pickSenior editor of The Oracle, Penny Ayala is too serious for dating! Lynne Henry who found love through letters starts an anonymous personals section & Liz encourages Penny to write an ad. When she gets an especially fun response, romance could finally be in the air for her! Or not, when Kirk the Jerk is involved! The best part is the Fowler vs Wakefield bet using the new column! The beach party reveal is downright hilarious! Liz gets sneaky too!
Let‘s try this event for Valentine‘s Day! Sign up using the Google form linked below. When you sign up, provide a link to a list of books you want to read. This can be a Goodreads shelf, a Google doc, spreadsheet, etc. I will announce matches by Jan 31. THIS IS NOT A SWAP: nobody is buying or mailing anything.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TLDK6HByv6Kz6SGt5-p2J0DkcxmuLH55B2Ttp8CWFQQ/edi...
I was thinking of hosting a #BlindDateWithaBook event in February - any interest?
Here‘s how it works. First - it‘s NOT A SWAP. More like the Trapped in a Spooky House game. You share a TBR list, and your match chooses 5 books from that list for you to pick from. Your match does NOT share the titles, but just some key facts, like genre, themes, etc. You choose your book “blind” and then your match reveals the title, and you read it. Who‘s in?
One more #wdncw, then it's back to the books:
We do not care if Storygraph has prepared our 2025 reading wrap-up. We still have 5 hours of reading left, and 2 books that are nearly finished. 🤣
panI loved the premise but it just fell flat for me.
pick'When We Were Monsters' is a lovely piece of dark academia. It's a slow burn of power plays until Graffam has her four remaining students exactly where she wants them. Does she really, though? Or are they pushed too far? Some readers complained about spice in the sex scenes. However, I found them very discrete. I look forward to reading more from this author. 5 stars.
pickThis was a cute book to read and finish the week of Christmas and get in the holiday spirit. My only bone to pick is the second story felt a little dragged out and then a very rushed ending. This would have been a set of love stories I would have really resonated with when I was a teenager. It did bring up some memories subconsciously.
