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Friday, May 1, 2020

Month in Review: April 2020

It's been kind of a slow month on the blog. Is anyone else having a hard time concentrating long enough to write a post? Hopefully we're going to get used to the routine this month and be a little more productive.

Here's what the Weres were up to in April:

Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai
The War Priest by Ann Aguirre

This Month's Most Anticipated
April Book Haul
Romanceopolyathon TBR

Weres Wanna Know
What non-bookish blogs do you follow?

We Love Lists
Our Pandemic Reading

Reviews:
A Bad For Sunshine by Darynda Jones
Starbreaker by Amanda Bouchet

Friday, April 3, 2020

Weres Wanna Know: What non-bookish blogs do you follow?

At the beginning of the year I went through Bloglovin and decided I needed to follow more food blogs. I'd been following Half Baked Harvest for a while but it was the only non-bookish thing in my feed. I wound up adding two more, but now that we're cooking at home a lot more it doesn't feel like enough. I need recs for more food blogs.

But that got me thinking, what else am I missing? I love looking at bullet journals but I never had the motivation to actually make one. My planner's feeling a little neglected the last few weeks though, so maybe now's the time. Do you have a favorite blog on planners or bullet journals?

What about crafting, refinishing furniture, closet organizing? You know all those projects we keep thinking we might work on while we're stuck at home? I need some inspiration.

Tell me your favorite blogs or Instagram accounts about non-bookish things.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Month in Review: March 2020

It has been a month, right? We're still figuring out the whole working/learning from home thing so we didn't get as much reading done as we might have liked. But we did get some blog posts written. In case you've missed some in all the craziness, here's what the Weres were up to in March:

A Pale Light in the Black by K.B. Wagers
Love Hard by Nalini Singh
The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren

This Month's Most Anticipated
March Book Haul
Reading Challenge Recap
Attracting Avery Blog Tour

Weres Wanna Know
What new-to-you authors do you want to read soon?

Reviews:
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie

Friday, March 13, 2020

Weres Wanna Know: What New-To-You Authors Do You Want to Read Soon?

While doing Romanceopoly last year, I discovered several new-to-me authors that quickly became favorites and I rediscovered my love for historical romances. I finally read authors like Diana Wynne Jones, Morgan Brice/Gail Z. Martin, K.B. Wagers, Sarah MacLean and Cat Sebastian and now get all the hype behind their books. I read several debut authors like Casey McQuiston and Jessie Mihalik and loved them so much that I can't wait to read more of their books. Successfully branching out last year gave me the motivation to try to read even more new-to-me authors this year. So I made a list. Surprisingly, it's a rather long list that I think will take me a couple years to actually get through. But I've prioritized reading at least one book from the following authors this year. I don't think I'll get to all of them but I want to.

TJ Klune

Whenever I'm looking for more queer books to read, TJ Klune's name all pops up on the list so I decided that 2020 will finally be the year I read a book by him. This one is kind of cheating to list here because I've already read a book by this author this year. I was lucky enough to get an ARC of his book, The House in the Cerulean Sea, from Tor Books. And all I can say is that I want to read more of his work because that book was freaking fantastic!

Tessa Dare

2019 is the year I fell back in love with historical romances. Tessa Dare is one of the big authors of the genre that my friends are always telling me to read. The big question is: Where do I start with her stuff? I have the first book in her Castles Ever After series and the first couple books in her Girl Meets Duke series on my kindle. Which should I read first?

Charlaine Harris
I'm ashamed to admit that I still haven't read anything by Charlaine Harris. I know Gretl loves her Sookie Stackhouse books but her Midnight, Texas series sounds like it will be more up my alley. Plus, it's already on my kindle. Hopefully 2020 is the year that I finally read Harris.

Mariana Zapata
Mariana Zapata is a name I've been hearing around the book community for years and its been nothing but praises for her books. I've always been interested in reading her stuff but I've just never made the time for them. I even own Kulti and The Wall of Winnipeg and Me on ebook and I've still haven't picked them up. If you've read Zapata, which book of her's should I read first?

Corey J. White
I'm slowly making my way through my backlog of tor.com novellas I've bought over the last few years and one of the authors I haven't read yet is Corey J. White. So many of my sci-fi reading book friends have adored his Voidwitch Saga and I'm intrigued to pick it up. I was sold once I heard psychic supersoldier on the run. I'm always up for a good sci-fi book featuring kickass ladies.

Those are the five authors I'm prioritizing this year but I might switch them out with some of the other new-to-me authors I want to try in the near future. I have my fingers crossed that I love all of them as much as I think I will. My only concern is that I don't know who to pick up first. Any thoughts on which of these five authors I should read first?

What new-to-you authors do you want to read this year?

Friday, February 28, 2020

Month in Review: February 2020

Was it just me or did the shortest month of the year seem to take the longest? Maybe it was that mini reading slump where I couldn't seem to finish anything? But the month is finally over so let's look back at what we've posted on the blog in February.

The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

Stormsong by C.L. Polk

While You Were Spying by Stina Lindenblatt

A Highlander in a Pickup by Laura Trentham

This Month's Most Anticipated

February Reading Challenge Recap

The Big Book Haul Post: February 2020

Weres Wanna Know

When is it okay to let books go?

We Love Lists

Kindle Unlimited Recs 3

March Reviews:

Love Hard by Nalini Singh

The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren

A Pale Light in the Black by K.B. Wagers

Friday, February 7, 2020

Weres Wanna Know: When is it Okay to Let Books Go?

The end of 2019 was a doozie for me. I made some pretty major changes in my life; the biggest of which was starting a new job teaching high school. I inherited a classroom that had been occupied by the same teacher for almost 30 years. And my classroom was filled with the clutter and detritus that reflected that. I've spent the majority of the last six months trying to get it into some semblance of order and I've found that I've carried that attitude into other aspects of my life.

I've blogged several times about how stressful having a large unread physical TBR is for me but also on how I felt like I needed to have that stash of unread books. I have this total irrational fear that I'm going to run out of books to read and there will be no way I'll be able to get more if I don't get them right now. Which is kind of a messed up way to be thinking.

A couple of weeks ago I took a good look at my personal library and realized that I owned a ton of books that I was never going to read. They were taking up a lot of space. I have books I bought back in 2009 that I haven't even touched except to move them across the country four times. So I started to pull books off my shelves that very day. Every time I put a book in the donation pile, I felt guilty. I spent money on this because there was a time I was super excited to read this book. Why was I not excited any more?

I bought a lot of the older books I have on my TBR at a time where I was looking to expand what I was reading and because a lot of them were the really popular and hyped books at the time. I have no interest in most them now. My reading tastes have changed and I have a good idea now the kinds of books I want to read. It took a few pep talks and enlisting the help of my sister to help me haul them, but I culled over 135 books from my shelves and a good number of those were unread TBR books. I can honestly say now that I've gotten rid of them that I don't miss them at all.

Part of my success in culling my shelves may be because I donated about 95% of them to the library in the high school I teach at because we're a small school with an equally small book budget. I've gotten a lot of joy from seeing the students reading and loving those books I never made the time to read. It's been nice knowing that they are in a place where they're actually wanted and needed.

Want to know the best part? I now have lots of room on my shelves for books I actually want to have on my shelves. And I'm not as stressed over the amount of unread books on my shelves. As for the ones I was kind of still interested in? I actually own the ebooks for most of them so why was I still hanging on to the physical copy? There are a few more books/series that I know I should get rid of but I can't seem to let go of them yet.

How about you? When do you feel it's okay to get rid of books you know you're not going to read? Do you have any tips to help me become more motivated to get rid of those last few books?

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Month in Review: December 2019

It's been a busy month for the Weres. We've been looking back at all we've accomplished in 2019, making lists of lists, and planning our 2020s. If you've been busy too, you might have missed some blog posts. Here what the Weres were up to in December: