that someone in the group may be sabotaging their chances of getting home at all. Will they survive and make it to their destination?

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Book Review: Settle Down by Sera Trevor (The Troll Whisperer #2)

November 1, 2021. Noah's life has changed so much since he moved to California and left the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He's happily married to Oscar and he has a new baby girl, Bette. When his sister becomes ill and ends up in the hospital, Noah is forced to reconnect with the estranged parents he’d hoped to never see again. Noah must overcome his fears in order to protect the family he’s worked so hard to build because his parents aren’t just a terror of his past.

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Book Review: The Sanatorium: A Novel by Sarah Pearse

October 25, 2021. Vacation and engagement party gone wrong! Elin Warner and her boyfriend, Will, get invited to her estranged brother, Isaac and his fiancee, Laure's, engagement party in the old sanatorium turned new luxury mountaintop hotel. The place already gives Elin bad vibes when she first walks into the hotel. Then people start going missing and turning up dead. An avalanche causes the hotel to be on lockdown. And the killer...is someone inside the hotel.

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Book Review: Malorie: A Bird Box Novel by Josh Malerman

October 18, 2021. The sequel to the bestseller Bird Box! Malorie and her two teenage kids, Olympia and Tom, face new obstacles in the new world when they hear that the creatures may be evolving, groups are having controversial and dangerous ideas for new ways of living, and the revelation that Malorie's parents may still be alive. A thriller that will keep you reading to find out if these survivors will continue to survive.

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Book Review: The Time of the Hunter’s Moon by Victoria Holt

October 11, 2021. Legend says that if you visit Pilcher's Peak on the night of the hunter's moon, you will see your future husband. When a mysterious stranger continues to show up in recent grad, Cordelia Grant's, life, she gets more questions than answers. Not to mention, now she also has the powerful, mysterious Sir Jason Verringer pursuing her when she starts her new job. Is one of them meant to be her future husband? Or do these men have more insidious intentions with her?

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Book Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

September 27, 2021. Guy Montag never questioned his job as a fireman: to burn books. But when he meets a strange girl, Clarisse, who tells him tales of how the world was like before, he begins to wonder about life where books and individual thought were praised not forbidden. As he begins to challenge the status quo, others become suspicious of his behaviors and start to hunt him down. And the flame that once warmed him now burns him to transform him into a new person.

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