Hello Autumn....May you be filled for amazing Lit!

Who does not love autumn....it's a season I always get so excited for. I can't wait to light pumpkin candles, watch football (Go Packers), attend bonfires, wear comfy UGGs and sweaters and curl up with fanastic books. I hope to read about 16 books this Fall. I know that's a lot! But I think I can get it done. Here's my list....

                        My Top Four

And here are the rest:

5) End of Watch by Stephen King 

6) Conversion by Katherine Howe

7) In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

8) Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell **

9) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

10) The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith**

11) Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

12) Strange Clouds by Cheketa Tinsley

13) God's of Guilt by Michael Connelly

14) Eragon by Christopher Paolini

15) Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

16) Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

(Books marked ** have already been finished. Just awaiting review!)

Have you guys read any of these? What did you think? Feel free to recommend a book and leave a comment! 

Fall means....Tea and Pumpkin everything....but...let's focus on the Tea!

Hey Bookies,

Warm Pre Autumn greetings! As you all know Fall is for Book lovers. But did you know God also created Fall for Tea lovers? Well, as always, around the end of August I start buying Pumpkin everything and getting my Tea Game together. Which is exactly what I did today. My pal Michelle and I met up today to visit the Delmarva Pagan Pride Festival in Downtown Dover. My main objective was to visit a good friends tent to shop her incense (I use them for meditation and prayer) and just to see all the wonderful wares everyone has. I always love to see the fairy art. In fact, last year there were some amazing fairy doors, garden stuff etc. 

However, this was the first year I had seen loose leaf teas and of course I jumped at the chance to buy these. The Sabbat Tea: Litha; contains cinnamon, ginger and pomegranate. It also have apple and rose hips. And can I just tell you it smells heavenly! It's supposed to he a summer tea but it's just perfect for fall evenings and bonfires...I can not wait to taste it while reading a good book. 

The second tea I purchased was Two Faces Bitch! I will admit that I purchased it because of the name. This tea has lavender and honey brush. It smells smoothing and rich. I really can not wait to try it out. If you would like to check out these teas you can find them at 

http://blackthornhoodooblends.com .

Also, Check out The Enchantdrose on Facebook; that's the shop I purchased it from. Well...til next time...Happy Reading!

Crisp Autumn Air, Crunchy Colorful Leaves and Big Books....aren't we all itching for Autumn!

Fall is this Book Lover's favorite Season!

 And like always I have compiled my Autumn TBR list! Please feel free to suggest books to me via email or on the blogs Facebook Page and Forum! 

Here are my Top Five (to be read immediately):

1) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Synopsis: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. 

2) End of Watch (Bill Hodges #3) by Stephen King 

Synopsis: In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. 

Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero ofMr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney—the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. 

3) The Shining by Stephen King

Synopsis: Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

4) Conversion by Katherine Howe

Synopsis: It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t. 

  
First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. 
  
Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . 
  

5) In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

Synopsis: Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood has all the hallmarks of a good psychological thriller-- a woman lured back to a past she's spent a decade trying to escape, a few unstable characters, and a shocking death. The impending marriage of Nora's best friend from that long ago time brings her to a glass-walled cabin deep in the woods, for a hen party (the U.K. equivalent of a bachelorette weekend). But why is she there when the two haven't spoken since Nora fled their college town ten years ago? As the party gets underway things start to take a dark turn that builds with each passing moment. In a Dark, Dark Wood is a slow burn, each revelation and obfuscation luring the reader at an ever faster pace towards its ultimate life and death conclusion.--Seira Wilson

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        The rest of the wild bunch 

6) Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding 

7) Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

8) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

9) The Silkworm by Robert Galibrath 

10) Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

*all synopsis are taken from Amazon.com*

Loving the Bookish Life.....

So Booklover's Day has come about again this year and as always it reminds me that everyday is Booklover's day. 

After blogging, discussing and loving books all these years I can say there is nothing like be bookish. When I was younger I was made fun of for loving to read, even now some of my family seriously does not understand my obession with books. I have to stop at every bookstore; have to spend time organizing my reading materials. I even make lists of what I plan to read by season. (Speaking of which my fall list will be up this week!) While they may not understand my love of words; I can not really understand their dislike of reading. Reading, I believe, just makes us better human beings. It makes us smarter, makes us better problem solvers etc. Not that non-readers can not be these things. However, there is just something so magical about us bookish folks. I wish you all a wonderful and tea filled Book Lover's Day evening!