I was slumping hard this whole year. Audiobooks were my saving grace because my eyes were not on books (they were on movies, but that’s a whole other conversation). Even that wasn’t cutting it anymore for me though. However the last six weeks I have been ON A ROLL!!! In an effort to be my kind and generous self, I decided to share some of the books I’ve read over the last month in case you too have been hit with the non-reader bug. Save your bookworm heart with these summer romances!
I bought and read Jennifer E. Smith’s The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight ten years ago when I was in high school. A few weeks ago, I saw a trailer on TikTok for Netflix’s newest movie Love at First Sight and found out that it was an adaptation of the book that’s spent a decade on my shelf! Of course I decided I had to reread it all these years later and then watch the film. This is how that experience went.
There was a time in my life when almost all I watched was reality television. TLC and E! were some of my best friends😂. However, I haven’t felt drawn to watch reality tv for a long time (except for that one binge-watch of The Kardashians I did when I had covid last year lol). What I have been doing recently is reading books that center around dating shows! For this post I’ve curated a list books to read if you like reality tv dating shows like The Bachelor. Also feel free to drop reality show recs if you have any (so far everyone’s been telling me to watch Love Island)🙃.
In this post series, I’ll feature a book I’ve read in the past, share my review, and give you some recommendations. Today, we are tackling Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life.
I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of Megan Goldin’s Dark Corners which is the sequel to her most popular novel The Night Swim. Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sending my the book! I had hoped to read and review it before it released, but alas I’m a couple weeks late, oops! All opinions are my own (as we all know by now I don’t hold back).
It’s been awhile…
I’m back though and I just finished reading Happy Place by Emily Henry and I have to be honest; it was not my happy place.
I may not have completed the first Buzzword Reading Challenge prompt during the month of January, but I did start it on January 31st so it counts! I will admit this happened by chance because I began reading the book without remembering that January’s prompt words were “life” and “death”. Maybe that in itself was a small bit of big magic?