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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Mind Santa Leaving Under My Tree This Year

Posted on December 22, 2015 41 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. They created the meme because they love lists. Who doesn’t love lists? They wanted to share these list with fellow book lovers and ask that we share in return to connect with our fellow book lovers. To learn more about […]

Mogsy: Best of 2015 and the Year in Review

Posted on December 21, 2015 42 Comments

What an amazing year in books! At the time of this writing, so far in 2015 I have read and logged a total of 209 titles onto Goodreads, which breaks down as follows: 2 serial episodes 4 anthologies/collections 9 novellas 194 novels Here’s the Goodreads spread for what that looks like: I apologize in advance for […]

2015 4th Quarter Audiobook Challenge Update

Posted on December 20, 2015 3 Comments

The fourth and final quarter of the Audiobook Challenge has come to an end! We would like to thank The Book Nympho and Hot Listens for organizing this event and hope that everyone had a great time with it this year. We know we sure did! Here’s our final update of 2015. In case you missed […]

Mogsy’s Bookshelf Roundup: Stacking the Shelves, Coloring Books, Recent Reads

Posted on December 19, 2015 41 Comments

Bookshelf Roundup is a feature I do every other weekend which fills the role of several blog memes, like Stacking the Shelves where I talk about the new books I’ve added to my library or received for review, as well as It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? where I round up what I’ve read since the […]

Audiobook Review: The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Posted on December 18, 2015 23 Comments

A review copy was provided by the publisher via Audiobook Jukebox in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Genre: Horror, Paranormal Series: Stand Alone Publisher: HighBridge Audio (6/16/15) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating (Overall): 3.5 of 5 stars Narrator: Hillary Huber | Length: 16 hrs 47 min After hearing […]

Audiobook Review: Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

Posted on December 17, 2015 17 Comments

A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski Genre: Fantasy Series: The Witcher Saga Publisher: Hachette Audio (12/1/15) Author Information: Website Mogsy’s Rating (Overall): 4 of 5 stars Narrator: Peter Kenny | Length: 12 hrs 47 min Sword of Destiny is a collection of short stories featuring Geralt […]

Waiting on Wednesday 12/16/15

Posted on December 16, 2015 13 Comments

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on! Mogsy’s Picks: I’m posting up two picks today because I was in the mood to feature a darker read, and I couldn’t decide! A dark urban paranormal fantasy featuring hellish […]

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015

Posted on December 15, 2015 17 Comments

I’ve read many great books this year, and I can’t really definitively nail it down to ten, but I tried to include the ones that made me think about them the most often after reading them. (Some of them I am still crying over!) The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells Wells has introduced us […]

Book Review: Skyborn by David Dalglish

Posted on December 14, 2015 25 Comments

A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Skyborn by David Dalglish Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 of Seraphim Publisher: Orbit (11/17/15) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Look at me. This is my stunned face. As in, I could not believe how good this book […]

Graphic Novel Review Bites

Posted on December 13, 2015 1 Comment

Invisible Republic, Vol. 1 by Gabriel Hardman With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this graphic novel in exchange for a positive review. There’s always more to the story, especially when it comes to politics. Here, a journalist discovers a story belonging to a woman named […]