I pulled this off my shelf last night after it came in as a Get TBR rec and oh ‘em gee it‘s adorable. I read the first 65 pages grinning ear to ear.

Just popping in to say hello. 👋🏼

It‘s #24in48 this weekend! Is anyone else playing along? This is my “hopefuls” list that I want to pull from, but knowing myself I might read zero of these. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hiiii, welcome to the only book I‘ve read this week. I got married on Saturday and quickly learned there‘s a lot of things no one tells you about getting married.

Such as, it‘s extremely stressful. Even more stressful when you‘re trying to get married during a pandemic, the guest list is only 17 (masks required) and the grooms family has been exposed to COVID and can‘t attend. These are wild times friends. Wild. Times.

I saved the ACOTAR series for the week of the election here in the US and I regret that 0%. Anyone else breathing a tiny bit easier this morning? 💙

Day light savings really gets the best of me. I‘m like a tiny child in an adults body. So up early on this Sunday morning trying to finish The Exorcist.

Book 15. This was my work book club pick this month and it received poor reviews from everyone but me 🤣 This would have been perfect for a long plane ride or a beach vacay but COVID. *sighhhh

Book 15. This one came to me highly recommended from my middle brother and it didn‘t disappoint. I enjoyed it over my coffee this morning.

Book 14 of 30 books in 30 days. This book starts out so ridiculously. It begins with the sexual awakening of a recently divorced white dude. Thankfully, the further I got into this the more the idea of having it all was discussed and I very much enjoyed it.

Book 13. What‘s the worst thing you‘ve ever done? This book follows four best friends from college into adulthood and we see their joys and sorrows, but we also witness the worst thing each of them has ever done. I almost DNFed this one until we hit part 3 and the biggest “oh no she didn‘t” moment and then I was hooked.

Book 12. This is a really great book about being a teenager. There‘s so much here. Sex, the way men treat women, religion, social media. Lamar Giles is one of the founders of We Need Diverse books and I will continue to seek out his work.

Book 11. I spent the majority of Saturday with take out coffee and this gorgeous book. I didn‘t know anything about American Airlines flight 857 and had to do some educating after the first few chapters. This book mixes up grief and family and learning about your parents after their death. I immediately started looking for Acevedo‘s backlist.

Book 10 of 30 books in 30 days. This is my July book club pick and I got ahead of myself. I was disappointed to learn after reading the book and being fascinated by the culture in Iran that this author isn‘t from there and has never been. Otherwise, this was an enjoyable read.

Book 9 of 30 books in 30 days. This is a forensic accounting thriller mixed up with an MMA thriller. Stick with me here. I know. It‘s compulsively readable, but also forensic accounting is my personal catnip. 🤓 Its a tiny bit cheesy, but it made me want to fight white collar crime and kickbox. 🙅🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Book 8 of 30 books in 30 days is this gem. This book is like the friend who tells dirty jokes in bars and cusses a little to loudly (my personal favorite kind of friend).

Book 7 of 30 books in 30 days. I wanted to love this one, but I‘ve never been to NYC and I felt that I needed to have seen it to understand some of the references here. Jemisin is an expert world builder though and while this book feels like it‘s mostly set up - I hope it‘s set up for something incredible.

Book 6 of 30 books in 30 days is my current book club pick. It was my turn to choose selections and I offered four Tor novellas because honestly why would I choose anything else. 🤣 This was a reread for me and I loved it just as much as the first time. The worlds in these books are weird. So very strange.

Book 5 of 30 books in 30 days. I think if people go into this expecting Station Eleven they‘ll be deeply disappointed. This isn‘t that story. What you will find here is gorgeous writing and Mandel expertly manipulates time and place to tell her story. She‘s currently an auto buy author for me after this one.

This was book 4 of 30 books in 30 days. A friend and I agreed to read this before George Floyd‘s murder but then it felt even more necessary. This book made me uncomfortable. It made me ask questions of my friends, and parents, and significant other. Know better. Do better.

Book 3 of 30 books in 30 days. I stumbled across this gem by accident in the “available audiobooks” section on Libby. What delightful middle grade.

My second book for 30 books in 30 days was this plague novel.

Plague novels are my catnip. I will read as many pages as you write about a plague any day. Tell me about how people will hoard essentials, food will be in short supply, governments will act badly. This book was eerily similar in some aspects to what we‘ve seen lately.

I had a goal of reading 30 books in 30 days in June and Deathless Divide was my first book finished. I felt fairly meh about the first book in this series, but I enjoyed this one exceptionally more. I‘ll leave out the details because spoilers but this is a great follow up.

Last night was the perfect night to finish this beautiful book outside In my soft clothes While the sun went down. 😍

Lucy officially makes my “favorite character ever” list with his twisted dark jokes and his supposed preference for dead things.

This is a beautiful book about hard things, family, what makes a home. ❤️

#kindledailydeal alert!

I finished Donny Q friends and now I‘m in the biggest reading slump ever. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Finishing up the newest Peter Swanson with some audio-coloring this morning. Peter Swanson continues to be a personal favorite of mine and I was pleasantly surprised to find this one on hoopla.

Book 2 of the #deweysreadathon. WTF was this. 😩🙈

The women in this book are very unlikeable, but also I was skittish the entire time and couldn‘t stop reading. I have mixed feelings.

I was awake from 2-4 am reading The Return last night so slow starting this #deweysreadathon by finishing my current audiobook.

Lunch time sunshine reads. ☀️

I had heard conflicting feelings about this one, but I breezed through the audiobook in 2 days. I loved watching the lives of these two sisters change in way unimaginable.

Sunshine and Don Q this morning. ☀️

This morning we picked up a voodoo chai from our favorite local coffee shop (I dumped it into my favorite reusable mug myself, because it keeps it HOT for hours) and then I settled in for a little Middlemarch reading.

This is more or less a book full of anxieties and I deeply understand that feeling. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Last night as I was finishing this audiobook the water in my bathroom started running. It took a significant amount of time to convince me there wasn‘t a serial killer in our house. 🤣😩🙈

Easter this morning looked very different in our house, but there was a healthy dog, over-medium eggs, and new library loans. Finding all the things to be grateful for every day currently. ❤️

Bailey and I were both a little grumbly so we decided to roast a chicken and get some fresh air. ❤️ I quit keeping time on #24B4Monday but this will be my second book finished shortly.

This is one of the weirdest books I‘ve ever read. I have so many questions about the brain that put this together. It was delightful and strange and unique and perfect for this weird time we‘re living in. I‘m 9ish hours into #24B4Monday and this is my first book finished.

This was my day 1 total for #24B4Monday. I finished about 16% of the tagged audiobook and read a good chunk of my current read.

Kicking off #24B4Monday with a giant mug of coffee and 3.5 hours left in my current read.

In case you missed it- this sweet girl was completely and totally paralyzed two months ago. It‘s been a long two months. Today is her first bed snuggle since January. My book might be open, but I‘m mostly admiring her.

I am entirely mentally unable to choose a TBR currently. So my #24B4Monday goal is to finish this book, make progress in Roots, and the rest shall remain a surprise.

I‘m a big fan of Laura Vanderkam and the way she discusses how people use their time. This wasn‘t my favorite of hers (I think that would be I Know How She Does It), but I enjoyed her not so gentle reminders that we all have the same number of hours in a day and many of us waste them on things like scrolling Facebook and then claim we‘re to busy to exercise. 🤭

Current status: chunksters

We made it home and there‘s plenty of coffee and food. We will be reading and snuggling for the foreseeable future. ❤️

I was on vacation with my family (still am) when things started to get truly nasty with COVID-19 here in the US. I haven‘t handled the stress well so I‘ve wrapped myself into books. This is the 5th book I‘ve read in as many days. I will say we‘re staying in individual villas and cooking food so my risk of exposure is slim.

What a delightful romance full of attempted murder and magic.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

We currently have a paralyzed puppy. She‘s being treated at The University of Missouri because Iowa State doesn‘t have a neurology department. It‘s a 5 hour drive from our house - so yesterday we spent 10 hours in the car to snuggle her for 45 minutes. 😩 Thankfully, I had Kiley Reid to keep me company. This fantastic novel sucks you in halfway and you must finish it immediately. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I‘m into chapter 5 and I can already tell I‘ll be thinking about these characters long after I finish this one. ❤️

Currently listening.

My final read of 2019 was one of my favorites of the year. I loved this spy novel. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️