It’s a COZY FANTASY SORT OF DAY!!!! SARAH BETH DURST – this book is AMAZING. So cozy, and Lotti is so snarky! I love it! Also, out today is A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Happy Pub Day! (8 July 2025)
Super excited for today’s release by Sarah MacLean! I’ve been reading Sarah’s books for a while now, so I’m really psyched to see what she can do with contemporary settings! Her book was also picked as one of the Book of the Month selections for July! Now is also a GREAT time to shop via Bookshop.org since their Anti-Prime Sale is on now! Free shipping for the next week! As usual, if you click on a link to Bookshop.org from my website, it is an affiliate link and I might make a few cents! Cheers!
Happy Pub Day! (24 June 2025)
Yep yep yep! It’s yet another pub day that I will be spending sitting by the door because the newest Harper St. George is out today! And yes, I finished both of the books I was looking forward to last week by Sunday night! Ashley Poston never disappoints! Speaking of: I got to meet Ashley Poston in NYC on Saturday! She had a fantastic conversation with Casey McQuiston. So much fun to listen to, and it was really cool to learn that they both played clarinet, same as me! So, that was really cool. That […]
Tuesday Can’t Come Fast Enough!
If you spend enough time with new releases in books in the United States, then you know: Pub Day is Tuesday! And this coming Tuesday, I am getting excited about TWO books that should be arriving on my doorstep TOGETHER. Ashley Poston and Claudia Gray both have books coming out this coming Tuesday that I couldn’t be more excited for. Claudia Gray because it is the FOURTH installment of her Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy series, and Ashley Poston because she has written something fantastic practically every release she’s done. (The Dead Romantics is still […]
Winter Books for Outdoor Families
Happy winter! I was realizing that I have spent a lot of time curating books on winter and being outside for my little one since the very beginning – even before we started thinking about sending him to forest school. So why not bring some coziness to the last month or so of winter by reading some of our favorites! (And yes. No list of wintry books is complete without a healthy helping of Jan Brett.)
Reading Goals 2025
It is really important to be kind to yourself when setting goals for the year. Last year, I set what seemed like a reasonable goal considering that I had managed 82 books in 2023. 84 books, or seven books per month, seemed achievable. And certainly, for the first three months of 2024, it was. Until I ran into some health issues that made reading, not difficult, per say, but definitely tricky. Did I still finish books? Yes. I managed 58 books in 2024. But this year’s goal is only 3 books a month, because that […]
Books That Stick With Me (2024)
It has been about ten years since I last wrote a list of books that have stuck with me. That’s a long time for a list to stay the same. People change, and so must the books that stay with them. So here, in no particular order, are the books that are on the list now. Squire (Protector of the Small Quartet #3) by Tamora Pierce This one I come back to again and again and again. There’s general advice for growing up (and being a grown-up) buried in there, and sometimes I need the […]
Upcoming Book Releases
There are a lot of good books coming out this year, and I always find myself needing to take a minute and write them all down in my planner so that I don’t forget about them. So here, as always, is my list from my Bookshop.org store front so that you can mark them on your calendar too. Now, because I know that I tend to limit myself to romance and mystery (not because I mean to, but because those are the ones I am personally drawn to and will likely finish), I have also […]
2023: My Year in Books
This year I read 82 books (unless something gets finished in the next 48 hours… which I doubt). Of those, 76 were romance novels. On some level, I have been coming to grips with the fact that romance has just become my go-to genre. But I also feel like a lot of the romance novels I’ve read recently have tried to be more diverse. They’ve tried tackling topics that you don’t necessarily expect to find in romance. There’s been discussion of neurodiversity, deafness, loss of mobility, gender inequality, and so much more. My goal this […]
2023 Mid-Point Reading Checkpoint
I managed to hit my mid-point goal of 36 books over the long weekend, so while it isn’t exactly the mid-point of the year, I figure it’s close enough. That being said, having hit the 36 book mark a full month ahead of schedule, I’m pretty pleased with my progress this year. My reading total took a bit of a hit when I only finished 1 book in the month of February. So far, romance novels have absolutely dominated my reading list. (I have only finished 3 books that were not romance novels.) The books […]