Ten Things I Loved About… Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. This week’s topic is meant to highlight the ten things you like about a certain book or series. Today, I decided to go with two separate series and discuss the five reasons I like each of them. I can’t think of ten things for one book!! Truly Devious 1. The setting The best part of this series is the Vermont boarding school full of smart kids. I absolutely love reading books set in New England and this takes the cake. Boarding school books are absolutely read-bait for me in general and the location of this one, plus the mystery at the center of the school, are so cool. 2. The cozy-ish vibes I don’t consider this a cozy mystery really but there’s something comforting about this series when you add all of these elements together. There’s just something about it that can’t be replicated for me. No other book series compares – it’s like coming home for me for some reason. It’s like Nancy Drew at boarding school. 3. The characters Stevie is a little annoying and her boyfriend is even worse, but their friend group is really at the […]

Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I ended up going on a wild goose chase (well, not fully – it was somewhat successful) trying to find more fall and early winter 2024 books to add! I apparently had like zero of them on my Goodreads “tbr-unreleased” shelf. I creeped around their lists a little bit and was able to find some October/November releases. No December ones though! I’m slacking on keeping up with everything, good lord. July     August September October   November    

Summer TBR Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I will never turn down an opportunity to share the books I’m excited to read this summer! I usually avoid including review copies but I thought I would just do a full roundup of the books I plan to read over the next few months. The Summer TBR I posted on Instagram is at the bottom of the post for a quick summary as well! (Note: I’m making this post a week early so some of these books have already been read in late May/early June.) Review Copies Most of these are coming out later in the summer but a couple are new releases that I definitely need to get to! I’ve already read ONE LAST SUMMER and generally enjoy it. By the time this post goes live, there’s a decent chance I’ve read at least 1-2 more of these. Owned/Physical Copies These are books I recently acquired and plan to read soon, primarily books published in the last month or two. I have read a couple already but the rest I’m excited to dive into! BOTM gave me some solid picks and I got a few from an indie bookstore on vacation. […]

Books I Was Super Excited to Get My Hands on but Still Haven’t Read Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I haven’t done a TTT in a bit but this was definitely made for me. I used my “jazzed up for this” shelf on Goodreads to see all the fun books I was jacked up about and haven’t read yet. Without further ado, here are some of them!    

May Flowers (On Covers) Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I love floral covers so it was a no-brainer to share them for the semi-freebie May Flowers prompt for this week! I’ll be focusing on new and upcoming releases for this one. (Yes I also included just regular plants lol)      

Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I have a ton of owned books that I haven’t gotten around to and I’d love to change that sometime soon! I thought I would focus on some new releases I just got first, then highlight some backlist (2023 or older) titles I want to read soon. New Releases 2023 or Older

Freebie: Q1 Favorites! Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I thought a freebie for early April would be the perfect time to share my favorites from the first three months of the year! I have exactly ten favorites if I don’t include one cookbook and one reread that were both 4.5 stars. All of these books fall into the 4.5-5 star range and I’m going to include them in order started from the top – the most fave. (And yes, three of them are novellas lol).

April Showers Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I decided, as always, to make this prompt about book covers. I’ll be sharing some books I’ve read and books on my TBR that feature rain on the cover and/or umbrellas! Read   TBR

Movies or Shows That Would’ve Made Great Books Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to do this one but I decided it seemed fun once I came up with my first example 😉 Don’t come at me if some of these shows and movies are already books – clearly I didn’t research before this post and went off vibes! haha. Kaleidoscope I really enjoyed this show on Netflix when it came out. It involves a big heist and apparently each of the episodes (named after a color) can be watched in any order, as long as you watch one specific episode last. Heist books are really fun and adding in some kind of “choose your own adventure” element like this show could be awesome. The Curse Okay so we haven’t finished this show yet but I do think so far it would make for a very weird little book! It’s entertaining and cringey in the classic way of Nathan Fielder. I do think he brings something unique to the performance that could be hard to capture in a book but the premise itself would work, IMO. The White Lotus I love this show – […]

Spring TBR Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. Even if I go multiple weeks without a TTT, you know I’m here for a TBR post when they come up! I usually share only books on my non-review-copy TBR but I’m just going to highlight all the books I hope to read at the end of March through May-ish! Spring Review Copies   March Releases April Releases May Releases