I found this old one. I wrote this piece ten years ago. There should be something new for next week! Bratz Recently, my mom, my little...| inspirationalskai.blogspot.com
For the past week, I have been blogging obsessively. I stayed up until 1:30AM on most nights, my record was 2:30, and I had to get up at 6AM most mornings for work. Needless to say, I'm tired. I'll keep this intro short. I didn't want to lose the momentum, so I'm still doing Love Your Library for September. This month's period was over 30 days, so I'm not surprised that I was able to finish 6 books. The rest of this month has been about preparing for Five Fall Favorites last week and October ...| Inspirational Skai
Welcome for the final time! (Of Fall Favorites 2025. I would love to have everyone continue to come back. I'll mention some of the other projects I have in the works at end of this blog. Also yesterday, we had rain all-day, and it finally felt like Fall!) Today is bittersweet as we come to the most fun day of the week. The day when all of the free books are available! Do check out the other bloggers, and the hosts sites for all the freebies. I'll throw a book bracket down at the bottom that p...| Inspirational Skai
I'm having so much fun reading everyone's suggestions and reminiscing about my own past reading. I have also added so many new books to my TBR (does anyone else really want to go out and buy more books now?), and we aren't quite done yet. We still have today, and tomorrow. Welcome or welcome back! I think I may be more excited about today's book line up than even my top five books of the year. One of today's books has three paragraphs about it. I guess that's what happens when you talk about...| Inspirational Skai
Arriving at Day 4 of Five Fall Favorites, today we are over the halfway through the week. I'm very tired, because I never get enough sleep when working on big writing projects. Apologies to everyone who has to deal with me IRL, I know my patience is short and my ability to mask my emotions is waning. That off my chest, Welcome! We have come to one of the blogs I am most excited about. Three of these books are ones that I've read this year, so I'm very excited to talk about them.| Inspirational Skai
Happy Wednesday! It's day three of Five Fall Favorites, and yesterday I added so many new indie titles to my TBR list. We are halfway through this challenge. I remember it flying by last year because all I did was write and go to work that week. This year has been the same. It feels like if I'm not writing, I am working, and if I'm not working, I am writing. I think the first break I've taken since Sunday, was yesterday evening, after work when I taught a piano lesson. How does that tangent r...| Inspirational Skai
Welcome back to another day of Five Fall Favorites! I enjoyed reading everyone's posts from day one. I've added some new titles to my ever-growing TBR list. As I was reading the other blogs I felt like I did a bit of a weak job introducing the different section of this blog. Namely, I could have done a better job letting people know about the important links at the bottom. So, here is a fuller explanation. | Inspirational Skai
Welcome to Inspirational Skai. In case you are new here, I thought I should give a little background. I started this blog thirteen years ago to share my fictional stories. I've taken a few breaks over the years, but late last year I came back to it. In the past few years, I started reviewing books on Instagram and thought changing this blog into one about books would be a natural extension of that. I also discovered Five Fall Favorites on Instagram from Once Upon an Ordinary. Last year was my...| Inspirational Skai
This month's library reading was significantly less than in July or even in June. Earlier this month, I took a week off from work and went on vacation. But I don't like to take library books on vacation; it's too easy to lose or damage a book while traveling. I spent four days in Boston, Massachusetts seeing the sights. It was my first time on the east coast, and it was certainly a change from the desert where I live. The weather was cooler and much more humid, but I found it nice that it act...| Inspirational Skai
For the second part of Summer Reading, I really focused on audiobooks. I looked mostly for ones I could listen to while I did other things. With the reading challenge at work, I tried to at a minimum listen or read to a book for 1 hour a day. High interest audiobooks are great for that. I get almost all my audiobooks from the library. My library's main online resources for audiobooks are Libby and Hoopla. In my review, I have included links for the Libby website, so people can see what their ...| Inspirational Skai
In total for May (so far) I've finished 6 books, 5 of them were from the library. I read my first ever book from Interlibrary Loan. It's a great program that allows readers access to titles which your library doesn't own, by borrowing it from another library. My interlibrary loan game from across the United States, it was fun to see how different another library's material could be. Amongst other books were 3 audiobooks and 1 ebook. Overall, I enjoyed the books better than I did last month, m...| Inspirational Skai
The month of June was a long one. I did a lot of reading for the summer reading program. We also have an additional reading challenge at work. I don't read enough to be a real contender individual category, but I am on the second-place work team. Altogether, we are having a fun time with the challenge. This month I read seven library books. Of those seven, I listened to three as audiobooks and the other four were eBooks. Two of the books I read were comic book compilations. | Inspirational Skai
April is always a busy month in my household we have three birthdays (including mine) and as well as Easter and other spring activities. This moth, we ended up getting sick twice. I didn’t get as many library books this month as I usually would and a good portion of my reading is typically audiobooks and ebooks, but I didn’t have the mental stamina for e-reading or listening to audiobooks while I was sick, so I read 6 books in total this month and only 4 were library books.| Inspirational Skai
February is the month of love. It is also National Library Lovers Month! This sounded like the perfect blog to write during this month. This month I finished a book I've been reading since last summer and started some other titles I have been on my TBR list since fall. Keep reading until the end for the link to my recent book review and for the link to one of my favorite stories. I love the characters in that story and have fun writing them.| Inspirational Skai
I discovered this blog challenge at the end of last year and decided that I would like to participate this month. So, all January, I have been taking notes on what books, audiobooks and eResources I have checked out, read/watched, and/or returned. Let me tell you, it’s a lot. Every year I read one nonfiction title, so this month I have checked out a bunch of nonfiction books to find my annual read. This year I am also reading Reb’s Recs, books my sister is recommending and 12 Recs from 12...| Inspirational Skai
Welcome to Reb Recs!| Inspirational Skai
Well, Friends, we have reached the final day of Five Fall Favorites 2024 hosted by Once Upon an Ordinary. It has been a fun, quick challenge and I'm glad I got to participate. I will have to do more in the future.| Inspirational Skai
Full disclosure, my weekend starts on Friday, so after a full week of waking up extra early before work to start writing these blogs, I fell back asleep after I turned my alarm went off and slept in late. I had some errands to run when I finally woke up, so it was now after 4PM when I started to write this. That's okay, it's day 5 of Five Fall Favorites 2024 hosted by Once Upon an Ordinary! I guess, I'm not quite ready for it to be over.| Inspirational Skai
It's been a while since I've done this much writing over the course of one week, however, I'm very impressed with myself for keeping up this hard work, because it's day 4 of Five Fall Favorites 2024 hosted by Once Upon an Ordinary! Today's prompt is PATIENCE, yesterday's post on peace was heavy. I shared books that have brought me peace, I decided to interpret this as books that take patience to get to the best parts. These titles are all sequels that I think are better than the original book...| Inspirational Skai
Wow! It's already day three of Five Fall Favorites 2024 hosted by Once Upon an Ordinary. This week has flown by fast. We are halfway through the blogging challenge, and it certainly has been a challenge, but I'm grateful that I took this challenge on. Today's word is peace! As I considered what peace books I would associate with peace, I decided that while fiction can be cathartic and a great way to process feelings, it's non-fiction books that have often brought me peace and healing. Here ar...| Inspirational Skai
It's Tuesday! Which means it is day two of the Five Fall Favorites 2024 challenge hosted by Once Upon an Ordinary. Today's prompt is Joy. The dictionary definition of joy is "a feeling of great pleasure or happiness." (From Mariam Webster dictionary) I decided I would share five of my favorite stories where the ending wasn't what I expected, but it made me happy and was an even better way to end the story. Here are five favorites with unexpected happy endings.| Inspirational Skai
Today is the first day of Five Fall Favorites 2024 Hosted by Once Upon an Ordinary! The first prompt is five books about Love. I'm going to share five romance books that reading them made me believe in love and I hope you love them as much as I do!| Inspirational Skai
Read from: June 29, 2020 Till: July 19, 2020Genre: YA Dystopian, Sci-fi and Fantasy | Inspirational Skai
Book Review: Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter| Inspirational Skai
In this booklist these characters say, “I hate you!” but actually mean “I love you!”| Inspirational Skai
For the past week, I have been blogging obsessively. I stayed up until 1:30AM on most nights, my record was 2:30, and I had to get up at 6AM most mornings for work. Needless to say, I'm tired. I'll keep this intro short. I didn't want to lose the momentum, so I'm still doing Love Your Library for September. This month's period was over 30 days, so I'm not surprised that I was able to finish 6 books. The rest of this month has been about preparing for Five Fall Favorites last week and October ...| inspirationalskai.blogspot.com
For the past week, I have been blogging obsessively. I stayed up until 1:30AM on most nights, my record was 2:30, and I had to get up at 6AM...| inspirationalskai.blogspot.com
