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🌸 April Wrap-Up 🌸 My April reading was a near carbon coby of March: finishing a fantastic Throne of Glass volume while the other books pales in comparison. I revisited books I read in middle school and they didn’t age well yet again. Maybe I should just let the past dwell in nostalgia instead of under the harsh beam of my adult reading taste. On the flip side, I thrifted Allie Brosh’s book that I’ve been hunting for a solid decade. It was worth the wait, but I could have done with 70% less dog. I did not find any joy in Joy Luck Club, I regretted picking up I Might Regret This, and The Awakening put me sleep. There were some stinkers and I think sometimes my expectations are too high from hyped up books. Ya win some, ya lose some, ya grow very concerned over the 13 uses of the word “ejaculated” in the 164 pages of Pollyanna. I learned Hugh Jackman loves it when you buy him cookies unprompted, Princess Mia is willing to renounce all her feminist principles for a prom ticket, and it is canon that a pregnant villain straight up slaps Nancy Drew like it’s the 2022 Oscars. ☠️ Books Read: I Might Regret This/Abbi Jacobson 🗽 The Clue at Black Creek Farm/Carolyn Keene 🥕 The Joy Luck Club/Amy Tan 🍜 Big Shot/Mindy Kaling 🍪 Ice Cream Man Vol 7/W Maxwell Prince 🛩 Hyperbole & A Half/Allie Brosh 🎂 Pollyanna/Eleanor H Porter 🚂 Heir of Fire/Sarah J Maas 🔥 Swede Dreams/Eva Apelqvist 🇸🇪 A Duchess By Midnight/Charis Michaels 🕰 Thank You For Listening/Julia Whelan 🎧 The Awakening/Nora Roberts 😴 Princess in Pink/Meg Cabot 👛 #AprilWrapUp #BirthdayBooks #BirthdayCakesBloggersAndBroadCity https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBbfmdrGai/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🍀 March Wrap-Up 🍀 My March was pretty standard in regards to reading because I had a book hangover from Crown of Midnight that I was trying to recover from the entire month. I revisited some books I read in the past that I initially couldn’t finish: Now & Zen was just as frustrating as it was in middle school. I powered through Anne of Ingleside’a slow beginning on my second attempt since 2020. I finally completed Cinder with hope for the sequel on my third attempt over the past decade! Sometimes tricky books are worth pursuing, but I’m trying to demolish my TBR with the force of a freight train. Move it or lose it, pal! 🚂 My audiobooks this month were…something. Leslie Jordan was sweet as sarsaparilla in his memoir but Call Me By Your Name turned me sour. I had a lot of conflicting feelings because Elio was underage, the repetition of referring to the Jewish love interest as a “cut brother”, and the author’s superciliousness hitting your eye like a big pizza pie. Luckily, Armie Hammer’s smoldering narration softly buoyed the story and had me craving peaches something fierce. 🍑 The Sizzle Paradox was the Diet Coke version of Love Hypothesis, but it somehow featured more science as a copycat. The clown anthology, Haha, featured coy references to the Ice Cream Man series and that really honked my little nose. Finally, I read 2 neurodivergent romances this March and it’s such a beautiful sight to behold as it slowly blossoms through the publishing world. 🌸 I learned boy-crazy robot sidekicks should be available to purchase through the New Beijing catalog, I want to rent the Blythe homestead on Airbnb, and Helen Hoang’s books have me in a proverbial chokehold. ☠️ Books Read: The Sizzle Paradox/Lily Menon 👩🏼‍🔬 HAHA/W Maxwell Prince 🤡 Help Is On The Way/Mindy Kaling 🍼 Anne of Ingleside/LM Montgomery 🧸 How Y’all Doing?/Leslie Jordan 🍹 Call Me By Your Name/André Aciman 🍑 Now & Zen/Linda Gerber 🍣 The Heart Principle/Helen Hoang 🏍 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas/John Boyne 🪡 Crown of Midnight/ Sarah J Maas 🚪 Cinder/Marissa Meyer 🤖 The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie/Jennifer Ashley 🫖 #MarchWrapUp #RedHairRedNosesAndRosyCheeks https://www.instagram.com/p/Cby1oAYONtj/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Happy Birthday, Remi LaBeau! 🎂 I can’t believe this ray of sunshine is 2! You can deffo tell we’re related because our eyes crinkle when we smile. Love you oodles of noodles! 🍜 (at First Baptist Church of Lutz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CavAOk2Ol-I/?utm_medium=tumblr

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💘 February Wrap Up 💘 The shortest month of the year was absolutely bussin’ where it seemed like I finished a book every other day. I need to focus on my chonky bois instead of rereading teenage favs or babydoll fiction I can finish in 30 minutes. There weren’t any duds other than me wanting to take a shot every time I heard the word “thirsty” in Vampire Breath. 🥃 I found a plenty of new authors this month. Staci Hart had a sweet romance in a family garden store, but it was very emotional draining. Luckily, she has an enormous catalog and I can find something more lighthearted in her numerous titles. Megan Van Dyke’s Captain Hook AU was sheer perfection and Nellie Oleson’s memoir was as saucy as her curly wig. There’s too many books to individually discuss, but creating 15 separate vignettes was an Eros arrow straight to my exhausted frontal cortex. 🥵 I learned there was a severe lack of eligible bachelors at my family’s garden store, Scottish picnics are ✨the✨ moment, and I’m not a bitch; I’m just written that way. ✌🏻 Books Read: The Magician’s Secret/Carolyn Keene 🐇 Coming Up Roses/Staci Hart 🌹 Vampire Breath/RL Stine 🧛🏻‍♂️ Rainbow Brite Vol 1/Jeremy Whitley 🌈 Jonesy Vol 1/Sam Humphries 🍩 The Bride Test/Helen Hoang ✈️ Made in Manhattan/Lauren Layne 🗽 Confessions of a Prairie Bitch/Alison Arngrim 🐶 Surrender to the Highlander/Lynsay Sands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Day Zero/Kresley Cole ⏰ Princess in Love 💌 Princess in Waiting 🛳 //Both By Meg Cabot Second Star to the Left/Megan Van Dyke 🪝 Electric Idol/Katee Robert 🏹 Playing for Love/Jeevani Charika 🎮 Mary Anne & the Search for Tigger/Ann M Martin 🔦 #FebruaryWrapUp #NellieOleson4Ever #PiratesPrincessMiaAndPrairieBitches https://www.instagram.com/p/CajduxLOWGz/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Cuddlebug Corner 🐌 I know I’m nearly 100 years late to the game, but this is a Nellie Oleson stan account. I always prefer the villain to the protagonist and this was no exception. Seeing Nellie come to life from page to screen was stellar. Alison Arngrim fully embodied the character from the first episode with her mean girl stare. Thank you Nanny for the perfect Christmas gift in Confessions of a Prairie Bitch. 🌸 #CuddlebugCorner #LittleFairyHouseOnThePrairie (at Plum Creek) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaeHWZfuWT8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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✨ January Wrap-Up ✨ My January books slingshot me through a flurry of emotions with each read. From an extensive history of the Targaryens to a soothing audiobook filled with inner turmoil to finally getting my grubby hands on a book that made me froth like a Lykae, my month was full. I’m most proud of my participation in the ARC team of Kresley Cole out of the 3 review copies this month. She’s been my favorite author for a decade and I’ve read the Immortals After Dark series 3 times through. I felt like Sirius Black getting out of Azkaban after doing his 12 years of waiting, but it was totes worth it. My buddy read with @_nearlyheadlessnikki was Six of Crows and I enjoyed it. I got a mild case of potato brain trying to remember the Grisha lore from Shadow & Bone in college, but I somehow managed. I was invested more in the romance than the actual heist, but that’s just on brand for this account. The @supermegashow surprised me with their impressive book. The illustrations were lovely, I laughed out loud several times, and I think it wins the award for most shower scenes in fiction. They’re splishin’, they’re splashin’, just frickin’ around. 🛁 I predominantly read romances because it’s my favorite genre. I know, I was there, Gandalf. Bantering cohosts, a neurodivergent heroine hiring an escort for dating tips, and a very tender spider creature brought me unexpected delights. As long as I can make some headway in the 2 book boxes in my closet this year, we’re Gucci for 2022. 👌🏻 I learned Pokémon Live! is a Broadway legacy gone too soon, Raelyn is now just as invested in the Monster High franchise as I am, and it’s super creepy to approach a celebrity with their favorite coffee order you already know by heart. 🙈 Books Read: Six of Crows/Leigh Bardugo 💣 For Butter or Worse/Erin La Rosa 🧈 Out of His League/Caroline Richardson ⚾️ I’m Thinking of Ending Things/Iain Reid 🍦 Too Much is Not Enough/Andrew Rannells 🕺🏼 The Mabon Feast/CM Nascosta 🕷 I Spy Deuce Gorgon/Misty von Spooks 🐍 The Kiss Quotient/ Helen Hoang 🪡 Munro/Kresley Cole 🔪 SuperMega Saves the Troops/Matt Watson & Ryan Magee 🧼 Fire & Blood/George RR Martin 🩸 #JanuaryWrapUp https://www.instagram.com/p/CZYe8Jfuvqv/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I’m gonna tell everybody from The Wall to Dorne that I only paid $3 instead of the original 35 retail price until the King’s Justice pulls out me tongue. The first part of the Targaryen history was spectacular. The illustrations were beautiful and I enjoyed the majority of this chonky boi. I could have done without the tradition of incestuous marriages because the family tree looked more like a monkey puzzle than a standard oak. I’m eager for the second part of the series, but I’m practically frothing for Winds of Winter. Tick tock, Georgiekins. ⏳ (at Westeros, Seven Kingdoms) https://www.instagram.com/a.literary.lion/p/CZGKBb2rSyw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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✨ Top 9 Books of 2021 ✨ I blasted through 152 books and I somehow managed to whittle to 9 pictures. I’m counting Little House as 2 sections, both specifically On the Shores of Silver Lake and Little House as a whole. I want to read at a slower pace this year and enjoy each thing I read without feeling rushed. I started Cuddlebug Corner, got my wee arms through the door of NetGalley for advanced reading copies, and I got on the reader team for my favorite author in the universe starting in January. All those years of writing book review finally paid off. Let’s do this, 2022! 🌼 Little House on the Prairie series 🏠 All Creatures & Small series 🐏 Tales of a Sixth Grade Muppet 🐸 Pachinko 🎰 The Loving Cup 🏆 On the Shores of Silver Lake 🐎 House of Earth and Blood 🧢 My Eyes Are Up Here 👙 A Court of Silver Flames 🦇 #2021Recap #Top9BooksOf2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYLU1txLUNF/?utm_medium=tumblr

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❄️ December Wrap-Up ❄️ I felt a little rushed this December and I didn’t enjoy this as much as I could have in the final month of 2021. I was juggling three ARCs, a snoreworthy buddy read, and trying to beat my 150 Goodreads goal. I accomplished all three challenges, but I didn’t experience the fun I usually get with reading. There were a few bright spots in my literary Christmas tree, but I definitely need to change out the bulbs of the remaining books. I got early Christmas presents from NetGalley and Goodreads in the form of 4 advanced copies. I preferred Safety in Numbers the most, but I think I’ve read so many romance novels that they’re starting to blend together. Try something new and stop putting the miscommunication trope in your books! @_nearlyheadlessnikki and I read The Remains of the Day for the Hunny Bunny Book Club. It was very boring and I’m very confused why it won so many awards. The butler lacked the charm of the boyz over at Downton Abbey and he didn’t have my sympathy. I also joined another online book club called Wine & Whine. I’m more of a Pina Colada baby, but I’m always happy to discuss books whenever I can! It’s always great to recruit my nieces for my wrapups: I forced Raelyn to dress up in honor of a princess Mia, Juliette continues her reign of Bard Baby, and Remi zooms so fast it’s hard to pin her down for a photo op. I learned BB & Raven will always be endgame, there is a direct reference to my hometown in the Mindhunter book, and you absolutely cannot trust vegetarians in any capacity. Books Read: The Vegetarian/Han Kang 🍉 Mindhunter/John Douglas & Mark Olshaker ☎️ The Remains of the Day/Kazuo Ishiguro ☂️ Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven/Kami Garcia 🐢 Sabrina: Something Wicked/Kelly Thompson 🦌 The Bodyguard/Katherine Center 🌼 Safety in Numbers/Sophie Penhaligon 🔬 Partner Pursuit/Kathy Strobos 🚲 Funny You Should Ask/Elissa Sussman ✈️ Princess in the Spotlight/Meg Cabot 🎙 Antony & Cleopatra/William Shakespeare 🕌 #DecemberWrapUp #BicyclesBodyguardsAndBeastBoy https://www.instagram.com/p/CYFJKOAvKIg/?utm_medium=tumblr

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🦃 November Wrap Up 🦃 I got my wisdom teeth removed on November 1st, which meant: maxing, relaxing, and devouring 4 books in Jazzy’s bedroom over the course of a week. My reading month continued with some ol’ reliables and a book I borrowed from my grandparents’ community library. I kept this month light and fluffy because I have a tendency to unintentionally squeeze my empathetic sponge with intense reads. Shanghai Girls fell in that category where I’m grateful to read diversely, but it makes me feel rundown upon completion. The Hunny Bunny Book chose Throne of Glass as the November pick for @_nearlyheadlessnikki and I. I bailed on this a few years ago, but I’m grateful to have picked it up again. I’ve begrudgingly become a SJM fan, but her books are practically glued to my tiny hands. My main complaints was Caelena’s arrogance made her seem like a total snobgoblin and the 2 love interests were akin to choosing between white or wheat bread. I’ve heard the series gets way better and I hope to continue later in time. The Love Hypothesis deserves all the hype but Olive’s brain has got to be the size of her namesake from all the dumb decisions she makes in this book. I fulfilled my dream of being in a Nancy Drew mystery when someone stole my figurehead from the naval museum. Finally, I’ve never had a taste for beer, but I might start developing one if it will score me a babe like the triplets did in the Sweet Salvation Brewery trilogy. There’s gotta be something in that fictional water! I learned recognizing poisons is a valuable skill, Irish farmers contribute just grand in an international crime bust, and sometimes you gotta kiss the closest hot dude for uh…science? Books Read: Throne of Glass/Sarah J Maas 🍞 Love is Blind/Lynsay Sands 👩🏻‍🦯 Shadows in Death/JD Robb 🍀 Trouble on Tap/Avery Flynn 🚕 The Phantom of Nantucket/Carolyn Keene 🚢 The Boy Next Door 🐶 The Princess Diaries 👛 // Both by Meg Cabot Shanghai Girls/Lisa See 🧧 Dawn on the Coast/Ann M Martin 🎢 The Love Hypothesis/Ali Hazelwood 🧴 #NovemberWrapUp #FakeDatingScienceExperiment #AssassinsAliasesAndAdamDriverLookalikes https://www.instagram.com/p/CW41a5HL1-a/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Cuddlebug Corner 🐞 The Princess Diaries series has the opposite of a broken mirror effect for me because it gives me the honeyglow every 7 years. I read this at 13, 20, and now at 27. I get something different from it every time I read it. THB is my favorite side character and appeals to my romance novel-loving sensibilities. She was a way better friend than Lilly and deserves more recognition in the fandom. Shoutout to @mari.carmen.cruz for being the Mia to my Tina. I’m a princess? Shut up! 🌸 #CuddlebugCorner (at Genovia Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWhcNI_reUu/?utm_medium=tumblr

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🎃 October Wrap-Up 🎃 October was rough, dude. Work has been too busy to squeeze in reading and I abandoned 6 books this month. My sourpuss attitude was somewhat assuaged with 2 NetGalley arcs and I continue to count my lucky stars for that site. October brought some blasts from the past with an old favorite that didn’t age well, a book I’ve had on my TBR for years, and revisiting a book I previously abandoned because it got too intense. The Poisonwood Bible still remained to be very heavy, but at least I can check it off my list. I read 2/3 of the Last Man Standing trilogy and it comes with a very strange concept. Three cousins are competing for their grandma’s last gift and they just go on 6 dates without falling in love to win the prize. This may get a few strange looks in real life, but anything can happen in Romancelandia. I personally preferred the big gruff scientist to the overly competitive CEO billionaire. Excuse me, the Neanderthal to the Mama’s Boy. I don’t know how I’ll feel about the Mansplainer in the last book. I finally picked up An Enchantment of Ravens after it’s been side-eying from my shelf. I wallowed between donating it before reading several times and I’m glad I gave it a chance. It was a quick fantasy jaunt that showed the darker side of fairies, which I’ve really been missing from my fiction. It’s easy to compare these fae folk to the Fairy Court series but Isobel makes Feyre look like a finger painter. This fairy prince also doesn’t purr like a tomcat every other page either! I learned some heroines like to stuff woodland creatures down their dress, you can’t plant American beans in the Republic of Congo, and I Like Paint is the unsung hero of Camp Save the World. Books Read: The Poisonwood Bible/Barbara Kingsolver 🐍 No Good Deed/Goldy Moldavsky 🧘🏼‍♀️ An Enchantment of Ravens/Margaret Rogerson 🎨 Ice Cream Man Vol 6/W Maxwell Prince 🍨 The Art of The Boxtrolls/Philip Brotherton 📦 Highland Wolf/Lynsay Sands 🐿 Mama’s Boy 🏕 Neanderthal 🧪 //Both By Avery Flynn Boy Meets Girl/Meg Cabot 🍪 #OctoberWrapUp #ILikePaint #AfricaAutumnCourtAndAlechPint https://www.instagram.com/p/CVk4Oq-LHIM/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Cuddlebug Corner 🐝 I’ve finally met the inevitable honeyglow conclusion to the Little House series. This was such a warm and fuzzy collection that I wish I hadn’t put off for so long. Thanks to @rebeccacatz for giving this to me so long ago. I know you’re not supposed to like Nellie Oleson, but what I can say: brats recognize brats. ✌🏻 #CuddlebugCorner https://www.instagram.com/p/CUbg5-LLexT/?utm_medium=tumblr

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🌼 August Wrap-Up 🌼 My August was quite bustling with a landscape expo, a roadside book sale, and I became even more of a spoiled brat with 3 ARC’s from NetGalley. There was quite the spectrum of dudes I encountered while reading this month: an incel in a dog costume, hunky crab fisherman, a younger version of Paul Hollywood, and a tv star writing fan fiction about his own show 🤢. My sweet coworker @creepyquiche unknowingly sponsored the Hunny Bunny Book Club for August. Joyland had a great atmosphere, but Dev was too much of a simp to truly enjoy the setting. @_nearlyheadlessnikki and I thought it was quintessential King writing because that faint whiff of misogyny is never too far away. 🙃 @kla_june lent me a truly bananas thriller, Bard Baby added another play to her repertoire, and I’d be more inclined to have heart eyes for baseball coach Bart if he was as charming as Jazzy. I learned you should always pack 2 tents, the stupidity of Goosebumps kids is boundless, and nobody wants to listen to your stupid playlists, Hannah! Books Read: Secret at Mystic Lake/Carolyn Keene 🏕 The Trauma Cleaner/Sarah Krasnostein 🧽 It Happened One Summer 🦀 Hook, Line, & Sinker 🦊 // Both by Tessa Bailey Vampironica: New Blood/Frank Tieri 🥩 The Art of the Last of Us Part II 🎡 Joyland/Stephen King 🎪 Measure for Measure/Stephen King 💒 Verity/Colleen Hoover 🚣🏼‍♀️ Neon Gods/Katee Robert 🌸 The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena/RL Stine ❄️ Battle Royal/Lucy Parker 🧁 Spoiler Alert 🍿 All the Feels 🏹 // Both by Olivia Dade These Happy Golden Years/Laura Ingalls Wilder ✨ Kristy & the Walking Disaster/Ann M Martin ⚾️ Tales of a Sixth Grade Muppet/Kirk Scroggs 🐸 #AugustWrapUp #NoMoreFamfictionPlotsPlz #AustraliaAmusementParksAndAlmanzoWilder https://www.instagram.com/p/CTRMot5L2Ka/?utm_medium=tumblr

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im excited for amazon to start sending packages out by drone because now i can start carrying a sling shot around with me and knock them out of the air and get a present and it will be just like animal crossing  

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