tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36857516443347604552024-03-24T00:11:34.276-07:00Emily The Book NerdBook Reviews, Lifestyle, Tips, Blogging, and more.Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.comBlogger508125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-90918372818324985792024-03-15T13:12:00.000-07:002024-03-15T13:12:52.157-07:00THE NERDY BOOKWORM READING CHALLENGE UPDATE<div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK9QR-0xR2XAyZ95Ic26YXD81w3z_DO-zzCqsC2K7EUZwQr-k3vKmmJ2-XYfkFKVXETbJ5gXGOV_KDC33LgbwckZ6tY1zVv0bils3TlUqB1Y2_XR-0rv0tkWqUjBb6bjJTFnLf-nQxHsUXnBhTcGza3io_MXeakUoRZJUWOc7wi-DdeTlcySVIApPSBU55" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: #ea4378; float: none !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="676" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK9QR-0xR2XAyZ95Ic26YXD81w3z_DO-zzCqsC2K7EUZwQr-k3vKmmJ2-XYfkFKVXETbJ5gXGOV_KDC33LgbwckZ6tY1zVv0bils3TlUqB1Y2_XR-0rv0tkWqUjBb6bjJTFnLf-nQxHsUXnBhTcGza3io_MXeakUoRZJUWOc7wi-DdeTlcySVIApPSBU55=w640-h360" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a name="more" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ea4378; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span></p><span><a name='more'></a></span>I have had a slow start to reading this year compared to other years. The last couple of months I was super busy because I got married at the end of February and then immediately went on my honeymoon the next morning for two weeks to Disneyworld and the Disney Cruise. Therefore, I was not reading as much as I usually do. However, I still have some reading updates for you guys and ratings to share.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuRx9Qiosoi_ZKrN0CBQjQhPblSTVjkA7RDWtjTy4NZGAflTobo5NfCy0unDV5Yia4kBJM4wQOQ6SFZ-s5ihvfVFLk8UgjGsDZIVElx4FHOMCHhMcXlTXHmAeGhcxBHR6QZUxunQFFJxpkNDjsNhoTOp1gXdIqdlaLir3US9lq_J5ypoETuwlo6rdTMJRG/s2048/409099762_827487675877253_5301577889446684000_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuRx9Qiosoi_ZKrN0CBQjQhPblSTVjkA7RDWtjTy4NZGAflTobo5NfCy0unDV5Yia4kBJM4wQOQ6SFZ-s5ihvfVFLk8UgjGsDZIVElx4FHOMCHhMcXlTXHmAeGhcxBHR6QZUxunQFFJxpkNDjsNhoTOp1gXdIqdlaLir3US9lq_J5ypoETuwlo6rdTMJRG/s320/409099762_827487675877253_5301577889446684000_n.jpeg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibv6BGnsNWu6nLCJXaEwJxRuQyBpTsSLdFkTsNb0RnkYHwE7t13VrgtZLQCEi-IZFn3kDeMs9qbN0fEBmarOvBSuzMGaabAEUpAVJymSg8wkSTPi0oX3KWVtNmjQlBrSjYmrdy8YKLo2RqZ9a-_74XSNQUbFdGr6jWImCI94eslYMI4BvMJCnk1a6GzYA1/s1582/428651669_827176472575040_4365944575521644902_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1582" data-original-width="1582" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibv6BGnsNWu6nLCJXaEwJxRuQyBpTsSLdFkTsNb0RnkYHwE7t13VrgtZLQCEi-IZFn3kDeMs9qbN0fEBmarOvBSuzMGaabAEUpAVJymSg8wkSTPi0oX3KWVtNmjQlBrSjYmrdy8YKLo2RqZ9a-_74XSNQUbFdGr6jWImCI94eslYMI4BvMJCnk1a6GzYA1/s320/428651669_827176472575040_4365944575521644902_n.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Here is what I have read since I last updated my blog and reading challenge!</p><p style="text-align: left;">1. Thriller, mystery, or suspense novel: <a href="https://amzn.to/3TDyv1d" target="_blank">Suicide Med</a> by Freida McFadden</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bo0ubxlhWtb7TY-Scal0kA397b4FYeCZUK4g_zOny63hyvTCSBj7raTkiBZeY7iEwmv9muAHPW5OLoXrh2tWzdXrA4um-Yhw2A6aQWsdBBwcr23HZqIZgN5Shkln3ey_oaAOTEGvaK_K2m6SZCxmRStqURJMyagivivda2CNTOI9OplxywNAZ0H7hLhd/s522/91wRZY6mTnL._SY522_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="326" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bo0ubxlhWtb7TY-Scal0kA397b4FYeCZUK4g_zOny63hyvTCSBj7raTkiBZeY7iEwmv9muAHPW5OLoXrh2tWzdXrA4um-Yhw2A6aQWsdBBwcr23HZqIZgN5Shkln3ey_oaAOTEGvaK_K2m6SZCxmRStqURJMyagivivda2CNTOI9OplxywNAZ0H7hLhd/s320/91wRZY6mTnL._SY522_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">My Rating: ★★★★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ea4378; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. A book with mental health representation: <a href="https://amzn.to/3IEul2V" target="_blank">Never Lie</a> by Freida McFadden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUUdqtks7qPR2n-9Gw4gN5qwjyD-QUrdZvNK5TihjuEZSLCVEJ8VONVPv_AJycDkpXzgCahWp5tqzN_RDOxjtDtQaIZrKTDYAQyf6u7oltkI6UcSRQtFeCdD_miRYuuIe10q1MON-fZ2_u2RHFWwd-Sx11FCjZX3X9RSNAcE2HupFdwpIquL780YJhNxyj/s400/125183533.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUUdqtks7qPR2n-9Gw4gN5qwjyD-QUrdZvNK5TihjuEZSLCVEJ8VONVPv_AJycDkpXzgCahWp5tqzN_RDOxjtDtQaIZrKTDYAQyf6u7oltkI6UcSRQtFeCdD_miRYuuIe10q1MON-fZ2_u2RHFWwd-Sx11FCjZX3X9RSNAcE2HupFdwpIquL780YJhNxyj/s320/125183533.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ea4378; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div>3. A book you have been excited to read: <a href="https://amzn.to/4cfmoyJ" target="_blank">Ward D</a> by Freida McFadden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5h6FzQjQzaKOXx8OfEcjiDKt5bYn0OMueee5bRcO_EvkkQQdHK3Rv0v-WmD4wl_LYG_KqlB66ucLm57ew0WoE86dhLnYLRadQdPT5UMh5L8A9GmvOZVm4nA8TRw9yfqNU_B7nFhy17W8XTCa8GwKzjllECZs0vomq-HcJcxCLeEQMUKooiGWNzWJLgoRI/s500/123193218.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5h6FzQjQzaKOXx8OfEcjiDKt5bYn0OMueee5bRcO_EvkkQQdHK3Rv0v-WmD4wl_LYG_KqlB66ucLm57ew0WoE86dhLnYLRadQdPT5UMh5L8A9GmvOZVm4nA8TRw9yfqNU_B7nFhy17W8XTCa8GwKzjllECZs0vomq-HcJcxCLeEQMUKooiGWNzWJLgoRI/s320/123193218.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div>My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ea4378; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="985" src="https://i.postimg.cc/TYnzV0X3/bingo-2024-2.png" width="554" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have been making my way through all of Freida Mcfadden's books. What books have you read recently? Have you read any of the titles above?</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-38453342574989912882024-03-14T13:03:00.002-07:002024-03-14T13:08:06.851-07:00FeedSpot announces Emily The Book Nerd as one of the 15 Best Arizona Book Blogs and WebsitesEmily The Book Nerd has just been announced on FeedSpot as one of the 15 Best Arizona Book Blogs and Websites! The first award that my blog has ever won since I started blogging back in 2018. <br /><br />The Founder of Feedspot sent me this, "I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog <a href="https://books.feedspot.com/arizona_book_blogs/?feedid=5217494">Emily The Book Nerd</a> has been selected by our panelist as one of the <b>Top 15 Arizona Book Blogs</b> on the web."<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><br />I have you my readers to thank for this amazing news! I currently reside at spot 10.<br /><br /><br />The best Arizona Book blogs are ranked from thousands of Book blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers & freshness.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7vHaUdoNXwMVpkaiyOWpMOeDNhBVyuCUcyqf6dr4lnqSNTpr2Elwqt62hC9PVdiYCgCKn0dDfv9bqJtifspU21qS9zIOQXTyNdoSDVjXsxHxE1ue17jM6KP_XVUBZYod5taOxWMTjGe4u7pfYG3-eFgEY38njAqUDOX375Faa6nDNZ-W6QkJ2WfkV5zM/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%2012.57.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="1594" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7vHaUdoNXwMVpkaiyOWpMOeDNhBVyuCUcyqf6dr4lnqSNTpr2Elwqt62hC9PVdiYCgCKn0dDfv9bqJtifspU21qS9zIOQXTyNdoSDVjXsxHxE1ue17jM6KP_XVUBZYod5taOxWMTjGe4u7pfYG3-eFgEY38njAqUDOX375Faa6nDNZ-W6QkJ2WfkV5zM/w640-h176/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%2012.57.28%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><span>Never, in my wildest dreams did I think book blogging would bring me to this point in the literary community. The saying you never work a day in your life if you do something you enjoy couldn't be more evident. </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love you all for letting me continue to do what I love most spreading my love of books!</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirDib1sOJZcLKIxrvm_prvzEPJBLjkmmbpJirJmG6JzPdm-GmC45GZ4GmNYVRRifsuGxmsC1Qj3RQqORPgbsQAx-v-yhRayScnpElgMxpLp_KnbjF58q7bwmjeacIu50pVcYjv9vZg6ciZJQf4CXDIsjJ8_HZiwwqTDTgTlz1OpD7XyeTz8idhWLNSrqsl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirDib1sOJZcLKIxrvm_prvzEPJBLjkmmbpJirJmG6JzPdm-GmC45GZ4GmNYVRRifsuGxmsC1Qj3RQqORPgbsQAx-v-yhRayScnpElgMxpLp_KnbjF58q7bwmjeacIu50pVcYjv9vZg6ciZJQf4CXDIsjJ8_HZiwwqTDTgTlz1OpD7XyeTz8idhWLNSrqsl=w200-h88" width="200" /></a></div></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-18604216103517227072024-01-24T14:56:00.001-07:002024-01-24T14:56:24.806-07:00THE NERDY BOOKWORM READING CHALLENGE UPDATE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK9QR-0xR2XAyZ95Ic26YXD81w3z_DO-zzCqsC2K7EUZwQr-k3vKmmJ2-XYfkFKVXETbJ5gXGOV_KDC33LgbwckZ6tY1zVv0bils3TlUqB1Y2_XR-0rv0tkWqUjBb6bjJTFnLf-nQxHsUXnBhTcGza3io_MXeakUoRZJUWOc7wi-DdeTlcySVIApPSBU55" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="676" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK9QR-0xR2XAyZ95Ic26YXD81w3z_DO-zzCqsC2K7EUZwQr-k3vKmmJ2-XYfkFKVXETbJ5gXGOV_KDC33LgbwckZ6tY1zVv0bils3TlUqB1Y2_XR-0rv0tkWqUjBb6bjJTFnLf-nQxHsUXnBhTcGza3io_MXeakUoRZJUWOc7wi-DdeTlcySVIApPSBU55=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Another year brings new prompts to my Nerdy Bookworm Challenge! For this post, I thought I would share with everyone what I have read so far in 2024 and the prompts that I have finished so far.<br /><br />1. A book you bought in 2023: <a href="https://amzn.to/48Y2dDe">Flawless</a> by Elsie Silver<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBkgY4xLOS6gdJeMRUaiztlMAq3l5XK7bTPb-RoIA4aqN54pYIUEmxuU3YWEGKDnv0ndqTaNzqV89ZXHZK8puwSAtdT870ZPqPaZ2nVc1LnzZXrxaMlyARjU-TvyQeXzg6l00TzZ3qzb9w6K9bfN8-KoexpQQAbHP24Qqdo_QLRlkedKq8LqdNbfaJp44d"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBkgY4xLOS6gdJeMRUaiztlMAq3l5XK7bTPb-RoIA4aqN54pYIUEmxuU3YWEGKDnv0ndqTaNzqV89ZXHZK8puwSAtdT870ZPqPaZ2nVc1LnzZXrxaMlyARjU-TvyQeXzg6l00TzZ3qzb9w6K9bfN8-KoexpQQAbHP24Qqdo_QLRlkedKq8LqdNbfaJp44d=w214-h320" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><br />2. Read a thriller novel that involves a missing person or murder: <a href="https://amzn.to/4984mfk">The Ex</a> by Freida McFadden<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoMiZrq8aruTWq8ORSTZcF1x6RraDkH9_qeSj1zUkrJcV1uZ_hbEaXeMNMUMSQibGX5ogsE4kQxVHNHhjAjcQVigWfOsfiz9m6PCWZdcUphOcCly6oFtRDMTA-BR4X3m-iAbJTZojCU2EX7XklniOZXkwvJelPAXLUgFWrnf2uDqKStUbktFpYM5MDdfBV"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoMiZrq8aruTWq8ORSTZcF1x6RraDkH9_qeSj1zUkrJcV1uZ_hbEaXeMNMUMSQibGX5ogsE4kQxVHNHhjAjcQVigWfOsfiz9m6PCWZdcUphOcCly6oFtRDMTA-BR4X3m-iAbJTZojCU2EX7XklniOZXkwvJelPAXLUgFWrnf2uDqKStUbktFpYM5MDdfBV=w200-h320" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhT6Zlgzd2Wt2r68kb3TRW7Vq3e29OPz_KRmANESG7Cya3rXjBTpeA2bBSUUKV590f2OvWPoekxEE_r6LAyFE0g-oWiTAKzqJk_S0F2KmiGEppTnyZrQpBA_byLE352o12zXYSJmweQLZwj3HKLGx9s9pjyzGfAaSrswSVvx4iyGGo0H1Cm1XuKI-KgmDd7"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhT6Zlgzd2Wt2r68kb3TRW7Vq3e29OPz_KRmANESG7Cya3rXjBTpeA2bBSUUKV590f2OvWPoekxEE_r6LAyFE0g-oWiTAKzqJk_S0F2KmiGEppTnyZrQpBA_byLE352o12zXYSJmweQLZwj3HKLGx9s9pjyzGfAaSrswSVvx4iyGGo0H1Cm1XuKI-KgmDd7=w569-h1012" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I am off to a good start on this year's challenges. Have you read any of the titles above?</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div></div></div><p></p><span><!--more--></span>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-30718847748576801392023-12-22T11:24:00.001-07:002023-12-22T11:24:23.343-07:00Top Ten Five Star Books of 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZWlN6pOGs3LAf0QDH3vUmvqXsY7vpH3rlPGjQ0jZV1WGTZvLsEFzrpf8CeycSZWdsve5RUVbB-ArEh0VdQT3fpxgR2lpLqWtn9PDIysie3_Y6jz1l2wpzHrSRkjPTCXrcLj_fyvImUsbf4XXUUv5MZeIG8uKXdEJ1U26o9cLreA5RW6bYu6lvqMsghix/s1500/Top%20Ten%20Five%20Star%20Books%20of%202023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZWlN6pOGs3LAf0QDH3vUmvqXsY7vpH3rlPGjQ0jZV1WGTZvLsEFzrpf8CeycSZWdsve5RUVbB-ArEh0VdQT3fpxgR2lpLqWtn9PDIysie3_Y6jz1l2wpzHrSRkjPTCXrcLj_fyvImUsbf4XXUUv5MZeIG8uKXdEJ1U26o9cLreA5RW6bYu6lvqMsghix/w319-h479/Top%20Ten%20Five%20Star%20Books%20of%202023.png" width="319" /></a></div><span><a name='more'></a></span>For my blog post today, my Fiance and I thought it would be fun to share with you guys both of our top ten five-star rated books that we read this past year in 2023. We are both readers so I thought it would be fun to share with everyone what books we loved this year and why. <p>I love having a significant other who loves books and reading just as much as I do. I love buddy reading with him and having our own book club! It makes life that much more enjoyable to have someone to share a hobby with. Plus, because he is also a reader, he never tells me I cannot buy said book or I will never hear him say, "You have too many books." He knows books and I are a packaged deal and loves books just as much. Between the two of us, our library and bookshelves are pretty impressive!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqwMOiV3NZc6v7UUf5igGqEzLNPk580ZeE0h7ZiFDQdiZb9dsnHIjqHsbemJkrEUy4eehFoquy4rNDgSIndMbLDwjaD1vf5koNcjE1DEhoT1yi69Eg8twa7Ge0lJBvFIDB0Wd-KXg2WvP4XlZ2LYhK0oP3NNF2b2f-ngPWfSbPjCR36PC-BG4FXvpTqDw/s946/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-22%20at%209.56.53%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="780" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqwMOiV3NZc6v7UUf5igGqEzLNPk580ZeE0h7ZiFDQdiZb9dsnHIjqHsbemJkrEUy4eehFoquy4rNDgSIndMbLDwjaD1vf5koNcjE1DEhoT1yi69Eg8twa7Ge0lJBvFIDB0Wd-KXg2WvP4XlZ2LYhK0oP3NNF2b2f-ngPWfSbPjCR36PC-BG4FXvpTqDw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-22%20at%209.56.53%20AM.png" width="264" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQ0__LDLzLKD-AVfA6eRP5w2NHuzCmDxVYhOB9rglZoYsQGELoPqvv3HQRg3Oy7Sg4OnjnDHWSlBcva6wYhltixte593X_4tdANk9rOX_VYuFHWg-aM7rGKC_an_uM_rOFVIAB_mn9BH8CPrUx8UIhnu4eX04DRTEhVcMnsWV6Y8bRmKutkA4wqqqMDNE/s1366/My%20Fiance.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQ0__LDLzLKD-AVfA6eRP5w2NHuzCmDxVYhOB9rglZoYsQGELoPqvv3HQRg3Oy7Sg4OnjnDHWSlBcva6wYhltixte593X_4tdANk9rOX_VYuFHWg-aM7rGKC_an_uM_rOFVIAB_mn9BH8CPrUx8UIhnu4eX04DRTEhVcMnsWV6Y8bRmKutkA4wqqqMDNE/w662-h372/My%20Fiance.png" width="662" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>1. <a href="https://amzn.to/48vKe6v">Thunderhead</a> by Neal Shusterman: Second book in the arc of Scythe series. It was even better than the first and ends in a way where I had to start the third book almost immediately.<br /><br />2. <a href="https://amzn.to/489PpJH">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin</a> by Kevin Eastman: Action-packed story following the last living Ninja Turtle seeking revenge for his lost family. Very enjoyable read.<br /><br />3. <a href="https://amzn.to/3S3jF3z">Do a Powerbomb</a> by Daniel Warren Johnson: Very fun wrestling comic book with an interesting twist. I am not a wrestling fan by any means and I loved it. <br /><br />4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RWTJXi">Scythe</a> by Neal Shusterman: Death is now a thing of the past until a Scythe shows up. This book was an amazing read I did not want to put it down. <br /><br />5. <a href="https://amzn.to/3He2Qg5">My Hero Academia Volume 32</a> by Kohei Horikoshi: An all-out battle is looming. Izuku Midoriya's powers are manifesting while he is out on his own. Great action to what is to come.<br /><br />6. <a href="https://amzn.to/488YiDh">Reckless Friend of the Devil</a> by Ed Brubaker: A really well-written comic following a lady's disappearance when getting involved with the wrong people. Great detective series.<br /><br />7. <a href="https://amzn.to/48sCOkz">Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (Volume 6)</a> by Bryan Lee O'Malley: A really good ending to a really good comic series. Was fun all around.<br /><br />8. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RC7QQa">Solo Leveling Volume 7</a> by Chugong: Lots of action in this volume. This comic book is not afraid to kill off strong hunters.<br /><br />9. <a href="https://amzn.to/476hlwF">My Hero Academia Volume 36</a> by Kohei Horikoshi: Shows off a lot of the supporting characters and their growths as heroes. Action is amazing in this volume.<br /><br />10. <a href="https://amzn.to/485NKF5">Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Volume 4)</a> by Bill Willingham: Fable story really picks up in Volume 4 as a war is looming.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYhpSB5mkqK3WVe9Mw-lKL57ajtB7jzfvzZ_YcAYxsIYQDKRBH727bkyErFXxjm1fUt-nEL_ZXG-xGJlr64dgCXlmjJ5F21-l4yL_1iurdiyEvwniBCpn9_LUlRQCDfjfF-FF9A_oSD2vQs_0J6bJqf9XS7CvxYOeoa8Rbr73qE_hyfAz891Ak67YAuZZ/s1366/my%20top%20ten.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYhpSB5mkqK3WVe9Mw-lKL57ajtB7jzfvzZ_YcAYxsIYQDKRBH727bkyErFXxjm1fUt-nEL_ZXG-xGJlr64dgCXlmjJ5F21-l4yL_1iurdiyEvwniBCpn9_LUlRQCDfjfF-FF9A_oSD2vQs_0J6bJqf9XS7CvxYOeoa8Rbr73qE_hyfAz891Ak67YAuZZ/w663-h373/my%20top%20ten.png" width="663" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/4azU9Ku" target="_blank">The Serpent and The Wings of Night</a> by Carissa Broadbent: I am around 200 pages into this novel and I know already it's going to be a five-star read for me and my favorite from this year. I plan to finish before the end of the new year because I cannot put it down. It's Twilight meets The Hunger Games. Easily going to be one of my new favorite fantasy reads ever!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3TvNuL7" target="_blank">Pen Pal</a> by J.T. Geissinger: Easily one of my new favorite books of all time. This was amazing and breathtaking. I love a good paranormal romance involving ghosts!<div><br /></div><div>3. <a href="https://amzn.to/485jnOY" target="_blank">If He Had Been with Me</a> by Laura Nowlin: Such an amazing friends-to-lovers story. Heartbreaking and a major tear-jerker! I loved every single second of this book.</div><div><br /></div><div>4. <a href="https://amzn.to/48vKe6v" target="_blank">Thunderhead</a> by Neal Shusterman: The second book in the Scythe series. Ended on a huge cliffhanger. I love these characters so much and I am highly invested in their stories. The second book is rarely even better than the first in a series but this one was even better than the first.</div><div><br /></div><div>5. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RWTJXi" target="_blank">Scythe</a> by Neal Shusterman: Makes you question what is important in life and how immortality isn't necessarily a good thing. Love this dystopian novel!</div><div><br /></div><div>6. <a href="https://amzn.to/3v2VR6z" target="_blank">Paper Girls Volume 1</a> by Brian K. Vaughan: Stranger Things meets time travel with badass teenage girls! This series is addicting and an instant favorite.</div><div><br /></div><div>7. <a href="https://amzn.to/3NzYPpJ" target="_blank">What Lovers Do</a> by Jewel E. Ann: A friends-to-lovers story with substance. I loved the dogs in this book and that it was also set in Phoenix, AZ where I live. </div><div><br /></div><div>8. <a href="https://amzn.to/3vi6W3H" target="_blank">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jeannette McCurdy: A Heartbreaking memoir of a child star. I related a lot to Jeannette and her story. </div><div><br /></div><div>9. <a href="https://amzn.to/3tm8KIG" target="_blank">Saga Volume 2</a> by Brian K. Vaughan: I am so invested in this graphic novel series. The romance is everything. Brian K. Vaughan writes the best stories. </div><div><br /></div><div>10. <a href="https://amzn.to/48MhwPh" target="_blank">Paper Girls Volume 3</a> by Brian K. Vaughan: The girls are back and better than ever in this volume! I loved all the pop-culture references and time travel at its best!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">____________________________________________________________________________________</div><div>Have you read any of the titles above? What were your top reads of 2023? Are any of our five-star picks some of your favorites too or on your personal tbr? Let's talk in the comments below.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtbk0F0wbY8MD43rFybB8ZwfH6pfSCpR51-rYttXfykY5j06gmMSHyeZEHGoT_QYey9Lc9m8KWjlY0kFfupNSg8ovvDEYhqiqb21NyRR-i0wRhQtD5kbm1rJrKBAd992jz4dsT6Oo-e_AnQJOmUgc0xw5JBiDoynUOMi8l0iVQjOdseTYliXW2rR6gC8dJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtbk0F0wbY8MD43rFybB8ZwfH6pfSCpR51-rYttXfykY5j06gmMSHyeZEHGoT_QYey9Lc9m8KWjlY0kFfupNSg8ovvDEYhqiqb21NyRR-i0wRhQtD5kbm1rJrKBAd992jz4dsT6Oo-e_AnQJOmUgc0xw5JBiDoynUOMi8l0iVQjOdseTYliXW2rR6gC8dJ=w175-h77" width="175" /></a></div></div></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-85475742102200818332023-12-19T14:45:00.001-07:002024-01-24T14:42:48.962-07:00THE NERDY BOOKWORM READING CHALLENGE UPDATE<p style="text-align: center;"> <img height="361" src="https://i.postimg.cc/YSYBJm80/The-Nerdy-Bookworm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span>This year is coming to an end. I have been trying to reach the last of my reading goals like crazy in December but will likely not meet them. I have at least read this year. Any reading that I have done makes me happy. Anyway, the upcoming 2024 reading challenge post is up and live on my blog <a href="https://www.emilythebooknerd.com/2023/12/introducing-nerdy-bookworm-50-books.html">here</a>! I would love for you to join me in the challenge in 2024! But for now, I would like to share all the challenges I have completed for 2023 thus far since my last update.<p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. 2023 bestseller: <a href="https://amzn.to/3trv43r" target="_blank">Fourth Wing</a> by Rebecca Yarros</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyKuJiQ_E93eKtvutFW4fcO4d-7-DSM6UySQQK-dYKhe09D1fqCZPjeBFxHzAU047JwflaqQUJ8NUJkt1_L6Y4N80-643GcBS8eebuK22PGTFrGOOcha1-jtqKZrCwxK8PHWDADBVCu-CXbDwnmZ1HOdzpHH2v6tuUcz8fLlYHEKHA4M7wzP8oUKuX32f9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyKuJiQ_E93eKtvutFW4fcO4d-7-DSM6UySQQK-dYKhe09D1fqCZPjeBFxHzAU047JwflaqQUJ8NUJkt1_L6Y4N80-643GcBS8eebuK22PGTFrGOOcha1-jtqKZrCwxK8PHWDADBVCu-CXbDwnmZ1HOdzpHH2v6tuUcz8fLlYHEKHA4M7wzP8oUKuX32f9" width="160" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: ★</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; font-family: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. Thriller, mystery, or suspense novel: <a href="https://amzn.to/3RyPob0" target="_blank">The Inmate </a>by Freida McFadden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjniAye7aQ5kxbKVfNfresgL7lujRxMN7K-WSIEF7edqZb1JB-InOoVtriO6afm9pgSVo913CSXqP49drxkgiGSaiLBhSzWipfwgsdrgoP-fEenuTcEZQfQO0ySIh1f-P3ETmxEkegwtitBlC3rb3P8DKtoaLhiyCHiS7RyB6NkoqNU8A_a8n4IkxvYbgYH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1563" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjniAye7aQ5kxbKVfNfresgL7lujRxMN7K-WSIEF7edqZb1JB-InOoVtriO6afm9pgSVo913CSXqP49drxkgiGSaiLBhSzWipfwgsdrgoP-fEenuTcEZQfQO0ySIh1f-P3ETmxEkegwtitBlC3rb3P8DKtoaLhiyCHiS7RyB6NkoqNU8A_a8n4IkxvYbgYH" width="150" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: ★</span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; font-family: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. Horror or creepy novel: <a href="https://amzn.to/3vgZ9De" target="_blank">Delores Claiborne</a> by Stephen King</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHc2IX8AGrNqiDj8TPo93cXjrYrW6IYJiail9FYj_xgYphGaGIlEgEJNkHKuLCAK9qPbNeurkJx64QOKeHnfUYtDCvy_cK1YICZo_SQvihGYw0fPksx-csHVHfQq_mDaCKWG2030Ox9UEWqfuOefiIuzs3Akqe8Bx6Nd1YJixKQ5X-vdyjnewwdVq1ZbTv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="276" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHc2IX8AGrNqiDj8TPo93cXjrYrW6IYJiail9FYj_xgYphGaGIlEgEJNkHKuLCAK9qPbNeurkJx64QOKeHnfUYtDCvy_cK1YICZo_SQvihGYw0fPksx-csHVHfQq_mDaCKWG2030Ox9UEWqfuOefiIuzs3Akqe8Bx6Nd1YJixKQ5X-vdyjnewwdVq1ZbTv" width="144" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: ★</span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt63OOVJpZb8hVXlKl0C7s4ucHMvaA-ugteW7_mp3t_QeU0PbUpE5CRGwp2VG7YTqw34KKUvqM92_90Ccy__A3SAYbdB_0zI9i5tmCyBLE8USdGjKpPsZwv7b7eMsJ__OwbKh9SKUhf4ny/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.17.16+PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #ea4378; font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="82" data-original-width="252" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt63OOVJpZb8hVXlKl0C7s4ucHMvaA-ugteW7_mp3t_QeU0PbUpE5CRGwp2VG7YTqw34KKUvqM92_90Ccy__A3SAYbdB_0zI9i5tmCyBLE8USdGjKpPsZwv7b7eMsJ__OwbKh9SKUhf4ny/s200/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.17.16+PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtG14yCm4UxBc_xrCQDMomv9gSLbvtUOfV1WgZlrGFkMYCxawl5ykoqZuRCtNrFZTIesLEyq6VNH58MN88Q5d59d8dm7cmIlCI1EffdMbdLnypZICTTapxnpQf07GXDZB4DLj4ajKbvmsTNDZ6NrgcKwSYWnq_CxhrobE-V7tUKsii-vt2qReWA11xGlVv/s1920/bingo%20nerdybookworm%203%20(4).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="999" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtG14yCm4UxBc_xrCQDMomv9gSLbvtUOfV1WgZlrGFkMYCxawl5ykoqZuRCtNrFZTIesLEyq6VNH58MN88Q5d59d8dm7cmIlCI1EffdMbdLnypZICTTapxnpQf07GXDZB4DLj4ajKbvmsTNDZ6NrgcKwSYWnq_CxhrobE-V7tUKsii-vt2qReWA11xGlVv/w562-h999/bingo%20nerdybookworm%203%20(4).png" width="562" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Man, I read more than only three more books but only three books fit the prompts above... oh well. Have you read any of the titles above?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div></div></div><p></p>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-16665011702842799352023-12-14T15:45:00.003-07:002023-12-14T15:55:46.919-07:00Introducing The Nerdy Bookworm 50 Books A Year Reading Challenge 2024!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyh0-WQgvXgNO18AYcZCcEVh6xdViJhpzkA35QKzAmse1096GHQ94pIYH2gr00VhVUdC7-FSnfZ-cBGy6-58Yy1bMpKPBJrE1LrNngaXVDNJFUxDXSnp4UMaFrSYql3i53RIERaUtxgWFp8_5WF3JYVzXiM4UZQa2OTAp1NpllMX3Ke6-QPHAmNTwh6YwK/s1366/Beige%20Brown%20Color%20Blocks%20Fashion%20Designer%20Resume%20Website.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyh0-WQgvXgNO18AYcZCcEVh6xdViJhpzkA35QKzAmse1096GHQ94pIYH2gr00VhVUdC7-FSnfZ-cBGy6-58Yy1bMpKPBJrE1LrNngaXVDNJFUxDXSnp4UMaFrSYql3i53RIERaUtxgWFp8_5WF3JYVzXiM4UZQa2OTAp1NpllMX3Ke6-QPHAmNTwh6YwK/w676-h380/Beige%20Brown%20Color%20Blocks%20Fashion%20Designer%20Resume%20Website.png" width="676" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-center; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><center><img height="326" src="https://i.postimg.cc/4xy7Yr69/Screen-Shot-2023-11-28-at-2-45-21-PM.png" width="378" /></center><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 204, 204); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">INTRODUCTION:</u></b></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-center; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For the third year in a row, The Nerdy Bookworm 50 Books A Year Reading Challenge is back! I never thought this challenge would become as popular as it has become. Cheers to another year of reading books. </span><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: inherit;">Each year brings new reading challenges. I am still currently working on trying to finish all of the challenges from 2023 in the last month of December. Reading anything is a success in my book. The only requirement is to read the following challenges below. </span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For fellow bloggers, bookstagramers, etc... At the end of this post, you can link all of the challenge announcement posts and more that you may have.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sounds easy enough right?! The whole purpose is to read period and to increase the amount that you read. This is even a great way to try out some new genres or to go outside of your comfort zone which I personally want to try doing more of in 2024. The challenge last year certainly pushed me outside of my comfort zone that's for sure. I read more from genres I normally do not gravitate towards and that's why I love this challenge so much. I hope it does the same for you. Like last year, this challenge is what you make of it. Don't stress yourself out.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As always, I want to encourage more reading in the world and this is a great way to do just that. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you’re not feeling one of the categories or themes in the reading challenge, change it up or skip it. Do what you need to do to make this reading challenge completely your own. </span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I personally try to read at least 50 books per year as my target goal. So, this challenge helps me do just that. I honestly, probably won't be able to complete all of the themes below again but I sure am going to try my best. By no means is this supposed to stress you out. Read and complete as many of the challenges as you can.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I can't wait to have some new challenges this year as well as some of the ones used in previous years.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 204, 204); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RULES/HOW TO PARTICIPATE:</span></u></b></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- You cannot double up on books. For example, one book per category. </span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- If you are a blogger, bookstagrammer, etc, and posting your reviews and books read try to link back to my blog and this challenge when you can. That way, more people can join in on the fun/discussions. The more participants the better.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Use the hashtag <b><span style="color: #e06666;">#NerdyBookwormChallengeXO</span></b> when posting on social media and sharing books you read for challenges etc.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- You can join in on our Facebook group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/760988705299458" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</b></a> for discussions. Just like last year!</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- You can read and do the prompts/challenges in any order you want. </span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Set fun but attainable reading goals. If you do not complete all prompts that is completely fine! No stress zone here.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Join at any time throughout 2024 but all books need to be read by January 1, 2024 - the end of 2024. Pretty basic. Same as last year.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- It is okay to DNF any book that you start for that challenge. Even better, share why you did not finish it. DNF books still count.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- All audiobooks count regardless of the challenge.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Feel free to use all graphics for your posts on social media.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 204, 204); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">THE CHALLENGES:</span></u></b></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ 2024 New Release</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. ☐ A book with less than 300 pages</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. ☐ A book outside of your comfort genre's </span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. ☐ Read a dark romance</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. ☐ Read a book based on a TV series or movie adaptation (watch the show or movie after for fun)</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. ☐ Read a steamy romance novel</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. ☐ Thriller, mystery, or suspense novel</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. ☐ Read a novel by a male author</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: initial; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">9. ☐ A book that has been on your TBR for more than a year</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. ☐ Read a book recommended by Booktok</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11. ☐ Read a novel by a female author</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12. ☐ Goodread's 2023 Winner or Nominee</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13. ☐ Pick a random physical book off your bookshelf </span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14. ☐ Listen to an audiobook</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15. ☐ Read a book with a <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>red</b></span> cover</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16. ☐ Read a young adult novel</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17. ☐ Read a book with an element or type of weather in the title (air, wind, fire, water, rain, snow, sun)</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18. ☐ Read a fantasy book</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19. ☐ Read a book with two or more authors</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20. ☐ Read an emotional or sad book</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21. ☐ Continue reading a series you started</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22. ☐ A book by an auto-buy author of yours</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23. ☐ A book you have been excited to read</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">24. ☐ New York Times Bestseller</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">25. ☐ Read a book with flowers on the cover</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">26. ☐ Read a book where the characters visit, are in, or attend a wedding</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27. ☐ Read a book that you think will be a five star read</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">28. ☐ Read a book with a love triangle in it</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">29. ☐ Read a book that has an animal in it</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: initial; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">30. ☐ Read a short stories collection</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">31. ☐ Read a book that you thrifted</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">32. ☐ Read a book that has a <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>blue</b></span> cover</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">33. ☐ A book that has a cover you love</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">34. ☐ A book that has a vehicle on the cover (plane, van, car, truck, motorcycle, etc)</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: initial; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">35. ☐ Read a book that has the enemies to lover's trope</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">36. ☐ Read a graphic novel, manga, or comic</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">37. ☐ A book you bought in 2023</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">38. ☐ Read a book that has a haunted house in it</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">39. ☐ A book with mental health representation</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">40. ☐ A book with at least two different characters points of view</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">41. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ A book you bought from a bookstore</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ Read a paranormal romance</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">43. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ Read a book from the library</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">44. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ Read a thriller novel that involves a missing person or murder</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">45. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ Read any memoir</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">46. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ Book you meant to read last year but didn't</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">47. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ A book where the setting is by the water (river, lake, beach/ocean)</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">48. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ Read a new to you author</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">49. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">☐ Read a book that has witches or magic in it</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; 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<!--end InLinkz code-->Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-15665957522880398902023-11-14T16:22:00.001-07:002023-11-14T16:22:16.738-07:00Top Ten Mainstream Popular Authors That I Still Have Not Read<center><img height="703" src="https://i.postimg.cc/hPZy1pgF/top-ten-mainstream-popular-authors-that-i-still-have-not-read.png" width="468" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><p> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-13035 aligncenter" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="160" sizes="(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px" src="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png" srcset="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png 781w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-250x100.png 250w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-768x308.png 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="399" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is Top Ten Mainstream Popular Authors that I Still Have Not Read. I have quite a few but for this, I am doing the authors of books that I do have interest in reading their books.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emily Henry (HOW HAVE I NOT READ BEACH READ YET?!)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elsie Silver </span></li><li>Freida McFadden</li><li>Adrienne Young</li><li>Darcy Coates</li><li>R.F. 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What popular authors have you never read? Do we have any in common? Which books by these authors on my list should I try first?</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">xoxo,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kmFAB10OyXK8cujgpBwLJ6nmoi4k3HDgK63gqrOZT93JKbtS0VaaxUfyWrEYoylRe-ehPPrqwNhidexyLFiCqJF9hrLlzpC9USBYcACXMLphOvs3dhFaqGpYnZhCeaOo0PFjypSww6rqI_P12r5ZwtuNCeR5SRAMeNDrecC3gmRiGrRpROoYm4aFLhVY/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #ea4378; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kmFAB10OyXK8cujgpBwLJ6nmoi4k3HDgK63gqrOZT93JKbtS0VaaxUfyWrEYoylRe-ehPPrqwNhidexyLFiCqJF9hrLlzpC9USBYcACXMLphOvs3dhFaqGpYnZhCeaOo0PFjypSww6rqI_P12r5ZwtuNCeR5SRAMeNDrecC3gmRiGrRpROoYm4aFLhVY/s1600/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a></span></p></center>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-3519748546139056962023-11-12T13:56:00.001-07:002023-11-12T13:56:25.264-07:00THE NERDY BOOKWORM READING CHALLENGE UPDATE<p style="text-align: center;"> <img height="361" src="https://i.postimg.cc/YSYBJm80/The-Nerdy-Bookworm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I have read more books since I last updated my Nerdy Bookworm Challenge. I have even found some new favorite reads of the year! Let's just get into the books I have read since the last time I updated my blog.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Book outside of your comfort genre's: <a href="https://amzn.to/3FWPYdt" target="_blank">Thunderhead</a> by Neal Shusterman</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhneI0KicS8pQmF182PawAAjSehDyQTECq354xepZUHyjfcg64HX6WcwINzMSCrxRhwQV_d4l-p994C_Z6zWv888m7D8ZqTTbH3mJ3B5nG-zZaZvFBw2__MhUnyb3DzECnoNU3pXiRit79-8OwBQ7x6kDEJJtjXazOOKPqAiF67fdI0xvbMDC9M_G5wF5K" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="1400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhneI0KicS8pQmF182PawAAjSehDyQTECq354xepZUHyjfcg64HX6WcwINzMSCrxRhwQV_d4l-p994C_Z6zWv888m7D8ZqTTbH3mJ3B5nG-zZaZvFBw2__MhUnyb3DzECnoNU3pXiRit79-8OwBQ7x6kDEJJtjXazOOKPqAiF67fdI0xvbMDC9M_G5wF5K" width="159" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★★★★★</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Read a retelling: <a href="https://amzn.to/3FSDZ0y" target="_blank">King of Nothing</a> by Mona Black</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHt5QdxjPNR4ChGPLscbqTE2UD1Mtq1PekUDzvv2NoB-7jFVqBz5sbYBcc7E3GIUL1envInj8ieqFNXtS0vegifSraFVFbpG8snnealV7XlJTSU2E6DFJjdfGgG_o_EO2X4Rg0tAf1mvtE9_9tkV9e6dsoKAX5dey-7vswScwFQeRgpNHWKxx9IqM9hQt1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHt5QdxjPNR4ChGPLscbqTE2UD1Mtq1PekUDzvv2NoB-7jFVqBz5sbYBcc7E3GIUL1envInj8ieqFNXtS0vegifSraFVFbpG8snnealV7XlJTSU2E6DFJjdfGgG_o_EO2X4Rg0tAf1mvtE9_9tkV9e6dsoKAX5dey-7vswScwFQeRgpNHWKxx9IqM9hQt1" width="160" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIK-LTtAypt-YCykDMutl0zHuMzsfXKQcuH6OBFsDlf4ITJYrOtP1INBbxsN4F3qVfaXTeybC66D3wo6n2PB6OJCD0smnqxstkooxFszA3PwlvvrE3ofZMWH3N5HoREzfDA8BTJR6j5OI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.56.31+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ea4378; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="78" data-original-width="406" height="38" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIK-LTtAypt-YCykDMutl0zHuMzsfXKQcuH6OBFsDlf4ITJYrOtP1INBbxsN4F3qVfaXTeybC66D3wo6n2PB6OJCD0smnqxstkooxFszA3PwlvvrE3ofZMWH3N5HoREzfDA8BTJR6j5OI/s200/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.56.31+PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Book that has mental health aspects to it: <a href="https://amzn.to/3SxOYUE" target="_blank">The Stalking Dead</a> by Eva Chase</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB1uHWYSaKZMCxPJ6XlFTTkLOF3vcd0edAIdWYT3TMe7t98e_f1ElvpjFCCbovVAHxj83G64w9KEqgD-eO9fqbXe_X5xqEgUYbRVAOgkuRpQPiH4NWohPcaFPXnJQnPFQ3hdQgKBAXAiiw_hrBKuiRoos6pRUPH7zZZBMr1uZ4Gsc7FLNjN33aaemWnxE4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1707" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB1uHWYSaKZMCxPJ6XlFTTkLOF3vcd0edAIdWYT3TMe7t98e_f1ElvpjFCCbovVAHxj83G64w9KEqgD-eO9fqbXe_X5xqEgUYbRVAOgkuRpQPiH4NWohPcaFPXnJQnPFQ3hdQgKBAXAiiw_hrBKuiRoos6pRUPH7zZZBMr1uZ4Gsc7FLNjN33aaemWnxE4" width="160" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt63OOVJpZb8hVXlKl0C7s4ucHMvaA-ugteW7_mp3t_QeU0PbUpE5CRGwp2VG7YTqw34KKUvqM92_90Ccy__A3SAYbdB_0zI9i5tmCyBLE8USdGjKpPsZwv7b7eMsJ__OwbKh9SKUhf4ny/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.17.16+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ea4378; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="82" data-original-width="252" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt63OOVJpZb8hVXlKl0C7s4ucHMvaA-ugteW7_mp3t_QeU0PbUpE5CRGwp2VG7YTqw34KKUvqM92_90Ccy__A3SAYbdB_0zI9i5tmCyBLE8USdGjKpPsZwv7b7eMsJ__OwbKh9SKUhf4ny/s200/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.17.16+PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Read a book with a happily ever after ending: Dry Spell by Vi Keeland</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2ILrUkWkSTUpJo0viPwlBRrmtNcp73pRLTznpZ8uuMOfxiV5hM2FmNtxmsqrMJVD67qSXfYoM3MYIzyMFakkinFtE3M_5H_WciP-gxqauRmLsNo9jT3HNxKMWDTjHYzHYUpXCaYNe9xZ-awuBCMCn9iIewKWVZujdvXT8-vq7cixkitWWl_Up-xL-4p5p" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2ILrUkWkSTUpJo0viPwlBRrmtNcp73pRLTznpZ8uuMOfxiV5hM2FmNtxmsqrMJVD67qSXfYoM3MYIzyMFakkinFtE3M_5H_WciP-gxqauRmLsNo9jT3HNxKMWDTjHYzHYUpXCaYNe9xZ-awuBCMCn9iIewKWVZujdvXT8-vq7cixkitWWl_Up-xL-4p5p" width="150" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Book you meant to read last year but didn't: <a href="https://amzn.to/3SDZo58" target="_blank">What Lover's Do</a> by Jewel E. Ann</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_j_kK2UKiuxu7q7QVpAqh9MfM_Z2UJ4nNqY5GD3xYoLQytjocyNY0EB1PnbgeXbrwZtGzVO5u-eFpwjccH5_lixe-qOtKOMFpP5_clUu9w8XbEcpI6_WYAlpKYEelTCyvHMSOGdJmqp5EJXySZ7zskc7sObIKaA2S4QQKqwhph5gTcn96ztvK7nlYE7Os" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_j_kK2UKiuxu7q7QVpAqh9MfM_Z2UJ4nNqY5GD3xYoLQytjocyNY0EB1PnbgeXbrwZtGzVO5u-eFpwjccH5_lixe-qOtKOMFpP5_clUu9w8XbEcpI6_WYAlpKYEelTCyvHMSOGdJmqp5EJXySZ7zskc7sObIKaA2S4QQKqwhph5gTcn96ztvK7nlYE7Os" width="150" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★★★★★</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Goodreads 2022 Winner or Nominee: <a href="https://amzn.to/40AwpkE" target="_blank">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jennette McCurdy</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsnPWYhHvmqC4gqHjsN9gLNyjHRi9SjrS2fsFjQg10_M0V5kzXDWBgyL06js2WEUAW6JIA2qdkXlmQy3WEfvaDbU7GltS7tMDs0ssiwCdapaj5QWLp-PCYZCoL7dKrFtejq9wQTBAkLTb_Yfi85qRZuwFdSyXvJVwraWibJ_hH_lOaWJrXrIk5bm_S8Jqt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsnPWYhHvmqC4gqHjsN9gLNyjHRi9SjrS2fsFjQg10_M0V5kzXDWBgyL06js2WEUAW6JIA2qdkXlmQy3WEfvaDbU7GltS7tMDs0ssiwCdapaj5QWLp-PCYZCoL7dKrFtejq9wQTBAkLTb_Yfi85qRZuwFdSyXvJVwraWibJ_hH_lOaWJrXrIk5bm_S8Jqt" width="160" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★★★★★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7. <span style="font-family: inherit;">New York Times Bestseller: <a href="https://amzn.to/3G0MeHG" target="_blank">Divine Rivals</a> by Rebecca Ross</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgASQsgDdkFN-YBhoCtVzDGSKZzoZ3GpohHczCSIb8pMEAzTHteCN9BRbc3CLy4pQPBy44UUTywLrlZ_LCO63jyI3aOU9UQDxbwCbMw8IO-rzqDZQKtb7QZg3Cz_xfYC-yVBxFaXcpYVSUML4aEoKrIylDOXCYEpy0mt9pVfjxPk9oQlHU3CHRb6F2JHBKW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgASQsgDdkFN-YBhoCtVzDGSKZzoZ3GpohHczCSIb8pMEAzTHteCN9BRbc3CLy4pQPBy44UUTywLrlZ_LCO63jyI3aOU9UQDxbwCbMw8IO-rzqDZQKtb7QZg3Cz_xfYC-yVBxFaXcpYVSUML4aEoKrIylDOXCYEpy0mt9pVfjxPk9oQlHU3CHRb6F2JHBKW" width="157" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. The <span style="font-family: inherit;">highest-rated book on your Goodreads TBR list: <a href="https://amzn.to/3MFuu8H" target="_blank">Something Unexpected</a> by Vi Keeland</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL0NkozPN6AQaM8ARAnC2UsFbddvSPlScFw1SkTQGMDNVntZItu6KxypqYMUU-UBIeI1dE8wGo0Fr6ryaiWNq9xrPh8FmhAEUpeSNAw1mPp_NRS-57Ef6LdhPm7ir9kLGQbDduKUSJV487vT_WgP5z66-7joOwxVzTivwOzJBH_fdCINKQzs88q6NASuug" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL0NkozPN6AQaM8ARAnC2UsFbddvSPlScFw1SkTQGMDNVntZItu6KxypqYMUU-UBIeI1dE8wGo0Fr6ryaiWNq9xrPh8FmhAEUpeSNAw1mPp_NRS-57Ef6LdhPm7ir9kLGQbDduKUSJV487vT_WgP5z66-7joOwxVzTivwOzJBH_fdCINKQzs88q6NASuug" width="150" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My Rating: ★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmMK0y-KtYu-dXsWOS6auC9N-xFNOTOmQ9W-5K9XpsLjgFrYjpPvi2aRUwUjjPU7VhKyxgdV1ZwSi5-gNCKrdSC_LhPWo97N3Sm2NyGkj73tfIn7jdZ9swyq4F7y99jBKTgjcM0r3QcKgJ9he_18Gy04d2s_Dm4kd8-3YA191jGR88DLoXOHvt7DtH3_MY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="988" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmMK0y-KtYu-dXsWOS6auC9N-xFNOTOmQ9W-5K9XpsLjgFrYjpPvi2aRUwUjjPU7VhKyxgdV1ZwSi5-gNCKrdSC_LhPWo97N3Sm2NyGkj73tfIn7jdZ9swyq4F7y99jBKTgjcM0r3QcKgJ9he_18Gy04d2s_Dm4kd8-3YA191jGR88DLoXOHvt7DtH3_MY=w556-h988" width="556" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am so close to being done with this year's challenges! Have you read any of the books above? What did you think of them?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-28660843690150057022023-10-18T13:50:00.006-07:002023-10-18T13:50:58.488-07:00Top Ten Books with Weather Related Words in the Title<center><img height="618" src="https://i.postimg.cc/yd7wRtht/Top-Ten-Books-with-Weather-Related-Words-in-the-Title.png" width="412" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-13035 aligncenter" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="160" sizes="(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px" src="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png" srcset="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png 781w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-250x100.png 250w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-768x308.png 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="399" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is all about weather! What books have you read/do you want to read that have weather-related words in the title or on the cover image? Words/images like storm, rain, blizzard, flood, lightning, hail, snow, wind, etc. all count for this! If you’re feeling stumped, search your TBR by some of the keywords from the <a href="https://www.weather.gov/otx/Full_Weather_Glossary" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a12769; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;" target="_blank">full weather glossary</a> by the National Weather Service! </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are the top ten books that I still have yet to read that involve weather in the title!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FlWQ3F" target="_blank">The Four Winds</a> by Kristin Hannah</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">2. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3tDozu6" target="_blank">Brain on Fire</a><span style="color: black;"> by Susannah Cahalan</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZY6mUl" target="_blank">Things You Save in a Fire</a> by Katherine Center</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Qk3Rs2" target="_blank">A Slow Fire Burning</a> by Paula Hawkins</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">5. <a href="https://amzn.to/3twSbt0" target="_blank">The Book of Cold Cases</a> by Simone St. James</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">6. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rNRqvr" target="_blank">Cold Summer</a> by Gwen Cole</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">7. <a href="https://amzn.to/3M86ACn" target="_blank">Before the Coffee Gets Cold</a> by Toshikazu Kawaguch</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">8. <a href="https://amzn.to/404cwCs" target="_blank">The Summer Proposal</a> by Vi Keeland</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">9. <a href="https://amzn.to/4033iGd" target="_blank">It Happened One Summer</a> by Tessa Bailey</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">10. <a href="https://amzn.to/46Xv895" target="_blank">Five Tuesdays in Winter</a> by Lily King</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Four-Winds-Novel-Kristin-Hannah/dp/1250178614?adid=082VK13VJJCZTQYGWWCZ&campaign=211041&keywords=The+Four+Winds&qid=1697660235&s=books&sr=1-1&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=13e2a116ee996fc1136d065b1f5fd124&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1250178614&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007EDOKZW?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=943067fc37876711387140132f5a9257&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B007EDOKZW&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a> <img border="0" height="250" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B07J4WHC78&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" width="170" /> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08PC3SZHX?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=c558395ef7589cd9f94c29cea2037d55&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B08PC3SZHX&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B007EDOKZW" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" xlvvg67qg="" /> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B07J4WHC78" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" xlvvg67qg="" /> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B08PC3SZHX" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" xlvvg67qg="" /> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B08PC3SZHX" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" xlvvg67qg="" /> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097B3MDXJ?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=8845c4c08fe06d5dbea89ca5c9304007&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B097B3MDXJ&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MQJXWDA?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=bf39f60ed8e5e16609d7a95fb079bda6&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B01MQJXWDA&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084B6VFHG?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=c73d4a17565b657e812f4be5b6bce126&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B084B6VFHG&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Q1Z996B?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=1830cd9d92db62452510d842ccf30aba&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B09Q1Z996B&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08L3NHJ88?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=0345b5daba4dfc6366ea2442d9c97604&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B08L3NHJ88&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B092FQGTBM?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=8408af37128bdf1edf5ab4182fc41c5c&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B092FQGTBM&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Have you read any of the books above? What did you think of them?</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kmFAB10OyXK8cujgpBwLJ6nmoi4k3HDgK63gqrOZT93JKbtS0VaaxUfyWrEYoylRe-ehPPrqwNhidexyLFiCqJF9hrLlzpC9USBYcACXMLphOvs3dhFaqGpYnZhCeaOo0PFjypSww6rqI_P12r5ZwtuNCeR5SRAMeNDrecC3gmRiGrRpROoYm4aFLhVY/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #ea4378; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.17s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kmFAB10OyXK8cujgpBwLJ6nmoi4k3HDgK63gqrOZT93JKbtS0VaaxUfyWrEYoylRe-ehPPrqwNhidexyLFiCqJF9hrLlzpC9USBYcACXMLphOvs3dhFaqGpYnZhCeaOo0PFjypSww6rqI_P12r5ZwtuNCeR5SRAMeNDrecC3gmRiGrRpROoYm4aFLhVY/s1600/love-emily-2.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B092FQGTBM" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" xlvvg67qg="" />Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-58514836898810558222023-10-02T16:41:00.000-07:002023-10-02T16:41:03.450-07:0016 Creepy Ghost Stories to Add to Your TBR<center><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/MpjHXNB0/Creepy-Ghost-Stories-to-Add-to-Your-TBR.png" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></center>Halloween is vastly approaching and I love reading creepy ghost stories around Halloween and in the fall time. I thought I would share with you some novels involving creepy ghost stories that you can add to your fall TBR lists. Who doesn't love a good ghost story or haunted house?!<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio-x2b7KKSVNLd0WpEBcF1oYWOvbJmhgfxe_HNCSQs2_04DcJhBSWwAc6-qspjwZyZqc-xEli-evsYg9Ik-KMDxttoh5LpPnMkoO1rfJRxOVktw1bdkVNzkLHlwFvrtRUFpGSmEvXwyiAirg6cmyqn7-msVa2DAL3xgsN07MN1RjgQHwmyqiTg5TmL2OPl/s600/tumblr_be7023df67ee7c51cd91574110f91fd2_cf4600e6_640.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="600" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio-x2b7KKSVNLd0WpEBcF1oYWOvbJmhgfxe_HNCSQs2_04DcJhBSWwAc6-qspjwZyZqc-xEli-evsYg9Ik-KMDxttoh5LpPnMkoO1rfJRxOVktw1bdkVNzkLHlwFvrtRUFpGSmEvXwyiAirg6cmyqn7-msVa2DAL3xgsN07MN1RjgQHwmyqiTg5TmL2OPl/w640-h362/tumblr_be7023df67ee7c51cd91574110f91fd2_cf4600e6_640.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/46rJcrm" target="_blank">The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</a> by Washington Irving</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LHDP1S5?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=1d42a47422eefbed3362f01eed2798b0&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B09LHDP1S5&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals' stories of ghosts that he would hurry through the woods on his way home, singing to keep from hysterics. Until late one night, he finds that maybe they're not just stories. What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands? And why wasn't schoolteacher Crane ever seen in Sleepy Hollow again?<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B09LHDP1S5" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3tjG3eJ" target="_blank">Starling House</a> by Alix E. Harrow</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BQGH8FP2?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=ff687902b84baf45981040d43ebdebb4&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0BQGH8FP2&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all. Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B0BQGH8FP2" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/46x7BMm" target="_blank">The Shining</a> by Stephen King</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BANK32?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=c6aa08286de52d2b726a2339c54bec41&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B001BANK32&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B001BANK32" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3PDpodL" target="_blank">The Graveyard Book</a> by Neil Gaiman</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011UJM48?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=940703929512696ff5f9d9f0225634c4&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0011UJM48&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family. A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B0011UJM48" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">5. <a href="https://amzn.to/3PTiCSt" target="_blank">The Carrow Haunt</a> by Darcy Coates</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BRC39PK?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=1a62bb0f31004ba61bbb18dd5bdeaa26&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B07BRC39PK&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>"The dead are restless here..." Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host seven guests for a week-long stay to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. Doors open on their own. Seances go disastrously wrong. Red liquid seeps from behind the wallpaper. Their spirit medium wanders through the house during the night, seemingly in a trance. Then one of the guests dies under strange circumstances, and Remy is forced to consider the possibility that the ghost of the house's original owner, a twisted serial killer, still walks the halls. But by then it's too late to escape.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B07BRC39PK" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">6. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rB931d" target="_blank">The Broken Girls</a> by Simone St. James</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0738KSJ8F?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=86ed27a357c073616a0af000f649d226&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0738KSJ8F&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B0738KSJ8F" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" />A breakout suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare. Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming--until one of them mysteriously disappears. . . . Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death. Twenty years ago, her body was found lying in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And though her sister's boyfriend was tried and convicted of murder, Fiona can't shake the suspicion that something was never right about the case. When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymous benefactor, she decides to write a story about it. But a shocking discovery during the renovations will link the loss of her sister to secrets that were meant to stay hidden in the past--and a voice that won't be silenced. . . .<div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="https://amzn.to/48Bgnue" target="_blank">The Exorcist's House</a> by Nick Roberts</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exorcists-House-Nick-Roberts-ebook/dp/B09YVRPXC3?adid=082VK13VJJCZTQYGWWCZ&campaign=211041&keywords=The+Exorcist%27s+House&qid=1696027708&s=books&sr=1-1&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=b713441df1320f731791d3a72e287ee9&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B09YVRPXC3&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hills of West Virginia. Along with his wife, Nora, and their teenage daughter, Alice, the family uproots their lives in Ohio and moves south. At first, they are seduced by the natural beauty of the farm and enjoy the bonding experience of fixing the old house, but that all changes when they discover a hidden room in the basement with a well, boarded shut and adorned with crucifixes. Local legends about the previous owner’s predilection for performing exorcisms come to light, but by then, all Hell has broken loose.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B09YVRPXC3" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">8. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RGZxEy" target="_blank">The Whispering Dead</a> by Darcy Coates</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08K77CDP4?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=e2e5925f12999688c8c8d843cdba58d8&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B08K77CDP4&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect. And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering. The cemetery is alive with faint, spectral shapes, led by a woman who died before her time... and Keira, the only person who can see her, has become her new target. Determined to help put the ghost to rest, Keira digs into the spirit's past life with the help of unlikely new friends, and discovers a history of deception, ill-fated love, and murder. But the past is not as simple as it seems, and Keira's time is running out. Tangled in a dangerous web, she has to find a way to free the spirit... even if it means offering her own life in return.<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B08K77CDP4" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">9. <a href="https://amzn.to/45bggTA" target="_blank">The Sun Down Motel</a> by Simone St. James</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Down-Motel-Simone-James/dp/0440000203?keywords=the+sun+down+motel&qid=1696027916&sr=8-1&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=6ba3dd4e782c1ca3a7e345b84f5bb627&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0440000203&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div>The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.<br /><br />Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City. But something isn't right at the Sun Down, and before long she's determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden…<img alt="" border="0" height="1" nz6x8c1jd="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=0440000203" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">10. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RO6mnT" target="_blank">The Haunting of Ashburn House</a> by Darcy Coates</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H0LB2HG?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=4053bd9bad286475297daebfb7932ee7&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B01H0LB2HG&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B01H0LB2HG" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div>Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and restless ghosts still walk the halls. They say it's the dwelling place of something cruel and sinister. But when Adrienne―desperate and in need of a place to stay―inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline... until darkness falls. Strange messages are etched into the walls. Furniture moves when she leaves the room. There's something here―something powerful, angry, and hell-bent on shaking things up. Worse, a grave hidden in the depths of the forest hints at a terrible, unforgivable secret. Eventually Adrienne can't ignore that a twisted thing lives in the house, its hungry eyes ever-watchful. Chasing the threads of a decades-old mystery, it isn't long before she realizes she's become prey to something deeply unnatural and intensely resentful. She has no idea how to escape. She has no idea how to survive. Only one thing is Ashburn's dead are not at rest.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">11. <a href="https://amzn.to/3LKbwgA" target="_blank">Through the Woods</a> by Emily Carroll</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FNVSVUC?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=fa87b60b5fae7d52499e4ed6d024111c&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00FNVSVUC&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B00FNVSVUC" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div>'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll. Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">12. <a href="https://amzn.to/45jn3ue" target="_blank">The Haunting of Maddy Clare</a> by Simone St. James</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006LU1MGO?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=499dad6d14c1e5be8bb5ce7d825a8565&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B006LU1MGO&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B006LU1MGO" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div>Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is haunting the barn where she committed suicide. Since Maddy hated men in life, it is Sarah's task to confront her in death. Soon Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle, for Maddy's ghost is real; she's angry; and she has powers that defy all reason. Can Sarah and Alistair's assistant, the rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance before she destroys them all?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">13. <a href="https://amzn.to/48DqWgv" target="_blank">The Haunting of Hill House</a> by Shirley Jackson</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143039989?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=c750c8e873748edcba6fde59e74c27c3&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0143039989&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=0143039989" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div>It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">14. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RHag1y" target="_blank">The Winter People</a> by Jennifer McMahon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EMXBD4S?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=249aeab65b16b6f508ded7eee3c159db&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00EMXBD4S&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B00EMXBD4S" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div>West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she's not the only person looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">15. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rrD9V3" target="_blank">The Invited</a> by Jennifer McMahon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CWGZXTK?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=4a4e98df63eaada6397e04bc6e7497d9&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B07CWGZXTK&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B07CWGZXTK" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" /><div>A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one . . . In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house--a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse--objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously. As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">16. <a href="https://amzn.to/3PzwzDM" target="_blank">The Book of Cold Cases</a> by Simone St. James</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097B3MDXJ?caller=Goodreads&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=a25a521f26aeb22f7fdbf9af86633539&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B097B3MDXJ&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a></div><div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B097B3MDXJ" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" uuia6lb0y="" width="1" />In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect--a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion. Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases--a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea's surprise, Beth says yes. They meet regularly at Beth's mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. Items move when she's not looking, and she could swear she's seen a girl outside the window. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart, charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn't right. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house? A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4l5jFwYeR-NM4XZdjGo5SRjhUYXvE1M4GITXJgUcqGeRtiTv5B2ABRLNbdmTiovNmfn2-lK4BLOr0ibTnNjMApsiOyu97p7RhMuDJ9by8KL0W5f_Hrwff0FOtelcR7lcO-XBCxKiDUbX67X-AjAkI48Wj0SgBHuBwkk5wh50ONeQDEFcpLxCVvhV9to3f/s3529/360_F_531346658_SMtVsR9vbCU2YOOTmiXOBQYPVD9b9MMx.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="3529" height="61" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4l5jFwYeR-NM4XZdjGo5SRjhUYXvE1M4GITXJgUcqGeRtiTv5B2ABRLNbdmTiovNmfn2-lK4BLOr0ibTnNjMApsiOyu97p7RhMuDJ9by8KL0W5f_Hrwff0FOtelcR7lcO-XBCxKiDUbX67X-AjAkI48Wj0SgBHuBwkk5wh50ONeQDEFcpLxCVvhV9to3f/w594-h61/360_F_531346658_SMtVsR9vbCU2YOOTmiXOBQYPVD9b9MMx.jpeg" width="594" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have you read any of the titles above?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kmFAB10OyXK8cujgpBwLJ6nmoi4k3HDgK63gqrOZT93JKbtS0VaaxUfyWrEYoylRe-ehPPrqwNhidexyLFiCqJF9hrLlzpC9USBYcACXMLphOvs3dhFaqGpYnZhCeaOo0PFjypSww6rqI_P12r5ZwtuNCeR5SRAMeNDrecC3gmRiGrRpROoYm4aFLhVY/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kmFAB10OyXK8cujgpBwLJ6nmoi4k3HDgK63gqrOZT93JKbtS0VaaxUfyWrEYoylRe-ehPPrqwNhidexyLFiCqJF9hrLlzpC9USBYcACXMLphOvs3dhFaqGpYnZhCeaOo0PFjypSww6rqI_P12r5ZwtuNCeR5SRAMeNDrecC3gmRiGrRpROoYm4aFLhVY/s1600/love-emily-2.png" width="200" /></a></div></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-49126112298398862932023-09-05T14:49:00.001-07:002023-09-05T14:49:50.754-07:00THE NERDY BOOKWORM READING CHALLENGE UPDATE<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <img height="361" src="https://i.postimg.cc/YSYBJm80/The-Nerdy-Bookworm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; color: #333333; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been a minute since I last updated my blog and everything The Nerdy Bookworm Challenge! I have been making my way through the last couple of challenge prompts by reading as much as I can lately. I am still trying to read 50 books this year. Here is what I have read since I last updated my blog.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>1. B</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">ook where the two main characters are "fake dating": <a href="https://amzn.to/3EtdXjS" target="_blank">Plays Wells With Others</a> by Lauren Blakely</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvMBCPA6Mzo6RoOjLRJJB57IOhdS4CzAO-Dsf2i3tEe0tDEnv46KEsYECmu3psyJWHTzc6DBd8A-jmn4T6wsl-l2eWr3dTL1SEPy0p944U4TWsWFXu6EcVwuRCZgu7yBBH67xw0gqUP-9c7Z_8abci_TShB_Hpa-byWsoXXrhORqw9yeVBgMGqSOTIAtlh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvMBCPA6Mzo6RoOjLRJJB57IOhdS4CzAO-Dsf2i3tEe0tDEnv46KEsYECmu3psyJWHTzc6DBd8A-jmn4T6wsl-l2eWr3dTL1SEPy0p944U4TWsWFXu6EcVwuRCZgu7yBBH67xw0gqUP-9c7Z_8abci_TShB_Hpa-byWsoXXrhORqw9yeVBgMGqSOTIAtlh=w200-h320" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">My Rating: ★★★★</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. <span style="text-align: center;">Listen to an audiobook: <a href="https://amzn.to/45YecPp">Ice Planet Barbarians</a> by Ruby Dixon</span></span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhp1zq3N8HkwQxoBROjdsbWXBWicmlpCnccy6mLFz0JS0xFsY1agW1c57bBPhkrRSXDkSJJ6w_UNh8LVP8-bg4IKBlKYqWcPK1y7icbKo09N3Oj5TZvNrHbJxyyCyhspkJ-wDjCKFiZK8YEAbo5nK8eYhZnXgYTCD2ZmhjntiRWgj1WlxM-GUN7yeoJqaQ5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="338" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhp1zq3N8HkwQxoBROjdsbWXBWicmlpCnccy6mLFz0JS0xFsY1agW1c57bBPhkrRSXDkSJJ6w_UNh8LVP8-bg4IKBlKYqWcPK1y7icbKo09N3Oj5TZvNrHbJxyyCyhspkJ-wDjCKFiZK8YEAbo5nK8eYhZnXgYTCD2ZmhjntiRWgj1WlxM-GUN7yeoJqaQ5=w216-h320" width="216" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span>My Rating: ★ DNF AT 50%</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIK-LTtAypt-YCykDMutl0zHuMzsfXKQcuH6OBFsDlf4ITJYrOtP1INBbxsN4F3qVfaXTeybC66D3wo6n2PB6OJCD0smnqxstkooxFszA3PwlvvrE3ofZMWH3N5HoREzfDA8BTJR6j5OI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.56.31+PM.png" style="color: #ff0095; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="78" data-original-width="406" height="38" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIK-LTtAypt-YCykDMutl0zHuMzsfXKQcuH6OBFsDlf4ITJYrOtP1INBbxsN4F3qVfaXTeybC66D3wo6n2PB6OJCD0smnqxstkooxFszA3PwlvvrE3ofZMWH3N5HoREzfDA8BTJR6j5OI/s200/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.56.31+PM.png" style="background: none; border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: left;"><span>3. <span style="color: black; text-align: left;">Book with a close proximity romance: <a href="https://amzn.to/45QcM9I" target="_blank">Credence</a> by Penelope Douglas</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTGGg1TF7BqY3aM87Q_4nDjhGN7ufajdmtyudotytuiLB95JQyrvUm_WwCf_gkirP50MO_WLfhqTM8ppmo68dUX9SUZWccV3fyTrF5nMz3OFyo8RE_9ff31jfxca6eV5kiQsQTmRgQD2ZwCxmgEjE5UO7SCUg7H0GC-IWqtiPFz-qmjxud3k7aZAtQaO7C" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="1313" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTGGg1TF7BqY3aM87Q_4nDjhGN7ufajdmtyudotytuiLB95JQyrvUm_WwCf_gkirP50MO_WLfhqTM8ppmo68dUX9SUZWccV3fyTrF5nMz3OFyo8RE_9ff31jfxca6eV5kiQsQTmRgQD2ZwCxmgEjE5UO7SCUg7H0GC-IWqtiPFz-qmjxud3k7aZAtQaO7C=w215-h320" width="215" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span>My Rating: ★ DNF AT 57%</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIK-LTtAypt-YCykDMutl0zHuMzsfXKQcuH6OBFsDlf4ITJYrOtP1INBbxsN4F3qVfaXTeybC66D3wo6n2PB6OJCD0smnqxstkooxFszA3PwlvvrE3ofZMWH3N5HoREzfDA8BTJR6j5OI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.56.31+PM.png" style="color: #ff0095; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="78" data-original-width="406" height="38" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIK-LTtAypt-YCykDMutl0zHuMzsfXKQcuH6OBFsDlf4ITJYrOtP1INBbxsN4F3qVfaXTeybC66D3wo6n2PB6OJCD0smnqxstkooxFszA3PwlvvrE3ofZMWH3N5HoREzfDA8BTJR6j5OI/s200/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+6.56.31+PM.png" style="background: none; border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><br /></div>4. Nonfiction book: <a href="https://amzn.to/3RcXNCy" target="_blank">Finding Hope In The Afterlife: An Honest Account of My Spiritual Journey and Afterlife Research</a> by Joshua Louis<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTpI9va4rzDeCozDHQhG_PF17-GHJLfDn7zJe_DfvYNCtmghMauavxqYPvhHUdgfly75N4Xo8J-xe_GwmNpRkyRPVTEnBKI5R4r_JmMUqogVPOArzIIiLfKq1HZTfMlE0azP8ig2go3Ninb2ZLiyZYx3rLuB4M-EoNNy9Ymt9NLBZpTWYj4kBWrSJEaOTM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTpI9va4rzDeCozDHQhG_PF17-GHJLfDn7zJe_DfvYNCtmghMauavxqYPvhHUdgfly75N4Xo8J-xe_GwmNpRkyRPVTEnBKI5R4r_JmMUqogVPOArzIIiLfKq1HZTfMlE0azP8ig2go3Ninb2ZLiyZYx3rLuB4M-EoNNy9Ymt9NLBZpTWYj4kBWrSJEaOTM=w207-h320" width="207" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: black;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Book that has been on your TBR for 2+ years or more: <a href="https://amzn.to/44LGg7v" target="_blank">Scythe</a> by Neal Shusterman</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEesLSdMjs-yUnJhc4ea4WGP1y4dl2GuHdsxSvMpGc8PuDx6xXQHZJoaVPn2oUTVG5B5Tw3rR0wcvhN83Yf-VI_e_wKkiPqhBa_v9kPLlBK3bj3HRzzqhFCZnANvP4_F0BpMnmRe2XLJ0cc43oAGdDhUdXY6sKekuPiNQJrQei838WaSa8um-QIfw5BYn4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2551" data-original-width="1688" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEesLSdMjs-yUnJhc4ea4WGP1y4dl2GuHdsxSvMpGc8PuDx6xXQHZJoaVPn2oUTVG5B5Tw3rR0wcvhN83Yf-VI_e_wKkiPqhBa_v9kPLlBK3bj3HRzzqhFCZnANvP4_F0BpMnmRe2XLJ0cc43oAGdDhUdXY6sKekuPiNQJrQei838WaSa8um-QIfw5BYn4=w212-h320" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span>My Rating: ★★★★★</span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span>6. A book that </span><span>has a </span><span><span style="color: #674ea7;">purple</span> </span><span>cover: <a href="https://amzn.to/45Cv26B" target="_blank">Paper Girls Volume</a></span><span><a href="https://amzn.to/45Cv26B" target="_blank"> 5</a> by Brian K. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Vaughan</span></span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk-8_rWS9O6jPGuM2O1zbaAbrt_cj6RekAjlieifZqmXEdSefOCpRDWA0_6XhO_1bhVaMJXWNVpgOk2qgpd79AaPcxRGAB_dreeErtwvYhXAbZ8ybPTFMxSqNUq5FCyb1v-uHEhJL5gqqI0HnPzAd5pIZLih7my7D_sqrjpcmdFp-z61e7aLCvyS_n8Qdz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk-8_rWS9O6jPGuM2O1zbaAbrt_cj6RekAjlieifZqmXEdSefOCpRDWA0_6XhO_1bhVaMJXWNVpgOk2qgpd79AaPcxRGAB_dreeErtwvYhXAbZ8ybPTFMxSqNUq5FCyb1v-uHEhJL5gqqI0HnPzAd5pIZLih7my7D_sqrjpcmdFp-z61e7aLCvyS_n8Qdz=w208-h320" width="208" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span>My Rating: ★★★★★</span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div><br /></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div><center><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="1031" src="https://i.postimg.cc/5t2vKKtY/bingo-nerdybookworm-3-2.png" width="580" /></span></center><center><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am making my way through all of the prompts listed above. Have you read any of the titles above? What did you think of them?</span></center><center><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-family: inherit;">xoxo,</span></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></center>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-11115249495715770562023-07-27T14:49:00.001-07:002023-07-27T14:49:11.075-07:00Plays Well With Others<center><img height="380" src="https://i.postimg.cc/269zCTXV/Plays-Well-With-Others.png" width="674" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5sLgExCJoCEuXa1QcZRFraGayC0CotVzsj54J7z-E2QJUYnry-okaOP3Fxys8gAvUau6QgZrn8lDLMLg2O9Da6iCjsBcaa_4OdGuF3RVwD3w9IeG38FDGGh7JMK0eM3fj6po80VKkRcyQP9JBqLXcv8A0gDhivmYH-ASKtEy8UYU_ym6YOqzxmHFMkOp9" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5sLgExCJoCEuXa1QcZRFraGayC0CotVzsj54J7z-E2QJUYnry-okaOP3Fxys8gAvUau6QgZrn8lDLMLg2O9Da6iCjsBcaa_4OdGuF3RVwD3w9IeG38FDGGh7JMK0eM3fj6po80VKkRcyQP9JBqLXcv8A0gDhivmYH-ASKtEy8UYU_ym6YOqzxmHFMkOp9=w200-h320" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Plays Well With Others</span></span><br style="background-color: white; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Author: Lauren Blakely</span></span><br style="background-color: white; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre: Romance</span></span><br style="background-color: white; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Published: July 12, 2023</span></span><br style="background-color: white; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Pages: 422</span></span><br style="background-color: white; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; 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border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: normal;">Am I fake dating my best friend? Hear me out... </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So I'm throwing myself a breakup party, a glittery fete where I envision I'll lift a glass and celebrate being free and single again. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">What I actually do: Drink too much champagne and blurt out to my best guy friend that I'd really like to get back on the horse. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">But what I truly don't expect is Carter's answer - he volunteers as tribute. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">With his sinful brown eyes and too-good-to-be-true body it'd be no hardship for me to say yes, though I certainly don't want him to feel obligated to, um, service me, just because my failed, loveless marriage was a s-e-x desert. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">But since the charming and confident pro football star owes five public dates to his dating app sponsor, we make a deal to help each other out. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Pretty soon, our public how to date lessons turn into, ahem, very private ones. And I'm a star student, graduating quickly from flirty banter and lingering looks to toe-curling, sheet-grabbing, mind-blowing hours of physical education. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">The problem? Turns out learning to date again feels a lot like the real thing. Can our friendship withstand all these late-night bedroom sessions? </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Especially since I'm suddenly longing for my best friend and there's nothing fake about my feelings...</span></span></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgnTuyl2b04V26hmABwFdwy1UAlIy5pVTcR4yISvJfikGkpIKIpGTcDWS4H9rPw2ntbksaEAd9B5Ad8DLDFkR1YJb-pXWCXlO9vyLDb4h07v2kfqR-oMQg9dW7AaBequP4Zzw750cGbInXHtLSxuwZxc1irSLDLRpj-ZNdyYUjiuyWpcBRf6HRGYJYkg=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="640" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgnTuyl2b04V26hmABwFdwy1UAlIy5pVTcR4yISvJfikGkpIKIpGTcDWS4H9rPw2ntbksaEAd9B5Ad8DLDFkR1YJb-pXWCXlO9vyLDb4h07v2kfqR-oMQg9dW7AaBequP4Zzw750cGbInXHtLSxuwZxc1irSLDLRpj-ZNdyYUjiuyWpcBRf6HRGYJYkg=w640-h168" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">A girl falls for her best friend.</span></p><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJUKLj4qv3rc4rt54PAZ5yCsergaGe5xb8uU7XhtG-zTAJ780Qz8Ji_wQD7IgZmtE5O4EmFQkIPRWprA1SK4sU4TiJ7eOD-HXz33sBtbheb3UtnI3-eSXiN4BadNLueJiAs4Jb_V_1XdYJdkxcDA8ICJh7kuuxHIh-7YL7J_uOHzXb4F95ESBLN9P4g=s640" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="640" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJUKLj4qv3rc4rt54PAZ5yCsergaGe5xb8uU7XhtG-zTAJ780Qz8Ji_wQD7IgZmtE5O4EmFQkIPRWprA1SK4sU4TiJ7eOD-HXz33sBtbheb3UtnI3-eSXiN4BadNLueJiAs4Jb_V_1XdYJdkxcDA8ICJh7kuuxHIh-7YL7J_uOHzXb4F95ESBLN9P4g=w640-h148" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial !important; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am so blessed to be on Lauren Blakely's review team. I get access to all of her books prior to them coming out for honest reviews in exchange. Lauren is one of my favorite authors and there's nothing she has written that I will not read. I have loved every book by her that I have read so far. All of her books that I have read are just sooooo good. Plays Well With Others is no exception. I absolutely adored this book and her latest release! </span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had such a good time reading this book. There were many times while reading this book that I was smiling or blushing while reading. This book has the best spicey scenes written to date by Lauren. I don't want to give anything away but the shower scene she wrote is one of the best I have ever read when it comes to steamy hot scenes. </span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I loved these main characters and the ADHD representation. This is an amazing friend to lover's book. Friends to lovers is one of my favorite book tropes and this one did not disappoint. I normally do not like sport romances but this one I enjoyed probably because there weren't as much sports in the actual book/story. This book had fake dating as well which left for an intriguing read that kept me entirely entertained. </span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This book was so hot and that spatula spanking scene had me on my toes and kept me all kinds of blushing. Lauren, you write amazing romances in all the best ways. The tension was nothing short of perfection. Carter is a new favorite book boyfriend you will absolutely love!</span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq2-ZE9WN1fUQKBDvJQ_Na6VAvRqk9idGo7fRMOPYKtBTF2IkDAZs43oyS3pYp2E7cmcT2iK0jNIP1BXiKf9HZb0yTQq5jEOt0QzI__reh4Qn-l7-MnRIn4diwYqNNTfhksf0AnYgHLykHhwC3rcrJrHftdNXGJrAdvspnID5I90RPKACScS4n851_4V4l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="640" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq2-ZE9WN1fUQKBDvJQ_Na6VAvRqk9idGo7fRMOPYKtBTF2IkDAZs43oyS3pYp2E7cmcT2iK0jNIP1BXiKf9HZb0yTQq5jEOt0QzI__reh4Qn-l7-MnRIn4diwYqNNTfhksf0AnYgHLykHhwC3rcrJrHftdNXGJrAdvspnID5I90RPKACScS4n851_4V4l=w640-h154" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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border: 0px; font-family: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><blockquote style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 228, 225); border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible<br style="outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><br style="outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" />Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sexy, sweet, and witty. She also writes USA Today bestselling LGBTQ romance. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with more than 55 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 4.5 million books. A Brown University graduate, Lauren likes dogs, cake, and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.</span></blockquote></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkQHGNGrQPsluTsGw8PTfF7nLLVeW9B8wpTbOEFPdR7hhqK0xCX9C4bgU6GgZ3FQUpINZzJ-80R_F_hqPzCDxElzcJPFhhbLkiNDNQuXlKbNmBLhrtMP7lrVxd-8xhRI-42N6ZhnK306XfbQibL9ZUnf5i-v7rJvJlsxuvwBHuMmuR_QisSs44w6zX5w=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="640" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkQHGNGrQPsluTsGw8PTfF7nLLVeW9B8wpTbOEFPdR7hhqK0xCX9C4bgU6GgZ3FQUpINZzJ-80R_F_hqPzCDxElzcJPFhhbLkiNDNQuXlKbNmBLhrtMP7lrVxd-8xhRI-42N6ZhnK306XfbQibL9ZUnf5i-v7rJvJlsxuvwBHuMmuR_QisSs44w6zX5w=w640-h50" style="background: 0px 0px; 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background-size: initial; border: none; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name='more'></a></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been making my way through books. I have finally ended my reading slump. Reading graphic novels has really helped to keep me out of a reading slump but also helps me reach all of my yearly reading goals. I love looking at pretty illustrations. Since I last updated my Nerdy Bookworm Reading Challenge I have read a decent amount of new books that I thought I would share with ya'll.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are all the books that I have read since I last updated my blog:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. A book with more than 300 pages: <a href="https://amzn.to/3JZ0B1X" target="_blank">Stinger</a> by Mia Sheridan</span></p><p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body" style="--font-size: 19.5639px; --line-height: 1.4; line-height: 27px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="WdYUQQ text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTuSOMl7vg9BrigBvXdCzkEtRSygdVDq12BcaqJAQwq3GvXWSt9AE2LVQrubMTZ8-W0rLvK14lSpBCAsG8ntOvrMaj5ekSeUWYf5HhWmVIO8rfEELjHvOIT8K3vmirJMdGdn7yQZoD5nCVN6TAg5VwdGcuF852pH-sxBCFIV_MjSjyW5Ngs6Lt1BH9Iv96" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="297" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTuSOMl7vg9BrigBvXdCzkEtRSygdVDq12BcaqJAQwq3GvXWSt9AE2LVQrubMTZ8-W0rLvK14lSpBCAsG8ntOvrMaj5ekSeUWYf5HhWmVIO8rfEELjHvOIT8K3vmirJMdGdn7yQZoD5nCVN6TAg5VwdGcuF852pH-sxBCFIV_MjSjyW5Ngs6Lt1BH9Iv96=w200-h320" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Rating: ★★★★</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Book set around wartime: <a href="https://amzn.to/3NPwMSt" target="_blank">Saga Vol. 4</a> by Brian K. Vaughan</span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOVNI2JDuayZ-1XAUYqV96chtdkCOHn3dkFyTsPkdOhdiJjM_U-blGad2FqEDLMfOVf-8nccOm0uaV4kyzH8-aAOyBsBV8F8E2oZ800ocF0gmA8tUa8LaOz3mqBi_UoILIRZWehcAKeNAxRpoQSDVirJnsnsTlzoS0fohdUWqOalKzAXRGzIeU4a15EjSJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOVNI2JDuayZ-1XAUYqV96chtdkCOHn3dkFyTsPkdOhdiJjM_U-blGad2FqEDLMfOVf-8nccOm0uaV4kyzH8-aAOyBsBV8F8E2oZ800ocF0gmA8tUa8LaOz3mqBi_UoILIRZWehcAKeNAxRpoQSDVirJnsnsTlzoS0fohdUWqOalKzAXRGzIeU4a15EjSJ=w208-h320" width="208" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Rating: ★★★★★</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Read a book that is hyped online: <a href="https://amzn.to/3PXuByJ" target="_blank">Sage Vol. 5</a> by Brian K. Vaughan</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjk0c23ZnjKwuSTMnlPZlKAssIQAvix2JS-JyoCHRv8RHM0_m5kWL11gCi3yPvQhdDTdUKcof3pT0AI8MFHrEwFRruRkwZTg24KwA9OuRroQ84oOvhBEBCOwyFPf3aQJwtbhi5HsDJfZSvxUgYguwX8Ti5IcG0uq7MuDBWWYh7HbuQQiaL3LUDeNQavkAxb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjk0c23ZnjKwuSTMnlPZlKAssIQAvix2JS-JyoCHRv8RHM0_m5kWL11gCi3yPvQhdDTdUKcof3pT0AI8MFHrEwFRruRkwZTg24KwA9OuRroQ84oOvhBEBCOwyFPf3aQJwtbhi5HsDJfZSvxUgYguwX8Ti5IcG0uq7MuDBWWYh7HbuQQiaL3LUDeNQavkAxb=w208-h320" width="208" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Rating: ★★★★★</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Book that has one of your favorite book tropes in it: (TIME TRAVEL) <a href="https://amzn.to/3pPgCQZ" target="_blank">Paper Girls Vol. 3</a> by Brian K. Vaughan</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzFGxd9wrSorsY4GYH_4skt9gSucOw323oTpGM468-TJMDdMnptpyru-OyVtex0cxXM-hZRMca-3LzKSZD_MZKks6xsGj0YtYKeDrHc_ZIxedUbz_TqGqxDbcrUTd64StIinJJV_2jXORtHSKLPrSYcXtwdFNd1yY9LdPlMROF6BpDrZIArSVU7cf7OBph" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzFGxd9wrSorsY4GYH_4skt9gSucOw323oTpGM468-TJMDdMnptpyru-OyVtex0cxXM-hZRMca-3LzKSZD_MZKks6xsGj0YtYKeDrHc_ZIxedUbz_TqGqxDbcrUTd64StIinJJV_2jXORtHSKLPrSYcXtwdFNd1yY9LdPlMROF6BpDrZIArSVU7cf7OBph=w208-h320" width="208" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Rating: ★★★★★</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Free Space: <a href="https://amzn.to/44MprK8" target="_blank">Paper Girls Vol.4</a> by Brian K. Vaughan</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi3823FBdrypAITkIr0-jmDHfjS6PvvUZkShPKhtYavKFj21Zb-WhyCTTx7g0WqXM_Q6LUksmgNiYNc8miP72Zbj6s3tPa-RC-o1wrb3GYHXjfy2jXvIzNsXWxdnFculVqlwD6qpag54QaN36iT_6tyDRnWAN9tuqkKdXnch-_rtRG1W2KpVkCmXZ0wiOj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi3823FBdrypAITkIr0-jmDHfjS6PvvUZkShPKhtYavKFj21Zb-WhyCTTx7g0WqXM_Q6LUksmgNiYNc8miP72Zbj6s3tPa-RC-o1wrb3GYHXjfy2jXvIzNsXWxdnFculVqlwD6qpag54QaN36iT_6tyDRnWAN9tuqkKdXnch-_rtRG1W2KpVkCmXZ0wiOj=w208-h320" width="208" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Rating: ★★★★★</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Book set in a place where you have visited: (ARIZONA) <a href="https://amzn.to/3XUfhFl" target="_blank">The Kingmaker</a> by Kennedy Ryan</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjosANYrd8gxYY1et0-LqF5F0Zxi0WmWLS3H6ysJsRU4F8yjMLo3sbDk2oSPeRT7w9h212tyq6xaw4b8v1-XD9HAnv2d2vIuvY1qBxPMK8Qzurj1T04dlZZq6BXHbLdDdQGZeOByaPKQ6Vkwx_YIkpfENptlAJkM4pPPYrohmXIRBk5fRcfl6ufODFrpZOS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3150" data-original-width="2100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjosANYrd8gxYY1et0-LqF5F0Zxi0WmWLS3H6ysJsRU4F8yjMLo3sbDk2oSPeRT7w9h212tyq6xaw4b8v1-XD9HAnv2d2vIuvY1qBxPMK8Qzurj1T04dlZZq6BXHbLdDdQGZeOByaPKQ6Vkwx_YIkpfENptlAJkM4pPPYrohmXIRBk5fRcfl6ufODFrpZOS=w213-h320" width="213" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Rating: ★★★★</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">7. <span style="color: black; text-align: center;">A book that discusses death, grief, and or moving on: <a href="https://amzn.to/44FmXOl" target="_blank">Pen Pal</a> by J.T. Geissinger</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcboUxplFLwbPkGeAuo-3kwaf2rw-WlODDKw8PTZxRxLyrADL2_w3bbGBHsYYL-1Nq1h69bNnXZYXdfEaCsNpq7PEvTH4B-VqOrMxEzyVIcAyM67WFc1XL1HP_FPGmbxJiFS1VTaa5NoaAaV3_8UinADjPI05fgpSlfPTNxnFnfewrwwW2yaYJdBFb5Ts7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1287" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcboUxplFLwbPkGeAuo-3kwaf2rw-WlODDKw8PTZxRxLyrADL2_w3bbGBHsYYL-1Nq1h69bNnXZYXdfEaCsNpq7PEvTH4B-VqOrMxEzyVIcAyM67WFc1XL1HP_FPGmbxJiFS1VTaa5NoaAaV3_8UinADjPI05fgpSlfPTNxnFnfewrwwW2yaYJdBFb5Ts7=w205-h320" width="205" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">8. A book that has a cover you love: <a href="https://amzn.to/3pPWJJE" target="_blank">Saga Vol. 6</a> by Brian K. Vaughan</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaan4R1029ESbc5JP0ywO6rGtmmIq2ZZNpVhe0NlJhk28UVh9XSs0gMfMT3NpxQlK7TPK4R8CS31_KJW30fe46JLcw_tpRItCP8bmyYSzHko6_fRi3tSbjvP_13D_jWrqpAozzfC0mYmH5Oq9DGf3VkucLh8po-K_stA9RN6inyTk8htVh85qLz-_HHUjK" style="margin-left: 1em; 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vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div></div><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="965" src="https://i.postimg.cc/MpFQVFGx/bingo-nerdybookworm-3-1.png" width="543" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have you read any of the books above?</span></span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; 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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tropes: Forbidden Romance/Enemies to Lovers</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cover Design: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Photographer: Anders Kavin</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"></span><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new forbidden, enemies-to-lovers story…</span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It all started with an unexpected phone call.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two years after my fiancé passed away in an accident, his father died suddenly, leaving Brad’s adult, special-needs brother with no one to care for him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The next thing I knew, I was on a cross-country drive to New Hampshire where I’d be moving in to look after Scottie until I could get him into a group home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last thing I ever expected?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I wouldn’t be taking care of him alone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Josh Mathers, my fiance’s best friend—who also happened to be my sworn enemy—insisted he was the better person for the job. He told me to go back to California, and I told him where he could stick that demand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our disdain for each other wasn’t anything new. It dated back to a text I’d accidentally read years ago.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We hated each other. But we both loved Scottie, so neither of us budged.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now we were living together in a tiny house—with one available bedroom. Thank goodness it was only temporary.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over time, I realized the broody jerk I thought I knew was different than I’d imagined.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I found myself slowly growing attached to someone I once considered the enemy…and growing attracted to him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sure, both of us were guilt-ridden over Brad. We were also two grown people with pent-up frustration toward one another—stuck in a cabin in the woods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But this was <i>Josh</i>.</div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>I could never.</i></div></i></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling
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television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son,
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million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author
of over twenty novels. Her books have been translated into over a dozen
languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-64364020027718677262023-06-29T15:24:00.004-07:002023-06-29T15:24:47.203-07:00The Kingmaker<center><img height="364" src="https://i.postimg.cc/FRpGpDLp/The-Kingmaker-Book-Review.png" width="647" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkFrLg2rq20sxtGqmnxrGIr_1eo1Wyb4091pqMJxdFg3fSHaqsbEPQSdrZ9mTK9XUB2cpI0FoZ059JLreJc8koor7jEg6svWDgSw-HSc9sWPOkXcjzLwgjUJPyqvxofItflvlqnlYos220iSXyXwtHKWxJb7uvQQbV6IAVRPOE5ppQkE99qKBc5v8mO-A/s3150/45024651.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3150" data-original-width="2100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkFrLg2rq20sxtGqmnxrGIr_1eo1Wyb4091pqMJxdFg3fSHaqsbEPQSdrZ9mTK9XUB2cpI0FoZ059JLreJc8koor7jEg6svWDgSw-HSc9sWPOkXcjzLwgjUJPyqvxofItflvlqnlYos220iSXyXwtHKWxJb7uvQQbV6IAVRPOE5ppQkE99qKBc5v8mO-A/s320/45024651.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Kingmaker</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="53" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNvw0JDx55_uXOqDxuf0kmLUKw3gERLJJBAGsZG4-f-Ia_M_c6FP-NVfM1G7od7vfbqFb06tcq2wbCWt4k72ZQqoj6X-KfhulIvmdBWfdXDrJIG53u7YTlt6_vAFAYhTuo8pcb8ynhyphenhyphenVw/s0/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+7.02.49+PM.png" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Raised to rule, bred to lead and weaned on a diet of ruthless ambition. In a world of haves and have nots, my family has it all, and I want nothing to do with it. </span><span>My path takes me far from home and paints me as the black sheep. At odds with my father, I’m determined to build my own empire. I have rules, but Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of them. From the moment we meet, something sparks between us. But my family stole from hers and my father is the man she hates most. I lied to have her, and would do anything to keep her. Though she tries to hate me, too, the inexorable pull between us will not be denied. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">And neither will I.</i></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgnTuyl2b04V26hmABwFdwy1UAlIy5pVTcR4yISvJfikGkpIKIpGTcDWS4H9rPw2ntbksaEAd9B5Ad8DLDFkR1YJb-pXWCXlO9vyLDb4h07v2kfqR-oMQg9dW7AaBequP4Zzw750cGbInXHtLSxuwZxc1irSLDLRpj-ZNdyYUjiuyWpcBRf6HRGYJYkg=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="640" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgnTuyl2b04V26hmABwFdwy1UAlIy5pVTcR4yISvJfikGkpIKIpGTcDWS4H9rPw2ntbksaEAd9B5Ad8DLDFkR1YJb-pXWCXlO9vyLDb4h07v2kfqR-oMQg9dW7AaBequP4Zzw750cGbInXHtLSxuwZxc1irSLDLRpj-ZNdyYUjiuyWpcBRf6HRGYJYkg=w640-h168" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">A virgin can't get over the guy she gave her virginity to. </span></p><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJUKLj4qv3rc4rt54PAZ5yCsergaGe5xb8uU7XhtG-zTAJ780Qz8Ji_wQD7IgZmtE5O4EmFQkIPRWprA1SK4sU4TiJ7eOD-HXz33sBtbheb3UtnI3-eSXiN4BadNLueJiAs4Jb_V_1XdYJdkxcDA8ICJh7kuuxHIh-7YL7J_uOHzXb4F95ESBLN9P4g=s640" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="640" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJUKLj4qv3rc4rt54PAZ5yCsergaGe5xb8uU7XhtG-zTAJ780Qz8Ji_wQD7IgZmtE5O4EmFQkIPRWprA1SK4sU4TiJ7eOD-HXz33sBtbheb3UtnI3-eSXiN4BadNLueJiAs4Jb_V_1XdYJdkxcDA8ICJh7kuuxHIh-7YL7J_uOHzXb4F95ESBLN9P4g=w640-h148" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was my first Kennedy Ryan novel and I was happily surprised at how much I liked this book. It was spicy in all of the best ways. Plus, this book was so much more than just your average spicy romance it had a lot of substance to it, and reading the novel kept me highly engaged and wanting to know what was going to happen to our two main characters. </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The novel had a lot of heart to it and made me think a lot about life on the reservation for Native Americans and how as a society we have made those people assimilate to our customs. It was such a powerful romance read that many times while reading the story, I was blown away by how beautiful the writing style was and the deeper meaning behind the novel.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While a virgin falling in love with the main hero trope isn't one of my favorites in this novel it just worked for me. I cared deeply about the main characters and was rooting for them to get together the whole entire novel.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The only downside is the slow burn between the two of them and that it took them over ten years to finally admit their true feelings for one another. The diversity in the novel was nothing short of beautiful and I even loved the parts that were set in my state of Arizona. </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Kingmaker was one powerful read and I plan on continuing to read the other books in the series as well as Ryan's other works because I loved her writing so much. This book gave me hope and opened my eyes to a completely new and beautiful culture/heritage. That ending and cliffhanger just about ended me and punched me right in the gut. AN AMAZING READ!</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2WaISUG_f0fnkT0G-cQ1PSmqG1F8MKnnAY0nkD_fIRl7z9IunH8J7CpaSLzUx46wqU_1witnIhGgnvmIxbHn-O-UuSZvznS2piD7-im3y5CahsYc0sb_vu5mPA7HzOG1qviqFqMJwTKyxx0JLJA4DbJMhv_3bTdt2g_A0g1AtNbia7ADgDQJkoOyI4w=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; 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background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A RITA® Award Winner and Top 25 Amazon Bestseller, Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son. She has always leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit organizations, but enjoys writing to raise Autism awareness most. A contributor for Modern Mom Magazine, Kennedy’s writings have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today, and many others. The founder and executive director of a foundation serving Atlanta families living with Autism, she has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR, and other media outlets as an advocate for families living with autism.</span></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkQHGNGrQPsluTsGw8PTfF7nLLVeW9B8wpTbOEFPdR7hhqK0xCX9C4bgU6GgZ3FQUpINZzJ-80R_F_hqPzCDxElzcJPFhhbLkiNDNQuXlKbNmBLhrtMP7lrVxd-8xhRI-42N6ZhnK306XfbQibL9ZUnf5i-v7rJvJlsxuvwBHuMmuR_QisSs44w6zX5w=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="640" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkQHGNGrQPsluTsGw8PTfF7nLLVeW9B8wpTbOEFPdR7hhqK0xCX9C4bgU6GgZ3FQUpINZzJ-80R_F_hqPzCDxElzcJPFhhbLkiNDNQuXlKbNmBLhrtMP7lrVxd-8xhRI-42N6ZhnK306XfbQibL9ZUnf5i-v7rJvJlsxuvwBHuMmuR_QisSs44w6zX5w=w640-h50" style="background: 0px 0px; 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padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Tryst</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Author: Lauren Blakely</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Genre: Romance</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Published: April 5, 2023</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Pages: 454</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; 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background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNvw0JDx55_uXOqDxuf0kmLUKw3gERLJJBAGsZG4-f-Ia_M_c6FP-NVfM1G7od7vfbqFb06tcq2wbCWt4k72ZQqoj6X-KfhulIvmdBWfdXDrJIG53u7YTlt6_vAFAYhTuo8pcb8ynhyphenhyphenVw/s200/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+7.02.49+PM.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #fb78cf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="53" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNvw0JDx55_uXOqDxuf0kmLUKw3gERLJJBAGsZG4-f-Ia_M_c6FP-NVfM1G7od7vfbqFb06tcq2wbCWt4k72ZQqoj6X-KfhulIvmdBWfdXDrJIG53u7YTlt6_vAFAYhTuo8pcb8ynhyphenhyphenVw/s0/Screen+Shot+2020-01-19+at+7.02.49+PM.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Some men are just off-limits. Like your ex-boyfriend’s father. </span>But when I met the sexy, powerful older man shortly after my business school graduation, he was simply the seductive stranger I wanted to notice me, and he sure did. </span><span>Fast forward a few months later, when my college ex – now a good friend – introduces me to the person he looks up to most…his father. </span><span>The man I spent that one hot night with. </span><span>I should stay far away from the commanding business mogul. But my ex and I are planning a charity fundraiser that involves late nights at his dad’s penthouse in Manhattan. </span><span>Nights where he can’t stop looking at me with desire in his eyes that matches my own. </span><span>I try to resist him, playing the good girl in the city…mostly. </span><span>He’s the perfect gentleman…until he comes knocking on my door and tells me exactly what he wants to do to me. </span><span>And I say yes. </span><span>Stealing nights with him like this is supposed to be wrong, but it feels so right. And when he saves the day to protect his son at the fundraiser, my heart wants him as much as my body does. </span><span>Can we ever be more than just a tryst?</span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgnTuyl2b04V26hmABwFdwy1UAlIy5pVTcR4yISvJfikGkpIKIpGTcDWS4H9rPw2ntbksaEAd9B5Ad8DLDFkR1YJb-pXWCXlO9vyLDb4h07v2kfqR-oMQg9dW7AaBequP4Zzw750cGbInXHtLSxuwZxc1irSLDLRpj-ZNdyYUjiuyWpcBRf6HRGYJYkg=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="640" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgnTuyl2b04V26hmABwFdwy1UAlIy5pVTcR4yISvJfikGkpIKIpGTcDWS4H9rPw2ntbksaEAd9B5Ad8DLDFkR1YJb-pXWCXlO9vyLDb4h07v2kfqR-oMQg9dW7AaBequP4Zzw750cGbInXHtLSxuwZxc1irSLDLRpj-ZNdyYUjiuyWpcBRf6HRGYJYkg=w640-h168" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A girl falls for her ex-boyfriend's father.</span><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJUKLj4qv3rc4rt54PAZ5yCsergaGe5xb8uU7XhtG-zTAJ780Qz8Ji_wQD7IgZmtE5O4EmFQkIPRWprA1SK4sU4TiJ7eOD-HXz33sBtbheb3UtnI3-eSXiN4BadNLueJiAs4Jb_V_1XdYJdkxcDA8ICJh7kuuxHIh-7YL7J_uOHzXb4F95ESBLN9P4g=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="640" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJUKLj4qv3rc4rt54PAZ5yCsergaGe5xb8uU7XhtG-zTAJ780Qz8Ji_wQD7IgZmtE5O4EmFQkIPRWprA1SK4sU4TiJ7eOD-HXz33sBtbheb3UtnI3-eSXiN4BadNLueJiAs4Jb_V_1XdYJdkxcDA8ICJh7kuuxHIh-7YL7J_uOHzXb4F95ESBLN9P4g=w640-h148" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">I didn't even know this was book two in a series but I read it as a standalone and it still made sense that way. Lauren Blakely is my girl and one of my favorite romance authors for a reason. I am so blessed to be a part of her review team where I get to read her books before they come out for my honest opinions. This novel did not disappoint. It was steamy in all the best ways. I love the trope of a girl falling in love with an older man.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: inherit;">While it was not my favorite book Lauren has ever written I still adored it. I loved the elements of pushing forward and moving on even in hard times. I love the extended epilogue that you could download later too. The resolution with the main heroine's mother was also a tear-jerker moment for me.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">I loved this age gap, virgin, falling for your ex-boyfriend's dad romance! Plus, the dual perspective adds so much more to the story! Lauren, you have done it again!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2WaISUG_f0fnkT0G-cQ1PSmqG1F8MKnnAY0nkD_fIRl7z9IunH8J7CpaSLzUx46wqU_1witnIhGgnvmIxbHn-O-UuSZvznS2piD7-im3y5CahsYc0sb_vu5mPA7HzOG1qviqFqMJwTKyxx0JLJA4DbJMhv_3bTdt2g_A0g1AtNbia7ADgDQJkoOyI4w=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="640" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2WaISUG_f0fnkT0G-cQ1PSmqG1F8MKnnAY0nkD_fIRl7z9IunH8J7CpaSLzUx46wqU_1witnIhGgnvmIxbHn-O-UuSZvznS2piD7-im3y5CahsYc0sb_vu5mPA7HzOG1qviqFqMJwTKyxx0JLJA4DbJMhv_3bTdt2g_A0g1AtNbia7ADgDQJkoOyI4w=w640-h154" style="background: 0px 0px; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px; text-align: start; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible<br style="outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" /><br style="outline: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s;" />Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sexy, sweet, and witty. She also writes USA Today bestselling LGBTQ romance. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with more than 55 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 4.5 million books. A Brown University graduate, Lauren likes dogs, cake, and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.</span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1iVCCIUF2F1X1b-o48vEZr6IG6CvmEwtbs1sjRzuUf8sdPcGri-p2GlW0b53Qz-rLASsi9Nbn5ibeQTduvipnZ37ckpWCLMtcW0dXWikf-MNr8iP1p0JJrjz1nmioJOFbxC-hU9wGpz0vcBfs1wOHEAK4jEBk8yeYpcKxtCgtphl-H2LyLUpK7LM_IQ=s640" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; clear: none; color: #fb78cf; float: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="640" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1iVCCIUF2F1X1b-o48vEZr6IG6CvmEwtbs1sjRzuUf8sdPcGri-p2GlW0b53Qz-rLASsi9Nbn5ibeQTduvipnZ37ckpWCLMtcW0dXWikf-MNr8iP1p0JJrjz1nmioJOFbxC-hU9wGpz0vcBfs1wOHEAK4jEBk8yeYpcKxtCgtphl-H2LyLUpK7LM_IQ=w640-h50" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVOVWB97gjS-CDZMUrFKMiSgGYuugNVC9lDxu-y2i5iTrNjLXG_4S4nWmiDcRPNNpJ7DtaROHALDVx_Dh_3yfQQ8KUV357t5-3fl_c0giLh-mHyuzv6_w-HtMJpHcpcBUhb0lWT_mefRBEEdq5xCHNT7IEN5GxucjP_6434WaNQKqXdvuDFn_LEFeJFw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVOVWB97gjS-CDZMUrFKMiSgGYuugNVC9lDxu-y2i5iTrNjLXG_4S4nWmiDcRPNNpJ7DtaROHALDVx_Dh_3yfQQ8KUV357t5-3fl_c0giLh-mHyuzv6_w-HtMJpHcpcBUhb0lWT_mefRBEEdq5xCHNT7IEN5GxucjP_6434WaNQKqXdvuDFn_LEFeJFw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><p></p>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-20889154538913710172023-06-06T13:29:00.001-07:002023-06-06T13:29:28.645-07:00THE NERDY BOOKWORM READING CHALLENGE UPDATE<div style="text-align: center;"><img height="361" src="https://i.postimg.cc/YSYBJm80/The-Nerdy-Bookworm.png" width="640" /></div> <span><a name='more'></a></span><br />Gosh, it's been a hot minute since I updated my blog on The Nerdy Bookworm Reading Challenge. Lately, I have been in a reading slump and not reading as fast or as much. However, lately, I have been trying to change that. I have been delving into more graphic novels lately because they have been keeping me more entertained and when I am in a reading slump all of the pictures/graphics make it easier to grab my attention and get me out of reading slumps. It's like going back to being a kid and reading picture books.<br /><br />Sorry, that I also have not been as active with my blog and postings as well. I will try to be better about that too. This is due to not reading as much. I have started several books lately to not pick them up again or finish them. Hopefully, this major slump ends soon because I have a lot of books that I need to finish/read.<br /><br />Anyways, let's go over the books that I have read since the last time I updated my blog with its reading challenge prompts I have completed.<br /><br />1. A book with one word in the title: <a href="https://amzn.to/3qk3lQf">Angelborn</a> by L. Penelope<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfEeO1myQ2VkUhuffw2mTfZ8_gBlVFSo6B2Z9CQuxrmVF3zJ6V5If0U7PPk56VGQz-ZOD5UoxuyBN228KVCTNXIT7MVFr2YBFGhjuUYLjEyFUQI5I2YrVWhUfxtyscNXmP5f36YRZTeXv96JfQ3IAVkg8gGbJWBwi8wE3mI76OOhiB2SUj3xitx6MENQ"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfEeO1myQ2VkUhuffw2mTfZ8_gBlVFSo6B2Z9CQuxrmVF3zJ6V5If0U7PPk56VGQz-ZOD5UoxuyBN228KVCTNXIT7MVFr2YBFGhjuUYLjEyFUQI5I2YrVWhUfxtyscNXmP5f36YRZTeXv96JfQ3IAVkg8gGbJWBwi8wE3mI76OOhiB2SUj3xitx6MENQ=w200-h320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghacVisEPJ-49dD1qtsheX38hMmNl27UHVjBPJsQh9hJdSawTrSDfdK3JhP2PAicnXNCkecAGWOKOGD8Z_vKBYs2miXeENnzvRXWe3hsf0Rm9Pw84ZFBzDiMuZnFkrtoVtNKVCw6It55j0KvF8kwsUi5TeLdgG-L1I6NqjVNFZQi0TYgBLVPpGI90PEA/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%206.17.16%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghacVisEPJ-49dD1qtsheX38hMmNl27UHVjBPJsQh9hJdSawTrSDfdK3JhP2PAicnXNCkecAGWOKOGD8Z_vKBYs2miXeENnzvRXWe3hsf0Rm9Pw84ZFBzDiMuZnFkrtoVtNKVCw6It55j0KvF8kwsUi5TeLdgG-L1I6NqjVNFZQi0TYgBLVPpGI90PEA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%206.17.16%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><br />2. A book set in NYC: <a href="https://amzn.to/3CilKQl">Park Avenue Player</a> by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQAHfXk6Cuqv3ztzkAwL_OiIRGMAG4kazaC5_XCQRrI-z3smFfNBAjaRW8ItVP35413tEz9edtjliWQB5nqCQRyqaTUurPu0sFNmqDfS-BqrWoLU9lGG2UJRxxSsWVAXey7qG1Qzf5GFBAOo-LZkerDrQ_XCWDVlZ_8J-EgaFJlvJBlH0FOYwP0PFkeA"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQAHfXk6Cuqv3ztzkAwL_OiIRGMAG4kazaC5_XCQRrI-z3smFfNBAjaRW8ItVP35413tEz9edtjliWQB5nqCQRyqaTUurPu0sFNmqDfS-BqrWoLU9lGG2UJRxxSsWVAXey7qG1Qzf5GFBAOo-LZkerDrQ_XCWDVlZ_8J-EgaFJlvJBlH0FOYwP0PFkeA=w199-h320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><br />3. Book you bought from a bookstore: <a href="https://amzn.to/3oNUSEC">Saga Vol. 2</a> by Brian K. Vaughan<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRavEeIuW7x-ow9DV8-tFzqC95Od_IEnT-jq0uPPfbI6gdxnfQ9daC0nRHe2S8LiucW5acm1tb6qeqTFuOATxTa9oAWAeEiCJDFRPms0ZCL7V6HtK2dG43m7irzNZhB-Oi9Ut4he4P3X_ZojZSSWrgCxAewnHcWaPgHBbt0x8ugbhihupzkO1UyrTSjA"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRavEeIuW7x-ow9DV8-tFzqC95Od_IEnT-jq0uPPfbI6gdxnfQ9daC0nRHe2S8LiucW5acm1tb6qeqTFuOATxTa9oAWAeEiCJDFRPms0ZCL7V6HtK2dG43m7irzNZhB-Oi9Ut4he4P3X_ZojZSSWrgCxAewnHcWaPgHBbt0x8ugbhihupzkO1UyrTSjA=w207-h320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><br />4. Book from a series: <a href="https://amzn.to/43Ip2bh">Saga Vol. 3</a> by Brian K. Vaughan<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwKV-vEfhg0bgRconKnEfi1Rpks5hD_5liW-pgoxi3rfBeaUM-N5BsDc8hWLiEm91-gEyDcIM4AcICejDzn-nI-QhhKPIlCtbJaEFNEhQ2H-lE9HI3Z3zuDW04H_Xk5wTaFrAKGC7SCUQt0Rnu0WSsKH1jsPt5e5J9XgP_GzHQpe4Hh4uH08LCsjyFsg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwKV-vEfhg0bgRconKnEfi1Rpks5hD_5liW-pgoxi3rfBeaUM-N5BsDc8hWLiEm91-gEyDcIM4AcICejDzn-nI-QhhKPIlCtbJaEFNEhQ2H-lE9HI3Z3zuDW04H_Xk5wTaFrAKGC7SCUQt0Rnu0WSsKH1jsPt5e5J9XgP_GzHQpe4Hh4uH08LCsjyFsg=w208-h320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><br />5. Steamy Romance Novel: <a href="https://amzn.to/3WSpm4S">The Tryst</a> by Lauren Blakely<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggfswCQXXEMILvFO37RdiWZ6dW7-XqXb0mm-nK7-7_PmdTAS2aEkdMZugygRIkPDnJDQ1DgZKeu5-AsfrmuaSLp-MrM7dX7lCS2qrXyk3WcAZTqSGbBHB9erRZFiCU2mnUZYyPdR6RZRlI799K1vnUfJfWvt2ReD_aFglJ2H4xfDLk6d90Jso6hKpk0w"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggfswCQXXEMILvFO37RdiWZ6dW7-XqXb0mm-nK7-7_PmdTAS2aEkdMZugygRIkPDnJDQ1DgZKeu5-AsfrmuaSLp-MrM7dX7lCS2qrXyk3WcAZTqSGbBHB9erRZFiCU2mnUZYyPdR6RZRlI799K1vnUfJfWvt2ReD_aFglJ2H4xfDLk6d90Jso6hKpk0w=w201-h320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD34DDxRznTu3V9P_7MWvqax_JIqwIkJk1R9garetZfLMGZxs3SlPYZv_FRjVigVr-ETfcqtMStVXegYP3auGm30dVtDGbG2K8rV3k98AJyaPTqrvu9p3lD6fMI4LVrsVcbft83QT7NW7wsEb0thULoOQuyMmvHuymS5OKC95efnktsEtM2hmuxMvIbQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%207.02.49%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><br />6. Read a book based on a tv series or movie adaptation: <a href="https://amzn.to/3oHYYyd">Paper Girls Vol. 1</a> by Brian K. Vaughan<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijsLm0Lr0ilvhF1M2QRNSOdWmO-_k9vZm3D795kfiTAuqUsgCw3O8AmmjJbIzaBa34iVQjOrDnnnUq5A9ohORNxwivNcWE16WpC6BLXRdKkT0r5DKk9YpsBFr5s-HH8wAWWYdC-XQbrBHrO9yYAZazpvei9AsQgudr_RHBQRqBCxeXzvasNT7nJ8sPIg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijsLm0Lr0ilvhF1M2QRNSOdWmO-_k9vZm3D795kfiTAuqUsgCw3O8AmmjJbIzaBa34iVQjOrDnnnUq5A9ohORNxwivNcWE16WpC6BLXRdKkT0r5DKk9YpsBFr5s-HH8wAWWYdC-XQbrBHrO9yYAZazpvei9AsQgudr_RHBQRqBCxeXzvasNT7nJ8sPIg=w208-h320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><br />7. Read a book with a person on the cover: <a href="https://amzn.to/45Sy3k2">Paper Girls Vol. 2</a> by Brian K. Vaughan<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyjT322EBueM4Enxq9XpomE34O3Wy-T0qvelvPl4kVaeK-8LgqVWsY6w53T2pGNJm6WCi1xqBC3O9bIXhloIRaw849PfhOVhzgp-S37tMznAhMOidE5tLRCngc2iJTeXTStSEVrl2Z3x-IC4y5jXAyt1E4JH7gHPlyXBbbUX5eEV6nPbGlH6OH5fwh5w"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyjT322EBueM4Enxq9XpomE34O3Wy-T0qvelvPl4kVaeK-8LgqVWsY6w53T2pGNJm6WCi1xqBC3O9bIXhloIRaw849PfhOVhzgp-S37tMznAhMOidE5tLRCngc2iJTeXTStSEVrl2Z3x-IC4y5jXAyt1E4JH7gHPlyXBbbUX5eEV6nPbGlH6OH5fwh5w=w208-h320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Rating: ★★★★★</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="894" src="https://i.postimg.cc/zvLSCzPb/bingo-nerdybookworm-3.png" width="503" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">Have you read any of the books above?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s200/love-emily-2.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" /></a></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-49526854739882023362023-05-23T18:11:00.000-07:002023-05-23T18:11:01.453-07:00Top Ten Things That Make Me Instantly Want to Read a Book<center><img height="692" src="https://i.postimg.cc/sD4Hzzq5/Instantly-Want-to-Read-a-Book.png" width="461" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-13035 aligncenter" decoding="async" height="200" sizes="(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px" src="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png" srcset="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png 781w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-250x100.png 250w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-768x308.png 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="498" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is the Top Ten Things That Make Me Instantly Want to Read a Book. This is an exciting topic to think about. Books draw me in for various reasons but here are the top ten reasons a novel will pique my interest.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Is the book by an auto-buy author of mine?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a handful of auto-buy authors that I purchase books from. Honestly, these authors can write anything and I may not even know what the book is about and I will still buy/read their books. I enjoy those authors so much that I automatically know that if they write anything I will be reading their books. These current authors include Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland, Colleen Hoover, Lauren Blakely, and Taylor Jenkins Reid.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzrtlnpsBozpr04eUk47peI9VpFqAIYPzoHImDuX85x4oUlEQoablG2IJT7Ag9MafUbPc7sfItrD8xKi2z2ylAy8jnD2d8CnbRPZ-fX4dRMlN5l9jp6mP1R7NHCvdszDdlG0dcy_TP7Wzv3cDPOiSXkcm38lQX5jvO4eM8KsPUGrYw9PhAJcCw4mDMoQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzrtlnpsBozpr04eUk47peI9VpFqAIYPzoHImDuX85x4oUlEQoablG2IJT7Ag9MafUbPc7sfItrD8xKi2z2ylAy8jnD2d8CnbRPZ-fX4dRMlN5l9jp6mP1R7NHCvdszDdlG0dcy_TP7Wzv3cDPOiSXkcm38lQX5jvO4eM8KsPUGrYw9PhAJcCw4mDMoQ" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIxR6QknRboLsA-owOAyTugTnFG6Y16rFPth0qfzBIC7vZwN-RvcQc1QwzZN3B2T6d_HNcyKZb_45oIJZn_lZ_Xun95yWXP7g5aoX3P772PEckRQOauBHByW5A0mSFrsZcqtOEew1pr8aoCD5kx2E1ETBBH3rO6M3rvlqcrV5nyI2FuGAnq2yuTNIVLA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="1140" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIxR6QknRboLsA-owOAyTugTnFG6Y16rFPth0qfzBIC7vZwN-RvcQc1QwzZN3B2T6d_HNcyKZb_45oIJZn_lZ_Xun95yWXP7g5aoX3P772PEckRQOauBHByW5A0mSFrsZcqtOEew1pr8aoCD5kx2E1ETBBH3rO6M3rvlqcrV5nyI2FuGAnq2yuTNIVLA" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLhPde5kKJo4iuZnL_-pVaqbW6ToqpTHRmAO_4T8Km9kzMeG4ttCfvyEFatWY10ewpu2zGcg2iz0Sv3GXVsHJuPsCUDWbnA5xZwGmFb6rIsZxkZnIFH1DralgxUrT-7Ha-uy-OVbPJ1Wr7zkjRRF5EBJ6Bs3zmyzxUpV7SQvZr6h0XpU8743VjqxymwA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="350" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLhPde5kKJo4iuZnL_-pVaqbW6ToqpTHRmAO_4T8Km9kzMeG4ttCfvyEFatWY10ewpu2zGcg2iz0Sv3GXVsHJuPsCUDWbnA5xZwGmFb6rIsZxkZnIFH1DralgxUrT-7Ha-uy-OVbPJ1Wr7zkjRRF5EBJ6Bs3zmyzxUpV7SQvZr6h0XpU8743VjqxymwA" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg78lyT-FwDkW0RI8QUAvvalp8fNl1nvmSpk42eh1lbY0Qt7_97bxEI7v0YagSg2YLyi9ikSXn5TLpfB678CdY4Ji8hWkmILH3KfWkQw7EEWTKrSmM7jxDhmzW9-b7SK_txH6Q0JK5fcrrtO9G_7H8mc4HZu_IXD7urt0wlz9cGXv9nS73HR-1vujjjmg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1500" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg78lyT-FwDkW0RI8QUAvvalp8fNl1nvmSpk42eh1lbY0Qt7_97bxEI7v0YagSg2YLyi9ikSXn5TLpfB678CdY4Ji8hWkmILH3KfWkQw7EEWTKrSmM7jxDhmzW9-b7SK_txH6Q0JK5fcrrtO9G_7H8mc4HZu_IXD7urt0wlz9cGXv9nS73HR-1vujjjmg" width="320" /></a></span></div></div></div></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Is the book a romance?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a sucker for all things romance. Chances are if the book is a romance I will want to read it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Is the book a thriller?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like romance, I gravitate toward the thriller genre. I have always loved a good mystery or suspense novel.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. An author that I love blurbs on the cover of another book.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If an auto-buy author of mine endorsed another book. I will pick that one up too.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Sparkle or Pink Covers</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love girly-looking covers.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Is it on Reese Witherspoon's book club picks?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr1H1ivUXiz-fbYChno9ZRoqGXfGN7PsbsydKZXPfkZevOHH4gO7BzSJfg5NGnmIqeqh6pWrxrrXMG7Dh0wVZ4fvlmsWjTvNqhABz4l4f9Cxuhju0NudNLVges2GjGBmBk8oGC0Ny1aXiSxl3GF7ERPzh1TqH3Y1DNAnTn2kUsyRIT2l6pGD9n_wTWzQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr1H1ivUXiz-fbYChno9ZRoqGXfGN7PsbsydKZXPfkZevOHH4gO7BzSJfg5NGnmIqeqh6pWrxrrXMG7Dh0wVZ4fvlmsWjTvNqhABz4l4f9Cxuhju0NudNLVges2GjGBmBk8oGC0Ny1aXiSxl3GF7ERPzh1TqH3Y1DNAnTn2kUsyRIT2l6pGD9n_wTWzQ=w164-h164" width="164" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">Reese is my favorite. We have very similar reading tastes and most of the picks that I have read from her book club have been 5-star reads of mine. Plus, she always makes tv shows and movies off the books she has discovered or read which is a plus.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">7. Is a sexy man on the cover?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">I love hot and steamy romances. Plus, I am a sucker for those hunks on the covers.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">8. Is it a paranormal romance?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">I love ghost love stories.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">9. Is there time travel aspects?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">I love anything with sci-fi elements in a book. For some reason, I absolutely love time travel time altering plots in books.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">10. Does it have a cool cover in general?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">Ultimately, the cover of a book is what initially draws me in.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;">What kinds of books grab you in? What are you drawn to read and why? I would love to discuss this in the comments down below.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; text-align: center;">xoxo,</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms1WxpcEanXvCkcGDTs9_taV9DK7jOSUMUmxrx6bAU-EL7_-rddWcXVBlTyMG1xpY-M2zL6lJzwjdFQXIIevKbMRyr2d8LspLoMrZU80wk93SkYp5CN560d7sVxUUV-g12piLFmIfgxSzDQC18l1iBlyvDRqoo9WV-50XQ1BNkEv_T_2xT_O9DSJ-Yg/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms1WxpcEanXvCkcGDTs9_taV9DK7jOSUMUmxrx6bAU-EL7_-rddWcXVBlTyMG1xpY-M2zL6lJzwjdFQXIIevKbMRyr2d8LspLoMrZU80wk93SkYp5CN560d7sVxUUV-g12piLFmIfgxSzDQC18l1iBlyvDRqoo9WV-50XQ1BNkEv_T_2xT_O9DSJ-Yg/s1600/love-emily-2.png" width="200" /></a></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-43750089120818691752023-04-19T19:16:00.007-07:002023-04-19T19:16:57.019-07:00Best WLW Books to Check Out in 2023<center><img height="677" src="https://i.postimg.cc/fW6mP0Dz/best-wlw-books.png" width="451" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"></span></center>Here is a guest post brought to you by Pamela Lacey, a fellow blogger, that contacted me to do a guest piece. I thought this would be a perfect guest post to feature on my blog for all things "pride" related. To me, love is love and everyone should be accepted and loved for who they are.<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are looking for captivating reads featuring women who love women, this post is for you!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">WLW books have been around for decades, offering representation and validation to those who</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">identify as lesbians, bisexuals, or queer women, as well as providing a window into the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">experiences of women who love women for others.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this post, we have compiled a list of the best WLW books to explore in 2023, spanning across</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">various genres. These books not only showcase the diverse experiences of WLW characters</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">but also offer compelling narratives that will keep you turning the pages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's dive in and discover the best WLW books to explore in 2023.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/418wfA7" target="_blank">The One Woman</a> by Laura May</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-Woman-Laura-May-ebook/dp/B0B33L5MRD?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=d9303ccfe3776ceb0adcc14a4a69cda9&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0B33L5MRD&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" i1yszvfqm="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B0B33L5MRD" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" ynmgkpxbj="" /> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Laura May's The One Woman tells an intricate and poignant tale of love that delves into the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">complexities of relationships and the challenges of timing. Julie, a gifted graphic designer, feels</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">unfulfilled in her current relationship with Mark until she meets Ann, a dynamic and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">accomplished woman who kindles a new passion within her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Their connection strengthens as they reunite in Barcelona, and they find themselves falling</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">deeply in love. However, their relationship is put to the test when tragedy strikes, and Julie must</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">choose between her loyalty to Mark and her affection for Ann.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3KIyiWf" target="_blank">Stars Collide</a> by Rachel Lacey</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stars-Collide-Novel-Rachel-Lacey-ebook/dp/B0BG67LWSQ?&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=ea9815fd4470f0aa450da07b8f46ba67&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0BG67LWSQ&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" i1yszvfqm="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B0BG67LWSQ" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" ynmgkpxbj="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">After a lackluster album release and a failed marriage, Eden Sands, a long-time music industry</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">star, is feeling lost and alone. Despite her waning popularity, she's reluctant to collaborate with</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">a rising young artist to reignite her career. Meanwhile, Anna Moss, an aspiring musician who</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">has looked up to Eden for years, sees their upcoming performance together at the Grammys as</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">a chance to break away from her bubblegum pop image and be taken seriously as an artist.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">As they rehearse for their duet, Anna and Eden discover a connection that goes beyond just</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">their music, but they must decide whether it's a fleeting attraction or the beginning of a love</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">story worthy of a chart-topping hit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/3zETk1t" target="_blank">Just as You Are</a> by Camille Kellogg</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Just-as-You-Are-Novel-ebook/dp/B0B7L5GVKH?&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=1c1d9ca6142eae72eae5da1b932fdf94&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0B7L5GVKH&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" i1yszvfqm="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B0B7L5GVKH" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" ynmgkpxbj="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this debut romantic comedy with a touch of Pride and Prejudice inspiration, Liz Baker and her</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">three roommates work for Nether Fields, a struggling queer magazine in New York that is saved</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">from shutdown by two wealthy lesbians. Unfortunately, one of the investors, Daria Fitzgerald,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">starts making budget cuts and taking away office perks, leading Liz to dislike her even more.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Liz overhears Daria belittling her work, she fears for her job security.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, as Liz and Daria spend more time together, Liz begins to see a different side to her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite knowing she shouldn't, Liz can't help but feel attracted to Daria, who reciprocates her</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">feelings. This steamy and hilarious rom-com celebrates queer culture, the importance of chosen</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">families, and falling in love despite all odds.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3zGnjWV" target="_blank">Forget Me Not</a> by Alyson Derrick</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forget-Me-Not-Alyson-Derrick-ebook/dp/B0B3Y5NH78?&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=c17568b3779b777c396e029a9b99f065&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0B3Y5NH78&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" i1yszvfqm="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B0B3Y5NH78" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" ynmgkpxbj="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have you ever wondered what you would do if you woke up one day and realized that you had</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">forgotten the love of your life? This is exactly what happens to Stevie in Alyson Derrick's Forget</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Me Not. Stevie and Nora shared a once-in-a-lifetime love that they had planned to take with</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">them when they left their small, conservative town for California after graduation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, when Stevie suffers a traumatic fall, she wakes up unable to remember the last two</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">years of her life, including her love for Nora. Now, Stevie is living a life that feels foreign to her,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">with a strained relationship with her parents, a job she's not sure she remembers getting, and a</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">boyfriend she can't remember crushing on. Meanwhile, Nora has been left behind and forgotten.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Can they find their way back to each other despite the odds, even if it means starting from</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">scratch?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">5. <a href="https://amzn.to/41c9YkK" target="_blank">Dykette</a> by Jenny Fran Davis</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dykette-Novel-Jenny-Fran-Davis-ebook/dp/B09Y461FHN?&linkCode=li3&tag=emilynicholas-20&linkId=7cdb5319b91c9f4a6ebfcca58fd86c63&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B09Y461FHN&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" i1yszvfqm="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=emilynicholas-20&language=en_US&l=li3&o=1&a=B09Y461FHN" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" ynmgkpxbj="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis, we meet Sasha and Jesse, two young creatives living in</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brooklyn who are deeply in love but also dysfunctional. When they are invited to spend the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">holidays at the country home of Jules Todd, a prominent news host, and her partner Miranda, a</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">psychotherapist, they eagerly accept. However, the trip includes another couple, Jesse's best</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">friend Lou and their cool-girl flame Darcy, whom Sasha both ridicules and desires.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over the course of ten days, the guest's motivations become muddled, and a web of infatuation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">and jealousy begins to unravel, threatening the future of each couple. Dykette is a captivating</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">love story that explores the complexities of queer nonconformity and the seductive pull of</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">conformity, with engaging prose that captures the nuances of desire and the ways we seek</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">validation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbpSZB9CJwxphOh8J37E9dWsioDbxQPytZM947mbhdlJ7GLd-dsY7FVJ3IcvGUSvNVGwgA8bMPWzj2kqQn4bwUNhQdfYsqxIQVMonMDQZsocz7MeInhKphkjC1svZ1bW9tDWFPqeltv4XRe3h9HRahcstroJ_nWg7HPuiy6V0Ra9pd0VR9tZzU0oziw/s3529/360_F_531346658_SMtVsR9vbCU2YOOTmiXOBQYPVD9b9MMx.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="3529" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbpSZB9CJwxphOh8J37E9dWsioDbxQPytZM947mbhdlJ7GLd-dsY7FVJ3IcvGUSvNVGwgA8bMPWzj2kqQn4bwUNhQdfYsqxIQVMonMDQZsocz7MeInhKphkjC1svZ1bW9tDWFPqeltv4XRe3h9HRahcstroJ_nWg7HPuiy6V0Ra9pd0VR9tZzU0oziw/w640-h66/360_F_531346658_SMtVsR9vbCU2YOOTmiXOBQYPVD9b9MMx.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In conclusion, these best WLW books offer a diverse range of experiences, emotions, and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">stories that celebrate the complexity and beauty of lesbian love. These books not only provide</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">entertainment and escapism but also serve as important representations of the LGBTQ+</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">community and their experiences.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether you are looking for a book to make you laugh, cry, or fall in love, these best WLW</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">books are a great place to start. Happy reading!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><u>GUEST POST BIO: </u></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pamela Lacey is a blogger and writer who is just starting her career. With a passion for storytelling and a love of language, Pamela has been writing for as long as she can remember.</span></span></p>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-60251083863845082172023-03-14T12:38:00.000-07:002023-03-14T12:38:05.819-07:00Top Ten Romance Books On My Spring 2023 To-Read List<center><img height="714" src="https://i.postimg.cc/8zMRjyyS/top-ten-romance-books-on-my-spring-2023-reading-list.png" width="476" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-13035 aligncenter" decoding="async" height="160" sizes="(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px" src="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png" srcset="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6.png 781w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-250x100.png 250w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TTT-new6-768x308.png 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="399" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to another TTT! Spring is here and I am so excited to share all the books that I am looking forward to reading this spring! I love writing these lists up, even if I don’t always stick to them 100%. I think it’s really fun to make reading goals and share what I’m excited to read. Eventually, I will get to these books but this TTT is here to share titles that you are excited about. I also really love seeing what you’re all excited to read, too! To add a little personal flair to this Top Ten Tuesday, I am doing the top ten romance books on my spring tbr. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/3TdVJt8" target="_blank">The Surviving Trace</a> by Calia Read</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5HPYFvtrCrwUZdsyw8ApuqqY-P96pwSOR6GMkCULkHlgtXyZwiBumNlmmR8bq3z8HV7lMkgfkZ2q5t8u5zfVolNw5DbQyanJv-dJwIMSguPOBjZfYUyp6W8JIhqhyuyTj9A1i2weiSArUybF8U_Ox4voQx20czJAGPkTRelo6FI0R7_NDjJWiBJeJwQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5HPYFvtrCrwUZdsyw8ApuqqY-P96pwSOR6GMkCULkHlgtXyZwiBumNlmmR8bq3z8HV7lMkgfkZ2q5t8u5zfVolNw5DbQyanJv-dJwIMSguPOBjZfYUyp6W8JIhqhyuyTj9A1i2weiSArUybF8U_Ox4voQx20czJAGPkTRelo6FI0R7_NDjJWiBJeJwQ=w211-h320" width="211" /></a></span></div>Our love is timeless. <span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Will is my fiancé. The shy man I met years ago in college. The person I’m supposed to spend the rest of my life with. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">This is the life I’ve always wanted until finding a picture of four men changes everything… </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Etienne says he’s my husband and the year is 1912. He can’t stand the sight of me, but I don’t know why. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Oh, and he’s one of the men from the picture. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">I’ve done the impossible and have become trapped in time and I know Etienne is my key to going home. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">The more time I spend with Etienne, the further I fall for him, until I’m questioning which time I belong in and if the life I left behind is the one I truly desire. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">All I know for certain is I need to survive time. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">I need to survive love. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">And I need to make it out on the other side alive.</span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3JF3LIg" target="_blank">Parallel</a> by Elle O'Roark</span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjG9-Br1XnfYoq0kVHFgn82_AGd2Sstf9tpfuIOzcamo6c5iKfIGhpEBryVgEbjgtEl310NscZhRT9ZpMCXwB2B9bBpupKMPg9uzugkMc0R8oTHYtBXKoYkint1icfVn0pMw0VUCHqCapfL8x1SYY2We3SZssS3tb1kYqKrVhO5hKsK94zWwge-i3tI_Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjG9-Br1XnfYoq0kVHFgn82_AGd2Sstf9tpfuIOzcamo6c5iKfIGhpEBryVgEbjgtEl310NscZhRT9ZpMCXwB2B9bBpupKMPg9uzugkMc0R8oTHYtBXKoYkint1icfVn0pMw0VUCHqCapfL8x1SYY2We3SZssS3tb1kYqKrVhO5hKsK94zWwge-i3tI_Q=w213-h320" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">She first met him in a dream. And now, weeks before she marries someone else, he's appeared in real life. </span><span style="background-color: white;">I’ve spent my entire life hiding what I can do. The things I know. Until the day Nick Reilly walks into my hospital room. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Nic<span style="font-family: inherit;">k—the man I've been dreaming about for as long as I can remember. I know everything about him, as if we spent an entire lifetime together, and I know I loved him in a way I’ve never loved anyone else...including my fiancé. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Even stranger? Nick’s been dreaming about me too. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Working with him to unravel the puzzle might save me, but the attraction between us could destroy us both. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Just like it did before.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZNHtK6" target="_blank">Toe the Line</a> by Penelope Ward</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcbJclBAt22WN1dhjeDVHCyeV-zt3gLOoqSO1252K8HsKOg7E7SM0Ujyw9Xy6fh-qLCLzJL8h3u3wYFC7T5-WU4TzhBFpXd-D4r9IhoH4n2pJzQs-J5vRN_2rI_DTGdIxwq2wZa8FHyk3b2a_HpNIDYHe9p8nhdX_5218y6QVU8DaO6uGr_rWb00FR3Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcbJclBAt22WN1dhjeDVHCyeV-zt3gLOoqSO1252K8HsKOg7E7SM0Ujyw9Xy6fh-qLCLzJL8h3u3wYFC7T5-WU4TzhBFpXd-D4r9IhoH4n2pJzQs-J5vRN_2rI_DTGdIxwq2wZa8FHyk3b2a_HpNIDYHe9p8nhdX_5218y6QVU8DaO6uGr_rWb00FR3Q=w199-h320" width="199" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">From <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</span> bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a friends-to-lovers story spanning more than a decade… </span>At first, I thought I’d hate spending the summer with Archie Remington—the conceited son of my parents’ friends. What I knew about Archie: he was gorgeous, pre-law, and had always treated me like I didn’t exist when we were younger. When our families bought a house together on an island in Maine, he and I were forced to share a bathroom. The boy I remembered was now a full-grown man—but with the same attitude. After a rough start, Archie and I unexpectedly started getting along one day and eventually became friends. We shared secrets and bonded during our morning jogs. I discovered that Archie had a wild spirit and that he struggled to conform to his father’s expectations. Things were cool until I had to go and ruin it, getting drunk one night, and blurting out my fantasy—involving him. I took it back, but it was too late. Archie had heard me loud and clear. After that, we never quite knew how to toe the line. When that summer came to an abrupt and shocking end, I headed back to college, unsure if anything would ever be the same again. Across the miles over the years, he and I stayed in touch as friends, but fate and timing always kept us from becoming more. You know the saying: If two people are meant to be, they’ll find their way back to each other? Let’s just say Archie came back into my life in a way I would’ve never expected. And this time, my heart would really be put to the test.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3JOHnfP" target="_blank">The Words</a> by A. Jade</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQeH5ylD60Kqo-eUHWAl_cZ_WL7-CReYKdNMQN7Ac6itfrbF7HIIBNfbQvtnUmR7I8zaRN2U5_q2grP4uk8KeUF6GviT-9DUmt3t-YbFdMhrZD5a15tqZy2OMMdOmX22kGALXiuzZpd_ygwM3JyjdyQBtAC3Q8sn0q8zo-VI0zag9WmVJ_CHWYHfTjOQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQeH5ylD60Kqo-eUHWAl_cZ_WL7-CReYKdNMQN7Ac6itfrbF7HIIBNfbQvtnUmR7I8zaRN2U5_q2grP4uk8KeUF6GviT-9DUmt3t-YbFdMhrZD5a15tqZy2OMMdOmX22kGALXiuzZpd_ygwM3JyjdyQBtAC3Q8sn0q8zo-VI0zag9WmVJ_CHWYHfTjOQ=w213-h320" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ashley Jade comes an edgy, enemies-to-lovers standalone romance about mistakes, forgiveness, and second chances. He was the talented bad boy everyone wanted. I was the irrelevant geek everyone hated. He was the sun...drawing all of us in. I was a black hole...taking up space. He was destined to be a star. I was destined to remain an insignificant no one. Until he made me believe I was special... And then he destroyed me. I never thought I'd see Phoenix Walker again after he broke my heart, but fate had other plans. One tour. Eight weeks. Forty shows. Countless opportunities to make him pay. The world thought he was a God... But I knew the truth.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">5. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ThKKyO" target="_blank">The Tryst</a> by Lauren Blakely</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLtv_V6K1biCO7ACJvZwoC4HNX7fqhJtQFoSotEAIbQH6BA-tA3nx5b5rtERP5MwkLf4Be7_C24vOBaM0Neywsqff00sGGpLeukXfU1qWOtD35AtjGeLeQPFYyTWDkmGWylVCrvh7ALJlVJ64_gUyq11sKxofvDXyblqFvzFRrNpEiwv1kG_tHaI1wOg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1556" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLtv_V6K1biCO7ACJvZwoC4HNX7fqhJtQFoSotEAIbQH6BA-tA3nx5b5rtERP5MwkLf4Be7_C24vOBaM0Neywsqff00sGGpLeukXfU1qWOtD35AtjGeLeQPFYyTWDkmGWylVCrvh7ALJlVJ64_gUyq11sKxofvDXyblqFvzFRrNpEiwv1kG_tHaI1wOg=w201-h320" width="201" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Some men are just off-limits. Like your ex-boyfriend’s father. </span>But when I met the sexy, powerful older man shortly after my business school graduation, he was simply the seductive stranger I wanted to notice me, and he sure did. Fast forward a few months later, when my college ex – now a good friend – introduces me to the person he looks up to most…his father. The man I spent that one hot night with. I should stay far away from the commanding business mogul. But my ex and I are planning a charity fundraiser that involves late nights at his dad’s penthouse in Manhattan. Nights where he can’t stop looking at me with desire in his eyes that matches my own. I try to resist him, playing the good girl in the city…mostly. He’s the perfect gentleman…until he comes knocking on my door and tells me exactly what he wants to do to me. And I say yes. Stealing nights with him like this is supposed to be wrong, but it feels so right. And when he saves the day to protect his son at the fundraiser, my heart wants him as much as my body does. Can we ever be more than just a tryst?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">6. <a href="https://amzn.to/3mIYNkC" target="_blank">The True Love Experiment</a> by Christina Lauren</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB0QYxu63fz3onSN66leQ-YeCvvHeRWb4CYnFUoj0PmZEBfW1tBRQ6OfHJL9pFYK91RPLRDM-bMPIF-PN9paQeMgeoa8KONG3zW_B5krzC3DTAbLPobaMysYp-73Yb9H_MlxAyNLaqUHlBJWz1vRcSwFX8nIivPPBqdzsgE5C9DQcetVCC4N4vi-ACzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2125" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB0QYxu63fz3onSN66leQ-YeCvvHeRWb4CYnFUoj0PmZEBfW1tBRQ6OfHJL9pFYK91RPLRDM-bMPIF-PN9paQeMgeoa8KONG3zW_B5krzC3DTAbLPobaMysYp-73Yb9H_MlxAyNLaqUHlBJWz1vRcSwFX8nIivPPBqdzsgE5C9DQcetVCC4N4vi-ACzw=w211-h320" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next level—but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script. </span>Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached. Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can’t-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she’s spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie? Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard pass—unless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production on <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The True Love Experiment</i> begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The True Love Experiment</i> is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzy’s debut in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Soulmate Equation</i>. But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">7. <a href="https://amzn.to/3mVQjac" target="_blank">My So-Called Sex Life</a> by Lauren Blakely</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaWBihSPwZyr9ValfjwLRB4_WBj_vcwPAhfrmSwUwtNd5hKtCAmoLW3LVC_EInwagRQACc-IRaMqlkWG8FPnXLLLRc613oTxADMfyXIhILHKCqlfCsXJyPbx66SZFb6Xr3WzduC3lop6hfHScJeVzAv3yTuiTOBex4I-1qof7wcbf4ddJS60jkTnFGng" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaWBihSPwZyr9ValfjwLRB4_WBj_vcwPAhfrmSwUwtNd5hKtCAmoLW3LVC_EInwagRQACc-IRaMqlkWG8FPnXLLLRc613oTxADMfyXIhILHKCqlfCsXJyPbx66SZFb6Xr3WzduC3lop6hfHScJeVzAv3yTuiTOBex4I-1qof7wcbf4ddJS60jkTnFGng=w200-h320" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></div>I’ve got a list of people I absolutely don’t ever want to be stuck with on a boat, or a plane, or a train, and it starts and ends with the broody, grumpy, too-sexy-for-my-own good Axel Huxley. <span style="text-align: start;">Also known as this romance novelist’s number one nemesis. </span><span style="text-align: start;">The man is legendary for his mighty pen and his even mightier scowl. I tried to work together with the cocky thriller writer once upon a time, but the two of us are like vodka and good decisions. We don’t play well together. </span><span style="text-align: start;">Only now, our publishers are sending us on a joint trip across Europe to mingle with our most devoted readers on an old-fashioned luxury train. And thanks to a booking snafu, we have to share a sleeper car. </span><span style="text-align: start;">You guessed it--</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;">there's only one bed. </span><span style="text-align: start;">I'm not sure I can survive the next seven days and nights with my dangerously sexy enemy and all our fiery tension. </span><span style="text-align: start;">Which explodes one night in a desperately needed hate bang. </span><span style="text-align: start;">But the bigger plot twist is this – the more time we spend together, visiting the most romantic cities in Europe by day and discovering each other at night, the more I’m forced to face our past. </span><span style="text-align: start;">To let go of the hurt. </span><span style="text-align: start;">To see the man he’s become. </span><span style="text-align: start;">And when I do, I wonder if it’s too late to write a new happy ending for us?</span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">8. <a href="https://amzn.to/402KIO1" target="_blank">The Game</a> by Vi Keeland</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-v8ZLB3Syp8WUxYG2WEiHtassnz6hjbsiyMAwp5gXge0pwGVLq0NLbKVn2Y-KaonNLh4kZO9Wg0yqT2k96V6rabnzbB9c7CNA0CVwx4glVzMOBQ790rioPwf0NwJwuyQ8-DFzX9BxNDBuII4pLw13JFoSFUIMMhtyllWgEB9-ApfyLPnkAke8dABdRw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="966" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-v8ZLB3Syp8WUxYG2WEiHtassnz6hjbsiyMAwp5gXge0pwGVLq0NLbKVn2Y-KaonNLh4kZO9Wg0yqT2k96V6rabnzbB9c7CNA0CVwx4glVzMOBQ790rioPwf0NwJwuyQ8-DFzX9BxNDBuII4pLw13JFoSFUIMMhtyllWgEB9-ApfyLPnkAke8dABdRw=w207-h320" width="207" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">It started out like any other Tuesday. </span><span style="background-color: white;">I spent twelve hours writing algorithms for one of the largest companies in the world and then came home to work on a pet project of mine—feeding facts about the men I knew into a formula to find my perfect match before my twenties came barreling to a close. </span><span style="background-color: white;">But then a man knocked on my door and handed me some papers that turned my life upside down. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Apparently, a father I never knew existed had left me something in his will. That something turned out to be part ownership in a </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">professional football team</span><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Next thing I knew, I was learning a sport I knew nothing about by spending time with the team’s quarterback who was out with an injury, a man who my formula would </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">definitely</span><span style="background-color: white;"> determine was all wrong for me. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Christian Knox was too handsome and confident for his own good and could have any woman he wanted. Only lately the only woman he seemed to want was </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">me</span><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;">But there was no way I was getting involved when I was now his boss, even if he was insanely gorgeous and had the dirtiest mouth I’d ever come across. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It would be wrong, wouldn’t it? </span><span style="background-color: white;">Probably. But you know what they say about things that are wrong...sometimes they feel so right.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">9. <a href="https://amzn.to/3YPR55H" target="_blank">Drive</a> by Kate</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PetuAwxGHW89TO1gWJxyiKiC3pzmqNCmA064ovQ4R6SJ-VuQOpfyOQoXZRIQviAOrSADgkhwVRnHR2kbIBNibmU9ZP2I_TnGSnr2rYq0qZBfZo5t-FpvwuKaTxQPBmlIYyDpTMYi0eGLApNsz8jvyHYd0VL8QzdwtJILkysfFkRDaOlJ0qMr9M1TmA/s500/41WyzNuXIHL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="319" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PetuAwxGHW89TO1gWJxyiKiC3pzmqNCmA064ovQ4R6SJ-VuQOpfyOQoXZRIQviAOrSADgkhwVRnHR2kbIBNibmU9ZP2I_TnGSnr2rYq0qZBfZo5t-FpvwuKaTxQPBmlIYyDpTMYi0eGLApNsz8jvyHYd0VL8QzdwtJILkysfFkRDaOlJ0qMr9M1TmA/s320/41WyzNuXIHL.jpg" width="204" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Music . . . the heart’s greatest librarian. The average song is three and a half minutes long; those three and a half minutes could lead to a slow blink, a glimpse of the past, or catapult the soul into heart-shattering nostalgia. At the height of my career, I had the life I wanted, the life I’d always envisioned. I’d found my tempo, my rhythm. Then I received a phone call that left me off key. You see, my favorite songs had a way of playing simultaneously. I was in love with one man’s beats and another’s lyrics. But when it came to the soundtrack of a life, how could anyone choose a favorite song? So, to erase any doubt, I ditched my first-class ticket and decided to take a drive, fixed on the rearview. Two days. One playlist. And the long road home to the man who was waiting for me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">10. <a href="https://amzn.to/3LnUbuL" target="_blank">What Lovers Do</a> by Jewel E. Ann </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlMTkkl7-0sR1K3oz_dLaTUoKXLNpy5A-U7xfQ-acUv7IVcPpR7qor4d8N6pCkTdxR_wTPJGAPd8XnqUEhXimfncQUSmCQ7ozIPysOf3XkXSGdJLL6k3QhXNW0or4F8OGtGqOpK9M3h5uYBYAQzYhyVCxA75mSs1Iht0l_ep-IjwIUmg6_1eKCRrz-g/s1600/60471616.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlMTkkl7-0sR1K3oz_dLaTUoKXLNpy5A-U7xfQ-acUv7IVcPpR7qor4d8N6pCkTdxR_wTPJGAPd8XnqUEhXimfncQUSmCQ7ozIPysOf3XkXSGdJLL6k3QhXNW0or4F8OGtGqOpK9M3h5uYBYAQzYhyVCxA75mSs1Iht0l_ep-IjwIUmg6_1eKCRrz-g/s320/60471616.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">From bestselling author Jewel E. Ann comes a hilarious secret lovers story that redefines the meaning of friendship. </span>Shep’s found the female version of himself … and he thinks she’s perfect—perfectly unavailable. Everyone loves Shep, the charismatic employee at Scottsdale’s newest pet store. He has shared custody of his two dogs with his annoying ex-wife and a smile that can disarm most women. Except … Dr. Sophie Ryan. What starts out as a disastrous first meeting, involving a coffee catastrophe and mistaken flirting, turns into an unconventional friendship. Fake phone sex. Dog park dates. And eighteen holes of golf. The problem? Sophie’s taken herself out of the dating pool for a mysterious reason, imprisoning Shep in the friend zone for eternity. As their competitive personalities hit a boiling point, the gloves come off and so do their clothes. When Sophie’s “real” life threatens their relationship, can Shep let go of his past to chase the one that might get away?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGT4-8cVO0-rOzjGx7AX4KePulvrMu8hThkK88ctJvYrJYJi7zjPNYdZ7HgWZ5rD7hN5MEORRf-zTSxmepa23o1nKLlqLh_p-K4o590FHXT3jTEKwr8utFdL_ygv9TwH-_dll6s_lJX2RKkzNdYOpFEnZ6a5EbbKmg1XFLG5U2uIR_Rqzw8jQn76qUQ/s700/Untitled%20design.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="700" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGT4-8cVO0-rOzjGx7AX4KePulvrMu8hThkK88ctJvYrJYJi7zjPNYdZ7HgWZ5rD7hN5MEORRf-zTSxmepa23o1nKLlqLh_p-K4o590FHXT3jTEKwr8utFdL_ygv9TwH-_dll6s_lJX2RKkzNdYOpFEnZ6a5EbbKmg1XFLG5U2uIR_Rqzw8jQn76qUQ/w640-h46/Untitled%20design.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What books are on your spring TBR? Have you read any of the titles above? What are your thoughts? I would love to know in the comments down below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcg5fZiQfJGn0sEsb_b67llW3iEL9VspbyYOPczVo-OVtsmxUIwkcqJvEDQgJ22e90tNXvq1xkOrfu5Bu78nDThInzBNZWwTpMO3344n6JraX6hVs1FHRT__xwyzkRDJputqRjHp1NbFkKG-kMWPkMcKPK4XQPUUKEzTpHPJWB3cu2iOwBbHV-LJWBdw=s200" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #ef8fbf; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcg5fZiQfJGn0sEsb_b67llW3iEL9VspbyYOPczVo-OVtsmxUIwkcqJvEDQgJ22e90tNXvq1xkOrfu5Bu78nDThInzBNZWwTpMO3344n6JraX6hVs1FHRT__xwyzkRDJputqRjHp1NbFkKG-kMWPkMcKPK4XQPUUKEzTpHPJWB3cu2iOwBbHV-LJWBdw" style="background: none; border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a></div></div></div></span></span></div></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-17636072535961627872023-03-09T12:47:00.001-07:002023-03-09T12:47:04.880-07:00THE NERDY BOOKWORM READING CHALLENGE UPDATE<p> <img height="388" src="https://i.postimg.cc/YSYBJm80/The-Nerdy-Bookworm.png" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="688" /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">It's been a while since I have updated you guys on my Nerdy Bookworm Reading Challenge. I have read some good books lately as well as some flops that I thought I would share with you all that I have finished and read. Lets see what reading prompts your girl has finished!</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Read a graphic novel, manga, or comic: </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3mDDL7c" target="_blank">Locke & Key, Vol. 1</a> by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFPgeyxBv2wJJ6d4j9qYIxsjVpSU3cRLjcawjbqJB7IuTQvuaKzfzRRBe29aJfhzEq7IzF7kaBv4i3tWd436_pFJuZH3aqcDhiIEf0GtsWcX-gWQ4JFKtt-4LIHvkcpBdrs9HTOii7cgnoyGeiMC5kgP40MyFEphv5zX1ciCaHWcTs4RBZBdJBN19ZNw/s475/3217221.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="313" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFPgeyxBv2wJJ6d4j9qYIxsjVpSU3cRLjcawjbqJB7IuTQvuaKzfzRRBe29aJfhzEq7IzF7kaBv4i3tWd436_pFJuZH3aqcDhiIEf0GtsWcX-gWQ4JFKtt-4LIHvkcpBdrs9HTOii7cgnoyGeiMC5kgP40MyFEphv5zX1ciCaHWcTs4RBZBdJBN19ZNw/s320/3217221.jpeg" width="211" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Rating: <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; 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border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Read a book with a number in the title: <a href="https://amzn.to/41Rxogu" target="_blank">Four Found Dead</a> by Natalie D. Richards</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPRtGbulBdCj0DulBp6VDPf9Nt2sb-nvoolyo4vUf49BvyXiFcZqjzfWf_IqX81QrzliVGSE_3StvWKGCyxruTzL-YZC0D-qiRDfQUdV0df-fWMjVnDvS9N-98w2FfwCC74mIT78mw36pRrXAjl7LJ_gOy59SEd1EUvpG-QK1H65SAET74O84jeMmog/s400/61492433.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPRtGbulBdCj0DulBp6VDPf9Nt2sb-nvoolyo4vUf49BvyXiFcZqjzfWf_IqX81QrzliVGSE_3StvWKGCyxruTzL-YZC0D-qiRDfQUdV0df-fWMjVnDvS9N-98w2FfwCC74mIT78mw36pRrXAjl7LJ_gOy59SEd1EUvpG-QK1H65SAET74O84jeMmog/s320/61492433.jpeg" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="200" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnQwNmQkFWJZg9mRYtiJC7sMEjWUiL_pVLvSs0GvG3diFlktCUEDRrL2Y6BT_MbTgXUmyqgpohO9-_IFi6Cn0-csnLI2iDOxys2nvfYY2UpuWCYsCQVsSFdny8WbpERIDjaT0wimgBpnBsqI5gzQsTUveMhCFmc-Vvta3zv3YCcdAgfuEb6aRLR7YD7Q/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-20%20at%2010.33.57%20AM.png" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">3. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: left;">Read a book that has time travel in it: <a href="https://amzn.to/3YyRV6H" target="_blank">Five First Chances</a> by Sarah Jost</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfkefY5FresRrWWM6zuLNcxoPp2OEbMF5HgTOX4F8nIHrnKPxp2RxZoNJ4WEK8J5MFp_XGoRV7dHwWieFWREnKPDxmy9lPPGxjczfZl15DDe9Ij3OVj9MvjCTFwWh_Jg54ahNENh9Kddn3pGSkPYqKlIpsUoFY-oVwm7osQYW5pVpqrC5zvjrPURG7Pg/s750/63883312.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: initial; border: 0px; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">DNF</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">4. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Read a new to you author: </span><span style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FfuVmn" target="_blank">Dangerous Dreams</a> by Abbie Roads</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; 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background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">★</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">DNF</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">5. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">A book by an auto-buy author of yours: <a href="https://amzn.to/3FcCyKx" target="_blank">Evidence of the Affair</a> by Taylor Jenkins Reid</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; 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font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">My Rating: <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: initial; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="45" data-original-width="200" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQufQZoZ2LcJSEkMeAiH0qhtHEuYLKUcOPUNQKHppok9Uxj6rT7GQGVtbl0Ml4a6Yd6D0zoSipo2vrds_edT7FA2-FUrRveXXoscQuNPdaGEdPrOmEYXZz8DFDgwPSIoAeBBHUX6Pi9y1Do2eXBBz272-f9YaZb5HoNDjVFJP3tddg8LpJI-xAiCgzHQ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-19%20at%205.14.00%20PM.png" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><center><img height="948" src="https://i.postimg.cc/W1TWtxw1/bingo-nerdybookworm-2.png" width="533" /></center><center><br /></center><center>I have read some great books this year so far. I even found a new five-star read. How is your reading coming? Have you read any of the books above?</center><center>xoxo,</center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYskSKgd-gTFuvMsjpNWE-tzmApJeRR_0scEpUaX1vWaYAn4wZ3SoB9vtkZW_6iVEQ4jwqcqhLu1mSZsewxmthIyGE6KT89rN0QpnT2gl2-liF1aL1XGnq7m4QYxlTNt05bCGE6hls3vd_m1-zLYIRJglADP44-L1AXvzuP1LVVPb9c7vPA0GXxb6EQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" width="200" /></a></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-64831924808950360622023-03-06T15:08:00.000-07:002023-03-06T15:08:06.354-07:0010 Paranormal Romance Books Involving Ghosts<center><img height="726" src="https://i.postimg.cc/zfrjLY94/10-Paranormal-Romance-Books-Involving-Ghosts.png" width="455" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center></center>Since childhood, I have always loved paranormal romance novels involving ghosts. Especially plots that involve seeing ghosts, falling in love with a spirit in some way, or helping ghosts crossover. Therefore, this list has been inspired by that very topic. Hence the inspiration for this post!<p>Here are all the paranormal ghost romance novels that I plan to read soon. I have even created a bookshelf on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/30732489-emily-nicholas-emily-the-book-nerd?shelf=ghost-paranormal-romances" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> for this specific plot point because I like those kinds of books so much. If you know of any ghostly romances let me know about them in the comments down below if they are not included in this list because I always need more books to add to my book lists!</p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>1. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ybbKX4" target="_blank">The Widow of Rose House</a> by Diana Biller</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-eI0_vanjKW_yWIBprDtX6Tdb5cbF2Y2HPDHiqm4JT457q0KqEaTuCMINUIqZHoF6ojSibJX_jshPnUItFUtnIFBIx6QDg1lSG5lCRNURAWxGZLnSAne0u4XokPTUYkwtPgWe8AYMt3yfUQ97cjt8R5u8VNKbxHnakLWn7OmT8S6n4s_81OMVQkvb1A/s400/56269081.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="271" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-eI0_vanjKW_yWIBprDtX6Tdb5cbF2Y2HPDHiqm4JT457q0KqEaTuCMINUIqZHoF6ojSibJX_jshPnUItFUtnIFBIx6QDg1lSG5lCRNURAWxGZLnSAne0u4XokPTUYkwtPgWe8AYMt3yfUQ97cjt8R5u8VNKbxHnakLWn7OmT8S6n4s_81OMVQkvb1A/s320/56269081.jpeg" width="217" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, only to find the house is full of dangerous secrets in this effervescent Gilded Age debut novel. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time. However, fresh starts aren't as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at Liefdehuis begin to reach her. But Alva doesn't believe in ghosts. So when the eccentric and brilliant professor, Samuel Moore, appears and informs her that he can get to the bottom of the mystery that surrounds Liefdehuis, she turns him down flat. She doesn't need any more complications in her life―especially not a handsome, convention-flouting, scandal-raising one like Sam. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Unfortunately, though Alva is loath to admit it, Sam, a pioneer in electric lighting and a member of the nationally-adored Moore family of scientists, is the only one who can help. Together, the two delve into the tragic secrets wreathing Alva's new home while Sam attempts to unlock Alva's history―and her heart. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Set during the Gilded Age in New York City, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">The Widow of Rose House</i><span style="background-color: white;"> is a gorgeous debut by Diana Biller, with a darkly Victorian Gothic flair and an intrepid and resilient American heroine guaranteed to delight readers.</span></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3IVBhrY" target="_blank">The Dead Romantics</a> by Ashley Poston</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypFcG8Nj-PV8sZu3BiQuuB9igKn_EXYjQfTypr5TRH0ydbfIaLO6bYFnEvibKwl_v4UixJrXIgLTLemuJ2elYkEhXYqsT9LI6nMYIUkgvRe07TkbpMY02bXIuxWah4qzyLfDIBRX3GighQpfbgk73p3zm3oobwXWyJojoyyTVA7oi6EPGwdgNct-ukw/s400/58885776.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypFcG8Nj-PV8sZu3BiQuuB9igKn_EXYjQfTypr5TRH0ydbfIaLO6bYFnEvibKwl_v4UixJrXIgLTLemuJ2elYkEhXYqsT9LI6nMYIUkgvRe07TkbpMY02bXIuxWah4qzyLfDIBRX3GighQpfbgk73p3zm3oobwXWyJojoyyTVA7oi6EPGwdgNct-ukw/s320/58885776.jpeg" width="214" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead. </span><span style="background-color: white;">When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won’t give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father. </span><span style="background-color: white;">For ten years, she’s run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he’s just as confused about why he’s there as she is. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Romance is most certainly dead... but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b>3. <a href="https://amzn.to/3YoTZht" target="_blank">Midnight Bayou</a> by Nora Roberts</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1wHIxhLrb5if1GEIcBMPtK8eee7YoUu6qn-2k9eZNTjMLbeLPbBwWa0jyHrTcgdAYuCyET0G6KaNjt2zUWDLNOS1ROek2B02AnU89yXHNDvy9CuTVI9o9xFVpg8EsHdP_i2miFaT4S-fGn4or7vHcBuo0wVqDGSrGDvqVicpkBTse56JP0EkrZIk7A/s475/114132.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="276" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1wHIxhLrb5if1GEIcBMPtK8eee7YoUu6qn-2k9eZNTjMLbeLPbBwWa0jyHrTcgdAYuCyET0G6KaNjt2zUWDLNOS1ROek2B02AnU89yXHNDvy9CuTVI9o9xFVpg8EsHdP_i2miFaT4S-fGn4or7vHcBuo0wVqDGSrGDvqVicpkBTse56JP0EkrZIk7A/s320/114132.jpeg" width="186" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">#1 </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: white;"> bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana—where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house… </span><span style="background-color: white;">Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and obsessed-with it. So when the opportunity to buy the house comes up, Declan jumps at the chance to live out a dream. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room, relying on his own labor and skills. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. He is seeing visions of days from a century past, and experiencing sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief-sensations not his own, but those of a stranger. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan's belief in the ghostly presence grows. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Only the companionship of alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall-a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3SP2wJA" target="_blank">Sinister Summer</a> by Colleen Gleason</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9K-aZ6nPtjyodQLt03RWA6qj2HDrxT1qVtZw73sSeenL5cZcUYRzqOuOeOzZ3V7O52tH9o_prZ1p3RQy9-yWZuP2aZcMZkYmK2nL0oDWoIFBBeGqpEbTn_9DWNzKXCgf88VxapQIuwSwla-5IDEMQyqXDNFcq7CH-wclB8LXfxrb-ZUkcJAloz_ulg/s2560/58700579.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1707" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9K-aZ6nPtjyodQLt03RWA6qj2HDrxT1qVtZw73sSeenL5cZcUYRzqOuOeOzZ3V7O52tH9o_prZ1p3RQy9-yWZuP2aZcMZkYmK2nL0oDWoIFBBeGqpEbTn_9DWNzKXCgf88VxapQIuwSwla-5IDEMQyqXDNFcq7CH-wclB8LXfxrb-ZUkcJAloz_ulg/w213-h320/58700579.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">A sexy professor. A logical lawyer. A determined ghost. And a very real killer... </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Welcome to Wicks Hollow: a cozy town near Lake Michigan filled with quaint houses, eccentric residents, and more than its share of ghosts, murders, and romance. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Diana Iverson needs a break--from her stressful job, from her philandering boyfriend, and from the rest of her fast-paced life. When she inherits her eccentric Aunt Jean's home on Wicks Lake, Diana takes a much-needed vacation in the cozy little town. </span><span style="background-color: white;">But when the lake house becomes the scene of multiple break-ins and other unsettling events, Diana begins to suspect Aunt Jean’s death was not as innocent as it seems. </span><span style="background-color: white;">And then there’s Ethan Murphy, the sexy college professor who lives next door… He appears to know a lot more about Aunt Jean than he should, and Diana doesn’t trust him. </span><span style="background-color: white;">But most of all, there's Aunt Jean herself…who seems determined to communicate with Diana—from beyond the grave. </span><span style="background-color: white;">A ghost story romance set in a small town, featuring a cozy mystery about a ghost that just won’t rest until justice is served. The perfect blend of romance, suspense, and ghosts.</span><br /></span><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b>5. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZmvJxH" target="_blank">Saving Mercy</a> by Nicole Tillman</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnI-9mGt-KB74yzsO7A1I_h122WLx96Pf2uIhbZqSITlnyH_LeG_-ZazAaM9g3pdeM-TBjqhpSNTd72cHhd05m_rvCiHuN5pJ1AVXNNdISdywbufrzQKDEiADAmSR7LtRa4WuEzW0ZS04T97FgbzrDeJicM9amiY5BhHjIgZtGjl8Qsh8Zjf17D41BkA/s475/25237928.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="304" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnI-9mGt-KB74yzsO7A1I_h122WLx96Pf2uIhbZqSITlnyH_LeG_-ZazAaM9g3pdeM-TBjqhpSNTd72cHhd05m_rvCiHuN5pJ1AVXNNdISdywbufrzQKDEiADAmSR7LtRa4WuEzW0ZS04T97FgbzrDeJicM9amiY5BhHjIgZtGjl8Qsh8Zjf17D41BkA/s320/25237928.jpeg" width="205" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Ryan Callahan. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Intelligent. Pensive. Reclusive. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">DECEASED. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Mercy Hunter. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Ambitious. Optimistic.Independent. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">LIVING. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Ryan thought he was on the fast track to his dream life. That is, until he woke up without a pulse. Realizing he has no way to leave the space where he took his last breath, he fears he is destined to spend eternity within the confines of his dreary apartment walls. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Mercy is certain she has left the clairvoyant tendencies of her bloodline behind. However, when she arrives at her new apartment in blustery Chicago, she is shocked to find that the previous tenant, Ryan, has stayed behind. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">As their unique friendship blossoms, Ryan begins to think he's been left behind to act as Mercy's protector, but she doesn't seem to be the kind of woman who wants to be protected. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Meanwhile, Mercy is convinced it's her job to help Ryan cross over, but as she grows to know him, she's not entirely sure she's selfless enough to let him go. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">As they struggle through the complexities of their relationship, they realize that the collision of their worlds isn't just coincidence. It's fate.</span><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><b>6. <a href="https://amzn.to/3YnK77G" target="_blank">Existence</a> by Abbi Glines</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMKx6SgjYJ-Bmnnoj9E_JPTakCr8JUfyHP3yKOGGM76VOkyppJCn-g3VwHOriuxfYvD-zy4-5VwCE7kXKKdHXzYhcP9BYERy4XyFKqmYEVNX5GKTiueW0vII3_xqNXJBWpGRrbNgAkkuZSeSXA0RVx-nmGm3UDEkG_vFwis5MHZ3gvGXGb3A0CRlFe-g/s424/13223520.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMKx6SgjYJ-Bmnnoj9E_JPTakCr8JUfyHP3yKOGGM76VOkyppJCn-g3VwHOriuxfYvD-zy4-5VwCE7kXKKdHXzYhcP9BYERy4XyFKqmYEVNX5GKTiueW0vII3_xqNXJBWpGRrbNgAkkuZSeSXA0RVx-nmGm3UDEkG_vFwis5MHZ3gvGXGb3A0CRlFe-g/s320/13223520.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;">What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Pagan Moore doesn't cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them. If she didn't let them know she could see them, then they left her alone. Until she stepped out of her car the first day of school and saw an incredibly sexy guy lounging on a picnic table, watching her with an amused smirk on his face. Problem is, she knows he's dead. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Not only does he not go away when she ignores him, but he does something none of the others have ever done. He speaks. Pagan is fascinated by the soul. What she doesn't realize is that her appointed time to die is drawing near and the wickedly beautiful soul she is falling in love with is not a soul at all. </span><span style="background-color: white;">He is Death and he's about to break all the rules.</span><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b>7. <a href="https://amzn.to/3KVmUXu" target="_blank">Layla</a> by Colleen Hoover</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qpJI0W58BYvr1bj2aWUnWGgioa3y8sVOvp5R_40ZfJlWFGyPGDm-Z8ZRClU4VIn68FQx_mYM-GTMKx-hLKlWn5ya17z8VTxuHeenLrCd6Hxn_41gICRBXaddGRZPsxt3SrVJa9q2pe9Vvxniqt-A-SN2opO9ztn4gVwlsFYjIDV05AE-zoGa1h4IpA/s2048/52089753.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qpJI0W58BYvr1bj2aWUnWGgioa3y8sVOvp5R_40ZfJlWFGyPGDm-Z8ZRClU4VIn68FQx_mYM-GTMKx-hLKlWn5ya17z8VTxuHeenLrCd6Hxn_41gICRBXaddGRZPsxt3SrVJa9q2pe9Vvxniqt-A-SN2opO9ztn4gVwlsFYjIDV05AE-zoGa1h4IpA/s320/52089753.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">From #1 <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</span> bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love. </span><span style="background-color: white;">When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns. As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental for </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">all</span><span style="background-color: white;"> of them.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>8. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Zk5fNs" target="_blank">Anna Dressed in Blood</a> by Kendare Blake</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWV7XozYWvYvDEfH4v9lmfqATuDswqQXOusqTE5NHsROtzTccJDUGjyDNaxjMGTQK9xnQNlXCrG9HPcqcOBI2BdqWpfKFBQrp3pCr4UOPGZgg4Xqci4eSVtpTVFqSm14ffwXK9rQsoxe0pkoUHK_MhU_InX3L2ekysOPUFtfVveiIzSAKAWe181ZneYA/s460/9378297.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWV7XozYWvYvDEfH4v9lmfqATuDswqQXOusqTE5NHsROtzTccJDUGjyDNaxjMGTQK9xnQNlXCrG9HPcqcOBI2BdqWpfKFBQrp3pCr4UOPGZgg4Xqci4eSVtpTVFqSm14ffwXK9rQsoxe0pkoUHK_MhU_InX3L2ekysOPUFtfVveiIzSAKAWe181ZneYA/s320/9378297.jpeg" width="221" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;">Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. </span><span style="background-color: white;">So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Yet she spares Cas's life.</span></span><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>9. <a href="https://amzn.to/3SOIsXN" target="_blank">Halloween Boo</a> by Sarah Spade</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgce29FEgOeMyVLPFG-xfdWSM0PFucYlog5wDqIvvPpp5qzD_EDDpp9idqMwauqwln9FMIHjT5-UZ3oaYpyhT9WaTWtYnvr4mTv8GnpQ2jzKo2qSfOtmOAE2mjd82-16KOOVXKVi0gdUiTlxO8fWsgjrqA_2xPpGmrtkRhY8JRwsczgvwxRz84pGptQOQ/s1173/42384614.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1173" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgce29FEgOeMyVLPFG-xfdWSM0PFucYlog5wDqIvvPpp5qzD_EDDpp9idqMwauqwln9FMIHjT5-UZ3oaYpyhT9WaTWtYnvr4mTv8GnpQ2jzKo2qSfOtmOAE2mjd82-16KOOVXKVi0gdUiTlxO8fWsgjrqA_2xPpGmrtkRhY8JRwsczgvwxRz84pGptQOQ/s320/42384614.jpeg" width="205" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">A ghost falling in love with a mortal? It’s just a bunch of hocus pocus…</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><u>Dani</u></span></div><span style="background-color: white;">So, I think my apartment is haunted. </span><span style="background-color: white;">No. Really. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Spooky things have been happening to me ever since I moved in last year. At first, I ignored them. Later, I got used to the idea that I shared my place with a ghost. I even called him Casper. We got along just fine. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Until a sexy hunk showed up the night before Halloween and told me that his name wasn’t Casper--it was Zack. And that, on All Hallow’s Eve, certain ghosts sometimes have the power to cross over into the human world. Which he did, because he loves me. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Okay then.</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><u>Zack</u></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">I’m in love. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The only problem? </span><span style="background-color: white;">She’s alive. And me? </span><span style="background-color: white;">I’m kinda not. </span><span style="background-color: white;">At least, I’m not on every day except for October 31st. Because on Halloween? Anything goes. </span><span style="background-color: white;">I want Dani. And even if it’s only for the one night when ghosts can cross over to the living world, I’ll take what I can get. Because I love a mortal, and it’s not just hocus pocus. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Dani Williams doesn’t believe in ghosts. But this Halloween, after a year of watching over and falling in love with his mortal houseguest, Zack Banks is ready to prove that this particular ghost might just believe in her. </span><span style="background-color: white;">This sweet Halloween treat is chock full of insta-love, over-the-top Halloween magic, and enough Hocus Pocus nods to make you cackle like a sexy witch in between moaning for more. A Sarah Spade HEA guaranteed!</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>10. <a href="https://amzn.to/3JfgHUV" target="_blank">Angelborn</a> by L. Penelope</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3YSIFrQ3te9NYZxP2GCyziWzuqR6wHCiZitjBJsJfDWt2lklpN0nvOZmIfGdaBFnmc9QXByJS0Vpz5SLTWm4oN_ISVOo_6-h1BJNs9XgCWPxOVu7VKJBTk1kSfmx8bCX_IhOHKQIfB7yAmnk4MqFSoLh5hDv1gozulBKqmyaZ6mmSHc25Nvqa1IB-g/s900/43524307.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3YSIFrQ3te9NYZxP2GCyziWzuqR6wHCiZitjBJsJfDWt2lklpN0nvOZmIfGdaBFnmc9QXByJS0Vpz5SLTWm4oN_ISVOo_6-h1BJNs9XgCWPxOVu7VKJBTk1kSfmx8bCX_IhOHKQIfB7yAmnk4MqFSoLh5hDv1gozulBKqmyaZ6mmSHc25Nvqa1IB-g/s320/43524307.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">He gave up eternity for love… and lost. Will she be his second chance? </span><span style="background-color: white;">Maia sees dead people. Since she can't distinguish them from the living, she ignores everyone in order to appear sane. But the ghost haunting her roommate breaks through her hardened shell. Not only does he claim to not be dead, he makes her feel things she never has before—dangerous feelings for a man who can never be hers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">For an angelborn like Caleb, dying without a soul sentenced him to eternity in the Wasteland. Now he's escaped, but the only way to stay free is by convincing his true love to share her soul with him. You only get one soulmate and his is not the broken, scarred young woman he can't stay away from. With dangerous angels hunting him, Maia is a distraction he can't afford. </span><span style="background-color: white;">After inadvertently leading a threat to Caleb's door, Maia is willing to risk anything to keep him safe. Even if that means losing him forever.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-rxquMwTArBo5toRyjMgqYGOcyh5sFoh-oADY23_l8kUfeGLYf7EzIRtExyt6ddPH5cgqXgzK1ZWlCqM0TZoYsVqqnG9F7VQ32zFU6_9MLkqTOUACUxlcnvWwMN34mb9noPKpk1yldwDyC1hkD4fFk0ZgkyB50DSQqJTfXLARngw1MfEEi7Z1D3A4A/s700/Untitled%20design.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="700" height="47" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-rxquMwTArBo5toRyjMgqYGOcyh5sFoh-oADY23_l8kUfeGLYf7EzIRtExyt6ddPH5cgqXgzK1ZWlCqM0TZoYsVqqnG9F7VQ32zFU6_9MLkqTOUACUxlcnvWwMN34mb9noPKpk1yldwDyC1hkD4fFk0ZgkyB50DSQqJTfXLARngw1MfEEi7Z1D3A4A/w654-h47/Untitled%20design.png" width="654" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have you read any of the titles above?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrpHKsnsCg_XdJgzsDQ6jlYdC9LYr_Le4YXtDT-heZh15aAkGud6L_YwocIwqW3-YBFUzASvqjV58zbE2LDFjSKy3JhaQwhne_Mfi277VoamdyhSJ-8PU02EUSOAosBmCPJNCe7r-HDbn71XBG0LvuFdj-sz8xtohH7T9UxEh26mdNWmrtybS_cvzJQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrpHKsnsCg_XdJgzsDQ6jlYdC9LYr_Le4YXtDT-heZh15aAkGud6L_YwocIwqW3-YBFUzASvqjV58zbE2LDFjSKy3JhaQwhne_Mfi277VoamdyhSJ-8PU02EUSOAosBmCPJNCe7r-HDbn71XBG0LvuFdj-sz8xtohH7T9UxEh26mdNWmrtybS_cvzJQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" width="200" /></a></div></span></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-78742149295431167062023-02-22T12:11:00.002-07:002023-02-22T12:11:28.253-07:00Four Found Dead<center><img height="383" src="https://i.postimg.cc/JnRHDzVY/Four-Found-Dead.png" width="681" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhACiOERkEaPAkZMq7YqSI1dcjCaDT6Lhm9uCJbRscxwo6-B8SAYmFrtuleMfvovA6oCXt_GUiBrytxWbS0WqFvlWPCh1d1TZjVQ6oW7OR9Ds-YP_o4iKxzw0v2-V2xJlZrVokPi0fJZzM2lRvvHqLB8nx06aqnp_-5G6vqAUZJ1X5hhF0Uxr7PiT3vA/s400/61492433.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhACiOERkEaPAkZMq7YqSI1dcjCaDT6Lhm9uCJbRscxwo6-B8SAYmFrtuleMfvovA6oCXt_GUiBrytxWbS0WqFvlWPCh1d1TZjVQ6oW7OR9Ds-YP_o4iKxzw0v2-V2xJlZrVokPi0fJZzM2lRvvHqLB8nx06aqnp_-5G6vqAUZJ1X5hhF0Uxr7PiT3vA/w249-h372/61492433.jpeg" width="249" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Four Found Dead</b></span><br /><b>Author: Natalie D. Richards<br />Genre: Young Adult Thriller<br />Published: May 23, 2023<br />Pages: 352<br />My Rating: <span style="text-align: center; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">★★</span></b><div><span style="text-align: center; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY01OEsPJ2S3GmEZeOlVYxzR8HUmr3gSDWBHBbj3IS8OgDYXH8Udhcj661XRvypOxe0vWAs5kovah0DaLnm1fx5U5HH2O7NGjL9Wi2gNZ98Rm7ai4dqNRX-tXXsumGT3xKzzqnyyAlUcf93rP_4EqI8FMNg2ihpTj_MoUdqbAAEHMijikjc_0NHp8V5A/s200/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-20%20at%2010.33.57%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="200" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY01OEsPJ2S3GmEZeOlVYxzR8HUmr3gSDWBHBbj3IS8OgDYXH8Udhcj661XRvypOxe0vWAs5kovah0DaLnm1fx5U5HH2O7NGjL9Wi2gNZ98Rm7ai4dqNRX-tXXsumGT3xKzzqnyyAlUcf93rP_4EqI8FMNg2ihpTj_MoUdqbAAEHMijikjc_0NHp8V5A/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-20%20at%2010.33.57%20AM.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;">At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. </span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;">Tonight, Tempest Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, cleaning up popcorn and mopping floors for the last time. </span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;">But after an unexpected altercation puts everyone on edge, the power goes out. Their manager disappears, along with the keys to the lobby doors and the theater safe, where the crew's phones are locked each shift. Then, the crew's tension turns to terror when Jo discovers the dead body of one of her co-workers. </span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;">Now their only chance to escape the murderer in their midst is through the dark, shuttered mall. With its boarded-up exits and disabled fire alarms, the complex is filled with hiding places for both pursuer and pursued. In order to survive this night, Jo and her friends must trust one another, navigate the sprawling ruins of the mall, and outwit a killer before he kills again.</span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTKyLVIvHkqc7RGIAPZp_aNjBI2UwRlo8tzft8T6aqtuEm1ehqwGwX5cjad0exU5XHIh3qjlj15sp27uQHPJrx_FOchiQyoFYEGFCAb9T9dAo5ZXI99ON9RMPACNYdhNW46EQsw1Ei-iQ8JeUSaP5TsrpXQVMUrGLmI2sR7fSfEvr3aF7rG34Lxx_IQ/s640/Screen%20Shot%202019-06-09%20at%201.05.26%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="640" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTKyLVIvHkqc7RGIAPZp_aNjBI2UwRlo8tzft8T6aqtuEm1ehqwGwX5cjad0exU5XHIh3qjlj15sp27uQHPJrx_FOchiQyoFYEGFCAb9T9dAo5ZXI99ON9RMPACNYdhNW46EQsw1Ei-iQ8JeUSaP5TsrpXQVMUrGLmI2sR7fSfEvr3aF7rG34Lxx_IQ/w640-h168/Screen%20Shot%202019-06-09%20at%201.05.26%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Teenagers found dead at a movie theater mall shooting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm8tbOhVZYfai3wuvHyjJiP6hCxI6a5GAJcflrK5lXKd7z_rhSC7ApwYep14BfShYBhwdgqxJd41YaxmJJOqSdHVIdGXV_hbCyPd8TvBNV4YxuDe1MvHLwqC6lo4q_oGusN5uscLVeRND97w48LGyleLYFwSUQg6Qx9zLd5d8tCOaTJWunbdQ6WlH5bQ/s640/image%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="640" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm8tbOhVZYfai3wuvHyjJiP6hCxI6a5GAJcflrK5lXKd7z_rhSC7ApwYep14BfShYBhwdgqxJd41YaxmJJOqSdHVIdGXV_hbCyPd8TvBNV4YxuDe1MvHLwqC6lo4q_oGusN5uscLVeRND97w48LGyleLYFwSUQg6Qx9zLd5d8tCOaTJWunbdQ6WlH5bQ/w640-h148/image%20(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am always reluctant to read books about shootings because I am terrified of guns. Plus, in recent years, with the sheer amount of shootings around the world I do not like reading about them even if it's fictional. My anxiety is horrible and sometimes even reading about fake shootings will create massive anxiety for me to where I do not want to leave the house. Therefore, I try to stay clear of novels that involve gun violence. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, Four Found Dead seemed interesting enough so I thought I would give it a try..... but just like in other novels about gun violence I had an incredibly hard time getting through this book. The novel ran incredibly slow and was gut-wrenching for me. It was just not for me and a topic that can be triggering to my own mental health. I should have realized this and stayed clear of a gun violence book but I wanted to give it a try. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First of all, you find out who the killer is from the first page of the book which I think almost became detrimental to the book. It made the story less interesting. The only thriller aspect the book truly held was you didn't know who would ultimately die in the end or if all the teens would make it out of the mall. Knowing the killer right away took from the excitement. The story is nothing short of predictable. I just did not jive with this story or the characters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg92A3QVlQcRZWGzwY6yHKvSqyrk3Ii3nzoGwm6pAi_iM0PVdhJx6Z75sgqKu4PxPC3P0WU3IUd-F_JJdwNpd6q349leiVU4we-B4GRqXjlLiQuyqzeZ04mSrPzHAFuzsD0oO7x8aZEKYtx8vocWJ0Pj2DtVEYMGkyb6lbPIMt0xV78zVQczETGAZw6Q/s640/image%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="640" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg92A3QVlQcRZWGzwY6yHKvSqyrk3Ii3nzoGwm6pAi_iM0PVdhJx6Z75sgqKu4PxPC3P0WU3IUd-F_JJdwNpd6q349leiVU4we-B4GRqXjlLiQuyqzeZ04mSrPzHAFuzsD0oO7x8aZEKYtx8vocWJ0Pj2DtVEYMGkyb6lbPIMt0xV78zVQczETGAZw6Q/w640-h154/image%20(2).png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Exr9nY" target="_blank">Amazon</a> / <a href="https://go.magik.ly/ml/1rb7j/" target="_blank">Book Depository</a> / <a href="https://go.magik.ly/ml/1rb7l/" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicoqccrcaQNEB6ZRbuAX0zzBYliJLOavyxb-B_PSXDr_0uKrM8euNyH74okFMUZ5zLD_k0Kh-ItXhvdy4Is5T7PWkyglXz5Yruhv5Au8oeFnkvzHwoHkRfVKVWw-PyUaAjLKQsyp-FIKMkcigBwmagIw-b4_rUxp6UPtb54JARTqwjcOwRI7y6Rmh9Yg/s640/image%20(3).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="640" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicoqccrcaQNEB6ZRbuAX0zzBYliJLOavyxb-B_PSXDr_0uKrM8euNyH74okFMUZ5zLD_k0Kh-ItXhvdy4Is5T7PWkyglXz5Yruhv5Au8oeFnkvzHwoHkRfVKVWw-PyUaAjLKQsyp-FIKMkcigBwmagIw-b4_rUxp6UPtb54JARTqwjcOwRI7y6Rmh9Yg/w640-h50/image%20(3).png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFVSR_v8WX2_i3wSSW1vuyclvYr__ovWGsnK9yh1HroARGz9uv0REF6JOF6zJhJFZD8CIT8YoXmz6BZbIzWS11mblreUghwABX09V-DFFdQ_GtROCZUFIOg6SvGZS5iN8HFcmTOcHSNRCt4KUJ65ugPLmIF59dG2vEShrIZwWkbB_CVDG9Jg8kBIhnFA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFVSR_v8WX2_i3wSSW1vuyclvYr__ovWGsnK9yh1HroARGz9uv0REF6JOF6zJhJFZD8CIT8YoXmz6BZbIzWS11mblreUghwABX09V-DFFdQ_GtROCZUFIOg6SvGZS5iN8HFcmTOcHSNRCt4KUJ65ugPLmIF59dG2vEShrIZwWkbB_CVDG9Jg8kBIhnFA" width="198" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="sqsrte-small" style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Natalie D. Richards</span> is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers, Five Total Strangers (2020) and Seven Dirty Secrets (2021), as well as six additional novels. Natalie writes “page-turning thrillers” (School Library Journal) for a Young Adult audience. Her first middle-grade book, through Penguin Random House imprint Delacorte, is called 15 Secrets to Survival and is due out in 2023. Four Found Dead (2023) will be Natalie’s ninth YA thriller from Sourcebooks Fire and is expected to be a bone-chilling addition to her psychologically twisted work. Natalie won her very first writing contest when she was in the second grade with a short story about Barbara Frances Bizzlefishes (who would not dare do the dishes). These days she writes about some awesome girls, broody boys, and all things that are creepy and dark. She spent many years applying her writing abilities to amazingly boring business documents. Fortunately, she realized that she is much better at making things up, and has written for teens ever since. When she isn’t shopping a manuscript or writing, she can most likely be found wading through the huge stacks of dog-eared paperback books that have taken over her bedroom. As a writer, she tends to write by the seat of her pants without much of a clue as to where she is going with each scene, often with the entire book as a whole. Natalie finds this helps her maintain an authentic edge of suspense in all her work because she honestly has no idea just how or even if her characters will get out of whichever mess she has wrote them into. Natalie currently lives in Ohio with her three children and (very) large dog, Wookie.</span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfM9SzhjHh1lBMNt0XY-O_4deoxOnS4L0qVbJNw7Lh_ddCBFm1JLdpqer5-gik19AU6SCPymxUsmqFVWQ17hpfEoRMlRcOaEVEdTEPDg5j1VyoKlIMJkWTf1_PM-zAF1WtASro-uF_muJ_ZOITQtleIAZBUln9RZmxR9tlSrAjAIybeM2P8jsq8HLyIA/s640/image%20(3).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="640" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfM9SzhjHh1lBMNt0XY-O_4deoxOnS4L0qVbJNw7Lh_ddCBFm1JLdpqer5-gik19AU6SCPymxUsmqFVWQ17hpfEoRMlRcOaEVEdTEPDg5j1VyoKlIMJkWTf1_PM-zAF1WtASro-uF_muJ_ZOITQtleIAZBUln9RZmxR9tlSrAjAIybeM2P8jsq8HLyIA/w640-h50/image%20(3).png" width="640" /></a></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="398" src="https://i.postimg.cc/sxqphCJB/four-found-dead-book-quote.png" width="474" /></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-73503725516498783202023-02-16T14:33:00.006-07:002023-02-16T14:33:50.886-07:0090s Kids Book Tag<center><img height="704" src="https://i.postimg.cc/Yqp7nJck/90s-kid-tag.png" width="469" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">My birthday was back in January and your girl turned 29 this year! Here's to the last year in my 20s... Where did the time go? Take me back to the 90s, please. This book tag is all about the 90s. One of the best decades. Future children will never know what it's like to grow up without the internet. In a way, life was much easier and more carefree.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I found this tag via <a href="https://toyangi.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/90s-kids-book-tag/">@toyangi</a><br />
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please, please, please steal this tag and spread it around! I only ask that you link it back to <a href="https://theliteraryphoenix.com/2018/01/25/90s-kid-book-tag/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">The Literary Phoenix</a> so that I can see everyone’s answers! (NO LONGER ACTIVE)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Freeze tag was all the rage in the 90s. Tag someone (or many) you think would have fun with this! I tag anyone who wants to do this tag.</span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>POKEMON:</u></b></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7LVqZzLWQeXM_to3CpUt_AGNR6m3mXP7o-67tbJiC-FyAd2w7K1M-FXyW60qeZOu8T_AocV-6uL5qVGN9w4JWEQHUn0ZrsCauyMiaq4T3qXPEQLz3ALQodCOg_3tvR73Yg665zIxog875ldfOMeXxwqDpNhvvGTAllyEwG_HZH-wzVDXKReH4QkI0qA/s1705/MV5BNDcwZDc2NTEtMzU0Ni00YTQyLWIyYTQtNTI3YjM0MzhmMmI4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTgyNTA4MjM@._V1_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1705" data-original-width="1137" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7LVqZzLWQeXM_to3CpUt_AGNR6m3mXP7o-67tbJiC-FyAd2w7K1M-FXyW60qeZOu8T_AocV-6uL5qVGN9w4JWEQHUn0ZrsCauyMiaq4T3qXPEQLz3ALQodCOg_3tvR73Yg665zIxog875ldfOMeXxwqDpNhvvGTAllyEwG_HZH-wzVDXKReH4QkI0qA/s320/MV5BNDcwZDc2NTEtMzU0Ni00YTQyLWIyYTQtNTI3YjM0MzhmMmI4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTgyNTA4MjM@._V1_.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></div></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">A GBA game and trading card game where you battled pocket monsters and strived to catch them all. Back in the day, there were only 150 Pokemon.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The author you need every book from.</em></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">I need every book from Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland, Lauren Blakely, and Taylor Jenkins Reid. Please and thank you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>AIM</u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFCVYKuGhrJr8yQVJAhpNVyzIG6KJsudMW_dI-uVwgIREiOHKQRojSenpRJqReDyLHt02hxkb4I3UMdQtR8cQWgEnsvobl3lOG-y6az3acWx844FHqVk_BLUWGxU8QsFRIsIV3KgVHlbZUHcMd6Le3PoXx94mjl9s1jvzBJzRBFC0EarkpQ6n1nj1YQ/s1200/ttyl.0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFCVYKuGhrJr8yQVJAhpNVyzIG6KJsudMW_dI-uVwgIREiOHKQRojSenpRJqReDyLHt02hxkb4I3UMdQtR8cQWgEnsvobl3lOG-y6az3acWx844FHqVk_BLUWGxU8QsFRIsIV3KgVHlbZUHcMd6Le3PoXx94mjl9s1jvzBJzRBFC0EarkpQ6n1nj1YQ/w417-h278/ttyl.0.jpg" width="417" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">AOL Instant Messaging – how 90s kids communicated with their friends after school before everyone had a cell phone. I still remember asking questions to Smarterchild lol. My first aim name was (so embarrassing) mrscute5 </span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most people in my life do not read. However, my boyfriend (best friend) reads and we always connect by talking about graphic novels and comic books. Recently, he has gotten into reading audiobooks so of course, I have been giving him a lot of book recommendations. He is going to venture into Harry Potter finally. Lately, we have been bonding over Harry Potter because both of us are playing the new Hogwarts Legacy video game.</span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhJJ_e6EGnDJWGPdkGUpC5r8HqyZzkxpTjcyG0kI4K8wRtLG27w6ZeUddcsQQTDxPvqMh-cYpE3QRRa4mPFUqUGp102PayHfvC1yHpgqlPb59QtSVL8PTNuL54WviVasGJtKLacOjCrulDY7AjlufjnWQneJyNzNNd--jm2JO9-WucvW3uRIrbkfGnQ/s616/capsule_616x353.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="616" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhJJ_e6EGnDJWGPdkGUpC5r8HqyZzkxpTjcyG0kI4K8wRtLG27w6ZeUddcsQQTDxPvqMh-cYpE3QRRa4mPFUqUGp102PayHfvC1yHpgqlPb59QtSVL8PTNuL54WviVasGJtKLacOjCrulDY7AjlufjnWQneJyNzNNd--jm2JO9-WucvW3uRIrbkfGnQ/w586-h335/capsule_616x353.jpeg" width="586" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;">
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>FURBY</u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0-nbi5OW2Z6OUqD8d4zKLBOVyVAOyqB3FetLyeW8TjOj74Pxxy0KNwvt_U2BRCJUDSXPTgt-qBTcHTZSfQ109Al1ihsYAmJOvGaiLVB5HLiaxyp6pzZLeEo8kpspd8UN0Py4PhL6fXVCl755ZV6LzJXdu4nlrZX6hJLlIDpjji644vGd9qqkCNA4DyA/s820/1087091_Furby_44637fc087b0242e29f5d83cd1dc35df.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="615" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0-nbi5OW2Z6OUqD8d4zKLBOVyVAOyqB3FetLyeW8TjOj74Pxxy0KNwvt_U2BRCJUDSXPTgt-qBTcHTZSfQ109Al1ihsYAmJOvGaiLVB5HLiaxyp6pzZLeEo8kpspd8UN0Py4PhL6fXVCl755ZV6LzJXdu4nlrZX6hJLlIDpjji644vGd9qqkCNA4DyA/s320/1087091_Furby_44637fc087b0242e29f5d83cd1dc35df.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Creepy needy robots you could teach to talk and take care of. Somehow these made a comeback? I remember crying as a kid when mine died for the first time. They were like Gizmo from Gremlins.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every book I have read has been a good idea so...........</span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>N’SYNC</u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpE1kYCu5tOPl2IDTimkUD_dcYfmIrpImnsV6qWpw-XLnU5yUAM0I0LkFprwI5laIt9SxfjxQAeynbM9pz1Gws1MH0UxSn7sX-SjUbim7y4wUi0CVLylXvjcwveeJS8rU84ftg2Iausb5-x95gFw0aY-nF6zsFPvFuXXhQssRQK7wbIqmZrpbxgiw9ag/s1000/71kl8o4vFpL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1000" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpE1kYCu5tOPl2IDTimkUD_dcYfmIrpImnsV6qWpw-XLnU5yUAM0I0LkFprwI5laIt9SxfjxQAeynbM9pz1Gws1MH0UxSn7sX-SjUbim7y4wUi0CVLylXvjcwveeJS8rU84ftg2Iausb5-x95gFw0aY-nF6zsFPvFuXXhQssRQK7wbIqmZrpbxgiw9ag/s320/71kl8o4vFpL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">90s quintessential boy band. You may have heard of Justin Timberlake? I remember wanting to see them in concert so bad. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A book you hated to say Bye, Bye, Bye to.</em></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Getting green slime thrown on you, courtesy of the show <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Figure it Out</em>. Nickelodeon was a staple for every 90s kid. Who also could forget the big red couch as a kid?! I know I wanted to sit on it as a kid.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOj0IGr6qFqhvmj_YUJ-acCZubvYwrewsAAQ5BuToA7NmaXJ0qLpiCKxOZN9TB51l5UEDmyt6h13B4EjPEhwlve9M5OmMFR7Ar-woFob-AT9M10MHareL0jqYIIyOa-UDKW_8gnUk5icXjKG7FDv-YZqba7JDrH6AFRmW85WVbX5W_6U8bnViYbkkew/s3000/john-cena-1620135513.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="3000" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOj0IGr6qFqhvmj_YUJ-acCZubvYwrewsAAQ5BuToA7NmaXJ0qLpiCKxOZN9TB51l5UEDmyt6h13B4EjPEhwlve9M5OmMFR7Ar-woFob-AT9M10MHareL0jqYIIyOa-UDKW_8gnUk5icXjKG7FDv-YZqba7JDrH6AFRmW85WVbX5W_6U8bnViYbkkew/w400-h251/john-cena-1620135513.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2gVtYEBql-HYCmkOQ6AtOcU8DjETXrLTFjHyQWNWkn9-ak5LpZdtEigKYlhE1Uw98vSUhs4P3qt8Em8lNokjDJPGHRsImFRMMqaDSIJbm8ny6-yVW3Xots9HMYZTS9JCEY_7UPchbiG0ngopw25IvuiH8b-8ce0v9xTZcp7TKdmnNGNaTW2Zh_0VEA/s1266/TV-Couches-SS01.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1266" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2gVtYEBql-HYCmkOQ6AtOcU8DjETXrLTFjHyQWNWkn9-ak5LpZdtEigKYlhE1Uw98vSUhs4P3qt8Em8lNokjDJPGHRsImFRMMqaDSIJbm8ny6-yVW3Xots9HMYZTS9JCEY_7UPchbiG0ngopw25IvuiH8b-8ce0v9xTZcp7TKdmnNGNaTW2Zh_0VEA/w400-h266/TV-Couches-SS01.webp" width="400" /></a></div></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Don't hate me.... but recently I read <a href="https://amzn.to/3lBPwud" target="_blank">Every Summer After</a> by Carley Fortune and I didn't really care for it. It actually made me mad at the main character several times.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>OREGON TRAIL</u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMDCRthGn8glh0sJGOVmmJQl_Qkr_VCJiQXRLWgZnQPcVvnhZmpkn7b-IneNJCEs49B8MFZEaMP7C-s5hXyW-9WaloHekKwsDydwG6Z3PkzzUfHDnaXcBDouI4r3VjHLDXhC-Hy-Kbf9D2II7VGP7aT1AW5zEfzTqmuy2cmdIoLaxz6wwwu-uqI-mZA/s300/download.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMDCRthGn8glh0sJGOVmmJQl_Qkr_VCJiQXRLWgZnQPcVvnhZmpkn7b-IneNJCEs49B8MFZEaMP7C-s5hXyW-9WaloHekKwsDydwG6Z3PkzzUfHDnaXcBDouI4r3VjHLDXhC-Hy-Kbf9D2II7VGP7aT1AW5zEfzTqmuy2cmdIoLaxz6wwwu-uqI-mZA/w513-h287/download.jpeg" width="513" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700;">90s computer game you could usually play at school, which was great. It taught us people used to die a lot of gruesome, messy deaths. I used to love this game.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Um, dying of dysentery would be such a horrible death and I would never want that. However, in terms of boredom, I was so bored reading <a href="https://amzn.to/3Irpjqb" target="_blank">The Thousandth Floor</a> by Katharine McGee.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Back before everyone had music on their phones (remember, we didn’t have cell phones!) folks would rip their CDs and make mixes for each other. I used Limewire for all the music that I didn't have or own once I got a computer in the house for the first time.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YDR1Xk" target="_blank">To Kill A Mocking Bird</a> by Harper Lee</span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YFmb0A" target="_blank">Love and Other Words</a> by Christina Lauren</span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3jZ1myf" target="_blank">The Glass Castle</a> by Jeannette Walls</span></span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Kids of the future will never know what it is like to have to wait to go online and listen to the dial-up sound of the internet. When you went online no one could call you on your landline at home until you logged off. And don't forget that classic "you've got mail" sound!</span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXT7eqA8NyooSKebgIuZKtelVd7MuVyMl9EDnrJsg2GrINnu7Erb15j5NT1UVz1jTMVEIpZBFCB1lEkOBJZy6fYB3P3KU6KY22CQLof2gvJ0Qy06ks2N5mNI5iySz8IyeABm31evN3NPiTqVOqeSSRB9WozCtmvP8WiHbR338cdcD3rWfrvBv2Car0Fg/s415/aol.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="415" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXT7eqA8NyooSKebgIuZKtelVd7MuVyMl9EDnrJsg2GrINnu7Erb15j5NT1UVz1jTMVEIpZBFCB1lEkOBJZy6fYB3P3KU6KY22CQLof2gvJ0Qy06ks2N5mNI5iySz8IyeABm31evN3NPiTqVOqeSSRB9WozCtmvP8WiHbR338cdcD3rWfrvBv2Car0Fg/s320/aol.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A book that took FOR FREAKING EVER to read.</em></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YBiSaR" target="_blank">It </a>by Stephen King. It's massive.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>THUMBS UP, SEVEN UP</u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhWVYCHwhDnE5EeGv_6GhtbAojA-nrslGS0qMs5rFEHoO7uechc8-PVc-qYYgcJSNXPCvRkI9sgZUwnCa0tEqZm8o5GDWDoEW6bIhDS6kI9mBRmpTvLww8k-YAzruYoV-l_HFEmNpKy-ALYkyJYg0EAihvbTNOb1Pl4P2N7s6qEd5LFOmrdSiV72DJA/s2048/pkb4xk5cisk21.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhWVYCHwhDnE5EeGv_6GhtbAojA-nrslGS0qMs5rFEHoO7uechc8-PVc-qYYgcJSNXPCvRkI9sgZUwnCa0tEqZm8o5GDWDoEW6bIhDS6kI9mBRmpTvLww8k-YAzruYoV-l_HFEmNpKy-ALYkyJYg0EAihvbTNOb1Pl4P2N7s6qEd5LFOmrdSiV72DJA/w400-h266/pkb4xk5cisk21.webp" width="400" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">A game where most of the class closed their eyes and seven people tapped someone’s thumb and you had to guess who did it without peeking. I was the best at this game.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Book where you peeked just REAL quick at the ending because you don’t like guessing games.</em></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I never peak and want to spoil endings.... so none.</span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>DUNKAROOS</u></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">These were basically just Teddy Grahams dipped in frosting or chocolate but oh so good!</span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your ideal bookish snack.</span></em></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't really eat while reading but if I had to pick ummmm popcorn.</span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK</u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL5AsoD07zf6n5b-i_wO6PrHc6EhKhTOajfwZyftM3s9MA8LBxubHovv79R5pnohZ9wINkx1MeqK_ZitcOyA47zakuNH4bfLHIzBeYMak_lva8N-NOOrQxA_toEVNwf8cVYOs5gBvSftPwM1unD7ows3_sx1yFjhI0k9CRQmXEQf0LGVlqhBN4s3r-zg/s379/Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark_cover.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="263" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL5AsoD07zf6n5b-i_wO6PrHc6EhKhTOajfwZyftM3s9MA8LBxubHovv79R5pnohZ9wINkx1MeqK_ZitcOyA47zakuNH4bfLHIzBeYMak_lva8N-NOOrQxA_toEVNwf8cVYOs5gBvSftPwM1unD7ows3_sx1yFjhI0k9CRQmXEQf0LGVlqhBN4s3r-zg/s320/Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark_cover.jpeg" width="222" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Collections of short stories that would scare any sensible kid! Plus, there were illustrations…</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A book that kept you up all night.</em></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YBiSaR" target="_blank">It </a>by Stephen King. I hate clowns.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><u>BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY</u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJ5bo0VWd5qEXgxKJZmv1ptKIZeCBSiW1ClBehFpKqlR_58NJW8g88H2B181yQ1z9re6SIvn3E3rJFqe5K6MFfBczjm0QOrUi4tOq6AJ-4gkpk7nkCBIAQrrkO6gx05W7q_sRWalsi-W9IcOmVC09_IUf6-vhUA_arJa3aCc7BGgFMf0Aai_oKchXkw/s350/Bill_Nye_the_Science_Guy_title_screen.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="350" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJ5bo0VWd5qEXgxKJZmv1ptKIZeCBSiW1ClBehFpKqlR_58NJW8g88H2B181yQ1z9re6SIvn3E3rJFqe5K6MFfBczjm0QOrUi4tOq6AJ-4gkpk7nkCBIAQrrkO6gx05W7q_sRWalsi-W9IcOmVC09_IUf6-vhUA_arJa3aCc7BGgFMf0Aai_oKchXkw/s320/Bill_Nye_the_Science_Guy_title_screen.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Basically, the coolest thing you got to do in science class was watch Bill Nye. I got to see him in person in college. He came to my school for a psychics lecture and spoke. My inner child screamed.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A book that taught you something new.</em></span></div>
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Too many to list. Gosh, I feel like in every single book I read I learn something new or learn something new about myself. Reading makes me a better person inside and out.
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Gosh, this tag made me feel old. </span></div></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-tF7Xj0JE57ckMI5UCO7RtyTVD3EDsimO_WJW8s0NKjQXo1bJ_MWm1mm84KXU5YsZ2QedxQIu2hSGvREp2f0FBbrqgbXBypdUNBhcN2S9nEhKdDzb_Q8fCIGpkCTzNKHMAHKFixyiWbZSSdWbZ2dYE2alKuonjVeE1XMth-Lcv2Ii1h3JJgLAkDpJQ/s200/love-emily-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-tF7Xj0JE57ckMI5UCO7RtyTVD3EDsimO_WJW8s0NKjQXo1bJ_MWm1mm84KXU5YsZ2QedxQIu2hSGvREp2f0FBbrqgbXBypdUNBhcN2S9nEhKdDzb_Q8fCIGpkCTzNKHMAHKFixyiWbZSSdWbZ2dYE2alKuonjVeE1XMth-Lcv2Ii1h3JJgLAkDpJQ/s1600/love-emily-2.png" width="200" /></a></div></div></ul></div></article></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685751644334760455.post-39619861947377775552023-02-10T14:08:00.000-07:002023-02-10T14:08:07.530-07:00Top Ten 2023 Books By Debut Authors I Am Excited About<center><img height="639" src="https://i.postimg.cc/3xY2ZHGJ/Top-Ten-2023-Books-By-Debut-Authors-I-Am-Excited-About.png" width="426" /></center><span><a name='more'></a></span><center><br /></center><img alt="" class="wp-image-13780 aligncenter" decoding="async" height="160" sizes="(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px" src="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TTT-Transparent.png" srcset="https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TTT-Transparent.png 781w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TTT-Transparent-250x100.png 250w, https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TTT-Transparent-768x308.png 768w" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #4d4d4d; display: block; float: none; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="399" /><div>Here is another TTT and for this week's topic it is all about the top ten debut author novels that I am excited for. Each new year brings great new books and new authors to the surface. I love discovering new favorite authors of mine and just new authors in general. I love supporting new authors and the literary community in general.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here are some debuts coming out in 2023 that I cannot wait to get my hands on at some point.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/3jMqBUa" target="_blank">Love Buzz</a> by Neely Tubati Alexander</span></div><div><b>Release Date: May 2, 2023</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJwyLtpnKGCOvg1lkrcSjKlyt2usIITXf_hE2UViX1bOSZntIbWa6f-eeI3a8T9RUoz3OaAJHvfBU5bqsCzOY8yCTLWRQmxKVgKhEpqBWeCMPMiOtBO5mgVu8jJrBRg8DYK9hQp5Rt0Q4AKH1w8xhxuknlaNWPgXBMdVJqIekxCImMcpNMEQSnWzuaTA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="266" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJwyLtpnKGCOvg1lkrcSjKlyt2usIITXf_hE2UViX1bOSZntIbWa6f-eeI3a8T9RUoz3OaAJHvfBU5bqsCzOY8yCTLWRQmxKVgKhEpqBWeCMPMiOtBO5mgVu8jJrBRg8DYK9hQp5Rt0Q4AKH1w8xhxuknlaNWPgXBMdVJqIekxCImMcpNMEQSnWzuaTA" width="160" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A chance romantic encounter during a wild night at a Mardi Gras bachelorette party sends strait-laced Serena Khan’s carefully constructed life into chaos. </span></span><span>A wretched maid of honor. A hangover from hell. Raucous Mardi Gras crowds. There isn’t much Serena Khan is enjoying about this four-day New Orleans destination bachelorette party for her semi-estranged cousin, the bride-to-be—until sparks fly with a handsome stranger, who, like her, is also from Seattle. After their conversation is cut short, Serena is overwhelmed by the desire to find the charming man with the brooding eyebrows, but her list of clues is pretty short: </span><span>His name is Julian. </span><span>He lives on Chamber Hill. </span><span>He works at a tech company. </span><span>He loves Lil Wayne and Nirvana. </span><span>The need to find him is, for Serena, both irresistible and totally irrational. In a few short weeks, her college alumni magazine is featuring her in a “Life at Thirty” feature, cementing her as a success story. She will have officially achieved the safe, stable life her late mother insisted upon. Julian is not part of the plan. </span><span>As she combs Seattle for her New Orleans flame, stripping away the perfectly curated life that would have made her mother proud, Serena must decide if the pursuit of real passion is worth it—and fast, before she destroys the life she always thought she wanted.</span></blockquote><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3xeqKml" target="_blank">The Writing Retreat</a> by Julia Bartz</span><br /><b>Release Date: February 21, 2023</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1HWC0YVlCtsKkottq6yQU-KBPtViXHsBd5zvBXdvHbusSsm5TjAMGubEO1gITa4OqqqvrWzha7m9PoDe3vmHcZaT8ikVCW2HwyQkoUql0fU-c9Zewky6yI8X2Zaf6ezXeBff6vQk0qLtIl5ul6JTyMiX3snF-2ghbNzAPSUkoLr02Migd7Sk0Zuotug" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2114" data-original-width="1399" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1HWC0YVlCtsKkottq6yQU-KBPtViXHsBd5zvBXdvHbusSsm5TjAMGubEO1gITa4OqqqvrWzha7m9PoDe3vmHcZaT8ikVCW2HwyQkoUql0fU-c9Zewky6yI8X2Zaf6ezXeBff6vQk0qLtIl5ul6JTyMiX3snF-2ghbNzAPSUkoLr02Migd7Sk0Zuotug" width="159" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Plot</span> meets <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please Join Us</span> in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare. </span><span>Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn’t dampen her excitement. </span><span>But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell—they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Roza’s erratic behavior, Wren’s cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, she’s desperate to discover the truth and save herself. </span><span>A claustrophobic and propulsive thriller exploring the dark side of friendships and fame, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Writing Retreat</span><span> is the unputdownable debut novel from a compelling new talent.</span></blockquote><p> </p><span style="font-size: x-large;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/3HR4jZA" target="_blank">You, with a View</a> by Jessica Joyce</span><br /><b>Release Date: July 11, 2023</b></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGcLoRpcyTDM06-xFasBQNTfE23bs4w2B4qaEE-WmpN45V-Xuq3BGRAht63X47rVtTLn_8yOzpUv04D2VhlIpTJgwnrktV4lh6w2hEY3YUu-PJoiXpWdNIi9XEhEASSOamQotAzNGe0BniYTtWKd43AZ88bJK8YjNw16l7DFsA9JmPkl6Q4j0caqm5Lw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="290" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGcLoRpcyTDM06-xFasBQNTfE23bs4w2B4qaEE-WmpN45V-Xuq3BGRAht63X47rVtTLn_8yOzpUv04D2VhlIpTJgwnrktV4lh6w2hEY3YUu-PJoiXpWdNIi9XEhEASSOamQotAzNGe0BniYTtWKd43AZ88bJK8YjNw16l7DFsA9JmPkl6Q4j0caqm5Lw" width="155" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><blockquote><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Two high school enemies must reunite for a road trip inspired by their grandparents’ broken engagement in this electric debut romance. </span><span>Noelle Shepherd is unemployed, living with her parents, and grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos of Gram and a smitten man, tucked alongside a love letter. She creates a TikTok to search for the mystery man, which goes viral, and she’s shocked when his grandson responds—a man who happens to be her high school nemesis, Theo Spencer. </span><span>Noelle refuses to let Theo’s annoying accomplishments in adulthood—or his sexy smirk—stand in the way of meeting his grandfather and unlocking the secrets he knew about her gram as a young woman. When she learns that their plans to elope were thwarted, Noelle decides to take the honeymoon road trip they planned but never got to carry out. There’s a catch, though: Paul, Theo’s grandfather, asks to come with her, and he insists that Theo join them. </span><span>It’ll be a miracle if they make it through the trip without Noelle throwing Theo out of the moving car—or the bed they end up sharing. As the miles tick by, the tension simmers hotter between them…until she discovers that Theo’s hiding a secret that could cause their tenuous relationship to end before it can restart.</span></blockquote><p> </p><span style="font-size: x-large;">4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3IeHkZB" target="_blank">Bad Mormon</a> by Heather Gay</span><br /><b>Release Date: February 7, 2023</b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL6OxRNIV2pNYg0MmN8JxXTcyzYPUr9WNikf0ertUOE75tRDMY41xI92oxXct2LUs2XXEnnCV9lhRi4qKOugqt2ZdwZdDDJgHP9YqKkjQyN_JC_i4vzvPv0liItgEbRUDdlNOuwHIlupJHs2Bfbj-CdEjaTXziWwRv1o4yKTByL4b_hJ8iBYjcDc5AGg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2113" data-original-width="1400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL6OxRNIV2pNYg0MmN8JxXTcyzYPUr9WNikf0ertUOE75tRDMY41xI92oxXct2LUs2XXEnnCV9lhRi4qKOugqt2ZdwZdDDJgHP9YqKkjQyN_JC_i4vzvPv0liItgEbRUDdlNOuwHIlupJHs2Bfbj-CdEjaTXziWwRv1o4yKTByL4b_hJ8iBYjcDc5AGg" width="159" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Drinking and Tweeting</span> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">meets <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Unorthodox</span> in this vulnerable memoir about <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City</span> star’s departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforeseen success in business, television, and single motherhood. </span><span>Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is famous for speaking the gospel truth. Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, she is unafraid to blaze a new trail, even if it means losing family, friends, and her community. </span><span>Born and bred to be devout, Heather based her life around her faith. She attended Brigham Young University, served a mission in France, and married into Mormon royalty in the temple. But her life as a good Mormon abruptly ended when she lost the marriage and faith that she had once believed would last forever. </span><span>With writing that is beautiful, sad, funny, and true, Heather recounts the difficult discovery of the darkness and damage that often exists behind a picture-perfect life, while examining the nuanced relationship between duty to self and duty to God. Exposing secrets she once held sacred, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bad Mormon</span><span> is an unfiltered look at the religion that broke her heart. </span><span>A revealing and ultimately hopeful memoir, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bad Mormon</span><span> is a captivating read in the vein of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Untamed</span><span>, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Educated</span><span>, and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Me Talk Pretty One Day</span><span>.</span></blockquote><p> </p><span style="font-size: x-large;">5. <a href="https://amzn.to/40K7kDx" target="_blank">Forget Me Not</a> by Julie Soto<br /></span><b>Release Date: July 11, 2023</b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1n6k-jo89ym2Tbnllv1kiIqzwheQ8biNTIEmx2FhGtvwUoEJ53-8yAGgYiEXue6dahnubyt33n2mjZ0RhGaGumT8hgdmeccMHwFHU0l9Dv9kdLqKtvT68GXXXCi7HFXRAkPNlwZrx-Aj2rHHPhSMb9MtrGzMv7Fb725r2lPqJf1LvJABOy8DpXXVXUw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="788" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1n6k-jo89ym2Tbnllv1kiIqzwheQ8biNTIEmx2FhGtvwUoEJ53-8yAGgYiEXue6dahnubyt33n2mjZ0RhGaGumT8hgdmeccMHwFHU0l9Dv9kdLqKtvT68GXXXCi7HFXRAkPNlwZrx-Aj2rHHPhSMb9MtrGzMv7Fb725r2lPqJf1LvJABOy8DpXXVXUw" width="158" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><blockquote><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">An ambitious wedding planner must work with her grumpy florist ex, whose heart she broke, on the most high-profile wedding of her career, in this spicy and emotional romance from popular fanfic author Julie Soto. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">He loves me; he loves me not... </i><span>Ama Torres loves being a wedding planner. But with a mother who has been married more times than you can count on your fingers, Ama has decided that marriage is not the route for her. But weddings? Weddings are amazing. As a small business owner, she knows how to match her clients with the perfect vendor to give them the wedding of their dreams. Well, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">almost</i><span> perfect… </span><span>Elliot hates being a florist, most of the time. When his father left him the flower shop, he considered it a burden, but he’s stuck with it. Just like how he’s stuck with the way he proposed to Ama, his main collaborator and girlfriend (or was she?) two years ago. But flowers have grown on him, just like Ama did. And flowers can’t run off and never speak to him again, like Ama did. </span><span>When Ama is hired to plan a celebrity wedding that will bring her business national exposure, there's a catch: Elliot is already contracted to design the flowers. Things are not helped by the two brides, who see the obvious chemistry between Ama and Elliot and are determined to set them up, not knowing their complicated history. Add in a meddling ex-boss, and a reality TV film crew documenting every step of the wedding prep, and Ama and Elliot's hearts are not only in jeopardy again, but this time, their livelihoods are too.</span></blockquote><p> </p><p><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">6. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RRT9bF" target="_blank">The Three of Us</a> by Ore Agbaje-Williams</span><br /><b>Release Date: May 16, 2023</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjpEwHLe63WIBTepwqV7iCN9pUx8GMBxi2NyGb2-f_eV47Ik_JM6vgd1ZExF4scw5FN4SfLclG-w0HE40zcmcxKveZ2qUm2Qg2oR8ubIwssUu-7LHaaUFDr24RYuzH9oA4ZU7Awu8ZgDuMPbHRJO5jg9aZLdB0nsa1xj88VEcRpFrNz2Y0Tu80sfOwOA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="233" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjpEwHLe63WIBTepwqV7iCN9pUx8GMBxi2NyGb2-f_eV47Ik_JM6vgd1ZExF4scw5FN4SfLclG-w0HE40zcmcxKveZ2qUm2Qg2oR8ubIwssUu-7LHaaUFDr24RYuzH9oA4ZU7Awu8ZgDuMPbHRJO5jg9aZLdB0nsa1xj88VEcRpFrNz2Y0Tu80sfOwOA" width="162" /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span></span></span><blockquote><span><span>Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day. </span><span>What if the two most important people in your life hated each other with a passion? </span><span>The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky friend with whom to laugh about facile men, and an affectionate husband who loves her above all else. The only thing missing from this portrait is a baby. But motherhood is a serious undertaking, especially for the wife who has valued her selfhood above all else. </span><span>On a seemingly normal day, the best friend comes over to spend a lazy afternoon with the wife. But when the husband comes home and a series of confessions are made that threaten to throw everything off balance, the wife's two confidantes are suddenly forced to jockey for their positions. Told in three taut, mesmerizing parts—the wife, the husband, the best friend—the day quickly unfolds to show how the trio's dented visions of each other finally unravel, throwing everyone’s integrity into question – and their long-drawn-out territorial dance, carefully constructed over pivotal years, into utter chaos. </span><span>At once subversively comical, wildly astute, and painfully compulsive, The Three of Us explores cultural truths, what it means to defy them, and the fine line between compromise and betrayal, ultimately asking: who are we if not for the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and the people we’re meant to love?</span></span></blockquote><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">7. <a href="https://go.magik.ly/ml/1r0ql/" target="_blank">One Moment</a> by Becky Hunter</span><br /><b>Release Date: March 2, 2023</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnsUwgl1aRYpxBI3_Vhu0UUUZyii-2h0emkHU268pKEyG34Vr6UO5-FOtrgeGG2YkJ-E6WxOgfizmzwOEDo5c3-aCSm6HCjWQiHGdvck4nAoeFJENjyn5oEq1MM8NIt1U1w71emRUZLRt0ZnpZtiQcJ5HFRIZA9MhBTUlTqnFEeQ27vbrLOQGcQ3eEoA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2246" data-original-width="1463" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnsUwgl1aRYpxBI3_Vhu0UUUZyii-2h0emkHU268pKEyG34Vr6UO5-FOtrgeGG2YkJ-E6WxOgfizmzwOEDo5c3-aCSm6HCjWQiHGdvck4nAoeFJENjyn5oEq1MM8NIt1U1w71emRUZLRt0ZnpZtiQcJ5HFRIZA9MhBTUlTqnFEeQ27vbrLOQGcQ3eEoA" width="156" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><blockquote><span>An emotional, heart-wrenching and uplifting story about friendship, love and sacrifice, perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Holly Miller. </span><span>One moment in time can change everything... </span><span>The day Scarlett dies should have been one of the most important of her life. It doesn't feel fair that she'll never have the chance to fulfil her dreams. And now, she's still ... here - wherever here is - watching the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those she loved the most. </span><span>Evie cannot contemplate her life without Scarlett, and she certainly cannot forgive Nate, the man she blames for her best friend's death. But Nate keeps popping up when she least expects him to, catapulting Evie's life in directions she'd never let herself imagine possible. Ways, perhaps, even those closest to her had long since given up on. </span><span>If you could go back, knowing everything that happens after, everything that happens because of that one moment in time, would you change the course of history or would you do it all again?</span></blockquote><p> </p><span style="font-size: x-large;">8. <a href="https://amzn.to/40Ej6PI" target="_blank">Bad Summer People</a> by Emma Rosenblum</span><br /><b>Release Date: May 23, 2023</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguHz87J0q_YKelZTo73wPXcGdtP7vhVlbP2zVgpI3o5KP7CAQI78UPdHRkKWtdpXWV9GMmIzGP4ikc4WlM9ZocPzEqY2m_U7gLSZk4A5DwZQqbV9zKT61JQeYqWhYUS-Ptx-G3CMzoh9GIYD_x4_2DMJqzCVAEQT8qc645CG6cK_fwbanlZanawZiKKw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="263" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguHz87J0q_YKelZTo73wPXcGdtP7vhVlbP2zVgpI3o5KP7CAQI78UPdHRkKWtdpXWV9GMmIzGP4ikc4WlM9ZocPzEqY2m_U7gLSZk4A5DwZQqbV9zKT61JQeYqWhYUS-Ptx-G3CMzoh9GIYD_x4_2DMJqzCVAEQT8qc645CG6cK_fwbanlZanawZiKKw" width="158" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"></span><blockquote><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. </span><span>None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? </span><span>Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he's the tennis pro-or someone else's husband. But even with plenty to gossip about, this season starts out as quietly as any other. </span><span>Until a body is discovered, face down off the side of the boardwalk. </span><span>Stylish, subversive and darkly comedic, this is a story of what's lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide.</span></blockquote><p> </p><span style="font-size: x-large;">9. <a href="https://go.magik.ly/ml/1r0r1/" target="_blank">Fling</a> by Joseph Murray</span><br /><b>Release Date: February 2, 2023</b></span></span></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdoRrBKUgjer2Tb0jyqZ54M92h6k74lMUWUpJpcs9OfwNGMFQxr3Uqn22BcLC710eXq9FM3T15e5M36HbqFS5YkIXUnXQ-_BepUA0hMYVYSfSyDUYpO0tNOWwZsr-w1bIxjUUmh3SH6MlmKpJYlFa9tKJC31mZvFdrzusP1P7G3Z8AseUYkDVhnrEnwQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="325" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdoRrBKUgjer2Tb0jyqZ54M92h6k74lMUWUpJpcs9OfwNGMFQxr3Uqn22BcLC710eXq9FM3T15e5M36HbqFS5YkIXUnXQ-_BepUA0hMYVYSfSyDUYpO0tNOWwZsr-w1bIxjUUmh3SH6MlmKpJYlFa9tKJC31mZvFdrzusP1P7G3Z8AseUYkDVhnrEnwQ" width="156" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: 16px;">Having an affair might not always mean being unfaithful . . . </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Tara loved Colin at first sight. Colin loved Tara at first fight. That’s when they knew they were meant for each other. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">But after six years, their marriage has started to crumble. Unable to recapture the spark they once had, it seems it’s all over. Until they meet their 100% match on a controversial new dating app – Fling. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">At once heartfelt and hilarious, Fling by Joseph Murray is the story of a fateful – and faithful – affair to remind us all that sometimes, what you’re looking for might just be closer than you think.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></span><div><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">10. <a href="https://go.magik.ly/ml/1r0ra/" target="_blank">The Ugly Truth</a> by L.C. North</span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><b>Release Date: January 1, 2023</b></span></div><div><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgELG9Mw5i_DljVM5Gx0gAyB6EbdEzzlju3dlSQ6NehUw_2EpT4aMo_M5qQ8EKzP6PUi3BSswcb6Qs4ezWJDQaoiwQLlE0FrSc9CPl9TcFpcnZXt5uMSRKh89oDueZgv34tCEpM1f4GuWVgq28c85_L3P3iWxZEjUAv86hQeZNsCXS0n7CioxByF2jLNw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="317" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgELG9Mw5i_DljVM5Gx0gAyB6EbdEzzlju3dlSQ6NehUw_2EpT4aMo_M5qQ8EKzP6PUi3BSswcb6Qs4ezWJDQaoiwQLlE0FrSc9CPl9TcFpcnZXt5uMSRKh89oDueZgv34tCEpM1f4GuWVgq28c85_L3P3iWxZEjUAv86hQeZNsCXS0n7CioxByF2jLNw" width="152" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><blockquote><span>Melanie Lange has disappeared. </span><span>Her father, Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and has been admitted to a private mental health clinic. </span><span>Her ex-husband, Finn, and best friend, Nell, say she has been kidnapped. </span><span>The media will say whichever gets them the most views. </span><span>But whose side are you on? </span><span>#SaveMelanie </span><span>#HelpPeter </span><span>The Ugly Truth is a shocking and addictive thriller about celebrity culture, coercive control, and the truth behind the headlines.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span><br /><br /><p></p><span></span>Are any of these titles on your radar too? All of them look so good and the covers are absolutely stunning. Finding new authors and books to read is a favorite past-time for me. </div><div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcg5fZiQfJGn0sEsb_b67llW3iEL9VspbyYOPczVo-OVtsmxUIwkcqJvEDQgJ22e90tNXvq1xkOrfu5Bu78nDThInzBNZWwTpMO3344n6JraX6hVs1FHRT__xwyzkRDJputqRjHp1NbFkKG-kMWPkMcKPK4XQPUUKEzTpHPJWB3cu2iOwBbHV-LJWBdw=s200" style="background-color: white; color: #ef8fbf; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="200" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcg5fZiQfJGn0sEsb_b67llW3iEL9VspbyYOPczVo-OVtsmxUIwkcqJvEDQgJ22e90tNXvq1xkOrfu5Bu78nDThInzBNZWwTpMO3344n6JraX6hVs1FHRT__xwyzkRDJputqRjHp1NbFkKG-kMWPkMcKPK4XQPUUKEzTpHPJWB3cu2iOwBbHV-LJWBdw" style="background: none; border: none; box-shadow: transparent 0px 0px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p></p></div>Emily Nicholas | Emily The Book Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800464789780032737noreply@blogger.com4