“Fiction was fine, but real life was the true freak show.”- Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact © 2020 Genie in a Novel Instagram I mean, how true is this quote? Especially over the past two years. I never in my wildest dreams thought we'd be in the state we are now with this virus running … Continue reading Quote of the Week – 1/16/2022
Seventeen-year-old Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father’s sudden death. But she knows something her mother doesn’t: the day of his heart attack, her dad was planning to move out. After finding his packed bags, an impulsive Evie puts everything away, desperate to spare her mom more heartache.To make matters worse, Evie … Continue reading Review: When We Were Strangers
Bailey Briggs is counting down the days to Christmas: she lives for holiday music, baking cookies, going on snowy sleigh rides, and wearing her light-up reindeer ears to work at Winslow's bookstore. But all she really wants this year is the one thing she doesn't have: someone special to kiss under the mistletoe. And she's … Continue reading Review: All I Want For Christmas
I'm finally jumping on the bandwagon of Top Ten Tuesday. I've seen these posts regularly during my two and a half years of blogging and while I've sometimes done the topics on my own, not necessarily in tens, I've never really joined up on the real deal. However, as a way to get some regular … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday – Recently Acquired Books
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”- Jack London The main reason I want this to be my first Quote of the Week for 2022 is because I want to push myself back into writing. I've taken a hiatus from serious writing over the past couple of years; … Continue reading Quote of the Week – 1/9/2022
Nora and her husband, Simon, have run the beautiful oak-beamed book shop in their small British village for thirty years. But times are tough and the shop is under threat of closure--this Christmas season will really decide their fate. When an elderly man visits the store and buys the one book they've never been able … Continue reading Review: Christmas by the Book
Thanks to the Reindeer Readathon, I had no trouble picking my books for the month. For the most part, I stuck to my TBR for that, only veering off to read some more Haikyu!! and one last (short) Christmas book on New Year's Eve. However, I didn't get around to finishing my Readathon TBR like … Continue reading December 2021 Wrap Up
When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he's stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless string of resort visitors who couldn't interest him less. Not even the sweet, enthusiastic tourist in the corner who blushes every time he looks her way…Two weeks in Alaska isn't just … Continue reading Review: The Tourist Attraction
Last week I shared the books I'm looking forward to being released in this new year, but we all know that doesn't necessarily mean I'll read them in 2022. Especially not with a cart full of books that I still have yet to read that I've gained over the past couple of years. In fact, … Continue reading 22 Books I Want to Read in 2022
We made it y'all! Happy New Year! Let me start off with saying that I destroyed my Goodreads Challenge of reading 70 books in 2021 and ended up reading 105 books. I still can't wrap my head around it because I've always been flabbergasted by readers who read that many books a year. I just … Continue reading Top 10 Books of 2021
The end of the year really snuck up on us, didn't it? I feel like I still have so many other posts that I want to do, but haven't been able to get to yet, including a couple of book reviews. Looks like the first week of January will be filled with a ton of … Continue reading 2022 Bookish Goals and Reading Tracker
I'm very glad that I started living by the mantra, "life's too short to read books you aren't enjoying" and no longer push through a book I'm just not interested in. It's saved me a lot of turmoil this year, and in the past couple of years, really. Thankfully, this year there were only three … Continue reading My 2021 DNF List
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of … Continue reading Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Despite the fact that I have 100+ books sitting on a cart waiting to be read (let's not even get into the ebook situation...), I'm already looking ahead at some releases for next year. Most of these are on my NetGalley shelf, or are ones I found there but didn't request, and the rest I … Continue reading Anticipated 2022 Releases
The students at the School for Good and Evil thought they had found their final Ever After when they vanquished the malevolent School Master. Now, on their required fourth-year quests, the students face obstacles both dangerous and unpredictable, and the stakes are high: success brings eternal adoration, and failure means obscurity forever.For their quests, Agatha … Continue reading Review: Quests for Glory
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