Alrighty! I'm here with the final Mini Challenge for the Love-A-Thon  hosted by Alexa, Cee, Hazel, and Mel!

Mini Challenge #4 is An Invitation to Tea. So I will be sharing which fictional character, book blogger OR BookTuber OR Bookstagrammer, and author I'd want to have a tea party with and why!

So first of all, here is the invitation to my tea party!

Who could turn down that invitation? :)

So first of all, the fictional character that I would invite to my tea party would be Ruby Daly. I would say Liam Stewart because yum, but really, boys probably wouldn't be too pumped about being invited to a tea party. And Ruby is a pretty fantastic character! One of my favorites! Who would have ever guessed that!?

The fellow book blogger that I would invite would be Mariam (@mariamthekid) because she is my fellow TDM fangirl and is just generally awesome.

And the author that I would invite to my tea party is totally Alexandra Bracken! I got to meet her last month and it was amazing!!! She is my favorite ever! <3

I hope that there is coffee at this tea party because bleh, I don't like tea!

Who would you invite to your tea party? :)

Love-A-Thon 2016: Mini Challenge #3

Hello lovely readers! I'm here with Mini Challenge #3 of the Love-A-Thon hosted by Alexa, Cee, Hazel, and Mel!

The third mini challenge is Book Spine Poetry! At first I thought that this was going to be no fun because I didn't think I had the creativity or library resources to come up with anything good, but once I really got into it and started planning it, I started to sing a different tune! I think that what I came up with is actually pretty sweet!

Okay, so when I was putting this together, I was feeling like it was more of a book spine story than book spine poetry. It feels more like a story than poetry to me. Kind of your run of the mill, orphaned queen story, but a story all the same.

Basically what I was thinking when I put it together was:

The Midnight Queen was uprooted from her kingdom by a darker shade of magic that sieged and stormed the kingdom. The kingdom fell and panic and pandemonium ensued. Then through the dark comes the orphaned Queen on a road for vengeance, swearing death against the imposter Queen. There are violent ends and in the afterlight things all work out. 

Requiem felt like a final sounding word to put at the end. It kind of is, but the definition of it is 'an act or token of remembrance' or 'a celebration of the dead'. So along with it being the book title with the most final sounding word for a title, they're also celebrating getting their kingdom back and remembering the brave souls who died for the cause.

So, what do you think of my book spine poetry? Is it gold or what? :)

Love-A-Thon 2016: Mini Challenge #2

Hello lovely readers! I am here doing Mini Challenge #2 for the Love-A-Thon hosted by Alexa, Cee, Hazel, and Mel!

This is a bingo challenge! So let's see how many of these squares I can fill in!

√ Visit 5 new blogs:

1. Rabbit Hole Reviews

2. Latte Nights Reviews

3. Arctic Books

4. Wandering Through Books

5. Fleurs et Nerds

√ Join one of the Love-A-Thon twitter chats:

Twitter Chat #1

Twitter Chat #2

Twitter Chat #3

√ Twitter Chat #4

√ Participate in one other challenge:

Introduction

Mini Challenge #1

Mini Challenge #3

Mini Challenge #4

√ Find 3 new instagram accounts (and follow):

1. Admire_Stories

2. Mel_1704

3. PopGoesTheReader

√ Leave a comment on some of your favorite blogs:

1. Eater of Books

2. Downright Dystopian

Tweet 3 of your favorite authors:

√ Watch 3 videos from new youtubers (and follow):

1. Novels and Nonsense

2. BangadyBangz

3. Katytastic

Dedicate a blog post to talk about some of your favorite blogs, youtube, and instagram accounts:

√ Color Hunt - Find a blog with a purple, blue, and pink design:

After a lot of hunting, I found that Writer Grrl Reads has pink, purple, and blue in her design!

Love-A-Thon 2016: Mini Challenge #1

Hello lovely readers! I am here doing Mini Challenge #1 for the Love-A-Thon hosted by Alexa, Cee, Hazel, and Mel!

Mini Challenge #1 is Mix and Match! The goal is to mash up a non-bookish hobby/passion/fandom with your bookish life!

So because I also enjoy playing video games in my free time and am pretty much in love with the Legend of Zelda franchise AND have a small passion for photography, this is what I came up with.

Okay, so obviously since I like photography, I took a picture. Maybe not a beautiful picture, but I was kind of shaky when I took it so this was the best non-blurry photo I got! I'm not a fantastic editor yet, but I tried!

The books I chose are just books that I can vaguely connect to the Legend of Zelda story.

In Snow Like Ashes, Meira is chased from her kingdom by a sinister evil and has to take it back with the help of a brave hero. Mather or Theron could work as the hero, they both helped, right?

In The Kiss of Deception, Lia flees from an arranged marriage (which is not really following the LoZ storyline, but bear with me). She is pursued by a prince who wants to save her and an assassin who is set to kill her. Granted, Link is not a prince and Ganondorf is not an assassin, but they both kind of pursue her! Link to save her, Ganondorf to steal her piece of the triforce. Once he gets that, I'm sure he wouldn't be opposed to killing her.

See, pretty vague, but again, I tried.

Since you can't see all the games featured, I shall tell you what they are if you are curious:

Hyrule Warriors

Wind Waker

Twilight Princess

Skyward Sword

Also, I have that lovely plant in the photo, I have really been liking the whole idea of gardening. I think that's gonna end up being a new hobby of mine. I have a bunch of succulent plants that I bought this past summer and I've only killed one of them! And I snatched this plant from my grandma's house when she moved this last year and it's STILL ALIVE! So I'm probably gonna try harder to plant a garden this year. Since I've proven that I can keep things alive, you know.

Do you share any of the same non-bookish hobbies as I do? Let's talk about them!

Love-A-Thon 2016: Introduction Questionnaire

Hi everyone! Today and tomorrow I will be participating in the Love-A-Thon hosted by Alexa, Cee, Hazel, and Mel! I'm excited to spread the love! First of all, I have for you my answers for the questionnaire provided for this event! So if you've ever had any burning questions about me, maybe you can find the answer here! Or if you want to know something, please feel free to ask in the comments or some other way!

Let's get started!

1. What's your name?

My name is Cyra! It's pronounced Sear-ah! My boyfriend always explains it to people as, "You know, like how you would sear a steak?"

2. Where in the world are you blogging from?

I'm blogging from the middle of nowhere South Dakota. Literally the middle of nowhere. I apparently live in the only place in the 48 continental United States that is more than 100 miles from a McDonald's.

3. How did you get into blogging in the first place?

I got into blogging from the booklr community on tumblr! I wasn't big into it or anything, but I started to visit more regular blogs from there and learning about such awesome books and then I found the twitter community and I decided to start my own blog to be able to talk books with people who would do more than just smile and nod at me!

4. How did you come up with your blog name?

When I decided to finally start my blog, I decided to read a few books and write up reviews of them first so I would have some content to post. And the first book I read after I made that decision was Throne of Glass. I really loved the 'rattle the stars' quote so I just made it bookish!

5. What genre do you read and review the most on your blog?

I like to read fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, etc. Things like that. I prefer to read about other worlds rather than the real one.

6. What other kinds of posts do you do on your blog besides reviews?

Top Ten Tuesday

Waiting on Wednesday - this I do once a month with all the books I want to read coming out the next month.

Discussions

Stacking the Shelves

Tags

Wrap Ups

Blog Tours

Cover Reveals - I've only done one so far, but I liked doing it!

Guest of the Month Club

Promotional posts

Whatever sounds like fun, really.

7. Best blogging experience so far?

I have loved my blogging experience so far, but I think one of the coolest things that has happened to me was that another blogger approached me and asked me if I wanted to be featured in her beautiful bloggers feature she did! I loved that!

8. Favorite thing about the blogging community?

Everyone is so friendly and it seems like everyday I learn about a new amazing sounding book that I need to read!

9. Name the 5 books you're most excited for in 2016!

The Beauty of Darkness

Burning Glass

The Winner's Kiss

The Mirror King

And I Darken

10. Name the five books you want to get to in 2016 that you didn't get to in previous years!

Uprooted

The Rose Society

Violent Ends

Rose Under Fire

A Darker Shade of Magic

11. What's an underrated book or series that you think everyone should read?

I don't really see a lot of people talking about the Shades of London series by Maureen Johnson and I really love that series!

12. Which book boy or girl would be your book BFF?

I want to say Ruby Daly from The Darkest Minds. I think she would be an awesome friend.

13. Which book boy or girl would be your book boyfriend/girlfriend?

Liam Stewart!!!

14. Who would you recruit for your apocalypse squad (5 characters max)?

Liam Stewart because yum and he has blue powers.

Zu from The Darkest Minds because she has yellow powers and could help out with the problem of no electricity.

Four from Divergent because he's good with a gun.

Katniss Everdeen because she's good at survival.

Hermione Granger because she's wicked smart.

15. Apart from reading, what are your other hobbies or interests?

Binge watching TV shows, playing video games, and photography!

16. Apart from book shopping, what else do you like shopping for?

I like going clothes shopping and shopping for things for my house!

17. At a party, the DJ suddenly changes the song - and it's YOUR song! What song would be playing?

Right now, I'd say Irresistible by Fall Out Boy!

18. Pick either a book you want turned into a movie/TV show or a movie/TV show you want turned into a book.

I want them to hurry up with the movie for The Darkest Minds!! I need it in my life!

19. What would your dream library look like?

The Teen section at Barnes and Noble.

20. Author you want to meet and sit down to tea with?

Alexandra Bracken! I have met her now, which was so cool, but it would be cool to sit down to tea with her! Except it would have to be coffee for me because I do not like tea at all.