Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • 2019 Best and Worst Series Tag

    Bookslikewhoa is one of my favorite booktubers and I thought this Best and Worst Series Tag she created would be a great addition to my wrap up posts relating to 2019. In 2020 I do want to focus a little on completing some series and just paying attention to series in general so this tag…

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  • A Decade of Reading In Review

    I really wanted to make a list of my best books of the decade, but the thing is, that’s impossible. I was watching one of Kayla’s (booksandlala) videos where she talked about recency bias and also that as she’s gotten older, she’s started reading books that are better tailored for her. They’re also more diverse.…

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  • 2019 Surprises & Disappointments

    2019 delivered a lot to the world, both good and bad. For me, in my reading life, I read a lot and there were some books that caught me off guard by how much I loved them and books that I thought I would love that just really disappointed me. I wanted to share a…

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  • January Wrap Up, Part One

    The first part of January also contained Smutathon, so I’m not going to talk in detail about the books I read for that Readathon here and will instead direct you to my wrap up post. So what you are going to see are the books I read from January 1-3 and the 12-15th. I had…

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  • Best Non-Romance Reads of 2019

    In creating this list, I discovered that while I’ve been very conscious of my overall diversification of my reading, I’ve slacked on ensuring that diversity across genres so unfortunately for my reading, this list leans heavily toward white authors and likely titles you’ve heard of numerous times. The truth is that I don’t read a…

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  • Best Romances I Read in 2019

    This list contains the best romances I read in 2019 that were not released in 2019. I read 228 romance novels and 59 were 2019 releases so that leaves… 169 romance novels that I read that were not published in 2019. Which is a whole lot of books. So narrowing this category down to ten?…

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  • Smutathon Wrap Up

    All in all, I would say my reading this week was quite successful. I didn’t get to every book on my TBR and without doubling up didn’t quite clear the BINGO board, but I found a few books that I absolutely adored and finished up my February ARC reading! So let’s get into it. I’m…

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  • 2019 in Review

    I’m pulling prompts for this from a whole bunch of places, which is a little annoying because I swear a couple years ago, I had a specific person’s blog post that I based my post off of, but whatever. Here we are, my post where I give you more statistics than you probably care to…

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  • Quarterly Favorites: Fall 2019

    I know you’ve already gotten a preview at some of these titles thanks to my Top Ten Releases of 2019, but I’m still so excited to share with you my favorites from the final three months of 2019 in their own post. This list was actually incredibly hard to make and caused me to realize…

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  • December Wrap Up, Part Two

    And that’s another year in the books. How weird. I’ve loved sharing with you my reads this year and I’m excited to do that again today with my last many reads of December. I hope you’ll enjoy the myriad of posts coming your way wrapping up my end of the year posts and the other…

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