Tell Me Something Tuesday: Which Superpower Do You Wish You Had?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Heidi at Rainy Day Ramblings in order to discuss a wide range of topics from books to blogging (and some slightly more personal matters throw in for good measure). After Heidi stopped blogging (apparently for good), five of us took over as hosts while providing new questions. The current team is composed of Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell and Roberta at Offbeat YA. This week's question is...

WHICH SUPERPOWER DO YOU WISH YOU HAD?

I would very much like to have something akin to the Doctor's regenerative power, only with conscious purpose and limited to specific body parts, so I could use it to conjure a head of glorious curls for myself 😂 (and to repair this old body LOL). Or I would like to at least be able to go back in time to get proper perms 😭. But since these are very peculiar uses of powers that are meant to work a bit differently, I'll go with a classic...TELEPORTATION!

Offbeat Offline: November 2025

Welcome to Offbeat Offline, where I bring you up-to-date with what went on in my life during the month just gone, give you a sneak peek of my next shenanigans, and share my favourite posts of late!

(I'm a bit late with my monthly recap this time, but since I was participating in TMST on the 2nd, I didn't want to post two days in a row...).

What happened last month to yours truly? Some routine examinations/visits, a bangs perm, and the cold finally hit in the last 10 days of the month. Copy-paste from last month's recap's intro: my life is still a mess and I can't seem to be able to take the reins. I'm overwhelmed by the ginormous amount of tasks-in-waiting that have gotten so out of hand I don't even know where to start anymore. Wash, rinse, repeat. With that out of the way, let's see which books I got/read/reviewed and what unremarkable shenanigans (for the second month in a row) I was up to in November...

Tell Me Something Tuesday: What Underrated Books or Authors Would You Recommend?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Heidi at Rainy Day Ramblings in order to discuss a wide range of topics from books to blogging (and some slightly more personal matters throw in for good measure). After Heidi stopped blogging (apparently for good), five of us took over as hosts while providing new questions. The current team is composed of Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell and Roberta at Offbeat YA. This week's question is...

WHAT UNDERRATED BOOKS OR AUTHORS WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?

I have quite a few - which makes sense, since Offbeat YA was born out of my desire to spotlight books that mostly fly under the radar and/or are quirky and not exactly fitting the mainstream mold (hence my blog's name). For this post, I decided to limit myself to books/series that have less than 1,000 ratings on Goodreads to date, or I would have written an encyclopedia 😅(that's why some of my 5-star reads aren't on this list, while a number of 4.5 ones are). The books are in alphabetical order according to the author's surname*. The titles redirects you to Goodreads, but you can find a link to my reviews under each synopsis. Brace yourselves...

*(Also, please note: I would have liked to use a snippet from my reviews for each book along with the synopsis, but this post would have gotten too long - which it already is LOL - and summarising my thoughts would have been too much work. I apologise in advance for the mammoth post...😅).

Tell Me Something Tuesday: Which Books Are You Looking Forward to Reading This Winter? (December-February)

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Heidi at Rainy Day Ramblings in order to discuss a wide range of topics from books to blogging (and some slightly more personal matters throw in for good measure). After Heidi stopped blogging (apparently for good), five of us took over as hosts while providing new questions. The current team is composed of Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell and Roberta at Offbeat YA. This week's question is...

WHICH BOOKS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO READING THIS WINTER? (DECEMBER-FEBRUARY)

I don't know if I'll ever get around to buying all these books or when, since 1) early reviews and excerpts might cause me to change my mind in the future, and 2) given my current situation (see: unemployment status), book money is scarce...(I got a few of these in eARC form though! See below). Anyhow, I wanted to give a bit of exposure to all the winter books that caught my eye, so here's my list (complete with pub dates)...