Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • Books I Wish I’d Gotten to in 2019

    Books I Wish I’d Gotten to in 2019

    To those that celebrate: Merry Christmas!! I love Christmas and I love that this is the start of our Top 10 in 2019 prompts from Kimberly and Ginger. This is serving as my Most Anticipated Books of the Year Wrap Up as well because in truth, that’s what all of these books are from. There

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  • The Map from Here to There: A Spoiler Free Review

    I usually sit down to write a review soon after having finished reading a book, but pretty much everything about my usual for The Map from Here to There was thrown off. I read the book in small sips, dipping in and out, thinking about it and trying not to when I wasn’t reading it. My love

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  • December Wrap Up, Part One

    Until I sat down to figure out what books I’d read this month, I would have told you I was having a slumpy month and haven’t really read that much. If I had told you that, I would have been lying. I apparently read fifteen books in the first fifteen days of the month, so

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  • Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn: A Spoiler Free Review

    Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn is unsurprisingly utterly brilliant. Last year, Beginner’s Luck was a last minute addition to my favorite books of the year list and Love Lettering, which is out on December 31st could very well make a lot of people’s list if they spend NYE reading it. I know it’s certainly on

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  • 2020 Reading Goals

    I’ve had a fair amount of discussion with a man who works at my local Indie about why we read because the reason is decidedly not the same for the two of us. For me, I read for my own personal enjoyment and I have to push myself out of my romance comfort bubble occasionally

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  • The Ones Who Got Away: Series Review

    School shootings in America are abhorrent and awful and they’ve also affected a huge number of people in ways that our society still doesn’t quite seem ready to reckon with. But Roni Loren is “hunting big game” as Jen and Sarah would say (see Fated Mates, season two). Her The Ones Who Got Away series

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  • When Old Meets New: A New Reading Project

    When Old Meets New: A New Reading Project

    The best thing about starting a blog, for me, was the fact that it introduced me to Dani, a fellow blogger and a true friend. We roomed together in Chicago for Kiss Con and it was amazing to discover that our electronically based friendship translates just fine to IRL. Our reading tastes frequently overlap, but

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  • November Wrap Up, Part Two

    Given my grand plans of reading a lot of nonfiction and writing 50,000 words by the end of the month, the second half of November has definitely gone awry. That said, I’m not mad about it. November is an exhausting month. Like, when Daylight Savings kicks in (off?), it’s basically time to just start going

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  • Winter 2019-2020 Most Anticipated Releases

    Winter is such a great time to grab a book and curl up with it in my reading nook and just read right next to my space heater. I love it so much and I’m so excited for these ten books that will keep me company while I do that.

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  • Belated October Arc Wrap Up: This Earl of Mine and The Widow of Rose House

    So, I definitely got behind with some of my ARCs and I’m doing my best to catch up by the end of the year so, essentially, pray for me. I really enjoyed both of these books so I’m excited to talk to you about them today. At this point, both of these books are obviously

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