Finished reading: In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae 📚
A lovely place-based friends-to-lovers second chance. As often happens, the third act breakup made me want to yell at the main character but the book had me happy-teary by the end.
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Finished reading: Eight Kisses by Mindy Klasky 📚
Eight Hanukkah romance stories. I read one each night. My favorites are the one with the Frisky Bean coffee shop and the one with empty nesters reconnecting.
Finished reading: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur 📚
The first holiday rom-com of a month where I hope to read many. Elle is an astrologer who dreams of a big love. Darcy is an actuary who’s terrified of having one. This book’s heat level is sensual, a couple explicit scenes. A lovely book but I wish the third act break-up had been resolved more quickly so I could’ve had more joyous reunion time.
Finished reading: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 📚
A bunch of excellent and chilling stories. Horror and make it literary. Uncertainty that is maddening but then that’s kind of the point.
Finished reading: Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary 📚
A helpful framing of normal, baseline anxiety as a source of information that can spur us to creativity and action.
Finished reading: The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish 📚
A 17th Century bit of philosophical fantastical adventure.
Finished reading: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas 📚
Great all the way through but extra compelling for the last third. Like Mexican Gothic, it uses Gothic tropes of a spooky house and a mysterious husband to interrogate colonialism in Mexico. Highly recommend.
Finished reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 📚
Keeping this Gothic train rolling. This one is excellent, of course.
Finished reading: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe 📚
Making my pivot to Gothic now that it’s October. (I skipped my usual campus novels in September and stuck with romance.)
This one’s a classic, of course. But I like “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Masque of the Red Death” better.