Can’t Wait Wednesday: FIRST-TIME CALLER by B.K. Borison

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“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 FIRST-TIME CALLER by B.K. Borison. I loved this author’s Lovelight Farms series so I’m excited to see that she has a new series coming out early next year and I love that the first installment is inspired by Sleepless in Seattle!

FIRST-TIME CALLER by B.K. Borison

by Berkley

Publication Date: February 11, 2025

 

 

Goodreads:

A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she’s as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending… even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.

 

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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 – HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM by Bryn Donovan

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“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 HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM by Bryn Donovan.  This one caught my eye and I’m excited to read it since it sounds like it has the perfect blend of humor, fantasy, and romance.

HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM by Bryn Donovan

by Berkley

Publication Date: November 12, 2024

 

Goodreads:

A centuries-long curse is no match for rom-com shenanigans when a medieval knight is brought to life in modern-day Chicago.

Forgotten by time and abandoned by hope, Sir Griffin de Beauford’s existence stretches out before him. Cursed by a ruthless enchanter to see, hear, and think, but never to move or speak, Griffin suffers the long, lonely centuries trapped in stone…until an unexpected kiss from a fair maiden breathes new life into his soul—and his body.

Emily Porter, a recently divorced conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago, is charged with the restoration of a statue of a medieval English knight. Breaking curses was not part of the job description. And yet, here he is, the man of her dreams come to life, resplendent in shining armor as he joyously barrels into priceless antiquities…and goes on to dismantle her defenses, wreak havoc on her senses, and tempt her to believe once more in happy-ever-afters.

But the modern age tries Griffin’s patience and pride, and Emily is a prime suspect in the investigation of the missing sculpture. In a complicated world, can they find their way to a fairy-tale ending?

 

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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 – MY VAMPIRE PLUS-ONE by Jenna Levine

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“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 MY VAMPIRE PLUS-ONE, the second book in Jenna Levine’s My Vampires series.  I read the first book last fall and thought it was so much fun, with Reginald being one of the highlights.  This second book is his story so I can’t wait to dive into it!

MY VAMPIRE PLUS-ONE by Jenna Levine

by Berkley

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

 

Goodreads:

Amelia Collins is tired of constant questions about her non-existent dating life, so she decides to get everyone off her back once and for all by inviting the worst person she can find to pose as her date to a family wedding: Reginald Cleaves.

Reginald is extremely handsome (which is not in his favour for Amelia’s purposes), but he’s also rude, infuriatingly arrogant, and wears a riot of clashing clothes that make him look like he got dressed in a skip – all factors in the plus column.

And the date goes well: everyone at the wedding, including Amelia, is horrified by Reginald and his actions, which include crashing the bar, starting up a breakdancing routine on the dance floor, and encouraging the kids to play frisbee with the fine china being used for dinner. (It really is a shame he’s so attractive).

After the evening is over, Reginald admits to Amelia that he’s a vampire, which doesn’t frighten her the way he expects it will. In fact, she asks if he would be willing to accompany her to a few more events over the course of the summer to help her further her goals of getting everyone to leave her alone. But there’s a fine line between love and hate, and the last thing either of them expects is there might be a growing spark between them…

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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 – 10 of My Favorite Bookish Families

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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 Relationship Freebie (Pick a relationship type and choose characters who fit that relationship as it relates to you. So, characters you’d like to date, be friends with, be enemies with, etc. Bookish families you’d like to be a part of, characters you’d want as your siblings, pets you’d like to take for yourself, etc.).

I decided to share some of my favorite families from the books I’ve read over the years. Some are biologically-related families, while others are found families. What they all have in common, whether biologically related or not, is that their relationships with one another are just so heartwarming, supportive, and fun.

 

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10 of My Favorite Bookish Families

 

 

Who are some of your favorite bookish families?

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Antcipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024

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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 My Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024.  The hardest part about this topic is trying to narrow down to just ten books that I’m excited about. These were the ten that first popped into my head but there are so many others that I’m also very excited to read in the second half of the year.

 

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My Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024

 

 

Have you read or are you planning to read any of these?

Can’t Wait Wednesday – THE BUMP by Sidney Karger

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“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 Bump by Sidney Karger.  I love a good road trip book anyway, but when I heard the author describe this book at the Booked with Berkley Spring Preview virtual event, I knew this one had to go on my TBR.  It just sounds like one of those reads that’s going to give me all the feels!

THE BUMP by Sidney Karger

by Berkley

Publication Date: May 21, 2024

 

Goodreads:

Two men expecting a baby via surrogate go on the road trip of a lifetime in this hilarious and poignant novel by Sidney Karger, author of Best Men.

Wyatt Wallace is a practical, super organized director of TV commercials. Biz Petterelli is a child-actor-turned-magazine-writer who thrives on spontaneity. Though polar opposites, they are fully committed to their relationship and their life in Brooklyn with their dog, Matilda. They’re also about to have a baby together.

And they’re freaking out.

They’ve both dreamed of becoming parents, but now that it’s happening, they’re doubting everything. Their baby is due in a few weeks and instead of flying to California just before the birth as planned, Biz has a better idea. They could use one last hurrah, along with some serious “us-time” to mend the issues they’ve been having lately—before they get tied down by fatherhood and its impending responsibilities. So the daddies-to-be load up their 1992 Volkswagen Cabriolet and embark on an epic cross-country babymoon. They attempt to recharge at the beach in Provincetown, stumble through their impromptu baby shower in Chicago, and endure a Star Wars-themed wedding in Colorado before heading west for the baby.

But when they take several unexpected detours, old wounds are reopened and secrets spill out that could change their relationship for better or for worse, forcing the couple to reexamine the meaning of family while building their own. After all, what’s a road trip without a few bumps along the way?

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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 – Everything’s Coming Up Roses – 10 Books with Rose in the Title

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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 May Flowers — Pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt (books with flowers on the cover, flower names in the title, characters whose names are flower names, stories involving flowers/gardeners).  I’ve done lots of posts with florals on covers so I decided to try to find as many books with the word “Rose” in the title just to try something different.  Below is what I came up with.  Can you think of any others with rose in the title?

 

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Books With Rose in their Title

 

 

1. A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES by Sarah J. Maas

2. LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly

3. THE ROSE & THE DAGGER by Renee Ahdieh

4. CONCRETE ROSE by Angie Thomas

5. THE ROSE GARDEN by Susanna Kearsley

6. THE NAME OF THE ROSE by Umberto Eco

7. DARLING ROSE GOLD by Stephanie Wrobel

8. UNDER ROSE-TAINTED SKIES by Louise Gornall

9. RUN, ROSE, RUN by James Patterson and Dolly Parton

10. THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn

 

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Can you think of any other books that feature the word ROSE in their titles?

Top Ten Tuesday – Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon

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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 Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon (Bonus points if you tell us how long it’s been sitting on your shelf waiting for you.).  Well, let’s be real. In an ideal world, I want to read all of the unread books on my shelves soon.  The ten I’m sharing today are a mix of fairly recent additions (2-6 months) and long-time shelf dwellers (2 years or more). Most of these are also books from series that I’ve started and really want to finish soon.  I have Hopeless on audio and it’s the final book in that series so I imagine I’ll read that one first but we’ll see.

Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon

 

   

1. BLOODMARKED by Tracy Deonn

2. DONE AND DUSTED by Lyla Sage

3. HEARTSTOPPER by Alice Oseman

4. HOPELESS by Elsie Silver

5. INHERITANCE by Nora Roberts

6. MURDER ROAD by Simone St. James

7. RUTHLESS VOWS by Rebecca Ross

8. THE SCORE by Elle Kennedy

9. THE HOUSEMAID’S SECRET by Freida McFadden

10. WHEN HE WAS WICKED by Julia Quinn

 

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Have you read any of these?  Which one should I read first?

Top Ten Tuesday – April Showers: 10 Books With Rain on Their Covers

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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 April Showers — Pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt (books with rain on the cover/in the title, that have rainstorms in the story, or that have anything to do with rain). I decided to go with books that feature raindrops on the cover but also wanted to find some that were still somewhat bright since I associate brighter colors with spring. This was harder than I thought it would be because most of the covers I initially found were stormy and gloomy. I had to dig deeper and there are a couple that I’m not sure are even meant to be raindrops (the Waxman and Mills covers) but I’m counting them anyway since they look like raindrops, haha.

 

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Books With Rain on Their Covers

 

 

 

1. WEATHER GIRL by Rachel Lynn Solomon

2. THE GARDEN OF SMALL BEGINNINGS by Abbi Waxman

3. FUNNY FEELINGS by Tarah Dewitt

4. SHELTERING RAIN by Jojo Moyes

5. THE UPSIDE OF FALLING DOWN by Rebekah Crane

6. SAVING GRACE by Jane Green

7. THE COLORS OF THE RAIN by R.L. Toalson

8. THE RAIN IN SAPPHIRE by Kayla Rose

9. FIRST & THEN by Emma Mills

10. RAIN DELAY by Allie Marie

 

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Can you think of any other books that feature rain on their covers?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books on My Spring 2024 TBR

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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?