Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 "No country for old shit boots." Orphaned Delilah Green had no desire to return to Bright Falls, Oregon, and her stepfamily. Nope, not ever. Her career as a photographer was finally taking off, and her life was in NYC. Until her sister Astrid calls and reminds … Continue reading Book Review: Delilah Green Doesn’t Care
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Top Ten TBR: Contemporary Romances to Fall in Love With
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This weeks' prompt is a ~love~ freebie, and initially I … Continue reading Top Ten TBR: Contemporary Romances to Fall in Love With
Book Review: Forward March by Skye Quinlan
Forward March by Skye Quinlan 🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 Harper McKinley is a band geek and damned proud of it. She's one of the best (and most dedicated) members of her private boarding school's band, and with her senior year in full swing, nothing is going to stop her from having a great time. Except her conservation Republican … Continue reading Book Review: Forward March by Skye Quinlan
February 2022 TBR
I'm still not convinced it's actually 2022. Seems like a trap. Anywho, since apparently we're all in this shared delusion together (does time have any meaning?), here are my February hopefuls. I had thought I had started this TBR already, but I think I'm mistaking it for instagram. Hmm. Maybe I'm going crazy, maybe it's … Continue reading February 2022 TBR
January 2022 Wrap-Up
Well, the start of this year wasn't too bad for me. I wrote a short story (kinda cheated and finished one I had almost finished in December) and finished the preliminary edits for That Slow Awakening (book 2 in Satura Trilogy), so that's back at my editor and hopefully I'll have a pub window soon. … Continue reading January 2022 Wrap-Up
10 Sapphic Romance Novels on my TBR
2022 is the year of contemporary sapphic romance. Because 2022 is also a year of conflicting cozy and chaos, some of these are new releases, some are backlist titles, and all are on my TBR. Blurbs are from Goodreads. YA TBR Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler (June 2022) Amber McCloud’s dream is to become … Continue reading 10 Sapphic Romance Novels on my TBR
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite New (to Me) Authors of 2021
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. I read so many amazing books last year from authors … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite New (to Me) Authors of 2021
22 Backlist Titles to Read in 2022
I did a similar list with only SFF titles last year, and read an amazing amount of them. By amazing, I mean six. I read six of the 21. Yes, the sarcasm is so thick you can stir it with a spoon. However, I finished two series I had been meaning to read for several … Continue reading 22 Backlist Titles to Read in 2022
Top Ten Tuesday: 2021 Releases I Did Not Get To
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Let the self-ownage commence. I read a lot in 2021, … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 2021 Releases I Did Not Get To
4 Mini Reviews: Books About Books!
This December, I had a Plan. I was going to have a ✨themed✨ reading month, based solely on how my ARCs stacked out. Apparently, January and February were all about books about books, and I was there. Unfortunately, best laid plans being what they are and all that, this was not quite the bucolic experience … Continue reading 4 Mini Reviews: Books About Books!
The Suspected Bibliophile 