What is your favorite cozy fantasy book? 🌿 It’s b What is your favorite cozy fantasy book? 🌿

It’s been really fun to see how cozy fantasy books have become so popular over the last several years. When done well, reading one of these stories can feel like a comforting hug or sitting down with a cup of something warm and yummy 😌

The Teller of Small Fortunes was a book I read last year and enjoyed very much. I have The Keeper of Magical Things on my TBR for this year 🙌🏼

Some of my very favorite cozy fantasy books are...
🌪️ The Nature of Witches
☕️ Legends & Lattes (series)
🪴 The Spellshop (series)
🐉 The Tea Dragon Society (series)
🧹 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches AND A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping
 🥖 A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
🪄 Selcouth (series)
🫖 The Spellbound Sisters (series)
 🗡️ This Will Be (series)
🍄 A Curious Kind of Magic
💀 The Bone Houses AND The Drowned Woods AND The Wild Huntress
🍵 Tomes and Tea (series)

Aaaaand that’s where I’ll cut that list off because otherwise we’ll be here for days 😂 

Have you read any of these books? 📚

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#cozyfantasy #cozyreads #readingescape #fantasybooks #bookaesthetic cozy read, escapism, book hangover, fantasy world-building, book recs, reread worthy, comfort books
In honor of my first day at my new job at my favor In honor of my first day at my new job at my favorite local coffee shop (everyone say “YAY!” 🥳)… would you take the characters from your current read for a cup of coffee? ☕️

💎 I feel like it would be so fascinating to take Brynja, Ballast, and Saga from When the Light Returns to go get coffee. I’d have so many questions about their magic!

🐦‍🔥 I would give anything to take the entire group of characters from Ruin and Rising to get coffee. It would be such a dream to talk to the people from my favorite series!

📖 To sit down and have a chat with Diana and Matthew from The Book of Life over coffee would be incredible. They’re both so intelligent and I think I’d just sit there gaping at them the entire time!

♟️Honestly, I’d be thrilled to have coffee with *anyone* from The Inheritance Games universe. They’re BRILLIANT and I want to pick their brains for hours on end. 
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Have you read any of the books I’m currently reading? 📚

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#fantasyreads #fantasybooklover #bookcommunity #cozyreads #bookishvibes escapism, book hangover, fantasy world-building, book recs, reread worthy, books and coffee
Tell me about some of the media you’re obsessed wi Tell me about some of the media you’re obsessed with that’s unrelated to books! 🫢

Last summer, along with the rest of *absolutely everyone*, I watched KPop Demon Hunters... and fell head over heels in love with every single thing about it 🙈 

It was a chain reaction of epic proportions 💥 I watched it about a week after it premiered because I kept seeing it online. I liked it, watched it again a week later, LOVED it, suggested it to friends who suggested it to their friends, started deep-diving into all of the behind-the-scenes info, wound up listening to the soundtrack so much that my entire Spotify Wrapped was just songs from that album, still somehow manage to talk about it nonstop to everyone I encounter, and I can’t WAIT for the sequel. Let’s just say it kinda became my personality 😂

Along with KPDH, I spent the last year and some change obsessing over One Tree Hill (first time watching it, got to meet some of the cast last summer, have turned Wilmington into my second home, you know... normal obsessed fan things 😉) and Marielle Kraft’s music (SO FREAKING GOOD. Saw her in concert and got to meet her as well and she’s the sweetest human) 🤎

Do we have any obsessions in common? 🤝🏼

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#kpopdemonhunters #bookphotography #bookishvibes #bookaesthetic #booknerd cozy read, weekend read, book photography, cozy aesthetic, bookish
Recommend a book that feels like a fairytale 🧚🏼‍♀️ Recommend a book that feels like a fairytale 🧚🏼‍♀️

Recently, I finished THE SUN AND THE STARMAKER by @timesnewrachel ☀️ While it was quite different from the modern, witchy fantasy books I’ve come to associate with her (otherwise known as some of my favorite books of all time), she has created a signature style of storytelling that made reading *this book* feel like coming home 🥰

I felt it instantly when I sensed her intense love for nature and the earth woven through the story, paired with such atmospheric writing that I regularly forgot I was not *in* the ethereal, whimsical world I was reading about 🌌 I felt it again in the way she writes of longing and love so powerful that there’s no doubt the characters will overcome every obstacle they face together 🤎 I felt it once more when I began to cry over supporting characters that (possibly) weren’t meant to elicit such strong emotions in the first place 🥹

THE SUN AND THE STARMAKER was everything I could possibly hope and dream a fairytale would be. It was beautiful and magical, and left me feeling so filled with joy and hope. It’s an absolute masterpiece 🙌🏼

Have you read this or any of Rachel’s other books? 📚

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#fantasyreads #fantasybooklover #thesunandthestarmaker #rachelgriffin #fairytalebooks escapism, book hangover, fantasy books, book recs, reread worthy, favorite author
Tell me the last vampire book you read 🧛🏻‍♀️ I go Tell me the last vampire book you read 🧛🏻‍♀️

I gotta be real honest with y’all... I don’t read a ton of vampire books 😅 I was a wolf girly starting in middle school, and that really hasn’t changed much. I do love a good vampire book, but they haven’t always been my favorite supernatural creature 🙈

However, maybe due to the V.E. Schwab magic, I absolutely adored Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 😍 It was precisely as toxic as she promised it would be, and I ATE IT UP. It was dark, seductive, sometimes bloody, and there was never a dull moment. I genuinely didn’t want it to end.

Have you read this one yet? 📖

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#buryourbonesinthemidnightsoil #veschwab #vampirebooks #fantasyreads #fantasybooklover supernatural fantasy, book hangover, fantasy world-building, book recs, reread worthy, sapphic, late-night chapters @veschwabfeatures
Do you pay close attention to monthly releases? 📖 Do you pay close attention to monthly releases? 📖

For several years, I would write a blog article every month that included somewhere between 20-40 new releases 🫢 While I was working my previous job, I didn’t have the opportunity to blog, let alone pay attention to new releases, and I feel like I missed SO MANY 🙈 

I’m happy to be back to blogging semi-regularly, and equally thrilled to be back in the habit of knowing which books are coming out each month! 🙌🏼 If you swipe through, you can see 24 March releases and their corresponding release dates 🗓️

Which of these titles are you most looking forward to reading? 🤎

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#bookcommunity #bookphotography #bookaesthetic #cozyreads #readersofinstagram cozy read, new book releases, fantasy books, book recs, TBR, romance books, late-night chapters
Do you have a library card? 🪪 Ya girl is the self Do you have a library card? 🪪

Ya girl is the self-proclaimed biggest fan of the library to ever walk the earth 🌍 Okay, that could be an exaggeration, but most of the time it doesn’t feel like one. I cried with happiness over my first library card as a kid, and I won’t purchase a book until I’ve borrowed it from the library and loved it enough to own it. I have 5 library cards, swear by Libby and Hoopla for all of my audiobooks and ebooks, and at this point, I feel like an Arthur tattoo might be necessary (IYKYK) 😂

But I digress... February is National Library Lovers’ Month, and I think you should get a library card (or 5) and celebrate not only the perk of FREE BOOKS but also the countless ways public libraries are integral to our lives and communities! 🙌🏼

What was the last library book you checked out? 📖

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If you could only recommend one book for the rest If you could only recommend one book for the rest of your life, what would it be? 📖

This one has been an easy answer for me since 2020, when I read THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY. It completely changed my life.

Since then, I have recommended it to countless people, and have felt intense amounts of joy as I’ve seen those people recommend it to others, buy copies for friends, suggest it for their book clubs, and come back to me to tell me how it changed their life just like it changed mine 🥰

Which book would you say changed your life for the better? 🤎

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Fashion, Spring · April 17, 2019

How to Style a Matching Floral Set for Spring

Each year there seems to be a hot matching set that makes waves in the fashion community. This year it includes my favorite clothing item: a skort.

As I’m sure you’ve already determined between my title and the opening line – skorts are my favorite clothing item of all time. If I’m honest, it’s primarily because I don’t enjoy shorts, yet dresses can make me feel uncomfortably exposed. This way, I get the comfort of shorts, with the elegance of a dress or skirt, and I don’t have to worry about accidentally flashing anyone.

That being said, it’s unsurprising that one of my favorite outfits so far for spring has been this matching skort and top set I received from Chicwish. I saw this hot set on a handful of bloggers before making my order, but none of them felt the need to mention it was a skort and top set, rather than a dress – until one was kind enough to disclose that information – and I immediately put in my request for this gorgeous combo!


Outfit Details
similar bag | skort + top matching set c/o Chicwish | heels

This gorgeous co-ord comes in a stunning peachy hue as well!

I went back and forth over and over again before deciding on the blue version instead of the coral. You guys, this was a challenging choice to make! However, I realize that I’m going to be adding many more blue tones into my closet for spring and summer – rather than pinks, reds, and oranges – so it just made sense in the long run. However, if you’re more of a peachy gal, click here to grab the other color! If you’re debating on whether or not to get it based off the size available (S/M), just know that it does run slightly large, and the skort has an elastic waistline!

*Fair warning that the top is unlined, so you may need a bralette or camisole to wear beneath it.

The best part about a hot matching set, such as this one, is the versatility. You can wear both the top and bottom separately or together! In my case, I can’t wait to find the perfect white tee to style with the skort and some comfy sneakers. The top looks gorgeous over (or beneath) a slip dress, and also pairs great with denim! So while you may be spending $60 on them, know you’ll get the most bang for your buck since you can also wear them with other items.


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Hillary Conheady
6 years ago

Ok same!! I love a good skort and this set is just darling!!

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Hillary Conheady
6 years ago

Ok same!! I love a good skort and this set is just darling!!

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Maggie
6 years ago

Seriously love a matching set! These colors are so pretty on you!

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Cathy
6 years ago

This is such a pretty set! If you didn’t call it out as a set, I would have thought it was a dress. It look pretty on you, and I love how you styled it!

XOXO
Cathy

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Liz
6 years ago

I can see why it’s your favorite – it’s such a gorgeous set! I would’ve never known that it wasn’t one piece!

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Laura Adney
6 years ago

Omg you are so darling! I am obsessed with this set, a perfect modern twist on Spring fashion.

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Kait | Slumber & Scones
6 years ago

This is so pretty, and it looks really fun to wear also. I love the print, and you look so happy twirling around!

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Nailil
6 years ago

This is a beautiful outfit. I love the pleaded detail and the color.

Xx, Nailil
http://thirtyminusone.com

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Kait | Slumber & Scones
6 years ago

This is so pretty, and it looks really fun to wear also. I love the print, and you look so happy twirling around!

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Sarah Lindner
6 years ago

I love a matching set – this one looks so cute on you!

xoxo Sarah

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Kiara
6 years ago

This set looks amazing on you! I absolutely love the colors for spring. Also, your photography is absolutely stunning. You have me in a shopping mood because my birthday is tomorrow 🤣

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Lily
6 years ago

You look amazing, girl! I’m loving this little ensemble.

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Carolyn
6 years ago

Oh wow, this is so adorable! Both are cute, but I think I’d get the peachy orange. Drooling! However, you are wearing the heck out of this blue one! I think it’s even cooler that it’s a set.

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Carolyn
6 years ago

Oh wow, this is so adorable! Both are cute, but I think I’d get the peachy orange. Drooling! However, you are wearing the heck out of this blue one! I think it’s even cooler that it’s a set.

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Taylor Mobley
6 years ago

I love this set!!! I love matching outfit pieces.

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Laura || Walking in Memphis in High Heels
6 years ago

I love this matching set, it looks like a dress! I love the heels you paired with it too !

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Candace
6 years ago

I’m so in love with the matching set and the shoes. Perfect combo!! Lovely print btw.

XO
Candace
http://www.thebeautybeau.com

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Ruthie Ridley
6 years ago

This look is the cutest! I love the print!!!

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Taylor Mobley
6 years ago

I love this set!!! I love matching outfit pieces.

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Deborah
6 years ago

I seriously love skorts! They give you the feel of a skirt but the practicality of shorts! I am seriously loving the matching set! So cute and it looks like a dress!!

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Becky
6 years ago

I love the colors and this looks great on you! I would love to wear something like the bottom half of this, but I know the elastic waist band/flowy top is not a good look for me. I love skorts though!

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Candace
6 years ago

I’m so in love with the matching set and the shoes. Perfect combo!! Lovely print btw.

XO
Candace
http://www.thebeautybeau.com

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Ruthie Ridley
6 years ago

This look is the cutest! I love the print!!!

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Greta
6 years ago

Love the print and colors. So pretty with your complexion and hair!

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Amanda
6 years ago

The print and colors are SO pretty… and I loce that it’s a skort! So glad to see skorts making a comeback, they’re the best of both worlds!

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Amanda
6 years ago

The print and colors are SO pretty… and I loce that it’s a skort! So glad to see skorts making a comeback, they’re the best of both worlds!

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Helena Marz
6 years ago

Wow I actually thought this entire outfit was one piece! Love it on you and it’s so darling! ❤️

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Azanique S Rawl
6 years ago

This is absolutely my favorite outfit of yours! This set is so adorable for spring 🙂

-xo, Azanique | https://www.lotsofsass.com

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Azanique S Rawl
6 years ago

This is absolutely my favorite outfit of yours! This set is so adorable for spring 🙂

-xo, Azanique | https://www.lotsofsass.com

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Alyssa
6 years ago

I love that matching set! And while I love the look for a cropped set, it’s just not for me, I love this look!

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Anna English
6 years ago

I love the fun mix of colors in this outfit! You look so cute.

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Alyssa
6 years ago

I love that matching set! And while I love the look for a cropped set, it’s just not for me, I love this look!

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Greta
6 years ago

Love the print and colors. So pretty with your complexion and hair!

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Helena Marz
6 years ago

Wow I actually thought this entire outfit was one piece! Love it on you and it’s so darling! ❤️

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Anna English
6 years ago

I love the fun mix of colors in this outfit! You look so cute.

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Deborah
6 years ago

I seriously love skorts! They give you the feel of a skirt but the practicality of shorts! I am seriously loving the matching set! So cute and it looks like a dress!!

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Becky
6 years ago

I love the colors and this looks great on you! I would love to wear something like the bottom half of this, but I know the elastic waist band/flowy top is not a good look for me. I love skorts though!

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Cathy
6 years ago

This is such a pretty set! If you didn’t call it out as a set, I would have thought it was a dress. It look pretty on you, and I love how you styled it!

XOXO
Cathy

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Laura Adney
6 years ago

Omg you are so darling! I am obsessed with this set, a perfect modern twist on Spring fashion.

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Laura || Walking in Memphis in
6 years ago

I love this matching set, it looks like a dress! I love the heels you paired with it too !

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Kiara
6 years ago

This set looks amazing on you! I absolutely love the colors for spring. Also, your photography is absolutely stunning. You have me in a shopping mood because my birthday is tomorrow 🤣

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Sarah Lindner
6 years ago

I love a matching set – this one looks so cute on you!

xoxo Sarah

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Maggie
6 years ago

Seriously love a matching set! These colors are so pretty on you!

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Nailil
6 years ago

This is a beautiful outfit. I love the pleaded detail and the color.

Xx, Nailil
http://thirtyminusone.com

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Lily
6 years ago

You look amazing, girl! I’m loving this little ensemble.

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What is your favorite cozy fantasy book? 🌿 It’s b What is your favorite cozy fantasy book? 🌿

It’s been really fun to see how cozy fantasy books have become so popular over the last several years. When done well, reading one of these stories can feel like a comforting hug or sitting down with a cup of something warm and yummy 😌

The Teller of Small Fortunes was a book I read last year and enjoyed very much. I have The Keeper of Magical Things on my TBR for this year 🙌🏼

Some of my very favorite cozy fantasy books are...
🌪️ The Nature of Witches
☕️ Legends & Lattes (series)
🪴 The Spellshop (series)
🐉 The Tea Dragon Society (series)
🧹 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches AND A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping
 🥖 A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
🪄 Selcouth (series)
🫖 The Spellbound Sisters (series)
 🗡️ This Will Be (series)
🍄 A Curious Kind of Magic
💀 The Bone Houses AND The Drowned Woods AND The Wild Huntress
🍵 Tomes and Tea (series)

Aaaaand that’s where I’ll cut that list off because otherwise we’ll be here for days 😂 

Have you read any of these books? 📚

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#cozyfantasy #cozyreads #readingescape #fantasybooks #bookaesthetic cozy read, escapism, book hangover, fantasy world-building, book recs, reread worthy, comfort books
In honor of my first day at my new job at my favor In honor of my first day at my new job at my favorite local coffee shop (everyone say “YAY!” 🥳)… would you take the characters from your current read for a cup of coffee? ☕️

💎 I feel like it would be so fascinating to take Brynja, Ballast, and Saga from When the Light Returns to go get coffee. I’d have so many questions about their magic!

🐦‍🔥 I would give anything to take the entire group of characters from Ruin and Rising to get coffee. It would be such a dream to talk to the people from my favorite series!

📖 To sit down and have a chat with Diana and Matthew from The Book of Life over coffee would be incredible. They’re both so intelligent and I think I’d just sit there gaping at them the entire time!

♟️Honestly, I’d be thrilled to have coffee with *anyone* from The Inheritance Games universe. They’re BRILLIANT and I want to pick their brains for hours on end. 
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Have you read any of the books I’m currently reading? 📚

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#fantasyreads #fantasybooklover #bookcommunity #cozyreads #bookishvibes escapism, book hangover, fantasy world-building, book recs, reread worthy, books and coffee
Tell me about some of the media you’re obsessed wi Tell me about some of the media you’re obsessed with that’s unrelated to books! 🫢

Last summer, along with the rest of *absolutely everyone*, I watched KPop Demon Hunters... and fell head over heels in love with every single thing about it 🙈 

It was a chain reaction of epic proportions 💥 I watched it about a week after it premiered because I kept seeing it online. I liked it, watched it again a week later, LOVED it, suggested it to friends who suggested it to their friends, started deep-diving into all of the behind-the-scenes info, wound up listening to the soundtrack so much that my entire Spotify Wrapped was just songs from that album, still somehow manage to talk about it nonstop to everyone I encounter, and I can’t WAIT for the sequel. Let’s just say it kinda became my personality 😂

Along with KPDH, I spent the last year and some change obsessing over One Tree Hill (first time watching it, got to meet some of the cast last summer, have turned Wilmington into my second home, you know... normal obsessed fan things 😉) and Marielle Kraft’s music (SO FREAKING GOOD. Saw her in concert and got to meet her as well and she’s the sweetest human) 🤎

Do we have any obsessions in common? 🤝🏼

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#kpopdemonhunters #bookphotography #bookishvibes #bookaesthetic #booknerd cozy read, weekend read, book photography, cozy aesthetic, bookish
Recommend a book that feels like a fairytale 🧚🏼‍♀️ Recommend a book that feels like a fairytale 🧚🏼‍♀️

Recently, I finished THE SUN AND THE STARMAKER by @timesnewrachel ☀️ While it was quite different from the modern, witchy fantasy books I’ve come to associate with her (otherwise known as some of my favorite books of all time), she has created a signature style of storytelling that made reading *this book* feel like coming home 🥰

I felt it instantly when I sensed her intense love for nature and the earth woven through the story, paired with such atmospheric writing that I regularly forgot I was not *in* the ethereal, whimsical world I was reading about 🌌 I felt it again in the way she writes of longing and love so powerful that there’s no doubt the characters will overcome every obstacle they face together 🤎 I felt it once more when I began to cry over supporting characters that (possibly) weren’t meant to elicit such strong emotions in the first place 🥹

THE SUN AND THE STARMAKER was everything I could possibly hope and dream a fairytale would be. It was beautiful and magical, and left me feeling so filled with joy and hope. It’s an absolute masterpiece 🙌🏼

Have you read this or any of Rachel’s other books? 📚

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#fantasyreads #fantasybooklover #thesunandthestarmaker #rachelgriffin #fairytalebooks escapism, book hangover, fantasy books, book recs, reread worthy, favorite author
Tell me the last vampire book you read 🧛🏻‍♀️ I go Tell me the last vampire book you read 🧛🏻‍♀️

I gotta be real honest with y’all... I don’t read a ton of vampire books 😅 I was a wolf girly starting in middle school, and that really hasn’t changed much. I do love a good vampire book, but they haven’t always been my favorite supernatural creature 🙈

However, maybe due to the V.E. Schwab magic, I absolutely adored Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 😍 It was precisely as toxic as she promised it would be, and I ATE IT UP. It was dark, seductive, sometimes bloody, and there was never a dull moment. I genuinely didn’t want it to end.

Have you read this one yet? 📖

—

#buryourbonesinthemidnightsoil #veschwab #vampirebooks #fantasyreads #fantasybooklover supernatural fantasy, book hangover, fantasy world-building, book recs, reread worthy, sapphic, late-night chapters @veschwabfeatures
Do you pay close attention to monthly releases? 📖 Do you pay close attention to monthly releases? 📖

For several years, I would write a blog article every month that included somewhere between 20-40 new releases 🫢 While I was working my previous job, I didn’t have the opportunity to blog, let alone pay attention to new releases, and I feel like I missed SO MANY 🙈 

I’m happy to be back to blogging semi-regularly, and equally thrilled to be back in the habit of knowing which books are coming out each month! 🙌🏼 If you swipe through, you can see 24 March releases and their corresponding release dates 🗓️

Which of these titles are you most looking forward to reading? 🤎

—

#bookcommunity #bookphotography #bookaesthetic #cozyreads #readersofinstagram cozy read, new book releases, fantasy books, book recs, TBR, romance books, late-night chapters
Do you have a library card? 🪪 Ya girl is the self Do you have a library card? 🪪

Ya girl is the self-proclaimed biggest fan of the library to ever walk the earth 🌍 Okay, that could be an exaggeration, but most of the time it doesn’t feel like one. I cried with happiness over my first library card as a kid, and I won’t purchase a book until I’ve borrowed it from the library and loved it enough to own it. I have 5 library cards, swear by Libby and Hoopla for all of my audiobooks and ebooks, and at this point, I feel like an Arthur tattoo might be necessary (IYKYK) 😂

But I digress... February is National Library Lovers’ Month, and I think you should get a library card (or 5) and celebrate not only the perk of FREE BOOKS but also the countless ways public libraries are integral to our lives and communities! 🙌🏼

What was the last library book you checked out? 📖

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#nationallibraryloversmonth #libraryloversmonth #bookcommunity #bookphotography #readersofinstagram support your public library, library lovers, bookish vibes, cozy aesthetic, book nerd
If you could only recommend one book for the rest If you could only recommend one book for the rest of your life, what would it be? 📖

This one has been an easy answer for me since 2020, when I read THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY. It completely changed my life.

Since then, I have recommended it to countless people, and have felt intense amounts of joy as I’ve seen those people recommend it to others, buy copies for friends, suggest it for their book clubs, and come back to me to tell me how it changed their life just like it changed mine 🥰

Which book would you say changed your life for the better? 🤎

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Would you want to have the same occupation as the Would you want to have the same occupation as the main character(s) in your last read? 💼

I recently finished Thunderhead, and I absolutely would *NOT* want to be a Scythe! 🙅🏻‍♀️ I also definitely wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of the royalty in my other previous read, A Psalm of Storms and Silence 😬

Is there a book character’s “career” that you know you would love to have? 💭

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Is there an author who consistently writes books t Is there an author who consistently writes books that bring you to tears? 😭

I have cried while reading every single one of Amber’s books... and that’s only a small part of what keeps me coming back for more 🤎

I’m struggling with even knowing how to put in words what her books mean to me, because even thinking about it is making me tear up 🥹 So instead of trying to craft the perfect thing to say, I’m just going to urge you to read everything she’s written. You can thank me later 🙏🏼

What was the last book that made you cry? 📖

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