It's Coming...

 

Happy Reading!

Monday

 

Happy Reading!

National Pumpkin Day

Happy National Pumpkin Day! 

Are you a pumpkin person?

Happy Reading!

Waiting on Wednesday: Adulting for Amateurs

Hi all,

Stopping by to let you know about a book that I am waiting on.

Author: Jess H Gutierrez
 
Summary from Goodreads:
From the author of A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking) comes a rowdy and hilarious new collection of essays on life as an elder millennial, filled with life lessons on everything from marriage to parenting to rolling with the punches when Gen Z mocks your TikTok dances

In Adulting for Amateurs, Jess H. Gutierrez marvels at how—we can’t avoid the fact anymore—her cohort, the millennials, are approaching middle age. While 1998 seems like just yesterday, we are now grown-ups who feel like we’re still growing up. And at forty-two, Jess has quite a trove of stories to tell.

Jess is leaning into her geriatric millennial years and reflects on how growing up does not necessarily bestow one with maturity. When the dinner covers were lifted to reveal vertically posed sausages, hundreds of the fanciest wedding guests, including the mayor, were treated to a demure and refined Jess’s explosive guffaws. While Jess’s brothers now have wholesome families and responsible jobs, she can’t stop one-upping them, even if it gets her brother nearly fired by a potty-brained prank right before he scrubs into surgery. When Jess and her wife booked their first grown-up vacation, they discovered too late that their Hawaiian trip was to a Mormon resort and therefore completely alcohol free. So Jess and her wife bravely put on their big-girl panties—and slunk off in a makeshift escape from this cheerful teetotaler paradise.

Turns out, even as a responsible homeowner with a mortgage, three kids, and a yard of chickens, Jess might not have matured much beyond her twenties. She’s still the woman who in an earlier era survived queer-dating fails and aughts-era pop culture moments—ultimately discovering that an illegal rave cannot heal a broken heart and that vampire-romance franchises are terrible dating manuals for a budding trailer park lesbian.

Altogether these are the makings of delightful material for this bawdy—sometimes poignant and, dare we say, occasionally wise—new listen.

 

Happy Reading!

Book Date: Broken Horses

Hi all,

Stopping by to share my current read. What are you reading?

Happy Reading!

Dewey's October 2025 Readathon Bingo

 

Happy Reading!

First Line Friday

'I grew up thinking I didn't matter, that no one cared what I had to say."
 

Happy Reading!

Level Up Day

Happy Level Up Day Everyone!!

Happy Reading!

Cat Thursday

 

Happy Reading!

Waiting on Wednesday

Hi all,

Stopping by to share a book I am waiting on.

Author: KL Walther
 
Summary from Goodreads:
This stunning first edition of We’re A Bad Idea, Right? will feature special designed edges!

The business of love gets messy when two best friends decide to fake a romantic relationship in this uproarious and swoony novel by the bestselling author of The Summer of Broken Rules.

Audrey Barbour has had enough of following the rules. Eighteen years of being the perfect daughter—exceptional grades, enviable college acceptances, tame dating history—and still, her parents don’t trust her enough to let her study her passion, glassblowing, on a prestigious fellowship.

So when her best friend Henry proposes an outrageous fake-dating scheme to win back his ex-girlfriend, it feels like the first step to shaking up her perfect life. And the second? That comes when Audrey’s parents go out of town, sparking a high-risk, high-reward solution to pay for her fellowship—renting out her family’s Connecticut mansion online. With the help of her new fake-boyfriend, it shouldn’t be hard to pull off… right?  

But when her best intentions start to unravel, Audrey will have to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and what it really means to play life by her rules—all with her heart on the line.

 

Happy Reading!

Book Date Monday

Hi all,

Stopping by to share my current read. What are you currently reading?

 

Happy Reading!

TS12

Happy TS12 Listening! 

Hello October

 

Happy Reading!

Book Date: The Gingerbread Bakery

Hi all,

Stopping by to share my current read. What are you reading?

Happy Reading!

Stacking the Shelves

Hi all,

Stopping by to share a few books I received recently. Thank you to the publishers!!

Happy Reading!

National Comic Book Day

Happy National Comic Book Day!

I love comics, graphic novels, or anything of the sort. I hope that you pick one up today! 

Happy Reading!

TTT: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List

Hi All,

Stopping by to let you know about some books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List. 

 What will you be reading?T

Happy Reading!

Book Tag

Anyone else excited for October 3rd? In that spirit, I found a Taylor Book tag online that I added to with the newer albums :) Crank up the tunes and find a good book to escape the world today.

1. Taylor Swift: an author’s debut book

Lessons in Chemistry! :)

2. Fearless: a book that scared you

Scariest Book Ever: RL Stine

3. Speak Now: a book with great dialogue

Anything by Abby Jimenez...they always make me laugh.

4. Red: a book with red on the cover or in the title

The Cars: Let the stories be told

5. 1989: a book published the year you were born

The House on Mango Street

6. Reputation: a book that lived up to its hype

Anything by Elin :)

7. Lover: a favorite romance or book with a romantic subplot

28 Summers

8. Folklore: a fairy tale, folktale. or myth retelling

I just got a Peter Pan one to check out

9. Evermore: a book you could read for the rest of your life

The Richest Man in Town

10. Midnights: Kept you up all night

Always and all books :)

11. TTPD: Book that explores heartbreak and its aftermath

Eat Pray Love

12. The Life of a Showgirl: something with orange or about duality

Love Theoretically 

Happy Reading! 

Cat Thursday

 

Happy Reading!

Book Date: Mix Tape

Hi All,

Stopping by to share my current read. What have you been reading?

Happy Reading!

National Video Game Day

Hi all,

Did you know September 12 is National Video Game Day? What is your favorite game to play?

Happy Reading!

Waiting on Wednesday: The Cars Let the Stories be Told

Hi all,

Stopping by to share a book I am waiting on.

Author: Bill Janovitz
 
Summary from Goodreads:
The definitive book about The Cars, one of the most popular and beloved bands to emerge from New Wave, with articulate musical insights and exclusive new reporting with access to the surviving members of the band and everyone who surrounded them—from critically acclaimed writer and musician Bill Janovitz, author of the New York Times bestselling biography of Leon Russell.

New York Times bestselling author Bill Janovitz explores the musical, cultural, and commercial impact of The Cars, one of the biggest and most influential bands of the 1970s and 80s. With roots in Maryland, Ohio, New York, and New England, eventually convening in Boston, The Cars were journeymen musicians, all forming and performing in a series of bands before finding each other along with the right sound at the right time. It turned them into Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. Janovitz reveals the stories of each member of the band, and of the band as a unit, with great care and understanding. He has the cooperation of the surviving members and everyone in the orbit of the band, but he does not shy away from the significant conflicts within the group or the reasons for the band's untimely end. The band's unusual providence in the Boston area, with the support of Jonathan Richman, is fully explored for the first time. Each of the band's landmark albums is chronicled and dissected in the way that only a writer and musician like Janovitz can achieve. To paraphrase the band's own lyrics, hello again, you might think this is just what music readers needed. It's magic. Let's shake it up and let the good times roll.

 

Happy Reading!

Book Date: Mailman

Happy Monday! 

Stopping by to share my current read. What are you reading?
 

Happy Reading!

Stacking the Shelves

Hi all,

Stopping by to share a few books I have been given access to lately. Thank you publishers!! I appreciate it very much.

 

Happy Reading!

Waiting on Wednesday: Howdy!

Author: Mary Ellen Pethel, Don Cusic
 
Summary from Goodreads:
Sarah Colley Cannon, better known as her stage character, Minnie Pearl, was born in Hickman County, Tennessee, in 1912. After graduating from Ward-Belmont, now Belmont University, she joined a touring theater company and produced and directed plays and musicals throughout the Southeast. In 1940 an executive for WSM radio in Nashville saw her Minni Pearl character and invited her to appear on the Grand Ole Opry. Cannon would play Minnie Pearl on both the Opry stage and the television show Hee Haw for the next fifty years.

 

Happy Reading!

Mood

 

Happy Reading!

Happy Long Weekend

 

Happy Reading!

Waiting on Wednesday: Twice

Hi all,

Stopping by to let you know a book I am waiting on.

Author: Mitch Albom
 
Summary from Goodreads:
What if you got to do everything in your life —twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we’ve had all along.

When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one he must accept the consequences of his second try—for better or worse.

He grows up correcting his mistakes and saving himself from adolescent embarrassments. He even takes foolishly dangerous risks, just to see what it’s like to come close to death, before tapping back to safety.

Eventually, Alfie turns his gift to his love life, studying his crushes and going back to make himself more appealing. In time, he falls deeply in love with Gianna, the woman he believes is the one. He seems to find contentment.

But as the years pass, Alfie’s eye begins to wander. Which is when he learns a lone caveat to his once he undoes a love, that person can never fall in love with him again. Knowing if he gives into to temptation, he will risk losing what he has with Gianna, Alfie makes a choice that changes his life forever.

The book begins many years later, after an ailing Alfie is arrested for allegedly cheating and winning millions at a casino roulette wheel. As a curious detective interrogates him, he slowly uncovers Alfie’s incredible story, and its most unlikely conclusion.

In Twice, America’s favorite storyteller, Mitch Albom, is at the top of his powers. A love story that is enchanting, probing, and clairvoyant in matters of the heart, Twice will make you think, weep, and overflow with love from beginning to end.

 

Happy Reading!

Back 2 School

For those that are, that recently have, and those that will be shortly...have a great Fall semester! 
 

Happy Reading!

First Line Friday

"For 147 days, I put one foot in front of the other at least five million times."

 

Happy Reading!

End of Summer Recap Tag

End of Summer Recap Tag

Which book can you not stop thinking about? 

Which book would you rather have not read? I usually enjoy the books I read :)

What genre did you read the most?  Romance or Memoirs, maybe.

What was your favourite cover?

Which books do you plan on reading in the fall/autumn?

Book Date: My Next Breath

Hi all,

Stopping by to share my current read. Have a good week!

Happy Reading!