Happy release day to Bad Boy Era! I usually have low expectations for the last book in a series, but this one ended up being my favorite of the Mountain Men Matchmaker books. Very sweet to see little Everly finally find her love story. 💙📚🌶️📚🎧 #netgalley

Dolly All The Time is one of the books that I was most looking forward to reading this month. If I may say, I’m 44% of the way in, and THIS BOOK IS A FUCKING SWOON. Talk about delivering. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

3-day weekend: first camping plans of the year. What does this mean? I’m gonna spend my evenings in a hammock with my kindle. This is my happy place 🏕️ 💙📚

When I’m reading a fantasy series sequel on audiobook, the first 20 minutes are absolutely make or break. Do I remember these people? Does the world make sense? Can I still keep up? Feels dicey. CR: Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen 💙📚🎧🌶️📚🪐

Currently reading what I can only describe as Golden Girls fanfic. Is this great literature? No. Am I having fun? Yes. Should I watch more Golden Girls? I think also yes. Truly blessed to live in a world where people write this kind of stuff. 💕 💙📚

Happy release day to this weird little read, Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis! It’s kooky and it’s not really a romance, but if you’ve ever worked for a startup and want to feel really “seen” in your work trauma…. Right here. 💙📚🪐 #netgalley

Saturday plan: 1. Brunch 2. The Shippers by Katherine Center This is all I need. 💙📚🌶️

Amazon keeps doing rom com adaptations I want to watch… but I don’t believe in giving Jeff Bezos my money so I don’t have prime. Principles are so annoying and inconvenient.

This was my first read by Ava Rani, but I had a lot of fun with it! Fake dating to make an ex jealous is nothing new, but the storyline had more depth than I expected without bringing down the mood. I love an empowered woman 💪 Happy release day! 💙📚🌶️📚🎧 #netgalley

Needed a little uncomplicated rom-com joy today, and Lynn Painter delivered (per usual). I absolutely devoured this book. It was exactly the right level of fun, easy, and cute. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

I am NOT a historical romance girlie, but for some reason (maybe the magic 🪄 factor?) this series totally works for me. So excited to spend my weekend cuddled up with this book In chapter one and I’m already a giggling little mess. 💙📚🌶️

I 💜 new release Tuesdays. 💙📚🌶️

Finally gonna find out what the hype is about. Starting my first Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn. 💙📚🪐

It’s Saturday morning, I have a coffee in my hand, and there are no plans for my weekend except to finally dive into Yesteryear. Living the good life ☕️ 📚💙

Helloooooo, May. New month feels like a TBR reset. My most anticipated reads for May: • First and Forever by Lynn Painter • The Shippers by Katherine Center • Dolly All The Time by Annabel Monaghan 💙📚🌶️

Did that thing again where I request a book from the library based on the cover/title/vibes… And 25% in I’m feeling pretty good about the results on this one. 💙📚

Holly James is such an interesting writer because she dabbles in so many things (magical realism, rom coms, action) and I always enjoy the results. Bravo to her on The Alias Agenda coming out. It’s something different from what I usually read but is such a fun book. 💙📚 #netgalley

This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone by Catherine Mack comes out this week! I luckily got an ARC and have such mixed feelings. I both intensely dislike the narrator (drunk, frustrating, narcissistic) and am endlessly engrossed by her narration. It keeps me hooked. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

Currently listening to: This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman. Came for the ridiculously beautiful cover, staying for the whimsy. 💙📚🎧📚🪐 This is part of my “clean out my back catalog of books I’ve been meaning to read and haven’t gotten to yet” initiative.

Serious question: is referring to the ocean as “an infinite expanse of Cool Blue Gatorade” funny, sad, or insane? Reading Sunk in Love by Heather McBreen 💙📚🌶️

I’m having that moment reading Fragile Hopes by Lisina Coney where you know you’re in a series you’ll eat up. Partly it’s that they keep introducing characters where you can say “I know where that’s going.” But mostly it’s the feeling of uncomplicated rom-com joy. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

I’ve seen a lot of people mad about “DNF culture” lately and I don’t get the beef. To never DNF would be to: 1. Spend hours finishing books I am not enjoying 2. Develop some kind of omniscient power to never select a book I won’t like 3. Never venture outside my comfort zone So like… no. 💙📚

Finishing up Love Overboard (my first Kandi Steiner) and I feel like this book was made for me. It’s a little toxic, a little messy, delightfully steamy, and all wrapped up as basically Below Deck 🛥️ fan fiction. I. Need. MORE! 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

1. I found a few years ago that I’m officially too old to read YA lit. 2. The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst is an exception to that rule. Cozy, sweet, pretty low stakes, delightfully magical. ✨ What a way to spend a Sunday. 💙📚🌶️📚🪐

I am now a woman who has read the entire Ice Planet Barbarians series. It’s far better than it has any right to be — even if the books toward the end are grasping for a narrative. AMA (but actually don’t ask me anything) 💙📚🌶️

One of my favorite genres is “rich people do bonkers shit” and the Pomona Anton series does this so well. Totally snackable popcorn lit. Pomona Anton Can Totally Catch a Killer, and I am proud of her for doing so. Read it a while ago, but excited for it to publish today^ 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

I often forget what a book is about between when I request it (library or #NetGalley) and when I sit down to read. Flipping open Stranger Things Have Happened by Kasie West to discover it’s about two people pretending to be a couple in couples therapy who become a couple?? YES, PLEASE. 💙📚🌶️

I’m so enjoying the final book in the Silver Pines series — Chasing the Fire. Paisley Hope could write my grocery list and I’d love it. So excited for this one to come out this week! 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

Stayed up way too late last night because I simply HAD to finish The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits. This book was toxic as hell and I hated basically everyone but I could not put it down. 💙📚

So excited for The Book Witch to come out this week! I LOVED The Lost Story. It was easily my favorite book of 2024. And The Book Witch 100% held up. Meg Schaffer is a genius. I was so excited to get this ARC. The cadence. The whimsy. 🤌 Every story is a love story if you love stories. 💙📚🌶️

Starting the weekend right: Got the new Ellen O’Clover, If Not You, as a Read Now on NetGalley. The Heartbreak Hotel was absolute magic✨. I can’t wait for this. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

Maybe I’m just feeling optimistic because of a little warm weather, but the April book release schedule is getting me pumped. Most anticipated books for April: • The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer • The Name Game by Beth O’Leary • Chasing Fire by Paisley Hope • Love Overboard by Kandi Steiner 💙📚🌶️

It is deeply annoying that ebooks are so much more expensive for libraries than print books. Can this please be on somebody with power’s “things to fix” list somewhere? I want to be able to renew an ebook without guilt. 💙📚

Did Lost and Found coming out as a Read Now on #NetGalley crash NetGalley?? 💙📚🌶️

Saturday plan: go see Project Hail Mary! It was a 4-star book for me. I really enjoyed the story but thought the middle “learning to communicate” section dragged waaaayyy too long. Betting that’ll be solved by movie magic 🤞 💙📚🪐

Last year, I didn’t see enough talk about E.B. Asher’s This Will be Fun. Now, I’m devouring the new sequel (This Will be Interesting), and I’m not seeing it anywhere! Seriously, it’s delightful. Asks the Q: what happens to heroes after saving the realm? But in a quirky way. 💙📚🌶️📚🪐 #netgalley

50% of the way through No Matter What by Cara Bastone. I’d like to state for the record that I’m a little bit in love with Vin. 💙📚🌶️

Continuing my A.K. Caggiano streak, I’m in the midst of Bound to Fall right now. It’s making me think about how rarely a himbo lead is a POV character. It’s really charming — and fits so well with Caggiano’s tongue-in-cheek writing. Honestly, having so much fun with this book. 💙📚🌶️

Finished an ideal marshmallow book today — The Hotshot by Piper Rayne. High sweetness, high fluff, low nutritional value. Perfect for a day on the couch under the weather (s/o to air travel for the cold I now have). 💙📚🌶️

Just back from a sightseeing vacation, which meant very little time for reading, but the highlights: • And Now Back to You (delightful, took me too long to get to it) • Lake Effect (what a mess, in a fun way) • Finlay Donovan #6 (give me mooooorrrrrreeeee) 💙📚🌶️

Gotta start packing for vacation. 11 days = how many books to download? 5? Thank god for e-readers, I can’t remember how I used to do this in my physical book days. 💙📚

I don’t often cry at books. Definitely not at the beginning. And I’ve NEVER cried reading a hockey romance. But the first 20% of Hat Trick by Chelsea Curto has me sitting here just leaking tears. 💙📚🌶️

In the midst of the audiobook of Half City by Kate Golden. I’m surprised by how much I like the setting — fantasy within a realistic contemporary setting. It feels almost sci-fi but in a demon hunter way. 💙📚🌶️

Partway through the new Meghan Quinn (Just for the Cameras) and all I can think is: do men really still have fauxhawks?? I can’t tell if the fauxhawk is meant to be funny or if it’s literally just 2008 again. 💙📚🌶️

I cannot tell you how surprising it was to read a Meghan Quinn book (Runaway Groomsman) and make it 2/3 of the way through before they even kissed. No shade, I love the slow burn, I just wasn’t expecting it from her. 💙📚🌶️

The thing I love most about the start/end of a month on Bluesky is seeing how many people use StoryGraph. It’s both better than Goodreads and doesn’t deliver money/data to evil Billionaires. What’s not to love? 💙📚

I’m hoping for March to be better than Feb in terms of my TBR. Though I still have some KU books on my list before my trial ends. Most anticipated books for March: • Toe to Toe by Fallon Ballard • Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney • Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line by Elle Cosimano LFG 💙📚🌶️

Got up and finished Stephanie Archer’s The Wild Card today. Definitely one of those books you love not because it’s the best book but just because the VIBE is ON POINT. What a way to start a weekend. 💙📚🌶️

This month was an absolute chaotic mess of work and travel (for work), but I’m hoping to wrap up strong and get back to my book logging. Now, to read AS MANY KU BOOKS AS POSSIBLE before my 3-month trial ends. 🤞 for more cozy reading time at home in March. 💙📚

Worst thing to see on a NetGalley listing? “Berkley Publishing Group” 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley