Freebie: 5 Favorite New Covers + 5 I Can’t Wait to See 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. The only certainties in life: death, taxes, and Lauren picking a cover-related topic during freebie week for TTT. I thought I would share some of my new favorite covers – either ones I recently added to my “cover love” list or ones that were recently revealed for books coming soon. New Faves The Suite Spot by Trish Doller // I got this for review and am PUMPED. I loved FLOAT PLAN and this sounds adorable. The cover is super cute too obviously. A Season for Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss // I loved her debut Christmas book and her sophomore clearly has the same cute illustrated cover vibe. It makes me want to book a flight to England around the holiday season and stay in a little village. Blame it on the Mistletoe by Beth Garrod // Yes another holiday book cover. I can’t resist the colors on this one and the big snow globe. Adorable. Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey // This has to be one of my favorites in a loooong time. The typography, little hearts everywhere, book on the cover, ugh – […]

Fall 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 though my favorite TTTs are the lazy ones where I just search for keywords on my Goodreads shelves or click on a specific themed shelf… I love the TBR ones too. It gives me a chance to look at new and upcoming releases that I don’t currently have review copies of and remember the ones I’m most excited for. For these purposes, I’ll be using September, October, and November as “fall.” I’m also not including the Christmas books that are publishing in October (see some of my holiday TBR here) since I won’t be reading them until December. These are books that I genuinely hope to read this fall! September Releases October Releases November Releases

Books with Numbers in the Title 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. Love a lazy TTT these days – aka going into Goodreads and searching keywords like “one” “two” etc. to find 1-10 nice and easy 😉 I’ve read all of these books except EIGHT PERFECT HOURS in case you’re wondering. Top TEN by Cotugno // NINE Women One Dress by Rosen // EIGHT Perfect Hours by Louis The SEVEN Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Reid // SIX of Crows by Bardugo In FIVE Years by Serle // FOUR Days of You and Me by Kenneally Tell Me THREE Things by Buxbaum // TWO Summers by Friedman // ONE of Us is Lying by McManus

Books to Put a Smile on Your Face 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. One day late but here we are! These are the ten most recent books I’ve read that made me laugh out loud. I keep a Goodreads shelf for this reason – some feel good books, or stories with very funny/clever main characters. I love some banter!

Fictional Crushes 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. Last week was the first time in my blog’s history that I forgot to write a TTT post – clearly blogging isn’t on my mind lately. Here’s this week’s TTT about my book boyfriends or fictional crushes most recently added to that Goodreads shelf of mine. Tarek from WE CAN’T KEEP MEETING LIKE THIS // Jamar from THE DATING PLAYBOOK Harry from ROSALINE PALMER TAKES THE CAKE Sir from TO SIR WITH LOVE // River from THE SOULMATE EQUATION Dominic from THE EX TALK // Cassian from ACOSF Adrian from LIFE’S TOO SHORT // Neil from TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW // Keane from FLOAT PLAN

Favorite Places to 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’ve actually posted about this a few times on my blog because I love finding cozy spots to read and talking about them! I think it’s been changed a bit since this post (LOL UGH) so here’s my current updated list, featuring some ooold pics directly from Insta because I’m lazy. On the couch or in bed with my pup This is a more common place I read these days – curled up on the couch with my dog by my side. Lately though, most of my reading has been happening before or after work in my bed. I’ll read my Kindle in the dark before falling asleep or first thing in the morning. I couldn’t find a good picture of reading in bed so we’ll pretend this one covers both spots in my house.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Lauren • Bookmark Lit (@bookmark_lit) By the lights of the Christmas tree Reading during the Christmas season is my favorite because our room gets all cozy with the lights on our tree and on the wall. There’s nothing better than a cute holiday romance with […]

Secondary Characters who Deserve More Love 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 read a ton of companion series, obviously, and one of my favorite activities is to guess who will get their own books. I also am a big fan of companion spinoffs when it’s obvious that one of the side characters deserves their own love story. Here are some prime examples of that! Deserve Their Own Books/Spinoffs Imani from HOW SWEET IT IS // Imani, the MC’s best friend, is the whole reason for the book and Kate working for Drake. There’s some chemistry between Imani and Drake’s brother, so it would be fun to see these characters all come back in a spinoff/companion book. Multiple characters from SANDCASTLE BEACH // In my review for this, I wrote: “there are at least 3 new characters that totally could get their own books! Two women move to town in this installment and Maya’s brother also returns home. I would love to learn more about any combination of these people in more books ” Sinclair from SECOND CHANCE ON CYPRESS LANE // I know I’m cheating a little here because this a companion series-starter and she could very well have her own book coming next. […]

Titles and/or Covers of Books that Made Me Want to Read the Book 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 am the biggest sucker for book covers so none of these will be surprising. I did enjoy tracking down some fun titles and trying to remember if that’s what motivated me to read the book too! Cover Made Me Want to Read Title Made Me Want to Read

Books I’d Want With Me While Stranded On a Deserted Island 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 am honestly not a big re-reader, so this is a challenge for me! There are a lot of books I’d love to reread someday that I haven’t yet, and a few that I have just because they’re in a series. That’s the most common time I reread a book. I definitely want to cheat and include full series but I’ll be nice and only pick one from each if it’s in a series. This was SO HARD because my memory is so shitty, but I tried to find some recent faves that I would love to reread because they’re super funny or shippy, as well as a few nostalgic favorites that probably wouldn’t get old. For the sake of nostalgic faves… To laugh out loud… For the rereadable swoons…

Books I Read in One Sitting/Day 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 Goodreads shelving system that specifically allows for me to track things like this. I haven’t been reading a ton of books in one sitting lately because my reading is terrible but there are plenty of books I HAVE done this with in the past, as well as books where I certainly could have if time allowed! I have the “read in one day” shelf as well as “couldn’t put down” for these two occasions.