It's the start of a new week and you know what we do on Mondays , we celebrate authors 🎉🎉. Today we'll be shining the spotlight on Matt Haig 😍. Continuing reading to find out more about him 😍🥰 Matt Haig is an author for children and adults. His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top ten for 46 weeks. His children’s book A Boy Called Christmas was a runaway hit and is translated in over 40 languages.  It is being made into a film starring Maggie Smith, Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent and The Guardian called it an ‘instant classic’. His novels for adults include  the award-winning How To Stop Time, The Radleys, The Humans and the number one bestseller The Midnight Library. He has sold over three million books worldwide. Connect with Matt Haig on Instagram His books include; 》 The Last Family in England 》 The Dead Fathers Club 》 The Possession of Mr Cave 》 The Radleys 》 The Humans 》 Humans: An A–Z 》 Reasons to Stay Al

📖 BOOK TITLE: THE MOST WONDERFUL CRIME OF THE YEAR 📖AUTHOR: ALLY CARTER  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #128thBookOf2024 There was certainly not a wow factor in this book; I felt disconnected from the story at some point because it felt overly descriptive. The side characters were not engaging enough for me; it just felt like they really didn't care about what happened to their aunt at all, leaving the work for strangers. The romance interest didn't work for me at all. I really, really tried to enjoy this book, but it just wasn't forthcoming.  📖RATINGS: 2 STARS ⭐⭐

📖 BOOK TITLE: REMEMBER ME TOMORROW  📖AUTHOR: FARAH HERON 📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #127thBookOf2024 Yes, this book is a little bonkers. This is a very unconventional love story, and you have to really get at it to grasp the story between Jay and Aleeza. You know I love everything time travel/parallel universe-related, and with each fiction book I read about this topic, my mind is blown away every single time. Yes, there's more mystery elements than the rom-com because how can Aleeza be in love with Jay, who is not even in her timeline, talk about a guy who is unavailable? I loved how put together this book was, how the mystery elements worked together; there was no point in this book that was left to assumptions; everything was explained well without being boring and overly descriptive. Overall, I really enjoyed this story, and definitely this will not be my last Farah Heron's book. 📖RATINGS: 4 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📖QUOTES: ♤ Time isn’t linear. There are an infini

📖 BOOK TITLE: THE   MARRIAGE SABBATICAL  📖AUTHOR: LIAN DOLAN  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #126thBookOf2024 The reason I read books is to see lives from other perspectives, though the characters may be fictional; a living person wrote it, so with that said, I wanted to see what "The Marriage Sabbatical" was all about. If you could take a break from your marriage, would you do it? If you could partake in the 500-mile rule, is it something you and your spouse will be willing to take on? I enjoyed the story a bit but I didn't love it. I am happy Jason and Nicole did what they thought was best for them and their marriage. The entire theme in this story for me is to do what is best for you and your marriage. Overall, this was an okay read. 📖RATINGS: 3 STARS ⭐⭐⭐

📖 BOOK TITLE: SIXTEEN MINUTES  📖AUTHOR: K.J. REILLY  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #125thBookOf2024 Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for granting my request to read this E-ARC and provide my honest opinions. Ok....., I am going to take a deep breath because this book took me on a thrilling ride 😁. As usual, I didn't read the blurb before going in, but after reading the prologue, I had to go back to actually read the blurb, and I will be honest, the blurb of this book did no justice to the information contained in this book 🤯🤯. This book is actually tempting me to do a deep dive on all things multiverses, luminal spaces, time travel, and parallel universes because what is all this madness 🤯. It is really amazing what the author did with this book, like this is a YA novel that focuses on these themes, and there are also some heavy ones like death and drug abuse, and the author still manages to find a way to introduce a love interest 😍 Honestly, I am

Another saturday! Another bookish rant! Hope your weekend has been less stressful than mine 😩 because my week has been filled with a lot of things. My uni resumption is just around the corner 👀📅 (and don't everybody dreads uni resumption ,and my calendar has been getting busy and busier with a lot of activites. After six blissful months of "uni-stress"-free life, but in less than a week to go for school activities to kickoff, I am so anxious🤯. How will I balance studies, activities, and my beloved books📚? To tackle this challenge Meta shared tips for me to balance studies and my beloved books. Here are Meta's top 3 tips for finding a balance ⚖ 1. Wake up early for reading time : This is the first thing Meta advised me to do and I think it is a very good idea and it is something I can do and achieve. 2. Short stories/Novellas : Fit smaller reads into tight schedules. This is also something I can do if I look deep enough to find short storie

Hello readers, it's Friday and there's nothing I find more exciting than the start of the weekend 😍🎉. I would like to welcome you to today's segment: Welcome to The 250-Page Challenge! 😄 I'll briefly explain what the 250-Page Challenge is: as the title states The 250-Page Challenge is about reading books that are under 250 pages and in this segment I am going to be sharing 8 books that are under 250 pages plus a bonus that'll make joining the challenge a breeze. So keep reading to find out what it is 😏😉 Now, let's dive into the exciting part – our curated list of 8 page-turners under 250 pages. 1.  BINTI (BINTI, #1) by NNEDI OKORAFOR  BLURB:  Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers wh

📖 BOOK TITLE:  BUSYBODIES COLLECTION  📖AUTHORS:  ELLE COSIMANO, JESSE Q. SUTANTO, EMMA ROSENBLUM, NITA PROSE, KELLYE GARRETT, ALICIA THOMPSON  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #124thBookOf2024 Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for granting my request to read this e-ARC and provide my honest opinions. Staged ⭐⭐⭐: I really enjoyed this short story. Lyda and her friend, the amateur sleuths 😄, thanks to their fast thinking and ability to see beyond the obvious, solved Sawyer's murder case. I guess I'm an amateur sleuth as well as I cracked the case before them ha😄😄. The Reunion Dinner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: Everything Jesse writes I will read; even as a short story, this was amazing. The humor! The twist! And that ending!!! Crime of Fashion ⭐⭐: I didn't really like this as much as I loved the others. The Nosy Neighbors ⭐⭐⭐⭐: I didn't see that twist at the end coming, and I thought Marge was the bad person all along 😈 One Lucky Subscriber ⭐⭐⭐: This was an okay read fo

📖 BOOK TITLE: YOU'RE ENOUGH, JUNE NELSON  📖AUTHOR: JESSI HANSEN  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #123rdBookOf2024 Thank you to Booksirens and the author for granting my request to read this e-ARC for free and provide my honest opinions. Seeing as I did not read the blurb before jumping into this one, I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that time travel was in this book. June is on her way to her book launch; her boyfriend just dumped her, and a big-time book blogger just called her new book 'mediocre'. June is scared; she has always been scared, but it seems like life has given her a chance to retrace her steps to see life from her teenage perspective. Honestly, in terms of love interest, I didn't think that June and Patrick could still work; in fact, I stopped rooting for them at some point, but everybody deserves a second chance. Everybody deserves someone that will tell them that they're enough. You Are Enough! 📖RATINGS: 4 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📖QUOTES: ♤

📖 BOOK TITLE: THE MOBILE REHAB  📖AUTHOR: WINNIE D PAGORA 📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #122ndBookOf2024 Thank you to Booksirens and the author for granting my request to read this e-ARC for free and provide my honest opinions. This book definitely has a good premise—think this,four different teenagers come to a foreign country without their mobile devices to partake in the'so-called Mobile Rehab'. I was really excited for it, but I just did not connect to it as much as I would have loved to. 📖RATINGS: 2 STARS ⭐⭐

📖 BOOK TITLE: IT'S A DATE (AGAIN)  📖AUTHOR: JENEVA ROSE  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #121stBookOf2024 Having read one of Jeneva's books, I wanted to read another one, and I picked 'It's a Date (Again).' The whole amnesia thing and the three guys to pick from sound intriguing, and I was prepared to enjoy this ride of a book. We follow Peyton Sanders and her friends Robbie and Maya as they go on a journey to find the love that Peyton once lost. I don't know if it was intended, but in terms of love interest, I had already known who she was in love with right from the beginning, 😑😩 and then I was not intrigued at all. Honestly, am I the only one who thinks that it was too early for Maya to be making jokes about her friend's situation in the hospital? Like girl😐 Overall, I kind of enjoyed this book.  📖RATINGS: 3 STARS ⭐⭐⭐ 📖QUOTES: □ You can’t see what’s right in front of you because you’re looking through it. □ If someone lies about the little th

📖 BOOK TITLE: YAHIMBA ( LAGOS ELITE CLUB 1) 📖AUTHOR: O.L.OBONNA  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #120thBookOf2024 Thank you to Booksirens and the author for granting my request to read this e-ARC in exchange for my honest opinions. Forced proximity! Fake Dating! Brother's bestfriend! Virgin FMC! Light on spice 🌶 and thick on plot 😩! Guy falls first! Wow, this book took me on a ride 😘😍😍. I really enjoyed the love story between Yahimba and Eyinmofe, these two🥺🥺. I wanted to shake some sense into Yahimba—why stress this guy so much and why always compare him to Bem😩. Eyinmofe is the real deal, and you know it. Despite all the things Bem, Mama Nande, and her half-sister Wandoo have done to Yahimba, I am so glad she put it all behind her and did not let it hold her down. I can't wait for the next book in the series ❤😍. 📖RATINGS: 5 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📖 BOOK TITLE: BREADCRUMBS  📖AUTHOR: ALICIA WILDER 📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #119thBookOf2024 This is a very fast, easy, and light read (as it is a novella). We follow Max (our FMC) and Micah (our MMC) as they try to sort out their individual baggages. In as much as I am not a fan of one-night stands, I enjoyed the easy banter between our MCs. Overall, I didn't quite connect to both Max and Micah and even the side characters. Honestly, I don't think Max and Micah should be together😑. 📖RATINGS: 3 STARS ⭐⭐⭐ 📖QUOTES: ●  Don’t hold your now hostage to what you hope for the future. ●  First, I need to figure out the life I want to live, then consider trying to live it with someone else.