Fave Fat Rep I Read in 2019

Continuing the tradition from 2017 and 2018, this post lists my favorite books with fat representation that I read in 2019. (Not all of them were published in 2019, of course.) It definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but there is a smattering of paranormal romance, young adult fiction and speculative fiction as well. …

My #Blackathon TBR

Blackathon is a month long readathon hosted by Jesse from Bowties & Books and Lauryn of TheNovelLush. There are reading challenges, Instagram challenges, and Twitter movie watch-a-long, all of the information can be found on their Twitter or in this video. The reading challenges are split into SFF and Contemporary teams, and I'm going to concentrate on the contemporary team …

My top dozen 2019 m/m romances

This list is focused on m/m romances released in 2019. I'm listing these in alphabetical order by title, except for the extra thirteenth, that I'm listing last, as it's a bit of a cheat. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary adult romance, but there is a graphic novel, a romantic suspense, a historical …

Best Reads November-December 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in November-December 2019. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes paranormal romance, contemporary fantasy romance, YA romance, romantic suspense, and science fiction romance. I am putting the audiobooks in a separate category. I link to reviews where I have …

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, …

Fave Halloween/Samhain Romances 2019

I did a post at the end of 2017 recommending a bunch of fall and winter holiday romance, that included Halloween and Samhain romances. Starting in 2018 I began doing a separate post just for Halloween romance, focused on romance fiction where Halloween or Samhain play a major role in the story. I tried to …

Fall 2019 Books I’m Anticipating

This is a list of books I'm excited about that are coming out September-November 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 …

#RomBkLove: Geek Romances

This post is part of #RomBkLove, a month-long Twitter event where folks share their recs for romances that fit particular themes. For the purposes of this post, geek romance is a romance that centers characters who are enthusiasts of something, be it a special interest, a hobby, a subject, a fandom. "geeks are fans of their subjects, …

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 …