Top Ten Tuesday-Top books read for the first quarter of 2024

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday Characters I’d Like to go on Vacation With (Pretend you’re going on vacation and can bring 10 of your closest friends with you. Pick your vacation spot and tell us who you’d like to bring! Bonus point if you tell us why. Or maybe you like the idea of traveling in small groups, so plan 10 trips or 5 trips!)  I don't have the best memory for remembering characters and honestly wouldn't want to go on vacation with most of them. Therefore, it will be a week where I go off topic again. Today, I will be sharing my Top books read for the first quarter of 2024. 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 9 (out of 72) books read for the first quarter of 2024 (in no particular order, click on book cover if you would like to see my review)

My Lucky Charm by Courtney Walsh

To Spark a Match

Title: To Spark a Match (audiobook review)

Series: The Matchmakers #2

Author: Jen Turano

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Publisher: Bethany House and Tantor Audio

Genre: Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance,

Source: Hoopla

My Review:

To Spark a Match is the second book of The Matchmaker's series by Jen Turano. It can easily be read as a stand-alone story.

A Match in the Making

Title: A Match in the Making Audiobook review

Series: The Matchmakers #1 

Author: Jen Turano

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Publisher: Bethany House Tantor Audio

Genre: Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction 

Source: Hoopla

February 2024 Reading Wrap-Up

February passed in a blur of work. I had some reading duds, but overall I had a decent reading month. I read 25 books and DNF'd two. Click on the cover of the book if you are interested in the review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Gentleman of Her Dreams-Haiku Review

Title: Gentleman of Her Dreams - Audiobook

Series: Ladies of Distinction #.5

Author: Jen Turano  Narrator: Cecily White

Publisher: Bethany House

Genre: Christian Fiction, Christian Romance,

Source: Kindle Own

Top Ten Tuesday-Net Galley rejections that crushed me

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is things that are getting in the way of reading. I get a fair amount of reading time so this doesn't really apply to me.  So, I decided to go with a topic that Lisa @thePlain-Spoken Pen did recently: Net Galley rejections that hurt my heart. 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. 

10 Net Galley rejections that crushed me AND have I read them yet?!

10/31/20 no, nor is it on my TBR 🤷 when I finally read the first one I might put it on the TBR.

10/28/20-✔

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-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:

Top Ten Tuesday-The books I am most excited to see released

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday is our Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2023. This should be fairly easy! 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. 

Books I am most excited to see released during the first part of the year:

Top Ten Tuesday-Favorite books of 2022

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday is our favorite books from 2022. Not sure how I am supposed to narrow it down to 10, but will give it my best shot 😂 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. 

Well, this should be easy since I marked 56 of the books I read this year as favorites 😂😂 Here are my top 10ish (in no particular order):

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Book Tag

I came across this Book Tag watching Oceana over at GottaReadEmAll channel on YouTube. She is a book tuber I have recently started following and I love her videos! She is so real and authentic. Anyway, I thought this was a fun prompt so I decided to do it here!

Here are the prompts: 

September Reading Wrap-Up

Summer is officially over, the trees are starting to change, we have a lot of changes going on over here, especially with the move, which affected my reading for September. It will most likely affect October and November as well, but I will do what I can!!

I ended up reading 14 books and DNF 4 in September. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

Playing the Part

Title: Playing the Part

Series: A Class of Their Own #3

Author: Jen Turano

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Genre: Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Christian Romance

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

Source: Hoopla

In Good Company

Title: In Good Company

Series: A Class of Their Own #2

Author: Jen Turano

Narrator:  Nancy Peterson

Genre: Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Christian Romance

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

Source: Scribd

Challenges: Virtual TBR

August Reading Wrap-Up

Welcome to September, my bookish friends!!!  Where has the summer gone?! While I am not quite ready to say good-bye to summer, I am ready for some cooler temps.

With my eye procedure this month, my reading was a little lower. I ended up reading 15 books in August. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

After a Fashion

Title: After a Fashion

Series: A Class of Their Own #1

Author: Jen Turano

Genre: Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Christian Romance

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

Source: Own

Challenges: Physical TBR

My review:

Hilarious.

Behind the scenes

Title: Behind the Scenes (audio)

Series: Apart From the Crowd #1

Author: Jen Turano

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Genre: Historical Fiction, Humor, Christian fiction, romance

Publisher: Two Words Publishing

Source: Hoopla

Top Ten Tuesday-Authors who taught me to enjoy historical fiction

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is books I wish had an epilogue. While this is a great topic, it's not one that I think much about. Usually I am pretty satisfied with the endings. So instead, I am going to discuss historical fiction authors that I am trying to catch up on. I picked this topic because I always say I don't care much for historical fiction, but my reading shows otherwise 😂 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 Tuesday-Book Quote Freebie

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is book is book quote freebie. At first I was going to skip this week's prompt and do something different, but I decided to give it a go. 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. 

Favorite quotes from books I have read:

All Laurel wanted was a few minutes of peace and quiet from a day full of chores to disappear into the pages of a good book. What was the use of being a grown woman if she couldn't even hide long enough to read one chapter? -Laurel's Dream by Pepper Basham

Top Ten Tuesday-Books I was SO excited to get

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is books I was SO excited to get but I still haven't read (bonus points if you tell how long it's been since you got them). This one will be super easy for me (and probably you as well), since I have SO many. The hard part will be narrowing it down to 10. 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 Books that I was So excited to get but I still haven't read: