Welcome to my Most Anticipated Books for Spring 2024! This year continues to be an overwhelming feast of good looking releases, which has made it an absolutely daunting task to keep up with it all. I picked nine books for April alone and I know that's not everything releasing that month! But let's dive in... Continue Reading →
The Year in Review: A Look Back at 2023 and A Look Forward at 2024
Welcome to my end of year wrap up! I seem to have found my reading rhythm between 2022 and 2023, as I've noticed a lot of my reading stats are similar to 2022. The one big change is I somehow read MORE books this year, which I would not have thought possible. That was partially... Continue Reading →
Top Five Reads of 2023 – Backlist
Welcome to my second Top Five List of 2023: Backlist Reads! This category covers any book I read in 2023 that didn't come OUT in 2023. If the book was released in 2022 or earlier, it counts! I like giving "older" books their own space to help promote them through the noise of whatever shiny... Continue Reading →
Top Five Reads of 2023 – New Releases
Here we are once again at the end of another year! Which means it is time once again for me to make a list of my favorite reads for the last twelve months. As I have done in years past, I am making two lists: one for books released in 2023, and one for anything... Continue Reading →
Five Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Series Ending in 2024
All good things must come to an end, and in 2024, these five series will be publishing their final installments. If, for whatever reason, you like to wait until series are fully released until you read them, now's the time to jump on board! I'm limiting this list to series with confirmed release dates at... Continue Reading →
Most Anticipated: Winter 2023/2024 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Releases
Welcome to my list of Most Anticipated Releases for Winter 2023/2024, aka, proof that the publishing industry is trying to crush me in February 2024. No seriously, I picked to feature 12 books in February, and that was me being restrained. There's so many books coming out in the next few months that there's no... Continue Reading →
My Five Year Blogaversary!
It is absolutely wild to me that this little blog has survived to five years. If you go to the DEEP archives of Realms of My Mind, you would discover that today isn't the anniversary of my first post, but it is the anniversary of my first book review, CITY OF LIES by Sam Hawke.... Continue Reading →
Five Ways to Tackle Your TBR
Let's be clear, a book lover's TBR will never be under control. But sometimes it is SO out of control that it can create a paralyzing effect on the reader, who is daunted by the never ending deluge of amazing books and the despair that one can never read them all. But despair not! For... Continue Reading →
The Year in Review: A Look Back at 2022 and A Look Forward at 2023
2022 was a year of changes in many aspects of my bookish life. I started breaking myself of my book monogamist ways, pushing myself to be okay with reading multiple books at once because you know what? Sometimes you're just not in the mood for your current read and its okay to split your attention!... Continue Reading →
Five Non-Horror Spooky Reads
I am a big scaredy cat. I've never been a fan of horror movies and I don't like going to the after-dark amusement park parties with Halloween mazes. So as you can imagine, I am also not a huge fan of horror books. But even I can appreciate spooky season, so I have assembled a... Continue Reading →