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Book Blogger Hop: Owning A Bookstore

Published on November 10, 2026November 9, 2026 by Celeste1 Comment

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Book Blogger Hop post image was created by Coffee Addicted Writer.

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Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026

Published on November 9, 2026November 8, 2026 by Celeste5 Comments

Thanksgiving is still a few weeks away in the U.S., but I don’t have a book review ready for today. Instead, I decided to do the Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026. This is now my fifth year doing it (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). My responses for this year’s edition will pull from my 2026 reads. If you’re not familiar with the Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026, the short rules are below.

Originally created by Anna’s Book Nook, here are the rules:

Thank the person who nominated you
Give credit to the author (Anna’s Book Nook)
Answer the prompts
Tag others if you desire!

At the end of my answers I also listed all the prompts to the Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026 for easy copying and pasting into your own post.

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WWW Wednesday: November 4, 2026

Published on November 4, 2026November 3, 2026 by Celeste9 Comments

Those of you who saw my November 2026 TBR won’t be terribly surprised at my reading progress for this week’s WWW Wednesday.

WWW Wednesday was revived and hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The idea is to answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses.

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

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October 2026 On My Radar

Published on November 3, 2026November 1, 2026 by Celeste9 Comments

I was doing some blog hopping a couple days ago and wow, I don’t know how some of you manage to read and post so many reviews and also work! Kudos to you all! I just cannot juggle all of that as efficiently as I’d like to. Anyway, I admittedly didn’t do as much blog hopping in October, mainly because I spent the last 1.5 weeks of it really hunkering down into Kingdom of Ash. Regardless, I rounded up a few posts for my October 2026 On My Radar. So take a look and see what you might’ve missed!

Reviews

Eleanor by Alice Loxton by Janette at Wicked Witch’s Blog
The Slantwise Histories by Alix E. Harrow by Charlotte at Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Our Strange Duet by Erin A. Craig by Krysta at Pages Unbound
Written in Starlight by Sloane Brooks by Chris at Biblio Nerd Reflections
ENTITIES TO LOVERS by Mallory Marlowe by Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy
THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE by Oliver K. Langmead by Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1) by Paula Lafferty by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher by Susy at The Road to Hell is Paved With Books
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher by Matt at Runalong The Shelves

Discussion

Is Everyone Reading the Same Thing? (And Is That Even New?) by Briana at Pages Unbound
How Pages Unbound Is Doing on Substack Seven Months In by Briana at Pages Unbound

Bookish Miscellany

Witchy Books For Halloween by Charlotte at Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
33 Middle Grade “Books for Boys” Ages 8-12 Published in the Last 6 Years by Pages Unbound
November 2026 Book Releases by Chris at Biblio Nerd Reflections

November 2026 TBR

Published on November 2, 2026November 1, 2026 by Celeste9 Comments

I did pretty well with my October 2026 TBR. I finished half of my priority reads and all of my hopeful reads. However, I realized I’d run out of time to read the last book in the Throne of Glass series, so I threw everything else out the door to focus on that. I still have yet to finish it, but I’ve made great progress. So obviously that book is in my November 2026 TBR.

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