Book by 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🚫 A beautifully written true story of three women. A difficult read at times. Desire is the common thread between their stories, but that word feels too small for this thing binding them together. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b220...

Women of Myth by @jennywilliamson.bsky.social & @gennmcmenemy.bsky.social 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: N/A A wonderful collection of myths with feminist perspectives and insight. Great for mythology nerds and those just dipping your toes in. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/196e...

Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: N/A Such an amazing, imaginative story. It's short, but holy cow does it pack a lot in without ever feeling confused or rushed. Murder in space with queer and noir sprinkles! Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1411...

God this poem is haunting me again.

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Oh Bartholomew, it was most splendid! Interesting characters, world building through narrative not exposition, a story that had me gasping out loud in public places. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d05d...

Pack Darling by Lola Rock 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Spicy fun omegaverse told in two parts. The first part is about trauma and breaking down, the second part is about healing and putting things back together. I loved it! Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4e24...

Dear Sylvia, Love Jane by Erin Hall 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️ A fun sapphic twist on the noir genre. It starts with a "and then she walked in..." moment. And then there's mystery and danger and tangled secrets. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fef2...

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Rating: ⭐⭐ Spice: None I liked it, I didn't love it. It's probably more about me and the world right now. It's an okay book in the end. Fun, sometimes funny, often problematic, easy to read. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8bd9...

Galatea by Madeline Miller 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️ I can't believe she fit this much story in so few pages. A beautiful statue brought to life and gifted to her creator as a wife. It touches on agency, cold perfectionism and sacrifice. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d46a...

Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ It was fun but predictable and a bit too formulaic. Loved the wolves. Wish there was more of their story. All the romantasy tropes are here, but it feels like they were just shuffled Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a278...

Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: None I loved this book so much. It's a story of a girl named January, her dog named Bad and all the doors they step through. Another wonderful book by Alix E Harrow Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a75b...

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🙅‍♀️ Like Princess Bride but in reverse. The prince goes missing, the window washer heroine sets out to save him. Charming, easy to read, engaging and fun. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/477c...

Alchemised by SenLinYu 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: DNF😢 Spice: 🤷‍ It wasn't bad, well written and engaging. But too graphic and just a bit too triggering for me. Especially the medical trauma and being incapacitating while things are being done to the FMC Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/18e3...

Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️ A living retelling of the Psyche and Eros myth. The characters felt alive and the sprinkling of romance was very nice. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5245...

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 I'm doing a reread of this book for book club and remembering why I love it so much all over again!

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 I'm about half way through this one and loving it so far!

Bunny by Mona Awad Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️? self aware fever dream about the process of creation, how pretentious and shallow the artist community can be. About how visceral, in a very literal sense, the act of creation can be. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a3a... 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

About 3/4 of the way through this book and starting to enjoy it. It took me awhile to really get into it but I'm liking it now. 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️🌶️ I absolutely adored this book. About an astronaut candidate in 1980s NASA. There so much love in this book. It's one of those reads that changes you for having read it. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5087...

Theirs for the Holidays by Eva Ashwood Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Plus sized FMC, her ex is getting married to her sister. And three brothers start a fake-dating scenario to try to help her out. Full review here: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fe6c... 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Listening to the first few chapters over again. There was so much in this book. And so much I missed the first time through.

Finished Bunny! There was so much in that book. I absolutely loved it though. I'm going to bake another batch cookies and go back and listen to the beginning now that I know how it ends. 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Making oatmeal raisin cookies and finishing bunny this morning.

Baking cookies and listening to Bunny by Mona Awad 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 I finished The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore. It was a cozy fun holiday romance. Very much Stars Hollow with more sprinkles, but also surprisingly nice spice. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️🌶️ Full Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8379...

Just silly me... in my favorite bookstore. In a skirt that literally has holiday ornaments on it. Yes... I make jingling noises when I wiggle.

I'm going to try to get back into the habit of posting little book snippets here. 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚 Currently reading "Theirs for the Holidays" by Eva Ashwood. I'm about a third of the way though. Absolutely loving it! Mildly spicy so far, but you can tell it's coming!

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💙📚 #booksky 📚💙 Rereading Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. This is one of my all time favorite books. I've been holding off on reading the second one because I just don't want this journey to end. But it feels like this is the right time to reread the first and dive into the second.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Full review here app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/391d... Short Version: On of my favorite reads in a while. Please please buy a copy and save it for a one-day rainy read ☔ Go into it blind, don't look anything up. And just trust me. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🚫 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙

And I'm so proud of myself for sticking to my self-imposed three book limit when visiting my favorite bookstore this morning 👀 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

And finishing the morning off with a visit to lake City bookstore. My happiest of happy places.

And reading at my favorite downtown coffee shop, Michelangelo's. My other happy place.

Saturday is at the Dane county Farmers market. This is my happy place.

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood Full review here app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d813... Short Version: A slow burn 🌶️story about anxiety, fear of failure, and how kinks fit in a relationship. All with a college athlete backdrop. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙

💙📚 #booksky 📚💙 And I'm nearly done with this one. I have loved every single Lyonne Riley story that I have ever read. Someday maybe she'll write something that I don't absolutely fall in love with, but it hasn't happened yet. Love love love these stories! @lyonneriley.bsky.social

💙📚 #booksky 📚💙 And I started this book last night. Now I'm reading two 🌶️romances at the same time. Will I survive? Who knows?

💙📚 #booksky 📚💙 I preordered this book a while back, and I just go it in the mail yesterday. It's such a beautiful book and I'm so very much looking forward to reading it! ✨🌙 @irisbeaglehole.bsky.social

I love Lyonne Riley's 🌶️ fantasy stories. She checks all the right boxes, hits all the right spots, and rings all the right bells every single time 🩷 @lyonneriley.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher Full review here app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2e34... Short version - it was such a good book! 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙

The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner Full review at app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5edd... 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙

But I scraped the top off, put it on a baking sheet, and ended up with some amazing sourdough biscuits. Sometimes mistakes lead to the most beautiful things.

I very much under estimated the power of the sourdough starter. aka "Christina's Bread Goop"

📚💙 And when the sadness still lingers? I put on an audio book and bake more things 💙📚 #booksky

Yesterday was kinda a rough day. I mean there have been a lot of rough days recently. A lot of good days too. But the rough ones have been rougher than usual. For me, the best way to fight that despair is to create something. So I tried a Blender Lemon Curd recipe I recently heard about.

Starting my morning off with an audio book and baking cinnamon raisin swirl bread. 📚💙

💙📚 I'm starting Deep End by Ali Hazelwood. I started it previously and got maybe 30 pages in and then life sidetracked me pretty hard. I'm so glad to be picking it back up again and looking forward to finishing it this time!