Some Books & Ramblings

Hello everyone! In this new year, I decided to switch blog platforms. I have just finished moving all of my old posts from here (Blogspot) to my new platform, Wordpress! I am very happy with how it turned out, it looks much more professional and is much easier to configure! I will be leaving this blog up, but it will be inactive. Linked below is the site of my new blog. Everything is still the same name, Some Books & Ramblings, but I will no longer be connected to Blogspot. I am excited for the future of my blog, and I hope you will join me! https://somebooksandramblings.home.blog/ -Sam

As we enter 2019, I realize that there are so many books coming out this year that I'm excited for! So I wanted to do a quarterly post about books I'm excited for coming out each quarter! I will be making three posts, every 4 months. This post is about books I'm excited for January-April! So, let's jump in! Books coming out in January: #1: Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M. McManus (January 8th, 2019) (synopsis)  Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone's declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, ano

At the end of 2017, I decided I wanted to try doing a book jar. How that works is you take a jar (or anything that will hold paper) and every time you finish reading a book, you write down the title, author and star rating (optional, I didn't but I will this year) plus a short review or your thoughts on it, then I like to put the date on it so I know when I read it and stick it in the jar! Now, I kept forgetting to add books to my Goodreads challenge after I put the note in the jar, so I think my counting is a bit off. I'm going into this believing that I read 67 books in 2018. I guess we'll see if I can count at the end of this! So, how this is going to work is I will be writing, in order of when I read them, what the book was and my review of it. They will be written word for word. Given that I wrote some of these days later when I remembered or late at night, please forgive any bad wording. and SPOILER ALERT! THERE WILL BE SPOILERS HERE! This is going to be a long on