Finished reading: Waking Up With the Duke by Lorraine Heath 📚

So great.

Finished reading: Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman by Lorraine Heath 📚

Today is a great day to tell your representative to support library funding in next year’s budget (FY26). Let’s be sure Congress comes back from recess to find a flood of messages supporting library funding. 📚

💬📚 “How many times could a mother’s heart break? An infinite number. Each time her children were hurt.” Lorraine Heath, Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman

Finished reading: Passions of a Wicked Earl by Lorraine Heath 📚

Lorraine Heath is just so reliably excellent.

Finished reading: The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio 📚

I’m very obsessed with this Día de Muertos picture book with an Own Voices illustrator. So much of the storytelling is in the images and it’s a gorgeous collaboration. Highly recommend for reading around Día de Muertos or anytime. 💀

I just renewed my family’s membership to the Friends of the Durham Library. Have you joined your library’s Friends organization? It’s a straightforward way to support an institution that’s losing a lot of structural support right now. 📚

Finished reading: Vanish by Sophie Jordan 📚

Finished reading: Storm Front by Jim Butcher 📚🎧

James Marsters reads the audiobook and he’s great.

Finished reading: Protecting What’s His by Tessa Bailey 📚

Finished reading: The Last Wicked Scoundrel by Lorraine Heath 📚

Finished reading: Midnight Pleasures With a Scoundrel by Lorraine Heath 📚

This is an absolutely bananas book. A great ride.

Finished reading: Stranger in My Arms by Lisa Kleypas 📚

Finished reading: Because You’re Mine by Lisa Kleypas 📚

💬📚 “Each [major innovation in industrial farming] has benefited the biggest [farms] and penalized the smallest.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

📚 Leigh Bardugo has a picture book about death and grief that she wrote with John Picacio available for pre-order.

[This book is] for kids like me who spent a lot of time in graveyards reading epitaphs, who didn’t quite feel safe among the living.

This book is for me. 💀🖤

Finished reading: Somewhere I’ll Find You by Lisa Kleypas 📚

Finished reading: The Bladesmith Queen by Sarah MacLean 📚

📚 Hear me out: sun-soaked summer gothic literature. These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean. The Villa by Rachel Hawkins. What else?

📚 Reading Zoraida Córdova’s Labyrinth Lost and realized I had the perfect bookmark for any book by this author.

Finished reading: Surrender to the Devil by Lorraine Heath 📚

Lorraine Heath is so good at the job.

Finished reading: A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen 📚

This companion-sequel to A Fate Inked in Blood spends the first third or so revisiting the first book but picks up in the middle third and is gripping and full of revelations for the last third. I highly recommend the duology.

Finished reading: These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean 📚

I will follow Sarah MacLean anywhere, from Whitechapel to Narragansett Bay. If you like family narratives with a strong romantic thread, read this book.

Finished reading: Three Simple Rules by Nikki Sloane 📚🎧

“There was something about trains.” 💬📚 Reading Sarah MacLean’s These Summer Storms while actually on a train.