Did you remember to “Spring Forward” last night? I love BEING on Daylight Saving Time. GETTING on DST, on the other hand, just means losing an hour of sleep. I wish we just stayed on DST and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.

Hopefully I’m also not alone in my admiration of my very own little prince of darkness. I captured this picture of Lucifer earlier this week, sitting on his dignity at my office doorway.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Lady Luck Giveaway Hop (ENDS MONDAY!!!)
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Let’s Get Lucky Giveaway Hop (ENDS TUESDAY!!!)

Blog Recap:

A- Review: The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper
A+ Review: The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers
B Review: Meant to Be by Jude Deveraux
B+ Review: Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
A- Review: Shift Work by TA Moore + Excerpt + Giveaway
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Coming This Week:

The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson (blog tour review)
Chasing Rainbows Giveaway Hop
Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham (blog tour review)
The Stills by Jess Montgomery (blog tour review)
We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart (review)

Everybody gets lucky this week, as I have two blog hops starting up, both of them with a “Luck” theme. After all, St. Patrick’s Day is coming up! There will also be plenty fo chances to get lucky this time next month, because this April I’ll be celebrating Reading Reality’s 10th Blogoversary along with my birthday. I have a wonderful new logo for this year’s celebration, featuring not only Reading Reality’s signature bear but my favorite demon, Lucifer T. Cat.

And speaking of both luck and Lucifer, here’s a picture of the scene that I’m lucky enough to be greeted with every night when I go to bed, Lucifer on my pillows, barely visible, and Freddie curled up behind Galen’s legs.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Wish Big Giveaway Hop (ENDS TONIGHT!!!)

Blog Recap:

A- Review: Level Up by Cathy Yardley
A- Review: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Spotlight + Excerpt: Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison
A- Review: Matagorda Breeze by Lyla Hopper
B+ Review: Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden
Stacking the Shelves (433)

Coming This Week:

Lady Luck Giveaway Hop
Let’s Get Lucky Giveaway Hop
To Catch a Dream by Audrey Carlan (blog tour review)
Dark Wizard by Jeffe Kennedy (review)
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard (review)

I almost forgot! Happy Valentine’s Day!

This seems like a particularly appropriate cat picture for this weekend. George is upside down. It’s been kind of an upside down week. (The poster on the wall in the background is appropriately “Everything I need to know I learned from my cat!”

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Heart to Heart Giveaway Hop (ENDS TUESDAY!!!)
The Rakehell of Roth by Amalie Howard

Blog Recap:

B Review: Beauty Among Ruins by J’nell Ciesielski
B+ Review: The Rakehell of Roth by Amalie Howard + Giveaway
B Review: The Moonsteel Crown by Stephen Deas
A Review: Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb
A- Review: A Vineyard Valentine by Nina Bocci
Stacking the Shelves (411)

Coming This Week:

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (review)
Wish Big Giveaway Hop
Best Laid Plans by Roan Parrish (blog tour review0
Soul of Eon by Anna Hackett (review)
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (review)

Today I have a very pretty cat picture, or at least a picture of a very pretty kitty, to counteract the gloominess of the winter weather wherever you might be. Saturday kind of sucked here, but today is supposed to be not so bad. We’ll see.

But today’s cat picture is a bit rare. Now that Hecate is full grown we don’t seem to get as many pictures of her as we used to when she was very tiny and didn’t hide quite so much. She’s a beautiful tortoiseshell, but most of her spectacular coloring is on her underside, which she is now much too dignified to show us. But she posed for this picture and it shows just how pretty she really is. Isn’t she adorable?

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Heart to Heart Giveaway Hop

Blog Recap:

Heart to Heart Giveaway Hop
A- Review: The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson
A- Review: Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmondson
B Review: A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel
A Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Stacking the Shelves (430)

Coming This Week:

Beauty Among Ruins by J’nell Ciesielski (blog tour review)
The Rakehell of Roth by Amalie Howard (blog tour review)
The Moonsteel Crown by Stephen Deas (review)
Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb (review)
A Vineyard Valentine by Nina Bocci (blog tour review)

This was the weekend we were supposed to have been in Indianapolis for the American Library Association Midwinter Conference. I can’t say I was all that enthused about going to Indy in January. It’s BRRRR cold there in January. (Next year’s conference is scheduled for San Antonio and the year after New Orleans, which are much better winter venues.) Howsomever, I’m on a committee that usually meets for two 8-hour plus days at Midwinter to determine the winners of the ALA Reading List Awards for adult genre fiction, and that work still has to happen this weekend.

So, instead of those two, long, eight-hour in person meetings, we’re having four five-hour Zoom meetings. Technically we’re meeting on Webex, but you get the idea. One of my colleagues has mailed treats to all of us to help us get through the deliberations, and I think we’re all looking forward to meeting each other’s pets.

And in the spirit of that, as well as of the general idea that two – or more – heads are better than one, hence why we’re meeting in the first place, I have a cat picture. (Of course I have a cat picture!) Here are Lucifer and George to remind me that two heads are much better than one, especially when it comes to naps!

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the MLK Giveaway Hop (ENDS TOMORROW!!!!!)

Blog Recap:

MLK Giveaway Hop
A Review: Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
A+ Review: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
A Review: Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
B- Review: When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
Stacking the Shelves (428)

Coming This Week:

Spotlight + Excerpt: The Vineyard at Painted Moon by Susan Mallery (blog tour event)
Storm of Eon by Anna Hackett (review)
The Golden Gryphon and the Bear Prince by Jeffe Kennedy (review)
The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat (blog tour review)
Raider by M.L. Buchman (review)