Top Ten Tuesday – Books on My Spring 2024 TBR

 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books on My Spring 2024 TBR.  Almost all of my 2024 most anticipated releases come out this spring or early summer, so those will feature predominantly with this list, along with a romantasy series I’ve been wanting to start.  The second book comes out soon so I’m featuring the first book in hopes that it will give me the kick in the pants I need to finally start reading it.  I also have a couple of thrillers in the mix by authors I’ve been wanting to try for a while now.

 

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Books on My Spring 2024 TBR

 

 

1. FUNNY STORY by Emily Henry

2. THE PARADISE PROBLEM by Christina Lauren

3. A HAPPIER LIFE by Kristy Woodson Harvey

4. A NOVEL LOVE STORY by Ashley Poston

5. JUST FOR THE SUMMER by Abby Jimenez

6. THE ROM-COMMERS by Katherine Center

7. THE VACANCY IN ROOM 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass

8. SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews

9. A DAWN OF ONYX by Kate Golden

10. GOOD HALF GONE by Tarryn Fisher

 

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Are any of these on your TBR?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around

 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around.  This topic feels very timely to me because although I’m not a big re-reader, the past couple of years I have attempted to go back and re-read a few old favorites.  I have mostly abandoned this goal though because almost all of the books I chose to re-read ended up being DNFs the second time around, not because I didn’t still love the book but because since I already knew what was coming, they just didn’t really hit the same and I didn’t want to taint my initial experience with the book.  Today I’m sharing some of those as well as a few that I would never even consider re-reading because they were so perfect the first time around.

 

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Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around

 

 

1. THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morganstern

2. THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah

3. A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC by V.E. Schwab

4. THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA by TJ Klune

5. CINDER by Marissa Meyer

6. THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey

7. VERITY by Colleen Hoover

8. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte

9. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA by C.S. Lewis

10. THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown

 

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Have you read any of these?

Can’t Wait Wednesday – THE UNDERMINING OF TWYLA AND FRANK by Megan Bannen

 

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about.  It is a meme that I have  loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.

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My selection for this week is The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen.  I read The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy last year and just loved how unique and heartwarming it way, so I’m eager to read more from this author.  Plus, how can I resist something described as When Harry Met Sally but with dragons?!

THE UNDERMINING OF TWYLA AND FRANK by Megan Bannen

by Orbit

Publication Date: July 2, 2024

 

Goodreads:

From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a heartwarming fantasy with a best friends-to-lovers rom com twist–When Harry Met Sally, but with dragons!—set in the delightful demigod and donut-filled world of Tanria.

The entire town of Eternity was shocked when widowed, middle-aged Twyla Banneker partnered up with her neighbor and best friend, Frank Ellis, to join the Tanrian Marshals. Eight years later, Twyla and Frank are still patrolling the dangerous land of Tanria, the former prison of the Old Gods.

Twyla might look like a small town mom who brings cheesy potatoes to funerals and whips up a batch of cookies for the school bake sale, but her rewarding career in law enforcement has been a welcome change from the domestic grind of mom life, despite the misgivings of her grown children.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) a recent decrease in on-the-job peril has made Twyla and Frank’s job a lot safer … and a lot less exciting. So when they discover the body of one of their fellow marshals covered in liquid glitter–and Frank finds himself the inadvertent foster dad to a baby dragon–they are more than happy to be back on the beat.

Soon, the friends wind up ensnared in a nefarious plot that goes far deeper than any lucrative Tanrian mineshaft. But as the danger closes in and Twyla and Frank’s investigation becomes more complicated, so does their easy friendship. And Twyla starts to realize that her true soul mate might just be the person who has lived next door all along…

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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂

Can’t Wait Wednesday – THE EX VOWS by Jessica Joyce

 

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about.  It is a meme that I have  loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.

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My selection for this week is The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce.  I adored this author’s debut novel so I’m beyond excited to read this new one from her.  I’ve seen it being compared to Happy Place and Love and Other Words, two books I loved, which makes it even more appealing.

THE EX VOWS by Jessica Joyce

by Berkley Romance

Publication Date: July 16, 2024

 

Goodreads:

Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You, with a View.

Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago.

With the wedding of their mutual best friend, Adam, looming, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man, Georgia’s never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy—and still very present—feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool, calm, and compartmentalized.

What’s not on her list? Eli arriving from New York with a new rule-breaking attitude or the all-inclusive venue burning to the ground, leaving the bride and groom in dire straits. Nor does she anticipate Adam asking her and Eli to help him make a miracle happen. Together.

As Georgia and Eli rush up to Napa Valley to pull off the perfect wedding, their old chemistry comes back in technicolor. Somewhere between cake tastings gone wrong, disastrous DJ auditions, and Eli’s heated attention, Georgia starts recognizing the man she fell in love with before. And if she lets herself break her rules, she might find what they’re building isn’t the something old that ruined them—it’s a chance at something new.

 

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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂

Top Ten Tuesday – Spring is in the Air & Flowers are on My Book Covers

 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Covers/Titles with Things Found in Nature (covers/titles with things like trees, flowers, animals, forests, bodies of water, etc. on/in them).  I love flowers on covers so I decided to share some floral covers that I have coming up on my TBR.

 

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Books on My TBR with Flowers on the Covers

 

1. THIS COULD BE US by Kennedy Ryan

2. THE PARADISE PROBLEM by Christina Lauren

3. BUSINESS CASUAL by B.K. Borison

4. AN ENCHANTING CASE OF SPIRITS by Melissa Holtz

5. FIRST COMES MARRIAGE by Laila Rafi

6. HEDGING YOUR BETS by Jayne Denker

7. LATE BLOOMER by Mazey Eddings

8. OLD FLAMES AND NEW FORTUNES by Sarah Hogle

9. ONLY AND FOREVER by Chloe Liese

10. THE TAKEDOWN by Lily Chu

 

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Are any of these on your TBR?

Can’t Wait Wednesday – THE LOST STORY by Meg Shaffer

 

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about.  It is a meme that I have  loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.

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My selection for this week is THE LOST STORY by Meg Shaffer.  I just read this author’s debut novel The Wishing Game last month and fell in love with her storytelling.  This new book sounds like it has the potential to be just as whimsical and as a huge Chronicles of Narnia fan, I’m beyond excited to read it.

THE LOST STORY by Meg Shaffer

by Random House – Ballantine Books

Publication Date: July 16, 2024

 

Goodreads:

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game.

As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell vanished in a West Virginia state park, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived.

Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Jeremy is a famous missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to find the lost, while Rafe is a reclusive artist unable to stop creating otherworldly paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. He bears scars inside and out from his disappearance but has no memory of what happened while they were gone.

Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth behind their time in the woods. While the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons.

But the time for burying secrets comes to an end when vet tech Emilie Wendel hires Jeremy to find her long-lost sister . . . the long-lost sister he and Rafe knew while living in that hidden kingdom. Now the former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy return to the enchanted world they called home for six months . . . for only then can they get back everything and everyone they’ve lost.

 

 

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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂

Top Ten Tuesday – Valentine’s Freebie – Books with Heart in the Title

 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is a Valentine’s Day Freebie so I decided to share some of my favorite book with “Heart” in the title.  I don’t know if my brain just wasn’t working or what, but it was surprisingly hard to find ten even though I primarily read romance.

 

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Books with Heart in the Title

 

 

1. ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART by Stephanie Garber

2. THE HEART PRINCIPLE by Helen Hoang

3. WILD AT HEART by K.A. Tucker

4. HEARTLESS by Elsie Silver

5. HEARTSTOPPER by Alice Oseman

6. THE KEY TO MY HEART by Lia Louis

7. HEART BONES by Colleen Hoover

8. OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng

9. THE TRAIL OF LOST HEARTS by Tracey Garvis Graves

10. JAR OF HEARTS by Jennifer Hillier

 

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Have you read any of these?

Can’t Wait Wednesday – RIGHT WHERE WE LEFT US by Jen Devon

 

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about.  It is a meme that I have  loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.

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My selection for this week is RIGHT WHERE WE LEFT US by Jen Devon. A couple of years ago I fell in love with Bend Toward the Sun, this author’s romance debut, so I was thrilled to hear she has a new book coming out this year.  This one sounds like it has the potential to be just as good as her first too so I’m very excited to read it.

RIGHT WHERE WE LEFT US by Jen Devon

by St. Martin’s Griffin

Publication Date: June 18, 2024

 

Goodreads:

Perfect for fans of Carly Fortune and Lucy Score, Right Where We Left Us is a searing and unforgettable romance.

Temperance Jean Madigan and Duncan Brady have never gotten it right. After one radiant, secret summer together when they were eighteen, they’ve been on-again off-again ever since. Now, despite red-hot chemistry and TJ’s closeness with Duncan’s family, they’re virtually strangers, only capable of adversarial banter, awkward small talk―and the occasional messy hookup.

When a wedding at the Brady’s vineyard lands TJ there for the summer, their mutual avoidance strategies prove impossible. The last thing TJ wants is to be under those angsty, heated glances Duncan thinks he hides. And for Duncan, having fiery TJ constantly close is the ultimate distraction that he absolutely can’t afford. When forced proximity begins to chip away at their armor, buried tensions resurface, old wounds urge confrontation, and once-in-a-lifetime love demands one last chance to finally get it right.

 

 

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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂

Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Read for the First Time in 2023

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week’s TTT topic is Top 10 New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2023. I read a lot of great new-to-me authors last year, and today I’m sharing my favorites from the bunch.  I’m definitely looking forward to reading more from all of them.

 

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Top 10 New-to-Me Authors in 2023

(in no particular order)

 

 

1. LUCY SCORE

 

2. ELSIE SILVER

 

3. CATHERINE COWLES

 

4. ANASTASIA RYAN

 

5. KATEE ROBERT

 

6. KENNEDY RYAN

 

7. KAREN ROSE

 

8. LAUREN ASHER

 

9. FREIDA MCFADDEN

 

10. MARIANA ZAPATA

 

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Who were some authors that were new to you in 2023?  Do we share any?

Can’t Wait Wednesday: THE TRAIL OF LOST HEARTS by Tracey Garvis Graves

 

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about.  It is a meme that I have  loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.

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My selection for this week is THE TRAIL OF LOST HEARTS by Tracey Garvis Graves.  I always enjoy reading this author’s books, but I especially love them when I’m in the mood for a heartbreaking but hopeful read and it sounds like this one will definitely deliver in that respect.

THE TRAIL OF LOST HEARTS by Tracey Garvis Graves

by St. Martin’s Press

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

 

Goodreads:

New York Times bestselling author Tracey Garvis Graves takes readers on a life affirming journey, where two lost souls find the unexpected courage to love again.

Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn’t see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No one is more surprised than Wren when she discovers that geocaching―the outdoor activity of using GPS to look for hidden objects―is the only thing getting her out of bed and out of her head. She decides that a weeklong solo quest geocaching in Oregon is exactly what she needs to take back control of her life.

Enter Marshall Hendricks, a psychologist searching for distraction as he struggles with a life-altering blow of his own. Though Wren initially rebuffs Marshall’s attempt at hiker small talk, she’s beyond grateful when he rescues her from a horrifying encounter farther down the trail. In the interest of safety, Marshall suggests partnering up to look for additional caches. Wren’s no longer quite so trusting of the universe―or men in general―but her inner circle might argue that a smart, charismatic psychologist isn’t the worst thing the universe could place in her path.

What begins as a platonic road trip gradually blossoms into something deeper, and the more Wren learns about Marshall, the more she wants to know. Now all she can do is hope that the universe gets it right this time.

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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂