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December 25, 2020 - Updated December 27, 2020 // 2 Comments

If You Liked Bridgerton, Read These…

Oh I just finished my binge watch of Bridgerton and I could not have been more thrilled with the adaptation. Definitely one of the better book to tv/movie adaptations lately! The casting was incredible, I think it captured what I loved about the books that I've read in the series, the cast was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: book list, books, Romance Tagged With: book list, books, historical romance

December 22, 2020 - Updated December 22, 2020 // 15 Comments

11th Annual End Of Year Survey – 2020 edition!!

It's BACK! My little survey I created for myself to recap what I read in 2010 suddenly grew when a bunch of others jumped in and has turned into such a fun end of year event that I have LOVED hosting and has made my TBR list grow immensely! So without further ado: the 11th annual End of Year Book … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: best of 2018, end of year book survey

December 20, 2020 - Updated December 27, 2020 // 14 Comments

My Top 11 Books of 2020

WELL. 2020...has been a YEAR, amirite? It's honestly a miracle that I read anything at all since March but I've managed to get some books read. It's basically a miracle and we are going to clap wildly for anything we did this year! Extra applause for the fact I could even compile a best books of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: book list, books Tagged With: book list, books

December 19, 2020 - Updated December 27, 2020 // Leave a Comment

5 Christmas Romance Books To Curl Up With This Year

Ahh 'tis the season! As I'm writing this I'm in the coziest pajamas I own, with freshly fallen snow on the ground (not nearly as much as they said we'd get but I'll take it), a cup of cocoa next to me, two blankets on me and the strongest vibes to read all the Christmas romance books! It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adult Romance, book list, books Tagged With: books, christmas, romance, winter

December 9, 2020 - Updated December 27, 2020 // Leave a Comment

27 Christmas Books Perfect To Snuggle & Read With Baby This Year

The first Christmas with Riley was so wonderful -- even though she had no idea what any of it was at 6 months old. But I sure loved dressing her up, getting her little presents, playing Christmas music...and getting out all the Christmas board books I had already bought her. Love making all those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: book list, books, Children's Books Tagged With: books, books for kids, childrens books, Christmas books

November 16, 2020 - Updated December 27, 2020 // 3 Comments

How To Find More Time To Read As A Busy Mom (Or At Least How I Do It)

I wrote a silly rant post about the whole “finding time to read” thing  many, many years ago when my old boss was condescending about how much I read and proclaimed HEEEEE didn’t “have time to read because he has a life” like his life was so much more important and busy than mine. I can still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: books, Motherhood Tagged With: reading habits, reading tips

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Christmas 2020 has proved to be interesting as we Christmas 2020 has proved to be interesting as we lost power from wind/storms and opened presents by flashlight this morning but a joyful occasion nonetheless. Power is back on and I’m currently watching Bridgerton on Netflix.

I mentioned, in my last post,  how excited I was about Christmas because of how excited Riley is for EVERY SINGLE PART OF IT. And I feel really grateful for that fact because it hasn’t always been like that for a while. TW: Grief & loss⁣
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Christmas was basically an Olympic sport for my mom and she always made it so magical for us. I still love Christmas since she died but it’s always a bit more dull and harder because naturally I think about my mom and miss her.⁣
⁣
Having Riley be so excited about it this year feels like a little gift from my mom in some way.⁣
⁣
Instead of focusing on how sad Christmas makes me sometimes because of the absence I always feel, I get to channel the Christmas magic my mom created for me for Riley and experience Christmas in a WHOLE NEW WAY gaining new memories.⁣
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Which is honestly a wonderful a gift to soothe some of that grief that always pops up since she passed in 2006. ⁣
⁣
So if this time of year/today is hard for you in any way whether it’s every year or this year specific, I see you. I feel you.
Should be playing my part as Mrs. Claus and wrappi Should be playing my part as Mrs. Claus and wrapping presents tonight but I’m finishing up A Princess For Christmas instead! 🤷‍♀️ (thanks @avonbooks for this copy)⁣
⁣
Will and I are both procrastinators...the cramming for a test or huge half your grade project type of people. Like I feel like I thrive at the last minute pressure. I mean my anxiety doesn’t ~love it~ in the moment when I’m scrambling but somehow I’m able to laser focus in a way I can’t when I’ve got a huge amount of time to get something done in.⁣
⁣
So a little bit of peace before I’m panic wrapping on Christmas Eve and putting our marriage to the test as we try to put together a huge dollhouse and a an outdoor play castle (from an out of town relative lol) and not kill each other.⁣
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For real though, I’m excited for Christmas. This is the first year Riley gives a crap about any of it/understand it and she’s excited and I’m excited so we can’t half ass it this year like we have since she’s been born.
Salted caramel hot cocoa and Addie LaRue under my Salted caramel hot cocoa and Addie LaRue under my blanket = the most I’m accomplishing today probably.⁣
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I’m starting Addie LaRue today after staying up super late finishing Big Friendship which I really liked and have a lot of things to say about it. Another day though!⁣
⁣
Had a really off week this week. I feel like things really evened out for me emotionally after the first few months of the pandemic and I even noted that 2020 has just been swirling around Riley and I this point in one of my latest posts. We’ve found ways to keep busy and have fun and continue to stay safe.⁣
⁣
But this week I found myself just weeping over how much I miss things like concerts and travel, how much I hate that Riley is missing so many things (she was supposed to go to preschool this Fall) and just how freaking long it’s been going on and how much longer we have to go (and the fact it didn’t have to be this bad).⁣
⁣
I just am feeling weary in my bones as we brace for a long winter and the fact that we won’t be seeing my sister and her kids anymore because it’s too risky with her work and the hospitals being slammed now.⁣
⁣
I know that I will get through this because we’ve endured it for this long and I have endured very hard things before...but oof. This week I just felt every single second of this and the toll it has taken. ⁣
⁣
How are YOU all doing? Didn’t really mean for this to be such an update-y post but here we are.
There are so many points of feeling helpless in 20 There are so many points of feeling helpless in 2020 but I’ve been trying to breathe and focus on what I can do. Here’s a big thing for me:⁣
⁣
I feel so gutted for the amount of local businesses struggling so I’ve really been making an effort to do what I can: do takeout more often than we normally would even go out to eat, go to the small cafe instead of a bigger chain, shop smaller brands as much as possible, ordering our thanksgiving from a local restaurant instead of cooking, etc.⁣
⁣
This holiday season I am really making it a priority to shop small businesses — we know they are struggling extra this season.⁣
⁣
Literally EVERYONE on my list is basically getting a book or two (in addition to some local teas and coffees) so that I can support my local indie bookshop because I will not be okay with it going out of business. ⁣
⁣
If you are gifting books this year and are able, consider:⁣
⁣
* order books from a local bookstore in person or online⁣. If you don’t have an indie, shop Bookshop.org which gives a cut to bookshops. I’ve even bought some fun puzzles from them. 
⁣
* LibroFM — I have NOT looked back almost 2 years later since cancelling Audible and using this service that gives back to a local bookshop of your choosing. They have some AWESOME gift subscription packages for you to gift which I will link in my bio > @perpetualpageturner ⁣

In fact I’m gifting my mother in law a @librofm subscription so she doesn’t have to wait forever on Libby for books I’m talking about.

Also November 25-30 @librofm is giving away a free audiobook to customers who spend at least $15 at a local bookstore — can’t wait to see which ones we get to pick from. Perfect way to shop for your loved ones, support a local biz and score yourself a free audiobook! Go follow them for more info! 
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⁣Have you found any awesome local/small business gift ideas for this year?
Doing a reread of Tiny Pretty Things before the tv Doing a reread of Tiny Pretty Things before the tv series come out on Netflix on 12/14!! The trailer dropped this week and I am STOKED. ⁣
⁣
I remember I scooped it up when it came out because it was Pretty Little Liars meets Black Swan and, like I know sometimes those kind of comparisons are reaching for things, but this one really nails the vibes. ⁣
⁣
Definitely recommend and keep an eye out for the show!! ⁣
⁣
If you like to be kept up-to-date on all the books becoming movies/tv shows…check out the link in my bio for my post that I’ve done keeping track of them every year for the past I can’t even count how many years at this point. It’s always been a labor of love but especially this year with all the changes for the 2020 and 2021 releases. Check it out in the bio —> @perpetualpageturner
I realized that when I get all bent out of shape a I realized that when I get all bent out of shape about being in a reading rut it’s not because I really care about Goodreads chiding me that I’m behind on my reading goal or that I’m not living up to some standard of reading for this account.⁣
⁣
I realized it’s more the fact that I don’t feel like myself when I’m not reading with some regularity. I feel unmoored because reading is truly that thing that anchors me and rounds out everything in my life. It helps me create space for me.⁣
⁣
It’s one reason I think I felt all out of sorts as a new mom who had no time for reading. Everything changed and reading, something that has always been a constant no matter what, wasn’t something I was doing with regularity either. I grasped on to it HARD even if it was only 5 pages a day. ⁣
⁣
And in the ever shifting, hellscape that has been 2020…I’ve been all panicky about my reading ruts because I need that anchor during a time in which all the other things in my life that help define me…are just different now. Nothing much is familiar in this year. ⁣
⁣
But you know what the funny thing is that I realized? As much as I don’t feel much like myself when I’m not reading as much this year….the one thing that HAS anchored me in 2020 IS Riley. She is the constant. I wake up, she grounds me. 2020 just swirls around us at this point, honestly. ⁣
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That’s kinda funny to me considering becoming a mom shook my identity for 2 years and was the hardest part about being a mom for me. ⁣
⁣
ANYWAYS, post-election I’m feeling good and I’ve been steadily reading a little bit more knowing better days are coming (you know, trying to ignore the buffoonery on display in the meantime).
Whoops…I blinked and suddenly I hadn’t posted Whoops…I blinked and suddenly I hadn’t posted in over a month. ⁣
⁣
Between the election stress and doing virtual school for my nieces, I think I got myself into a rut. Both a reading rut and an Instagram rut — both causalities of the year that is 2020. ⁣
⁣
Likewise, these two books…..I can’t tell if they were causalities of my reading rut or if they just genuinely didn’t do it for me. I’m all, “it’s not you, it’s me. Well, I don’t know…maybe it is you??” ⁣
⁣
Like would I have enjoyed these two books more if I read them outside of 2020 and this particular rut I got in this Fall? Possibly.⁣
⁣
But what ended up happening was that they both took me an obscene amount of time to get into (I should have put them down, I know this now) and I just felt MEH about both of them when I did finish. ⁣
⁣
Maybe I’d have appreciated the slow burn of Catherine House more in another time (because the premise & writing was so, so good)? The paranormal Sherlock retelling may have captured my attention more if I was in a better reading mood vs being the slog it became. ⁣
⁣
I guess I’ll never know. But, as it stands, these two just did not do it for me recently.
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Any books you’ve read this year that you’ve wondered if you’d like more at a different time?
Let’s examine a perfect October TBR... (thanks @ Let’s examine a perfect October TBR... (thanks @berkleypub @minotaur_books for the gifted copies tagged above )⁣
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For me, it’s:⁣
⁣
- one part thrillers and mysteries to get my blood pumping ⁣
- a dash of atmospheric and dark fantasy books to lose myself in⁣
- another part paranormal books to really set the mood in October⁣
- a good dose of horror to make me sleep with the lights on⁣ (it’s rare I find ones to make me really scared though).
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It’s funny because I read these genres ALL through the year but they just take on these extra perfect qualities once October hits. ⁣
⁣
So, that’s my October TBR. I’m currently reading Catherine House right now and then I’m ready to start one of these.⁣
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Any faves I should grab for first?? What books do you like to grab for in October?
Since March I’ve clung on to every single thing Since March I’ve clung on to every single thing I can that makes me happy or gives me some comfort in some way or feels familiar. ⁣
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Comfort foods from growing up. All the comfy clothes. Going through every single teen romcom I loved from the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. ⁣
⁣
AND DEFINITELY I leaned heavy into the comfort rewatch of favorite shows. Gimme Gilmore Girls and Friends and even Schitt’s Creek (even though it just ended this year) over all things new.⁣
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I just needed that familiarity and to save some of my brain space on something I already know the outcome to. I needed the nostalgia in some cases honestly. ⁣
⁣
For whatever reason that hasn’t really translated into comfort rereads. Maybe because my TBR breathes down my neck every single day…who knows.⁣
⁣
However I am thinking that, after spooky season and my huge pile of Fall reads, I think I am going to make December just a reread month. ⁣
⁣
I made December last year a month of only romance and it was really fun. I think a month of rereads would really be a comfort to me especially around the holidays.⁣
⁣
First up is DEFINITELY going to be one of my all fave fantasy series by Melina Marchetta.⁣ I think reuniting with these beloved characters is what I need.
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Have you done much rereading or rewatching this year?
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Christmas 2020 has proved to be interesting as we Christmas 2020 has proved to be interesting as we lost power from wind/storms and opened presents by flashlight this morning but a joyful occasion nonetheless. Power is back on and I’m currently watching Bridgerton on Netflix.

I mentioned, in my last post,  how excited I was about Christmas because of how excited Riley is for EVERY SINGLE PART OF IT. And I feel really grateful for that fact because it hasn’t always been like that for a while. TW: Grief & loss⁣
⁣
Christmas was basically an Olympic sport for my mom and she always made it so magical for us. I still love Christmas since she died but it’s always a bit more dull and harder because naturally I think about my mom and miss her.⁣
⁣
Having Riley be so excited about it this year feels like a little gift from my mom in some way.⁣
⁣
Instead of focusing on how sad Christmas makes me sometimes because of the absence I always feel, I get to channel the Christmas magic my mom created for me for Riley and experience Christmas in a WHOLE NEW WAY gaining new memories.⁣
⁣
Which is honestly a wonderful a gift to soothe some of that grief that always pops up since she passed in 2006. ⁣
⁣
So if this time of year/today is hard for you in any way whether it’s every year or this year specific, I see you. I feel you.
Should be playing my part as Mrs. Claus and wrappi Should be playing my part as Mrs. Claus and wrapping presents tonight but I’m finishing up A Princess For Christmas instead! 🤷‍♀️ (thanks @avonbooks for this copy)⁣
⁣
Will and I are both procrastinators...the cramming for a test or huge half your grade project type of people. Like I feel like I thrive at the last minute pressure. I mean my anxiety doesn’t ~love it~ in the moment when I’m scrambling but somehow I’m able to laser focus in a way I can’t when I’ve got a huge amount of time to get something done in.⁣
⁣
So a little bit of peace before I’m panic wrapping on Christmas Eve and putting our marriage to the test as we try to put together a huge dollhouse and a an outdoor play castle (from an out of town relative lol) and not kill each other.⁣
⁣
For real though, I’m excited for Christmas. This is the first year Riley gives a crap about any of it/understand it and she’s excited and I’m excited so we can’t half ass it this year like we have since she’s been born.
Salted caramel hot cocoa and Addie LaRue under my Salted caramel hot cocoa and Addie LaRue under my blanket = the most I’m accomplishing today probably.⁣
⁣
I’m starting Addie LaRue today after staying up super late finishing Big Friendship which I really liked and have a lot of things to say about it. Another day though!⁣
⁣
Had a really off week this week. I feel like things really evened out for me emotionally after the first few months of the pandemic and I even noted that 2020 has just been swirling around Riley and I this point in one of my latest posts. We’ve found ways to keep busy and have fun and continue to stay safe.⁣
⁣
But this week I found myself just weeping over how much I miss things like concerts and travel, how much I hate that Riley is missing so many things (she was supposed to go to preschool this Fall) and just how freaking long it’s been going on and how much longer we have to go (and the fact it didn’t have to be this bad).⁣
⁣
I just am feeling weary in my bones as we brace for a long winter and the fact that we won’t be seeing my sister and her kids anymore because it’s too risky with her work and the hospitals being slammed now.⁣
⁣
I know that I will get through this because we’ve endured it for this long and I have endured very hard things before...but oof. This week I just felt every single second of this and the toll it has taken. ⁣
⁣
How are YOU all doing? Didn’t really mean for this to be such an update-y post but here we are.
There are so many points of feeling helpless in 20 There are so many points of feeling helpless in 2020 but I’ve been trying to breathe and focus on what I can do. Here’s a big thing for me:⁣
⁣
I feel so gutted for the amount of local businesses struggling so I’ve really been making an effort to do what I can: do takeout more often than we normally would even go out to eat, go to the small cafe instead of a bigger chain, shop smaller brands as much as possible, ordering our thanksgiving from a local restaurant instead of cooking, etc.⁣
⁣
This holiday season I am really making it a priority to shop small businesses — we know they are struggling extra this season.⁣
⁣
Literally EVERYONE on my list is basically getting a book or two (in addition to some local teas and coffees) so that I can support my local indie bookshop because I will not be okay with it going out of business. ⁣
⁣
If you are gifting books this year and are able, consider:⁣
⁣
* order books from a local bookstore in person or online⁣. If you don’t have an indie, shop Bookshop.org which gives a cut to bookshops. I’ve even bought some fun puzzles from them. 
⁣
* LibroFM — I have NOT looked back almost 2 years later since cancelling Audible and using this service that gives back to a local bookshop of your choosing. They have some AWESOME gift subscription packages for you to gift which I will link in my bio > @perpetualpageturner ⁣

In fact I’m gifting my mother in law a @librofm subscription so she doesn’t have to wait forever on Libby for books I’m talking about.

Also November 25-30 @librofm is giving away a free audiobook to customers who spend at least $15 at a local bookstore — can’t wait to see which ones we get to pick from. Perfect way to shop for your loved ones, support a local biz and score yourself a free audiobook! Go follow them for more info! 
⁣⁣
⁣Have you found any awesome local/small business gift ideas for this year?
Doing a reread of Tiny Pretty Things before the tv Doing a reread of Tiny Pretty Things before the tv series come out on Netflix on 12/14!! The trailer dropped this week and I am STOKED. ⁣
⁣
I remember I scooped it up when it came out because it was Pretty Little Liars meets Black Swan and, like I know sometimes those kind of comparisons are reaching for things, but this one really nails the vibes. ⁣
⁣
Definitely recommend and keep an eye out for the show!! ⁣
⁣
If you like to be kept up-to-date on all the books becoming movies/tv shows…check out the link in my bio for my post that I’ve done keeping track of them every year for the past I can’t even count how many years at this point. It’s always been a labor of love but especially this year with all the changes for the 2020 and 2021 releases. Check it out in the bio —> @perpetualpageturner
I realized that when I get all bent out of shape a I realized that when I get all bent out of shape about being in a reading rut it’s not because I really care about Goodreads chiding me that I’m behind on my reading goal or that I’m not living up to some standard of reading for this account.⁣
⁣
I realized it’s more the fact that I don’t feel like myself when I’m not reading with some regularity. I feel unmoored because reading is truly that thing that anchors me and rounds out everything in my life. It helps me create space for me.⁣
⁣
It’s one reason I think I felt all out of sorts as a new mom who had no time for reading. Everything changed and reading, something that has always been a constant no matter what, wasn’t something I was doing with regularity either. I grasped on to it HARD even if it was only 5 pages a day. ⁣
⁣
And in the ever shifting, hellscape that has been 2020…I’ve been all panicky about my reading ruts because I need that anchor during a time in which all the other things in my life that help define me…are just different now. Nothing much is familiar in this year. ⁣
⁣
But you know what the funny thing is that I realized? As much as I don’t feel much like myself when I’m not reading as much this year….the one thing that HAS anchored me in 2020 IS Riley. She is the constant. I wake up, she grounds me. 2020 just swirls around us at this point, honestly. ⁣
⁣
That’s kinda funny to me considering becoming a mom shook my identity for 2 years and was the hardest part about being a mom for me. ⁣
⁣
ANYWAYS, post-election I’m feeling good and I’ve been steadily reading a little bit more knowing better days are coming (you know, trying to ignore the buffoonery on display in the meantime).
Whoops…I blinked and suddenly I hadn’t posted Whoops…I blinked and suddenly I hadn’t posted in over a month. ⁣
⁣
Between the election stress and doing virtual school for my nieces, I think I got myself into a rut. Both a reading rut and an Instagram rut — both causalities of the year that is 2020. ⁣
⁣
Likewise, these two books…..I can’t tell if they were causalities of my reading rut or if they just genuinely didn’t do it for me. I’m all, “it’s not you, it’s me. Well, I don’t know…maybe it is you??” ⁣
⁣
Like would I have enjoyed these two books more if I read them outside of 2020 and this particular rut I got in this Fall? Possibly.⁣
⁣
But what ended up happening was that they both took me an obscene amount of time to get into (I should have put them down, I know this now) and I just felt MEH about both of them when I did finish. ⁣
⁣
Maybe I’d have appreciated the slow burn of Catherine House more in another time (because the premise & writing was so, so good)? The paranormal Sherlock retelling may have captured my attention more if I was in a better reading mood vs being the slog it became. ⁣
⁣
I guess I’ll never know. But, as it stands, these two just did not do it for me recently.
⁣
Any books you’ve read this year that you’ve wondered if you’d like more at a different time?
Let’s examine a perfect October TBR... (thanks @ Let’s examine a perfect October TBR... (thanks @berkleypub @minotaur_books for the gifted copies tagged above )⁣
⁣
For me, it’s:⁣
⁣
- one part thrillers and mysteries to get my blood pumping ⁣
- a dash of atmospheric and dark fantasy books to lose myself in⁣
- another part paranormal books to really set the mood in October⁣
- a good dose of horror to make me sleep with the lights on⁣ (it’s rare I find ones to make me really scared though).
⁣
It’s funny because I read these genres ALL through the year but they just take on these extra perfect qualities once October hits. ⁣
⁣
So, that’s my October TBR. I’m currently reading Catherine House right now and then I’m ready to start one of these.⁣
⁣
Any faves I should grab for first?? What books do you like to grab for in October?
Since March I’ve clung on to every single thing Since March I’ve clung on to every single thing I can that makes me happy or gives me some comfort in some way or feels familiar. ⁣
⁣
Comfort foods from growing up. All the comfy clothes. Going through every single teen romcom I loved from the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. ⁣
⁣
AND DEFINITELY I leaned heavy into the comfort rewatch of favorite shows. Gimme Gilmore Girls and Friends and even Schitt’s Creek (even though it just ended this year) over all things new.⁣
⁣
I just needed that familiarity and to save some of my brain space on something I already know the outcome to. I needed the nostalgia in some cases honestly. ⁣
⁣
For whatever reason that hasn’t really translated into comfort rereads. Maybe because my TBR breathes down my neck every single day…who knows.⁣
⁣
However I am thinking that, after spooky season and my huge pile of Fall reads, I think I am going to make December just a reread month. ⁣
⁣
I made December last year a month of only romance and it was really fun. I think a month of rereads would really be a comfort to me especially around the holidays.⁣
⁣
First up is DEFINITELY going to be one of my all fave fantasy series by Melina Marchetta.⁣ I think reuniting with these beloved characters is what I need.
⁣
Have you done much rereading or rewatching this year?
There’s a few go-to moves I do when I’m in a r There’s a few go-to moves I do when I’m in a reading rut depending on the reason WHY I’m in a reading rut and what KIND of rut it is.⁣
⁣
Like a “stressed out and can’t focus” rut is a different strategy than a “just can’t find something after a couple amazing reads” rut. And sometimes the answer is just to ride it out because some ruts demand that. ⁣
⁣
But lately I’ve been in a “stressed out and so busy that I can’t focus myself to start a new book but I REALLY WANT TO READ” rut.⁣
⁣
My go-to for that is always to either grab for a comic/graphic novel or short stories (currently I’m trying poetry as per @booksteahenny suggestion).⁣
⁣
So a couple weeks ago I picked up the delightful Mooncakes (thanks for the rec @margotmwood )and flew through it! Exactly what I needed. A wonderfully cozy, witchy graphic novel for Fall.⁣
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Loved the illustrations, the inclusiveness, the grandmas and just all the cuteness. The characters definitely make the novel!⁣
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It was exactly what I needed — a warm, gentle hug in book form.
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