Book Review: Spellbound Freshman: A Slice Of Life Magical Academy Harem Marko Duskborn

  

 

Spellbound Freshman: A Slice Of Life Magical Academy Harem (Spellbound University Book 1) by Marko Duskborn

I enjoyed this book because of the theme. It's not my usual genre so it was easy to follow everything as the story progressed.

Story starts out with Marcus and he acquires abilities he didn't know he had.

He ends up going to an academy where he can learn more about his abilities and how to control them. Nobody even knew the level he was at.

The team consists of Sage who's a brilliant researcher with master in magical theory, Kira half fae  and like Marcus, trying to find her place among them all, and Elena who's family has connections.

Besides them all becoming friends they learn of others who want to expel Marcus because he wasn't born with the magic in his bloodline.

With help from them all Marcus is able to show enough power to take one assassin down and leave another unconscious in front of the elite party who are trying to expel him.

There are just a few involved and the researcher has found all the underlying evidence in plain sight and Victor goes under scrutiny from the panel...

Very entertaining book with sides of human, sci fic and magic and mystical overtures. 

Children's books Jun 15

 

Hip and the Sharing Shells by Sandra Blake

Colorful, children's educational book.  Book starts out with about the author. 

Book starts where the chapter has its own title. There are color pictures and then more is explained, about the title. 

Hip and his friends head the beach for the day. Hip spots  a shiny shell and claims it as his. He collects a bunch more and they are all for him. Ellie wants to see them by Hip tells her no they are all his. She walks away. Now Hip feels lonely. He has a talk with Marvin  and one shell tumbles out of the pile into the water. He still feels lonely but others are laughing and having a great time.  He decides he needs to share the shells with other. They all build  a cstle and put shells on it. 

Love hearing more from the animals in the jungle.

Moral: sharing really does make everything better. 

  

 

Hip and the Wiggly Tooth  by Sandra Blake

Colorful, children's educational book.  Book starts out with about the author. 

Book starts where the chapter has its own title. There are color pictures and then more is explained, about the title. 

In this book Hip finds he has a loose tooth. He doesn't want it to fall out during story time. Tessa the Toucan explains what is happening with the tooth, it meals you are growing up.

 He wiggles it a bit and declares nope it's not ready.

 Ellie the elephant talks more to him to not be afraid.

Love hearing about the tooth fairy again.

Love hearing more from the animals in the jungle.

 

Hip and the Day We Remember (A Memorial Day Story) by Sandra Blake

Colorful, children's educational book.  Book starts out with about the author. 

Book starts where the chapter has its own title. There are color pictures and then more is explained, about the title. 

Hip notices in the jungle thee is peace and calm and why does it feel so different. He goes to investigate.

He notices the little flags planted. Ellie explains it all to him what Memorial Day is really all about.

Jungle animals all gather and pause, feel and remember.

Love hearing more from the animals in the jungle.

Memorial Day: A day to pause. A day to feel. A day to remember.

 

 

Hip and the Great Jungle Race by Sandra Blake

Colorful, children's, educational, fun story to read with another.

Book starts out with about the author. The story is set up where the chapters are titled and in each chapter is the title, color photo and the words to the picture, story.

This story is centered around the great race. All the animals can  participate.

When Hip gets going he does fine and keeps up with others. Then he notices One animal that can't go further and he helps them out.  Hip continues to run and helps another with a problem. By the end of the race he can see many ahead of him but he's just happy to have finished the race. He has a big surprise when he is finished. Whole gang is there to witness it. He is a true winner.

 

Book Review: The Complete Excel Bible 2025 by Excelwise Press

   

The Complete Excel Bible 2025 by Excelwise Press 

Book intro tells you about the different types of skills you can learn from this book. I use excel myself and love a lot of things about this book.

It explains how to set up the ribbon task bar and how to remove things you don't want there.

Loe that it explains how to create your first workbook and actually has you do everything yourself. You can take your time and if you get interrupted you can restart where you left off. There are step by step instruction making it so easy for anybody to use. It also explains how to input data and what to type, as examples so you can become familiar with the layout.

 It has you do a few tasks also with the data, rearranging things and how to save, open and close files.

There are chapters about how to display the data as a chart as some are visual learners. There are so many more instructions to use that format or many others in the program.

There are a few things I would never use as I don't have a business but some things like a grocery list is very helpful.

What I love the best are the 104 shortcuts they tell you about at the end of the book. I never learned all but 'sum' function so this is new to me and so very helpful.  Macros would be helpful to others and those instructions are included also. 

References are included also.

A KEEPER, one to keep close by til you get used to the shortcut keys.

Book Review: Glow: An Inspiring Chapter Book for Girls about Anxiety by Emma Meyer

  

 

Glow: An Inspiring Chapter Book for Girls about Anxiety by Emma Meyer 

This is a fantastic story about  Mia and she lives with her mother in Brooklyn. Mia goes to school and has many friends there, She feels very comfortable in her city and the activates she is able to do. Her mother has bad news for them one night and Mia finds out they must leave the city and head to where the grandfather lives. She is sad to part with her friends and her anxiety is really bad along the trip. It takes them longer than a day in the rusty, old, leaking truck with their things. When they arrive Mia is shocked by the dead town. Nobody is outside and stores appear to be closed. After a nap she wakes up to find hikers come into her grandfather's place and he feeds them. He runs a hiking lodge of sorts and is always busy. 

Mia does not like the place, nor the town nor the woods all around them. 

She finds others who are about her age and they bond after some time.

I like this story because Mia has to learn patience and she even opens up to her grandfather who helps her out. Love the library and how things with friends are so important to feel a part of something. Each time something good happens Mia glows inside. She even turns the glow onto her mother who is also beginning to love the place. Home is where your heart is and they have found home again. Love hearing of  all the treasures the locals show her and how she's able to learn to survive and help others when in need.

Great story, can't wait to read the rest in the seriers.

 

Children's books read Jun 14

 

Hip and The Kindness Tree by Sandra Blake

Colorful, children's educational book.  Book starts out with about the author.

Story starts at chapter 1 with its title. Love that each page is a different chapter and has it's own title and text in the chapter explains more about the title.

Hip finds an empty spot and wants to plant a garden, he has an idea that he hopes will work.

He plants a seed and sits back to watch it grow.

Seed has special powers that if others do a good deed for others the seed grows higher, even blossoms with a flower. Everybody in th jungle is doing a good deed. One day no one does a good deed and the plant starts to die. Hip starts all over again with a good deed and others pitch in also. Love hearing from all the other animals in the jungle. Colorful pictures in every chapter.

Moral of the story: Every little act counts.

 

Hip and The Missing Muffins by Sandra Blake

Colorful, children's educational book.  Book starts out with about the author. 

I am a baker of muffins myself and know where they all are but sometimes I leave the room for minute...

Book starts where the chapte has its own title. There are color pictures and then more is explained, about the title.

Hip declares Muffin Monday and gets busy in the kitchen. He leaves the room for a minute and when he returns all muffins are gone...

He starts to follow the crumbs and comes upon Marvin. Wasn't him..Toucan had a nibble only. Detective Hip does find out who the culprit was and now he leaves a note: Please ask before you snack. The others feel bad so go back to the kitchen with Hip to make more muffins, They all pitch in and have such a fun time. They will now all make muffins on Monday.

Love hearing more from the animals in the jungle.

Hip Learns to say Sorry by Sandra Blake

Colorful, children's educational book.  Book starts out with about the author. 

I am a baker of muffins myself and know where they all are but sometimes I leave the room for minute...

Book starts where the chapter has its own title. There are color pictures and then more is explained, about the title.

Hip is enjoying the sunny day at the park. Others are there, Benny the Bunny and they are playing leaf chase game.

Because of Hips size he didn't realize he had bumped into Benny by accident.

Hip thinks he's ruined the fun. Marvin helps Hip understand that you should say sorry for bumping into you.

Hip did not mean to bump Benny at all. He found the bunny sniffling and they talk to one another. After that they went off to play again.

Saying sorry made everything better.

Love hearing more from the animals in the jungle. 

Book Review: Inspiring AI Stories For Kids: Captivating Tales To Motivate Young Minds And Equip Kids For Safe, Proper, and Prosperous Use Of Artificial Intelligence (Inspiring Stories For Kids + Workbooks Series) by VERCEY PUBLISHING

  

Inspiring AI Stories For Kids: Captivating Tales To Motivate Young Minds And Equip Kids For Safe, Proper, and Prosperous Use Of Artificial Intelligence (Inspiring Stories For Kids + Workbooks Series) by VERCEY PUBLISHING 

In the book there are   stories that kids can relate to as the ones in the books took early interest in Ai and the like educational paths.  Not only is there a story they can picture themselves in but author also included a bio of what the child did as a youngster and another section about their educational training.  These are famous people and they are so smart in many different areas of AI.

Love sections on talking to Chatgpt and seeing how they will form a review for you, after you give them your age and some material to work with.  At that age, 10 I do not expect to see very difficult or hard technical words. Even the technical things are explained further in the stories making it easy for 70 year old to understand things fully.

There are many stories, you should read them with the child, one a night for several days.

So educational and fun, there are even pictures in the book.

References are included at the end.

 

Jun 12 Book Review: Undone: a small town, second chance, cowboy romance Poplar springs, Book 1 by Mary Sue Jackson

  

 

Undone: a small town, second chance, cowboy romance Poplar springs, Book 1 by Mary Sue Jackson

This story starts out with Josh on his family ranch and his sister has Invited Zoe to stay with them a while to straighten out the website and bring more people to the ranch events.

He feels a spark when he shakes her hand to hand it all over to her to redo the website.

she will use it for her grad school education to further herself. They will spend a lot of time together so she can become familiar with his ideas and what he does already. Others do breeding, Josh offers horse rides, etc.

Zoe had left once before and Josh did not want to do long distance relationship. Now that she's back the spark is ignited again. She finds a grad school in NY and also one online.

Because of all the work she had done with the website everybody wants to come to the ranch and some days there is no one available to run the horse rides. Josh wants to fit in everywhere and he's burning the candle at both ends. He finally realizes he can dole jobs out to others and trust them to do them.

After she leaves he feels a loss. His sister is still in touch with Zoe and knows some more secrets. She has a talk with Josh and their sister Fiona who's also offered to help out at the ranch... Will the intervention help them to get back together...

Adult explicit scenes.

Love learning about the ranch, the environment, and all the activities. Love the bridal bunch, I would've shaken my head with what they had on their heads LOL

Super love Zoe's job and how good she does it with computer. 

Have read this author before and love her style and so glad this is the first of a new series for me. Next one is in a few months time.

 Received this review copy from the publisher and this is my honest opinion.