Cover REVEAL!!!! Just Don't Fall

It's rare for me to participate in cover reveals. However, I have LOVED all of Emma St. Clair's books, so I decided to participate in the cover reveal for Just Don't Fall, releasing August 31, 2023. 

Title: Just Don't Fall

Series: Sweater Weather Series

Author: Emma St. Clair    

Publisher: Emma St. Clair

Genre: RomCom

Upping the Ante

Title: Upping the Ante

Series: Love Stories in Sheet Cake, Texas #3.5

Author: Emma St. Clair

Publisher: Emma St. Clair

Genre: RomCom, Fiction, Contemporary Romance

Source: Emma St. Clair

My Review:

If you've been here longer than a hot minute, you know I am a huge fan of Emma St. Clair. When Upping the Ante dropped into my inbox a few weeks ago, I immediately wanted to read it. Finally, I found the time.

July Reading Wrap Up 2023

July was another busy month with my reading being low again...I am already hoping August has more time for reading!!

I finished 13 books again in July. Two of them were re-reads. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

Top Ten Tuesday-Recent additions to my TBR

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Ten Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish. I would not normally put my DNF books on my blog, so I am going to skip this topic. Instead I will do the last ten books I added to my "Want to read" list on Goodreads. Most of them are books that haven't been released yet. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today.

 

Stacking the Shelves #78, Sunday Post #75, Sunday Salon #69

Hey bookish friends! How are you all doing? It's been three weeks since my last confession, I mean post 😉. I was sick for two weeks, my daughter and I lost our jobs (after we began the process of the small business, but not because of it), my sister and her family was visiting the second week of my sickness, and things have just been crazy. I have missed these posts and visiting your blogs!

June Reading Wrap Up 2023

June was quite an insane month. Once again, I read less books than my average.

I finished 13 books in June (which is the lowest I can remember-ever). Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Pocket Pair

Title: The Pocket Pair

Series: Love Stories in Sheet Cake, Texas #3

Author: Emma St. Clair

Publisher: Emma St. Clair

Genre: RomCom, Contemporary Romance

Source: e-copy author provided, bought paperback

My Review: 

While The Pocket Pair could read as a standalone novel, I HIGHLY recommend reading The Buy-In and The Bluff first. I love this series, and it is one you will want to start at the beginning.

Stacking the Shelves #77, Sunday Post #74, Sunday Salon #68

Hey bookish friends! How are you all doing? It was an insane week, which I will share more details about another day. I started a small business with my daughter, worked my normal job, and started getting sick Thursday, and had a full-blown cold (please let it only be a cold!) by last night. I am sick, but have been working all day on the small business stuff. I will be in all weekend attempting to get some rest and reading in! Happy Father's Day to the dads out there!!

20 Books Of Summer-2023 & Big Book Summer Challenge

It's no secret that I have been trying to whittle down my physical TBR shelves, as well as my Goodreads shelf (although I am continually adding to that one 😂).

Top Ten Tuesday-Most Recommended Books

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is books I recommend to others the most. I don't really have a book I recommend the most because of the diversity of reading interests. So, I am going to do this just a little bit different. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today. 

Ten (So many) Books/Series I Recommend the Most:

Suspense:

The Holly Series by C.C. Warrens. This is one of the best series I have ever read. I have read all of her books and they have all been five stars (I have not read her novella yet). As an added bonus C.C. is very creative and has a bookish shop, check out her T-shirts/swag, I want them all 😂

Top Ten Tuesday-Indie Authors

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Indie/Self-Published Books (submitted by Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits). I am excited about this title because I have read quite a few Indie Authors 😂 The hard part will be remembering WHO they all are, LOL. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today. 

Top Ten Indie/Self-Published Authors:

You all know I am going to start with Emma St. Clair! I love her books. These represent two of her series. Emma writes sweet, closed-door romantic comedies. They are hilarious. Her heroines are typically sassy and there is always some kind of animal in each book (notice I didn't say pet 😂).

March Reading Wrap Up

I blinked and March was gone. We need to make the most of the days because they are going by so fast!

I finished 22 books in March and DNFed 2. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Top Ten Tuesday-First Quarter 5-star reads 2023

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books for People Who Liked Author X. I am not able to come up with anything for this, so I am going to go with my top 5 star reads for the first quarter of the year. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today. 

My Top Ten 9 5-star reads of the year (I took out NF and rereads to get me closer to 10):

Top Ten Tuesday-Audiobook Love

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is TTT Rewind (Pick a previous topic that you missed or would like to re-do/update.). I went back to 2019 (before I was blogging) and decided to do the audio freebie where Jana did 5 audio books she loved and 5 she was excited to listen to. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today. 

5 Audio books I loved:

Royal (Gone) Rogue

Title: Royal (Gone) Rogue    

Series: Sweet Royal RomCom #2

Author: Emma St. Clair    

Genre:RomCom, Contemporary Romance, Fiction

Publisher: Emma St. Clair

Source: ARC e-copy/OWN paperback

My review:

Royal (Gone) Rogue was everything I wanted it to be and more.

First Line Friday #82-Royally (re) Arranged

 Welcome back to First Line Friday hosted by Carrie at Reading is My SuperPower!!  I am also linking up with Gilion on Rose City Reader for Book Beginnings. This is where you share the beginning of the book that you are reading. To join in the fun grab the book you are reading and leave a comment with the first line (or your link). This week I am RE-reading Royally (Re) Arranged by Emma St. Clair, so that I can read Royal (Gone) Rogue with the characters fresh in my mind 😁

The Bookworm Tag

 The (very simple) Rules-

-answer the questions

-make up new ones

-tag people

I was tagged by Sarita @ More to Discover

Here are her questions to me and the other bloggers she tagged:

1. What is your earliest book memory? I remember having a reading tutor in second grade.

Stacking the Shelves #63, Sunday Post #60, Sunday Salon #54

Hey bookish friends! How are things going for you? We are all feeling MUCH better this week. My husband made it through the whole week and my job let me go back to work on Thursday. This morning we played tourist and visited the Cleveland Public Library. The rest of the day will be family board games, reading, blogging, and relaxing :)

February Reading Wrap Up

While February is a short month, it felt long this time with all the sickness we had in our house. However, it was a good reading month.

I finished 18 books and DNF 1 in February. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Bluff (audio review)

Title: The Bluff (AUDIO review)

Series: Graham Brothers #2

Author: Emma St. Clair

Narrators: Meg Sylvan & Aaron Shedlock

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Humor

Publisher: Audible

Source: author provided

My review:

After recently being able to listen to The Buy-In on audio, I was SUPER psyched to listen to The Bluff.