Mel Alvarado

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current read: This Safe Darkness
Current drink: caramel latte
Current snack: walnut cream cheese bread

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✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current drink: lemon lavender French 75
Current read: Daggermouth

#Booksky 📖

3) This Inevitable Ruin (DCC #7) by Matt Dinniman - 5/5

You know the deal, make me cry, get 5 stars. Donut, we don’t deserve you. Samantha, you’re a hero. Katia, bless your heart. Carl…let’s burn it down 🥹😭❤️

2) Brimstone by Callie Hart (audiobook re-read) - 4/5

Left me wanting more on my first read and the narration on this is ON POINT

1) The Eye of The Bedlam Bride (DCC #6) by Matt Dinniman - 5/5

Fist pumping! Cheering!
I’m loving seeing all the ways the AI and the Crawlers are both fighting back. The enemy of my enemy and all that…

February 2026 Book Round Up!

Books finished: 3
Best of the month: This Inevitable Ruin
Worst of the month: Brimstone (audiobook re-read)
Streak: 790 days
Goal: 11% 8/75

Full ratings and mini-reviews in thread!

#booksky #wrapup 📖

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨ Grillin’ and Chillin’ Edition

Current read: This Inevitable Ruin (DCC #7)
Current drink: bourbon barrel cab sav
Current cook: ribeyes

#Booksky 📖

A hand holds a swatch of purple knitted fabric, the America’s Next Top Model documentary plays in the background

Lazy mornings are for knitting and the newest upsetting documentary

🧶 #Knitsky

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current read: This Inevitable Ruin
Current drink: iced vanilla lavender coffee

I am NOT ready to be caught up on DCC…

#Booksky 📖

Come with me to one of my FAVORITE local bookstores, Old Firehouse Books! Book haul today was a new release and two off my long awaited TBR

#booksky #localbookstore #mattdinniman #mlrio #veschwab

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current read: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Current drink: Bones’ piña colada

#booksky 📖

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current Read: The Eye of The Bedlam Bride (DCC #6)
Current Drink: iced pink velvet mocha

#Booksky 📖

5) The Butcher’s Masquerade (DCC #5) - 5/5

BAWLING I TELL YOU
I’m a sucker for a found family trope and this had everything. BUT THAT ENDING. I WASNT PREPARED

4) The Gate of the Feral Gods (DCC #4) - 5/5

Back to 5 stars! The intrigue! The relationships! Let’s burn it down, Carl

3) The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook (DCC #3) - 4/5

Alright, Carl, I’m in, let’s burn it down!
Katia’s development was such a strong part of this one, I love the dynamic here (which as all good dystopian fans know, bodes so well for the future…)

2) Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (DCC #2) - 4/5

Ok, since when is this series also gonna make me cry?! Donut and Carl for president. I can’t wait to see what happens next

1) Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman - 5/5

Ok, I’m obsessed. Donut is the best thing to happen to modern literature. Bring on level 3!

January 2026 Book Round Up!

Books finished: 5
Best of the month: The Butcher’s Masquerade
Worst of the month: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Streak: 762 days
Goal: 7% 5/75

Full ratings and mini-reviews in thread

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Vibes today look like self care
Current read: Daggermouth (IYKYK)
Current drink: cab sav
Current snack: cherry almond dark chocolate

#Booksky 📖

It’s bitterly cold in Colorado but I know we’re lucking out of the worst of it. Got books, a couple blankets, a couple dogs and going to make the most of it. Everyone, stay safe and warm!

#Booksky 📖 #COwx

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current read: The Gate of the Feral Gods (DCC #4)
Current drink: caramel latte 😄

#Booksky 📖

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current read: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook (DCC #3)
Current drink: cab sav (Black Box because I’m a basic bitch)

#Booksky 📖

I’m a bit over halfway and loving every moment! It’s so fun and I’m glad there’s more books after this 😅

✨ Sunday Vibes ✨

Current read: Dungeon Crawler Carl
Current drink: atole
Current snack: tamales (rojo y verde)

#BookSky 📖

A woman in a tan hoodie and black leggings sits cross legged on a brown leather couch. She has a kindle balanced on one knee. Beside her a large black dog lays curled with its head in her lap. Beside that dog is a small brown dogs stretched out

Last year, I saw a post about starting 2025 softly. I’ve decided that should be every year. Big changes start with small steps and there’s always time for self care.

Today that looked like homemade pizza, a good book, and two sleepy puppies.

#HappyNewYear

Here it is, my 2025 reading wrap up! Two years down and forever to go!

82 books
≈29k pages
>500 hours
24 5-star reads
Best of the best was The Knight and The Moth. It lives rent-free in my head.
Worst of the year was We Used To Live Here and it probably should have been lower than a 2.

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10) In Five Years by Rebecca Steele - 4/5

Unconditional love and self-discovery. No better way than to end the year. I can’t believe it took me so long to read this book, bump it up your TBR!

9) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 5/5

This book is so hyped and it’s every bit as good as they say…underhyped even. I loved every moment of this ride and I’m still crying happy tears 🥹

8) You Better Not Pout by Mia Sosa - 2.5/5

This one was more meh for me. Kind of like a third act break up without the first two acts and it just doesn’t do it for me.

7) All Wrapped Up In You by Rosie Danan - 4/5

Sweet little Christmas Eve meet cute