HELEN HOANG!!!!! 💖 omg! 🤗 Ok fangirling aside 🤣... I adored “the kiss quotient” so there was no way I was going to pass on this. The audiobook was amazing and the story kept me hooked. It was sweet & well written with a fresh storyline. I love the characters in this universe and I‘m definitely on board for the 3rd book!! ♥️🤗 4/5⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

📚 Ready player one- Because the ‘final fight‘ in this book blew my mind! ===> 😵
🎥 Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter)- The book was even more FIRE though! 👍🏽
🎵 Through the fire- Chaka Khan (one of my all time fave songs)

#ManicMonday @JoScho

There‘s a lot going on here lol: Dragons, Mages, sorcery etc. Just please be advised that it starts out quite SLOW. I went for this because I love Queendoms and dragons, but I almost feel that there wasn‘t enough about the dragons in the 800 pages. And most of the characters were a bit too “honorable” for me. But she built this world quite well especially the dragon riders and queens court! Great couples to ship also. ☺️
Overall ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2

📚 tagged. Because of the all the faeries with fox-like ears...
🎥 Naruto Anime (the legendary 9 tailed fox!!! 😀♥️)
🎵What does the Fox say. Whenever I‘m with my nieces and nephews I can‘t get this song out of my head 🤦🏽‍♀️ since they play it all the time lol
#ManicMonday @JoScho

Ok 🤦🏽‍♀️ I fell for the hype for two reasons: 1) The obsession with Stevie Nicks from my teenage years that never actually went away. 2) I absolutely ADORED the Evelyn Hugo book and was hoping this would measure up: It did not. I didn‘t like any of the characters. The story felt lukewarm and I mostly finished it because I spent money on it. If it was a library book I would‘ve DNF. ⭐️ ⭐️/ 5
My comment below is what I REALLY didn‘t like. ⬇️

Made it before midnight!! Yaay!! 🤗🎉
📚Snow flower and the secret fan
🎥 (same as book)
🎵 Kiss from a ROSE!!! ♥️ by Seal
#ManicMonday @JoScho

The newest edition in my #PrideandPrejudice collection! 🤗♥️ 📚 I love this vibrant red cover 😎
#JaneAusten

I think I may have tried a bit too hard to like this 😶 I adored his book on Norse Mythology, but I think I‘m just not the target audience for this 😪 I‘m not a huge fantasy reader and books set in faerie never really work for me. Nonetheless, the story and his descriptions were VERY creative and I see how others would love it. It just wasn‘t for me. I think I‘ll try out ‘Good Omens‘ next and see if I have more luck with that one. 😐

📚 Tagged!! I really wanted to read this, found it on sale while hanging out with @Wife who politely told me “Umm Kenya, I‘m pretty sure that‘s not the first one” 😅 lol
🎥 The Lion King, of course
🎵 Can‘t be Tamed 😎♥️ by Miley Cyrus 🤣
#ManicMonday @JoScho

Thanks so much Misty!!!! ♥️🎉💕⭐️🤗 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for your letter and for showing me some #LitsyLove!! I‘ll be writing back to you soon!! ♥️

Ok Anne Rice, I see you 😎lol. This started out really strong! Fairytale retelling with a HECK of a twist😉Very sexy, with 2 interesting/legendary main characters. Also, quite well done on audiobook. It was a “pick” until that.ENDING 😖I‘ve read erotica before and I‘m a long way from being a prude, but some of the ending was disturbing. So I rated it “so so”. But Rice is still a powerful storyteller and I will definitely be continuing the series.

Lucy & Josh: Givin‘ love a bad name, Bon Jovi style lol! ♥️🤣 this was amazing on audiobook! I laughed out loud so many times, my husband actually started laughing at me!!! 😂 It does start out with lots of tropes/cliches and the story is a bit slow in the middle... but the beauty here is such fun, well developed characters, laugh out loud dialogue and meant for each other main characters. I was rooting for them the whole time 🤗
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Thanks soo much @Wife for my birthday gifts!!!!! 😃♥️🎉 shocked how well she captured my obsessions!!! White Oleander, The Tudors, Witches lol 🤣 even down to the candies!!! So super happy to finally have a copy of White Oleander!!! 😍The book hangover was REAL!!!! 😂took a quick picture at work so I could hurry up and dive into the candies!! 😁

@Eggbeater Acquired today!! 😎😁 Bwahahahaha!! 😆lol! I love Queendoms and dragons so hopefully I‘ll like it! If not, I still get to try out a new author: No harm no foul. 🙃

My Ladies!!!! @Schnoebs @EchoLogical @allthingskayla @LoverofLit
How come no one told me about this!! 😱*jaw drops* I had to find out on goodreads 😭lol. Better late than never I guess!!! *excited!!!!* 😃♥️🙌🏽🎵

Thanks soo much @Eggbeater for tagging me!!!! ♥️🤗 (see comment below lol)
1) The Harry Potter books...
2) Honestly... I would be a student at Hogwarts so
that I could be a witch and do magic. I‘m obsessed with the idea of being a witch 🤣
3) Love the Outlander books, but would never want to go there. Too much violence among other reasons 😶
4) @Wife
#WhatWouldYouDo
@DannyHattan

Well!!! 😁 So this was quite impressive 😼and Margaret Beaufort was a badass!! 😎 just sayin lol. She could‘ve run the country on her own! This book was very detailed with all the information I was missing. I‘ve been interested in Tudor history since I was in college, but I didn‘t know much about the Plantagenets. This tied it all in together perfectly. ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

📚 Tagged
🎥 Sleepless in Seattle
🎵 The lion sleeps tonight 😆
#ManicMonday @JoScho

#StackAttack2019 This was THAT book for me. I‘ve wanted to read it since I was 14 years old.... it absolutely did not disappoint. Brilliantly written, with a unique story. Gotta admit I love reading about dandy‘s. ☺️ and love the banter in this book plus the surprise ending.
Trigger warnings:
1) Misogyny
2) Racially biased descriptions (not as much as the misogyny but still there)

😮WOW! I swear this book was talking about me the entire time! I can‘t believe how closely I related to every chapter and the whole overall feel of it. It‘s written about the reading lifestyle with struggles and triumphs we understand. It was so intriguing to find that it‘s not just me. This author just gets me. A very enjoyable/relatable read!! All the stars!

Omg Jody!!!!!! @JoScho I can‘t thank you enough for the AMAZING birthday gifts!! 😍📚💝‼️Soo excited to read this!! I‘ve heard great things about it and there‘s a very long wait list for it at my local library! Love the tote bag with all the books on it! That‘s mostly what‘s always in my bag everyday 2/3 books lol!😎 Also how, HOW in the world did you know that wild berry is my fave flavor of lifesaver gummies?! 😻 Thank you soo much friend!!! 💖

#HarryPotter #Ravenclaw Just got my Rowena Ravenclaw Diadem necklace in the mail today from Etsy 🤗♥️

📚 Soulless - I keep borrowing this book from the library and running out of time to finish it 🤦🏽‍♀️
🎥 The Witches starring Angelica Houston
🎵 Michael Jackson‘s THRILLER!!! ♥️🎉 which is like the song of my whole world. I was so obsessed lol. You already know 😏😎
#ManicMonday @JoScho

My MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of the entire YEAR came out yesterday and I have already secured my copy! 😍😝🎉🤗👍 *FANGIRL Squeal!!!* I don‘t even mind the mountains I moved to get it!! #VeronicaSpeedwell

OMG🎉 thank you soo much Jody!!!! ♥️♥️♥️ You are such a sweetheart! I haven‘t been on Litsy much and just felt like there was so much going on and I was really down... you can‘t even know how much this surprise really raised my spirits!!!! I really wanted to read sometimes I lie but there is always a huge waiting list!!! Behind her eyes looks fun too! Can wait to check them out. Thank you soo much friend!!! 🤗♥️🎉 @JoScho

And here we are!! ☺️ Very happy to finally finish the series, and this was an excellent way to end it. The rest of my comments are under the spoiler tag.. ⬇️

I‘m current reading the last book deathly hallows!! 🤗

1) BOTH ♥️ I love them both for different reasons.
2) Minerva Mcgonagall, Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood.
3) Definitely Umbridge, she was cringeworthy
4) Tie between the Goblet of Fire and the Sorcerers Stone.
5) Transfiguration, Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts! Would also try to squeeze in Translating Ancient Runes (interesting!) and Divination by Trelawny (for laughs!)
#frideas

📚 Harry Potter (it‘s the glasses, I can‘t help it 🤣)
🎥 Weird Science (the only one I‘ve seen)
🎵 Geeked up - young Jeezy

#ManicMonday @JoScho

Catching up!!! 🤗
📚 “A song of ice and fire” got me like!!! 😬⬆️🤣♥️
🎥 Ice Age
🎵 Frozen- Madonna ♥️

#ManicMonday @JoScho

📚 Queen of Hearts (tagged book)
🎥 Where the heart is (googled this one)
🎵 Heart Attack - Demi Lovato!! 🤗

#ManicMonday @JoScho

OMG thank you soo much Vickie!!!! @Wife 😍♥️📚for such amazing gifts!!!! You know me so well and my Tudor/Plantagenet obsession!! 🤗 Can‘t wait to read them!! Plus I‘ve needed a booksleeve forever! Thank you so much for such great gifts and for being such a wonderful friend!!!! 💝

Thank you soo much Jody!!‘ ♥️🤗📚 @JoScho for such a thoughtful and sweet card!! You are such a sweetheart!!! ♥️ It‘s currently on display and brightening up my days!!!

#HelloThursday

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83196940-kenya

Littens, feel free to add me/connect with me there too!! 🤗 I joined so that I could do the 2019 reading challenge 🤣 but also to keep track of how many books I‘m reading per month/year... @wanderinglynn

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth Littens!! ♥️ I figured I‘d try out this author and she didn‘t disappoint!! The setting is futuristic, but features some of the age old problems of discrimination. Mostly it shows the main character coming of age, choosing her own path to college and taking control of her destiny. The author managed to convey so much in a short novella and it‘s quite an uplifting story. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

#StartedFromTheBottom #Drake #TimbitTunes Day 1: @Cinfhen @TheKidUpstairs
🎵 Started from the bottom now we‘re here! started from the bottom, now MY WHOLE TEAM F#%#ing here!!! 🎵
Elizabeth Woodville put her whole fam of minor Lancastrian/Red rose nobles on the map when she married the victorious York/white rose king. She went from widow w/2 kids whose lands were taken from her, to queen of England. Started from the bottom for REAL!! 😎

📚 One with you (wedding cake)
🎥 Wedding crashers
🎵 Cake by the ocean!! ♥️ @sprainedbrain sorry I stole your answer but I LOVE this song!! 🤗🎉
#ManicMonday @JoScho

#20ThingsAboutMe @LibrarianRyan

Thanks for the tag @Eggbeater ♥️!! Also thanks to @Klou ♥️for tagging me earlier in the week.
I‘m actually very technologically impaired 😅 so this was hard for me to figure out how to complete 🤣 I hope you guys can read it, this was the only way I could make it work 🤦🏽‍♀️LoL

Well 😅 #UnpopularOpinion here but I didn‘t really like this one.😕 Maybe I fell for the hype... but the main guy was such a DOUCHEBAG 😡 I literally didn‘t even want him to end up with the main girl. I also wasn‘t a fan of the insta love thing.
⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2 Stars. One star because some of the jokes were funny and one star for a well put together ending. Overall not for me 🤷🏽‍♀️ #StackAttack2019

📚Outlander! -Diana Gabaldon (this emoji is how I feel when I remember the book lol)
🎥 The Craft -because witches were in it, of course!
🎵 Counting Stars ⭐️-OneRepublic

#ManicMonday #🤩 @JoScho

📚 Tagged book is on my TBR
📚 Zane!! ♥️🎉 (writer of African American erotic fiction. I‘ve read 2 of her books and they were fun!)
📚 Zoolander (haven‘t seen it though 🤦🏽‍♀️)
📚 Zucchini!! 😍♥️🎉 I LOvE it because I‘m a total Veggie person! Lol
#ManicMonday @JoScho #LetterZ

~Reluctant Royals!!!!~ ♥️🎉 Yes!! I really enjoyed this Novella. The entire series is mostly character driven and doesn‘t have a lot of steamy scenes, but it has a “modern fairy tale” vibe that is just irresistible. This one gives a bit of backstory on Likotsi‘s time in New York, and introduces one of my fave new characters Fabiola. It was sweet, romantic and you really get drawn into the characters‘ world. Can‘t wait for more in this series!! 🤗

Omg!! ♥️ I went thru every emotion on the journey of this book. It‘s so much deeper than it appears. I feel like its rare to read fiction that so accurately portrays the very true emotions in this book. Even discrimination. I related so closely with Evelyn and who she was as a person. It takes a few chapters to warm up, then I was completely captivated! Pretty sure I‘ll be crying over this for a while.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

This was a pretty interesting audiobook... kept me listening straight thru till the end. Main character was a badass, I really liked her. Lots of positive messages against misogyny and against homophobia. At first I felt it was somewhat anticlimactic, but I liked the way the author wrapped things up.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2

I‘ve decided to do my first actual reading challenge this year 😅 (which I‘m a bit nervous about lol) so I signed up for the one on Goodreads. I really want to start keeping track of how many books I happen to read in a year... 🤔🤗

📚 The Yellow Wallpaper. I wouldn‘t necessarily call it a favorite... but it was just creepy enough to be super memorable 😐
👩🏽 haven‘t read any...there aren‘t even any on my TBR 🤦🏽‍♀️
📺 Yu-Gi-Oh! The manga was better though 🤣
🍰 Yellow cake with lemon icing!!♥️🎉 it owns my heart!!! Also yellow cake with chocolate icing.
#LetterY was harder for me than X was! Lol😵
#manicmonday @JoScho

This was going to be my #BOTM pick but I ended up skipping the month of January. I saw it on Scribd and decided to give it a try... it was just meh 😕 I mean, it kept me going till the end but nothing really exciting happens... and that ending knocked it down to a so-so. This might be an #UnpopularOpinion but overall this just wasn‘t memorable for me. ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2

#SongsThatRemindMeOfBooks
Poet Ingrid Magnussen be like “Can I turn you on by my WORD SPELL? Look into my eyes... Think I want you? Can‘t tell 😈 Me I keep it sexy, so I can‘t FAIL. Keep it gangsta for the cowards, so I give ‘em HELL!”😎

#WhiteOleander #Eve #WhosThatGirl #IngridMagnussen

📚 X-men onslaught saga (comic books) which were actually very good!! My hubby and other hardcore fans were disappointed with them though...
👩🏽 I haven‘t read any 😐..
📺 X-men evolution (the fun cartoon version that was out some years ago! ☺️) X-men origins was ok too. 🍪 X-mas cookies/candies or any kind of cookies for that matter lol

#ManicMonday #LetterX @JoScho

FINALLY complete. I have a very complicated relationship with this series 🤔 it‘s difficult to rate.
Pro‘s:
-The small amount of info there was about witchcraft was fun
-Wrapped up the series nicely
-Good message about equality
Con‘s:
-Too much about vampires, not enough about witches!
-Nasty/disturbing villain (I find a lot of villains still likeable, this one was just disgusting🤢)
-Too much history, reads like a research paper at times