The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Summary: "Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion...she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren't affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there's a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo...."

This was too fun!

400 pages

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The King's Men by Nora Sakavic

So I was stressed when the stressful thing happened in the middle of the book....
I'll just be over here in the corner watching my baby suffer...
#foundfamily
365 Pages

Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game by Chris Grabenstein

Maybe it's cause I read a lot...and I'm an (gag) adult, but them bragging about reading the entire Harry Potter series in a weekend...
Escape room vibes....
Redemption may haps...
304 Pages

Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan

I really liked the concepts of the different types of magic in this book.
Also....saints y'all... I love saints and martyrs (like yeah this book is about like a pantheon of gods) but SAINTS.
Serefin... I love him... He needs therapy, and he needs to be adopted, but I love him.
...Maybe it's cause I'm tired and I listen to books on triple speed now because I can (and I was listening to it over lunch)
Insert gif of Plankton Maximum Overdrive
I'm no quitter, so I'm hoping the series gets better...or I'm caffeinated when I listen to the next one.
416 Pages

Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein

Ok so does anyone else feel like Missouri is getting called out/attacked or is that just me....
Hey look a research librarian...which is like one of my dream jobs...
Check your facts, check your sources. Yaas.
304 Pages

The Tanakh, New Jewish Publication Society Translation

I've been wanting to read the Bible since I was a little girl. I remember sitting in church, reading through Genesis, convinced I could get through it if I kept reading it every week. Needless to say, eight year old me never got past Exodus. As an adult, I've tried to read the Bible cover to cover multiple times, but always gave up a couple hundred pages in. I thought instead I would try and start with the Hebrew Bible, and I finally did it! This has been a work in progress since last July, reading just a few chapters every day. I also enjoyed reading a different translation (JPS) than I have in the past. Regardless of your beliefs, there is so much in here that serves as a foundation for Western literature and thought.

1622 pages

Books to Get Lost In

The Enterprise War by John Jackson Miller

This was definitely not the best Star Trek novel (and I know, they are notorious for being kind of bad...), and it really dragged on. It was nice to read about the chaos of the Pergamum Nebula, but the distance it placed itself from the main plot of Discovery made the story feel a bit inconsequential. I liked the old tech space pirates, and we do get to see Spock go mad-a direct tie in to the series-but other than that, I wasn't impressed.

432 pages




The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

I'm so glad I am rereading these. I remember how much I loved this series growing up, and it's nice to return to them. I forgot about the creepy spectres, and how much the witches played a role in the plot. I think I also just love multiverse stories and playing with portals and magic.

326 pages






Long Black Curl by Alex Bledsoe

The third in the Tufa series, in which two star crossed lovers, Bo-Kate Wisby and Jefferson Powell, both banished from Needsville, find that the curse has been lifted, and return to reak havoc on their homes once more. Meanwhile, Byron Harley (a twist on 1950's rock star Bill Haley) escapes from being locked in fae time for 60 years, and Mandalay begins to come into her own power. I have loved this series! The idea of hillbilly fairies in the Smoky Mountains is such a magical combination.

382 pages




Queen's Peril by E.K. Johnston

I absolutely loved Ahsoka and Queen's Shadow, and this one did not disappoint! We get more backstory of each of Queen Amidala's handmaidens, and I love how Johnston was willing to fully flesh out each one. I really enjoy Star Wars novels that focuses on galactic politics instead of just swoopy starship battles. Padme is amazing and one of the most underrated star wars heroines. It was also so cool to see how the handmaidens pulled off the wardrobe switches between the queen and Sabe.

288 pages

Book Club Reads

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

A story of class and race in suburb America. Valerie clashes with the entitled local celebrity Brad over losing her beloved oak tree. Meanwhile, their children are beginning a forbidden relationship. I loved this one, it kept me interested all the way through. I was rooting for Juniper and Xavier the whole time, and cried a bit by the end of it.

311 pages




Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

Rue is a midwife, healer, and conjurer trying to hold her community together in the aftermath of the Civil War. Meanwhile, she has to deal with a charismatic traveling preacher and keep the secrets of her former plantation owner's daughter. I really liked this one for the rich depiction of root work and spirituality during the period of slavery. Although it was a bit difficult to follow the shifts between pre- and post-Civil War, the story was totally worth it!

400 pages



All Adults Here by Emma Straub

Astrid basically has a three-quarter life crisis when she witnesses an old friend being struck and killed by a school bus. Now she regrets how she raised her children, and decides to open up about her relationship with her hairdresser. This was a good family drama, and I really liked the story of Cecelia and Robin's friendship. If you are looking for a lighthearted, fun read, that isn't completely devoid of wisdom and insight into modern families, this is your book.

356 pages



The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The identical Vignes twins dramatically diverge as adults, with one woman eventually returning to her local black community, and the other secretly passing as white in California, her husband and friends knowing nothing of her past. Yet their story intertwines, across the generations and the decades. This book was really great! I enjoyed the contrast between Stella's life and Jude's in late 1970's LA.

343 pages

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

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I'm fine. Someone help me. I'm really stressed out for my babies...cause they deserve the world....I love Elias. I would kill everyone for him.
When people don't listen to their instincts and you just want to Gibbs slap them for being stupid...but maybe that's just dramatic irony. Laia I could have told you that was going on...
I just loved the plot for Elias. I'm stressed, but I live for angst. I love angst and suffering.... I'm mean... But can he please just get to take a nap for once.

480 Pages

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

I had to listen to this book a second time cause I wasn't focusing the first time.
Tristan is a precious baby and I'm adopting him.
Indiana Jones + National Treasure + representation
"God doesn't make mistakes in crafting our hearts" ok so this line, coming from a seminarian... Yes. I could get on my soapbox about how God forms our hearts certain ways, and that we're called to use that for the benefit and good of others.
"Scars are scuffs left by sorrows fists" oof
The trail of cookies
416 Pages

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

...an alchemist with golden hair who performs transmutations....
...Insert FMA gif

Atlantis vibes.
Sari is thirsty...same
When you hear the title of the second book in the first one..
I don't even know what to put down cause I love it and everything's pretty and the writing is pretty and my babies deserve the world. The cute innocence and finding joy in things. Someone protect them. Someone protect Lazlo and Sarai.
This is up there with the Night Circus.
560 Pages

Rise of Fire by Sophie Jordan

...yeah, I picked it for the cover....
I feel like a lot of things could have been expanded on...like there could have been 100 more pages of angst, easy...but that's just because I love watching characters suffer....
Super cheesy but I like what I like.
I love Fowler and I love Digger.
320 Pages

Reign of Shadows by Sophie Jordan

I love the concept of the world and the dwellers and all of the darkness.
...yeah I picked it for the cover....
....there could have been more slow burn...like there totally could have been 100 more pages of angst and pining...
#representation. Luna Insert all of the Toph gifs
.......Retelling of Rapunzel maybe....
Digger. Is. Perfect.
320 Pages

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

I am so stressed...and so confused...
Ok Annaleigh deserves the world.
Verity. I love her.
Cassius. fdssjklsfdajklsfdajklsfdajk
I love the atmosphere of the book and it's style, because it has the gothic vibes.
That ending though...I was really afraid for a hot sec..
Insert all the Tangled gifs for no context.
....This book actually made me cry... Crap.
416 Pages

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

The world is so pretty. All the colors and weird things
and I love Scarlett and I'm just gonna be over here in my corner with magical worlds that are real and not real.
All the sibling relationships.
Insert gif of Elsa saying "You can't marry a man you just met"
Agh Julian. Ok that's it. Just Julian.
448 Pages

The Raven King by Nora Sakavic

Ah Matt
..So the Ravens and the Foxes are like the Jayhawks and the Tigers...cool
...Someone protect my babies....
328 Pages

Find Me by Tahereh Mafi

Kenji is an awkward mess and he is too pure.Cinnamon roll.
Kenji truly embodies Christian DelGrosso's "Trying to talk to bae" vine.

Reveal Me
"Do you ever wanna talk about your emotions, Tien" vine--
Tien is Warner and David is Kenji. Prove me wrong.
Three minutes into Reveal Me: Kenji:


224 Pages

Unite Me by Tahereh

So this is a book with two novellas and I have feelings, as always. Destroy Me is from Warner's perspective (and takes place between book 1 and book 2) and Fracture Me is from Adam's (takes place between book 2 and book 3).

Destroy Me destroyed me....
Warner. sfdjklsfdajklsfdjklsfdjklsfdjklsfd
Warner:

Insert the "like my soul" vine... "this coffee's bitter...."
224 Pages

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

So this book was amazing... I love the concept. I love the characters.
My baby Elias deserves the world. Someone protect him.
I think I have a thing for characters who are forced to do things they think are morally wrong and the internal conflict that ensues... soft hearts, y'all....
464 Pages

Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

...did they just...did they just... anyone else see the tangled reference... Warner...

Warner is Regina George
....oh ewww nope..
 Anderson stop.

Mission impossible camera vine.
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Gosh I love Warner
That epilogue though...


480 Pages

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

Twenty years previously, Claire Randall had traveled back in time and found herself in the arms of a gallant Scottish warrior named Jamie Fraser. When circumstances demand Claire return to her own time, leaving Jamie to die on the battlefield of Culloden moor, she is devastated and unable to forget him.
After the death of her husband in 1966, Claire discovers Jamie survived Culloden. Torn between staying with their daughter or going back in time to be with Jamie once more, Claire must choose her destiny as time and space come full circle.

Book #3 in the Outlander series. 870 pages.

Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi

jfsdkljklsdjafklsjafdk All of the flashbacks and backstory... I'm in pain.
Kenji:

Alexa play "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship and that one part from "My Heart Will Go On"
...SoMeOnE please send help...plz
Hey look it's Warner:

Kenji and movies...yes.
384 Pages

Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

Jo March crying "my hair" from Little Women

be more chill
...I've said it once, and I'll say it again.... they are so thirsty.
I love how much they hate each other--honestly I ship them.
Me watching this dinner:

Kenji use your brain, babe.
James is the best.
Hey look it's .... oops.
Gif of Hamilton saying "Oh ****" in Story of Tonight.... Warner babe...Warner
....that last chapter tho
464 Pages

Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

Alexa play "Burn" from Hamilton.... just for one line....
Kenji: and let me guess you've got a great personality.
The world needs more Kenji

Ok so now that all of the reaction vines are out of the way.....
My baby. He precious. He grew on me ok....
They are so thirsty....
But yeah. Beautiful baby, so supportive
416 Pages