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All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson / relevant and important to be read

Audiobooks, Books, Memoir/Non-Fiction · July 8, 2020 · 13 Comments

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson / relevant and important to be read

Open Book by Jessica Simpson / candid and genuine

Audiobooks, Books, Memoir/Non-Fiction · July 3, 2020 · 17 Comments

Open Book by Jessica Simpson / candid and genuine

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow / A must read for anyone

Audiobooks, Books, Memoir/Non-Fiction · May 24, 2020 · 9 Comments

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow / A must read for anyone

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah / one of the best audiobooks

Audiobooks, Books, Memoir/Non-Fiction · April 22, 2020 · 3 Comments

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah / one of the best audiobooks

SHE SAID: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Books, Memoir/Non-Fiction · April 20, 2020 · 8 Comments

SHE SAID: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

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What did you read on the weekend? I picked up one

What did you read on the weekend? I picked up one of my favorite novels by @amy.harmon2 this weekend. I read it in 2014, and it’s still as heartbreakingly beautiful as it was when I read it so many years ago. Although it’s a YA contemporary novel, it’s so much more than a YA. The author’s writing is fantastic. Truly amazing. And the story is emotional, thoughtful, and at times heart-breaking but also hopeful.
Thanks to @bookbruin’s recommendation, I tried the audiobook this time and agree with her the narration was top notch!! So good!!! I also finished Anxious People by Fredrik Backman on audio (Marin Ireland’s narration is just wonderful, I remember her from Beartown and Us Against You, and love that they used her again). I also started DUNE thanks to @macmillan.audio for providing me with an audiobook. The audiobook I’m listening to is from 2006, and received the Audie Award Winner, Science Fiction, 2008 award. It has a FULL cast and is already SO GOOD!!! I wanted to read/listen to the book all year in preparation for the upcoming movie, @macmillan.audio’s timing couldn’t have been any better. Also, the new movie trailer is floating around on IG, and WOW all I can say is Timothée Chalamet AND Jason Momoa. WATCH IT!!!! The movie is being released later this year, and the little I’ve seen so far looks AMAZING!!! @dunemovie And of course, I already mentioned it Friday, but I indeed re-read The Simple Wild and Wild at Heart by @katucker_ (third time this year- what can I say I LOVE this book). It was the right book for this weekend. A feel good story full of romance, and it allowed me to revisit a cast full of amazing side characters. Can’t wait to get more later this year. So, what have you been up to?

What’s your go to comfort book, or food, or anyt

What’s your go to comfort book, or food, or anything else that gets you through a particular hard day? I noticed this morning that I haven’t posted my review for The Simple Wild on the blog yet. What an oversight. And while I was writing about The Simple Wild, I started thinking about The Simple Wild. The book features one of my favorite couples, one of my all-time favorite heroes, and a favorite location - ALSAKA!! There are so many favorites connected to this series (and how cool that I can call it now a series and not just a book or a duet 😍 thank you @katucker_ ). And I started remembering all the good memories that come with this book. Especially how Call and Jonah pushed each other’s buttons, and how much fun it was to read about their journey. And I think I want to re-read their beginning, and then probably I’ll re-read Wild at Heart too - which will be the third time this year 💕. These books are comfort food for my soul, heart and just for my overall well-being.  
How about you?

Where do you get your books from? I can’t tell

Where do you get your books from? I can’t tell you how much I rely on libraries these days. At the moment I probably get 90% of my books from varies libraries. I have three libraries for physical books, and another 4 for ebooks and audiobooks. I would feel totally deprived if I didn’t have access to so many different libraries. And I have at least 60 books on hold at any given time. And I’m always looking for more books to request - lol. #bookwormproblems right? What have been some of the books you recently put on your tbr?

How are you doing? How was your weekend? What are

How are you doing? How was your weekend? What are you reading? Besides the HEAT, it was an uneventful long weekend for me. I did my usual stuff, blogging, writing reviews, reading books, and doing laundry bleh. I also got a text from my hairstylist, they are opening again, and I tentatively made an appointment for - wait - end of November - lol. We’ll see how it goes. I haven’t had highlights for 18 month now. My hair is back to my natural color and I’m HATING it, BUT I’m not in a hurry either because nobody sees it anyway. Who has been to a hairstylist recently, and how did it go? I got some book mail last week - yay!! I so rarely buy books anymore, but getting my fingers on Heart Bones was a highlight for me. Especially since I adored the book and can’t wait to read more by Colleen Hoover.  So, if you love YA contemporary romances, well written, excellent storytelling, an actual beach read, with feelings, heart and emotions- you have to read it. AND it’s free on KU :D

☀️MONDAY GIVEAWAY☀️ CLOSED Winners announ

☀️MONDAY GIVEAWAY☀️ CLOSED Winners announced in stories ☝🏼 Hello Monday!! Today is a holiday in the US, and I took the opportunity to stay in bed as long as possible and read a new book. I’ll be posting about it later this week, with a possible giveaway - yay.  But to start of the week, I’m continuing my Monday giveaway posts, witch a stack of ARC copies. Depending on my mood, I might pick more than one winner. :D - good luck to everyone!! How to ENTER: ✔️ LIKE and SAFE this post ✔️ COMMENT with which book you would like to win ✔️ FOLLOW me ✔️ TAG two or three bookish friends ✔️ SHARE this post in your stories, don’t forget to tag me!  US ONLY Giveaway will close on Sunday, August 16th! Instagram is not responsible or affiliated in any way. Good luck 🍀 everyone and have a great day!

Book mail is the best kind of mail. Especially whe

Book mail is the best kind of mail. Especially when it comes with such a pretty cover!!! Thank you @stmartinspress for thinking of me!!! The new cover of Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center matches perfectly her other book covers. Which makes me happy because I love it when books match each other. And it’s so pretty and bright!!! What do you think? And have you read it yet? Happiness for Beginners is about Duncan’s older sister Helen. You can read all about Duncan in What You Wish For the author’s latest release. Here is the blurb for Happiness for Beginners: A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved life: three weeks in the remotest wilderness of a mountain range in Wyoming where she will survive mosquito infestations, a surprise summer blizzard, and a group of sorority girls. Yet, despite everything, the vast wilderness has a way of making Helen's own little life seem bigger, too. And, somehow the people who annoy her the most start teaching her the very things she needs to learn. Like how to stand up for herself. And how being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes you just have to get really, really lost before you can even have a hope of being found.

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