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1) ☕️☕️☕️🥃🍷🫖🍿🧀🥜🍏-always a drink & breakfast or snack
2) tagged book, The Art of Rivalry

I picked up this fascinating, informative book at the Met today. On the train home I read about the artists Freud & Bacon, who I am ashamed to say I knew absolutely nothing about until this book.
It was such fun to see the City all dressed up for The holidays!

Presenting all my new-to-me 5-star reads of 2022! (I never count rereads on Best Of lists, or Tamsyn Muir‘s GIDEON THE NINTH would be here too. I loved that book SO MUCH MORE the second time through.)

While I‘m incoherent with love for each of these, I‘ve got a clear tie for first place: the tagged book and THE DEVIL COMES COURTING by Courtney Milan. They both blew me away and keep popping back into my head weeks and months later. #bestof2022

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I had another hefty reading month, thanks in large part to yesterday‘s Readathon. More importantly, I read SO MUCH GREAT STUFF, including a whopping 3 new-to-me 5-star reads! Along with the tagged book (which I still can‘t stop thinking about), I adored THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by V.E. Schwab and RUN TOWARDS THE DANGER by Sarah Polley.

#Book Report for April. My favourite for the month is The Long Game - after so much anticipation it did not disappoint.

💖 SWOON 💖

I didn‘t think I could love Ilya and Shane any more than I already did.
#romantsy

The TL;DR version: I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH, Y‘ALL. SO. MUCH. 5 STARS

The long version:

This is a direct sequel to HEATED RIVALRY. You should start there, and I‘d urge you to pick up ROLE MODEL, too, since the timelines overlap in some cool ways.

Once you‘re prepped and ready: THIS BOOK.

I‘ve thought of it constantly since I finished it. I love these characters so, so much, and I wanted so, so much for them, and Rachel Reid delivered. ⬇️

This is the view out my window. I feel totally justified in my choice to read all morning.

I also feel like I‘ve lived a whole life in the last couple hours, because that‘s how much THE LONG GAME consumed me. There‘s this bit with some Funko Pops, right? And I started crying there, and I barely stopped until the book ended. Direct romance sequels can sometimes feel redundant, but this one earns its place on the shelf.

I may or may not have downloaded my ARC of THE LONG GAME three separate times, far apart, in the hopes they added the actual cover to the file so I could make prettier social media posts. Alas, no joy.

THE BOOK, THOUGH. I stayed up until 1:00 with it, turned out the light, then picked my ereader up again and read another big chunk. I have many emotions and no idea how I‘m gonna condense them all into a proper review. Maybe I‘ll just shout a lot.