Book Blogger Hop: Multiple Reads

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Crazy-For-Books and is currently being hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Every Friday, a new question is posted for book bloggers to answer in the coming week. The purpose of the hop is connection and community. You can discover new blogs to follow, new books to read, and you may end up with some new followers, as well!

This Week’s Prompt

Do you read one book at a time, or juggle a few at once?

Submitted by Billy, Coffee-Addicted Writer.

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First Lines Friday: July 17th, 2026

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First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? If you want to make your own post, feel free to use or edit the banner above, and follow the rules below:

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

If you’re sharing on social media, don’t forget to use #FirstLinesFridays!

Hello, reader!

For this week’s First Lines Friday, I’m featuring a book that I’m currently reading. It’s a horror novel that messes with your head in the best of ways! I’m having such a good time trying to figure out what is going on and following our very intriguing main character.

Let’s see if the first line will intrigue you enough to give it a read.

The Line(s):

“The sight of this old train car saddens me, though I cannot articulate why.”

The Build Up:

The Reveal:

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WWW Wednesday: July 15th, 2026

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It’s time for another WWW Wednesday! This is a bookish meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words where bloggers answer the 3 Ws:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

If you’d like to learn more about any of these books, click on the cover to be taken to the Goodreads page.

Current Reads

Leech by Hiron Ennes: This is my current audiobook and, so far, I’m having a great time! I didn’t realize this is following a hive mind as the main character. I’m always fascinated by books with hive minds and how they execute the concept. This one has me absolutely captivated! I’m loving the world, the plot, and the random bits of humor that are sprinkled into this otherwise dark story. Also, the narrator is doing a fantastic job!
A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett: I have an e-ARC of the latest Ana and Din mystery which will be out in August. I’m terrible at reading my ARCs before the actual books come out, but for this series I like to make sure my review is out in a timely manner! I adore this fantasy/mystery series and, from what I’ve read already, I think this book won’t break my streak of loving it.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge: I just started this non-fiction today since we’re already halfway through the month of July and I haven’t read a non-fiction yet! I picked this up at the library because I’ve been wanting to read this book since I learned of its existence. I get the feeling I might have to buy my own copy because I’ve already come across a few passages that I want to highlight! This is going to be a good, if probably infuriating, read.

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Top Ten Tuesday: New To Me Authors

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish back in June 2010. It is currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and, as is stated on the blog, it was “born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.”

Hello, reader!

For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, I’ll be talking about books on my TBR that are written by authors I have never read before. I have a ton of those sitting on both my physical and digital TBR, heh 😅 So I’m going to try to focus on authors (and books!) that I’m super hyped to read.

So let me share my list with you!

Books by New to Me Authors

Canon by Paige Lewis
Molka by Monika Kim
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula

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Goodreads/TBR Monday: July 13th, 2026

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Goodreads Monday/TBR Monday is a bookish meme hosted by Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog invites you to post about what books are on your Goodreads “to read” lists or TBR lists, the progress you have made on your current books and reading challenges, and any other bookish news!

Hello, reader!

It’s time for another Goodreads Monday! My Goodreads “Want to Read” shelf has dropped a little, from 840 books to 837 books. Look at me actually reading books on my TBR! Now, it’s time to randomly pick another book and decide whether it gets to stay or not.

Let’s see what book I get this week!

Random Goodreads Pick

Book:
The Lost Girls of Paris

Author:
Pam Jenoff

Publisher:
Park Row

Publication Date:
January 29th, 2019

Pages:
377

Genre:
Historical Fiction

Synopsis:
The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Three women. One daring mission.

Manhattan, 1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home.

Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal.

In this riveting story inspired by true events, Pam Jenoff weaves a tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.

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Book Blogger Hop: Book Community Pet Peeves

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This Week’s Prompt

What’s your biggest pet peeve about the book community?

Submitted by Billy, Coffee-Addicted Writer.

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First Lines Friday: July 10th, 2026

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Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

If you’re sharing on social media, don’t forget to use #FirstLinesFridays!

Hello, reader!

Welcome to another First Lines Friday post! This week, I’m featuring a romance that I just got through Book of the Month Club. I’ve been a member for what feels like ages and I find myself more often than not enjoying the random romances I pick up from them every now and then.

Let’s hope this one starts out with something that gets me even more excited to read it!

The Line(s):

“Goddamn the universe and its attempts to keep me humble.”

The Build Up:

The Reveal:

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Can’t Wait Wednesday: July 8th, 2026

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Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a meme where you get to flail about whatever upcoming book you’re excited to read. Though it is generally a new release, it certainly can be any book that’s on your TBR! This meme is currently hosted by Wishful Endings and it’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.

Hello, reader!

Today on the blog, I’ve decided to do another Can’t Wait Wednesday post! There are a ton of books I’m looking forward to in the second half of the year, but today I’m featuring a specific one that I’m so excited to read.

Let’s jump in!

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This is an August release that I’ve been anticipating since last year! Here’s some hints as to what it might be:

This is a sequel to a YA horror/fantasy from last year
It features some pretty gnarly creatures
I loooove the cover

The book I’ve chosen for Can’t Wait Wednesday is…

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Top Ten Tuesday: Titles That Contain The Word “Book”

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Hello, reader!

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is a fun one! You get to pick your top ten books that have titles that contain a word of your choosing. There’s so many ways I could have gone with this. I could have picked a summery word to go with the season. I could have picked one of my favorite things, like cats or chocolate, and featured books with those in the title. What I ended up going with is probably so simple it’s silly, but my absolute favorite trope to read is a book about books or with bookish themes. So, I figured, why not make “book” my word of choice!

Now let me share my list with you!

Titles With The Word “Book”

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
The Book Made me Think of You by Libby Page
Zora Books Her Happy Ever After by Taj McCoy

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Goodreads/TBR Monday: July 6th, 2026

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Hello, reader!

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you all had an excellent weekend and are ready for another week. I’m ready for another Goodreads Monday, myself! This week, I’m working with 840 books on my “Want to Read” shelf which is a few more than last time because I have no self-control 😅😂 Still, let’s see what book the random number generator pulls up for me today and whether or not it will get to stay.

Random Goodreads Pick

Book:
Beneath Cruel Fathoms

Author:
Anela Deen

Publisher:
Fine Fables Press

Publication Date:
May 1st, 2019

Pages:
389

Genre:
Fantasy/Romance

Synopsis:
After a violent storm destroys her ship, Isaura Johansdottir knows better than to hope she’ll be rescued from Eisland’s vast Failock Sea. Adrift and alone, her plans to start over lost, it’s a tragic conclusion after the disastrous end of her marriage—until she’s saved by Leonel, one of the merfolk, a creature long believed extinct. In repayment for her life, Leonel enlists her help to investigate the Failock’s mysterious and deadly plague of squalls. But when Isaura discovers Eisland’s ruthless new Lord commands the storms, her life will be in more danger on land than it ever was at sea.

As guardian of the Fathoms, Leonel must find the cause of unnatural storms ravaging the tidal currents and destroying the sea life. There are rumors of dark magic stirring in the Orom Abyss, the resting place of old, vanquished gods who tried to submerge the land millennia ago. Yet without proof, no one in King Ægir’s court will listen to him. And if it’s discovered he broke the Blue Laws to save a shipwrecked landweller, he might not survive the consequences.

As storms spread, Leonel and Isaura uncover secrets as forbidden as the bond that grows between them. Betrayal lurks in the restless sea, and when ancient powers lay siege to Eisland’s coast, the truth may be drowned along with everything else.

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