NetGalley Review: The Marriage Game

Title: The Marriage Game Author: Sara Desai Genre: Romance Synopses: A high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy romantic comedy. After her life falls apart, recruitment consultant Layla Patel returns home to her family in San Francisco. But in the eyes of her father, who runs a Michelin starred…

Top Ten Tuesday: July 28th, 2020

Hello lovelies! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is off to a good week so far! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and this week is a Freebie where you make your own Top Ten list! So for this week I thought I'd list my top ten anticipated NetGalley reads for the…

July Book Haul

Hello lovelies! I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Yesterday I made a trip to my recently re-opened bookstore! I miss working desperately but it'll still be a while before I'll be able to head back to work. In the meantime though it's been really nice to browse the new layout and…

WWW Wednesday: July 22nd, 2020

Happy Wednesday lovelies! WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World Of Words. Each week you answer the following three questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What are you planning on reading next? I'm posting for this pretty late in the day because I ended up…

Review: 500 Miles From You

Title: 500 Miles from You Author: Jenny Colgan Genre: Contemporary Romance Synopses: Lissie, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissie to spend a…

Review: Boyfriend Material

Author: Genre: LQBGTIA+ Romance    Synopses: Luc O'Donnell is tangentially--and reluctantly--famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is…

Weekend Reading Goals

Hello lovelies! I hope everyone is having a great week so far! I’ve been reading a ton lately and I’m super proud of myself and I’m hoping to keep it up going into the weekend! Up first I’d like to finish 500 Miles From You. I’m almost done with this one and expect to finish…

WWW Wednesday: July 15th, 2020

Hello lovelies! WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words ! Each week you answer the following three questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What are you planning on reading next? Since last week I’ve actually read four books and I’m really hoping I…

Top Ten Tuesday: July 14th, 2020

Hello lovelies! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and this week's prompt is books that make you smile! My list is in no particular order. Gideon the Ninth Gideon absolutely destroyed me but it also made me smile, and laugh and that almost made up for all the sobbing. Bringing Down…

July Mini Wrap-up

Hello lovelies! Happy Monday! Another late night blog post for me (I'm a morning person, staying up past 8pm is pushing it for me...). But I'm really excited because between this weekend and today I have finished 2 books, read 2 comic books, and started another book! This is basically unheard of for me but…

Blog goals, reading goals…and cats?

Hello lovelies! I hope everyone had a nice weekend! This weekend was pretty normal for me but I did finish two books this weekend which is almost unheard of for me. But I’m so so so far behind on my NetGalley books and it feels wonderful to be slowly catching up. So far this month…

Review: The Court of Miracles

Title: The Court of Miracles Author: Kester Grant Genre: Young Adult, Retelling Synopses: In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles. Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of…

106 Days later…

Hello lovelies! Today, after 106 days, my bookstore reopened! I still won't be going back to work anytime soon but I'm so SO happy my store is back open. We have a ton of safety procedures in place and I'm so proud of my co-workers and all the work they did over the last 106…

My Cats as V.E. Schwab Characters

Hello lovelies! So yesterday I was playing with my cats and I got the idea to make a post about them and the book characters they remind me of! And so I decided for today's post I'd do them as characters by my favorite author: V.E. Schwab! Darcy is definitely Kate Harker from This Savage…

WWW Wednesday: July 8th, 2020

Hello lovelies! Happy Wednesday! WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World Of Words and each Wednesday you answer the following three questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What are you planning on reading next? I'm currently reading The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant. I've been…

Top Ten Tuesday: July 7th, 2020

Hello lovelies! Tuesday is almost over but I'm going to sneak in a quick Top Ten Tuesday post! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and this week's post is Authors I've Read The Most Books By. These are in no particular order for me but they are still my 10 most read…

Bookish Spotlight: Third Place Books

Hello lovelies! It's been a long time since I did one of these posts but today I'm really happy to share with you my love for Third Place Books in Seattle, WA! Third Place Books has three locations in the Seattle area: Lake Forest Park (Pictured above) Ravenna Seward Park While I was living is…