Feb TBR! 📚

January wrap-up! I finished 10 books from a bunch of different genres, including 3 books by Rachel Harrison, a local author who's becoming a favorite. 🥇goes to Ocean's Echo, but I also loved The Return, Bad Dolls, The Employees, People Person, and Two Wrongs Make a Right.

My #botm pick for Feb!

Finished my first 5⭐️ read of 2022! I loved this author's first book (Winter's Orbit) but this one was even better. Really fascinating, twisty scifi with excellently developed main characters. I love a messy, prickly protagonist, and Ocean's Echo definitely has that. I'll read whatever this author comes out with.

Finished my first book for #joyousjanuary - this one is a soft pick for me, maybe 3.5⭐️. The romance was cute, but the second half of the book had some very weird plot choices. I enjoyed the first book in this series, Delilah Green Doesn't Care, a lot more.

My long-awaited January #botm , and my socks for completing the 2022 reading challenge, got here!

January is a great time for a readathon, so I'm joining on on #joyousjanuary hosted by @Andrew65 . 📚

January #botm pick! Can't wait to read this one.

Belated December tbr! 📚📚📚

Belated November wrap-up! I finished 10 books last month, and seem to have read exclusively fantasy and/or romance.
🥇Love on the Brain
🥈The Holiday Trap
🥉Resting Witch Face

My #botm picks for December! Seeing them posted so early was a great surprise.

My TBR for the end of the year!

October TBR! Trying to stay on theme for spooky season with my reading this month.

September wrap-up! I finished 11 books in September.
🥇Woman, Eating
🥈L'Esprit de L'Escalier
🥉The Hollow Places

My #botm picks for October! Both of these were on my tbr 📚

September TBR! Time to start fall reading 🍂

August Wrap-Up! I finished 13 books including 3 ARCs.
🥇Book Lovers
🥈Bloody Summer
🥉Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

My #botm pick for September! I'm definitely also interested in Other Birds, but decided to wait on that one.

August TBR! Taking part in #ARCAugust and the #newreaseathon , so it'll be a lot of 2022 books for me.

July reading wrap-up! I finished 11 books; ratings were overall lower than most months for me.
🥇Jade City
🥈The Spanish Love Deception
🥉Legends & Lattes

July #tbr ! 📚

June reading wrap-up 🌈 This month, my main reading focus was on books featuring LGBTQIA+ authors and/or characters, while my secondary goal was to finish a few books I'd begun in previous months. I managed to finish 11 books, including 2 ARCs, and found a new 5⭐️ read from my top 10 2022 TBR stack.
🥇Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
🥈In Other Lands (re-read)
🥉Nettle & Bone

My July #botm picks! It's my birthday month, so I got a free add-on, and there were 2 previous picks I've had my eye on. Hearing great buzz about the Zevin book!

Belatedly joining #20in4 after a crazy day at work and then joining my local Bans Off Our Bodies protest. I don't know if I'm going to be able to read much this weekend or if I'll have a hard time focusing, but figured I could give it a shot with my 5 current reads.

June TBR 🌈 Continuing with my annual tradition of focusing on books featuring LGBTQIA+ authors and characters during Pride month! And lots of 2022 releases, too.

May wrap-up! I finished 11 books this month 📚
🥇Never Have I Ever - Isabel Yap
🥈The Mask of Mirrors - M.A. Carrick

June #botm pick! This one hadn't really been on my radar but definitely sounds like something I'll like.

Halfway done with the #botm 2022 reading challenge!

May TBR! I'm hoping to participate in Bout of Books next week, finish my tome topple read from last month (Mask of Mirrors) and also do a lot of mood reading.

April reading wrap-up! I finished 13 books, which I think makes it my most productive reading month so far this year!
🥇The Past is Red
🥈Boyfriend Material (re-read)
🥉Milk Fed

Wrap-up for Dewey's 24-hour readsthon yesterday! I finished 5 books (top) and read bits from 3 others. @DeweysReadathon

My TBR for Dewey's 24-hour readathon tomorrow! #readathon @DeweysReadathon

My May #botm picks! I was planning to skip & add Book of Night to a later box based on the picks spoilers, but I was so happy to see Yerba Buena as a surprise pick, since that's been on my tbr for awhile.

Cute contemporary romance great for fans of Top Chef and Love & Other Disasters. Sadie is a contestant on a cooking show who accidentally meets and kisses a man before realizing he's a new judge on the show. She's trying to find investors to open a restaurant focusing on new spins on traditional Jewish food, which as a Jewish person was really fun to read about (and made me wish she had a restaurant IRL!)

Goals:
-Finish Milk Fed
-Finish Bombshell
-Make progress on a giant fantasy tome (Mask of Mirrors)
-Start a new audiobook
#awesomeapril #readathon @Andrew65

Finally giving Sarah MacLean a second chance! I read A Scot in the Dark several years ago when I was new to the genre and really disliked it, but since then I've found more historical romance authors that I do like. Really glad I picked this one up bc it's great so far! Might even be a new historical romance fave...🤔

April TBR! (I think) I'm planning on participating in #tometopple , where you read books over 500 pages, and Dewey's 24-hour readathon later this month. We'll see what I get to! #tbr

March wrap-up! I finished 10 books, but unfortunately several were disappointments. Still found some good ones, though!
🥇All's Well
🥈Assembly
🥉All of Us Villains

My April #botm picks! I'm definitely also interested in Lessons in Chemistry but decided to wait until I see more reviews. Really interested in True Biz and surprised I hadn't heard of it until botm!

Had a really bad migraine this weekend, so today i went to the bookstore and went absolutely nuts to cheer myself up 🤣 it did work! #bookhaul

Had a migraine today so I've mostly been listening to the audiobook of The Psychology of Time Travel, a murder mystery with a time travel twist. I really like it! Luckily I perked up enough to make some ravioli for dinner. #20in4 #readathon

Yesterday I finished The Cult of We (nonfiction about the WeWork debacle) and have been alternating between the other 3 books since then, which I like more. #20in4
@Andrew65

March TBR, Part 2! A few days into the month & I keep adding books to my monthly TBR. I'll have to see how realistic or unrealistic it is in my monthly wrap-up 📚

My tentative TBR for March, with room for lots of mood reading!

Feb wrap-up! I finished 10 books total, including 3 novellas, a short story collection, and a new favorite.
🥇Light From Uncommon Stars
🥈Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
🥉Get it Right

My #botm picks for March!

Going to try to finish these 3 books that I'm currently in the middle of before the end of the month...wish me luck!
#20in4 @Andrew65

Really absorbed in How High We Go in the Dark so far this weekend!
#weekendreading @Andrew65

1. Wahala by Nikki May (contenporary fiction), River of Shadows by Karina Halle (fantasy romance), Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (scifi)
2. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins (short story collection)
3. Reading!
@rachelsbrittain

Feb TBR! Really excited about all of these reads.