Earlier this year, I wrote a review of Megan Hess’ Grace Kelly: The Illustrated Wold of a Fashion Icon. You can read that post here. In that post, I mentioned I planned on writing a review about Megan Hess’ book about Audrey Hepburn. I planned to write and publish the post during the summer, but I never got around to it!
Since the Emmys will be this weekend, and Audrey was an Emmy winner, I decided to save the book review post until now!
When Murder, She Wrote ended airing on TV in 1996, many fans missed the series. Since the series was so popular, a book series inspired by the show was published. In 2024, the series is still in print and new title are still being published to this day!
When I found out there was a book series in 1990’s, I was really excited. I was a fan of the series growing up and I missed Jessica Fletcher’s adventures. It was then when I decided when I get older, I would start to read the series. Fast forward to today and I have achieved my goal of reading books from the series!
One of the books in the series I recently read is Murder, She Wrote: Debonair in Death. This book initially grabbed my attention because it includes a character I liked from the TV shows in the book.
Author and artist Megan Hess has wrote many books over her career, but my favorite books has become her children’s books. Even though I don’t own every book she has wrote or illustrated, I really love the books I own. One of the newest additions to my collection is Caviar: The Hollywood Star.
The book was released in April 2023, but after owning and reading it for over a year, I decided to write a review about it. It is a part of the world of Claris, Megan’s very popular and fashionable mouse and star of most of her children’s books.
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In late November 2024, Universal Pictures will release a movie version of the beloved musical Wicked in theaters. The movie will be release in two parts: The first in November 2024 and the second in 2025.
I am really excited about the movie, but I am also really excited to see the tie in merchandise relating to the movie. Even though it is August, the merchandise is already available for preorder or is available right now.
In anticipation of the movie, I compiled a post featuring all the tie-in merchandise I was able to find available for purchase or preorder. All the merchandise featured in this post is from Amazon. Also, all the release dates for the merchandise is also from Amazon and all the pictures of the products are from Amazon as well. Finally, this is not a sponsored post, there are no affiliate links or links to the products, and if there is a separate release date for a product, I will mention it as well.
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Last year, I wrote a post in which I talked about reading fantasy novels during the fall. (You can read the post here.) This year, I felt inspired to talk more openly about fantasy novels I read.
I still consider August a summer month, but fall home decor, scented candles, and more are all around. Even if you are like me and hang onto summer until September, August is still a great month to search for new books to read as the weather gets cooler outside. Since I like to read fantasy novels in the fall, I decided to create a list of the noteworthy novels and series I like the most.
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I really like to collect Megan Hess’ books, but my favorite books by her are her children’s books. I don’t have children, but I still enjoy buying children’s books whenever I find one I like. Usually I’m drawn to the illustrations. Sometimes it is the story. Still, I enjoy buying my favorites and adding them to my collection.
In the case of Megan Hess’ children’s books, I enjoy the art. I like the stories, but sometimes I don’t enjoy them as much as others. This is why when I discovered a new series by her, called Young Queens Collection, I felt unsure. Since it is a different series to her well known Claris, The Chicest Mouse in Paris collection, I didn’t know if I would like to start buying them and may enjoy them.
After a lot of consideration, I decided to give the series a try and decided to purchase and read the first book in the series: A Most Mysterious Manor.
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Over the past few months, I’ve been slowly buying Sarah J. Maas books. I’m not sure if I will like them, especially since they are known for their spicy romance scenes. Since I don’t like to read a lot of books with spicy romance scenes (I’m an action/adventure fan) I held back purchasing the books for years. This year, I decided to buy all the books that interested me. Many of them were on sale, so it was a perfect opportunity to buy the books I was curious about. My intention for doing this is to read them whenever I feel like it. If I don’t like them, then I didn’t spend so much money on them like I would’ve if I purchased them at full price.
In June, I decided to shop on Amazon for more books to read. I purchased many books during the month of June. I couldn’t go on vacation this summer or go to the movies. So, it was either buy books and read them or watch boring TV for entertainment. I decided to buy books.
Out of the books I purchased, three of them are books I felt comfortable to talk about in a haul post. I picked these three books because I either talked about them in previous posts or already read them and feel comfortable to talk about them online.
In May, I decided to place an order on Amazon for books. All the books I purchased are from series I started previously collecting. My idea for this haul was to not only own more books to the series I started, but to find books I associate with summer time reading.
Summer didn’t end up panning out the way I planned, so even though I read plenty of books, these books were not them. Still, I’m happy I own them and have them in my library!
I’ve been a fan of Morgan Matson’s books for years. Every time I find out a new book is released, I’m really excited to read it. When I found out there wasn’t one new Morgan Matson book but two going to be released in 2024, I was really excited! The first one is called Promchanted and is published by Disney Hyperion. The second is The Ballad of Darcy & Russell and is published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
I purchased both books, but the book I decided to read first is the Ballad of Darcy and Russell. I had some time to sit down and read it in May, so I dedicated a weekend and a couple of weekdays to reading it and write a review post about it. After reading it, I didn’t feel ready to write a review about it. After reading reviews of the book on Amazon, I felt like I was in the minority about my opinions about this book. It is different than other books Morgan has wrote, and it isn’t one I enjoyed.
Since I felt my opinions about the book is contradictory to what the reviews on Amazon said, I decided to delay publishing my review post for a month or so. I hopefully gave enough time to allow others write reviews online (And on Amazon) before anyone reads my own.
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