Fave Jewish Rep in Romances I Read 2018-2019

At the beginning of 2018 I deliberately went seeking Jewish representation in romance, and had intended to do a post sharing my faves, but didn't manage it. So I thought I'd start a new yearly tradition. This post lists my favorite romances with Jewish representation that I read in 2018-2019, organized by trope. (Not all …

Best Reads August-October 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in August, September, and October 2019. (I usually do a separate post for each month but wasn't able to this time. I'm glad to have finally gotten this post up!) This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes paranormal romance, …

Summer 2019 Releases I’m Anticipating

Here are some books I'm excited about that are coming out June-August 2019. Disclosure: All links to Amazon will be affiliate ones. If you buy through those links, I will make a small amount of money on that sale (which I plan to use to buy books to review), but it will not add any to …

Best Reads April 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in April 2019. I ended up reading quite a few books that didn't work for me, and a bunch of books that were kinda okay but that I wasn't especially excited about recommending, so this list is a bit shorter than usual. This list …

Recs for Autistic Representation in Books and Stories

So April is Autism Pride Month, and I thought I would recommend some books and stories that have autistic characters or discuss autism. I am trying something new with this list: I am including books that I personally recommend, but I am also including books on my TBR that have been reviewed positively or recommended …

Review of Appetites and Vices

Appetites and Vices by Felicia Grossman. Carina Press. 2019 Content Warnings for review: discussion of ableism, Anti-Semitism, and sex.  I wanted to read this because it is a historical romance centering a Jewish MC, written by a Jewish author, and ownvoices romances with Jewish MCs are hard to come by, particularly historical romances. I was …

My Romance Book Bingo TBR!

I want to participate in a few year-long reading challenges in 2019 and the romance book bingo created by Maria Reads (#RomBkBingo) is one of them! I generally list 3-4 options for each, so I have choices. This helps me as both a mood reader and as someone whose disability flares impact their reading choices …