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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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 · August 24, 2018

The Beauty of the Graphic Tee

Why yes, you can dress up a graphic tee.

Don’t get confused: graphic tees are casual by nature. However, there’s an abundance of ways to style them. Casual is just one of the options, but I love dressing up a good ol’ graphic tee. This bad boy costs less than $11 and is comfy as can be. The material is soft and flexible, not that harsh t-shirt fabric that is often associated with classic tees.

I used to assume that going into my 20’s meant I had to say goodbye to graphic tees and crop tops. Not so. I’ve just adjusted the style of graphic tees and crop tops as I’ve gotten older. Since this top is a Gucci dupe, I felt as though it was “stylish” enough to wear with my high-waisted palazzo pants I’ve literally been living in lately. Keep reading to see more of why I love graphic tees.


Outfit Details
top | pants | shoes | hat | necklace | bag | earrings

Band and graphic tees were my absolute jam in middle and high school.

Even into my adult years, I find myself reaching over and over for my worn t-shirts with Demi Lovato and MAX on the front. However, for a day of shopping or a date night with my fiancé, I tend to gravitate towards a more fitted and fashionable option. There’s something so simplistic and simple about graphic tees, yet they’re endlessly versatile. I can wear this top just as well with my “fancy pants” as I can with cutoff shorts and sneakers. You could even pair it with a cute skirt for weekend brunch or a nicer event.

Do you reach for a graphic tee as often as I do?

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Chelsea
7 years ago

You seriously rock it and I love your photography!! I’m all about graphic tees. I have quite a few band tees….Johnny Cash, Guns N Roses, Pink Floyd!!

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Katie
7 years ago

Cute outfit! I agree with Cathy above, the yellow bag is perfect!

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Adriana Renee
7 years ago

Great outfit! I love graphic tees! I feel like you can easily make any outfit with them!

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Tanvi Rastogi
7 years ago

I love a good graphic tee. You rock everything you wear.

❥ tanvii.com

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Gentry Adams
7 years ago

I definitely think graphic tees can work for those of us who are no longer 16 🙂 Your accessories make this look so chic!

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Morgan of Traveling Trendy
7 years ago

Seriously, NOTHING beats a good graphic tee! I absolutely adore how you paired it with the dressier pants and the yellow purse to bring out the colors in the shirt. It also looks like your shooting location is identical to the flower on the shirt! Absolutely stunning.

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Vanessa
7 years ago

Love your outfit! This is great to keep in mind, I have tons of graphic tees but not many of them are as cute as these! A lot of them are from college 😛

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Chelsea
7 years ago

You seriously rock it and I love your photography!! I’m all about graphic tees. I have quite a few band tees….Johnny Cash, Guns N Roses, Pink Floyd!!

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Cathy
7 years ago

I love how you styled your graphic tee, the yellow bag pulls the outfit together perfectly!

XOXO
Cathy

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Katie
7 years ago

Cute outfit! I agree with Cathy above, the yellow bag is perfect!

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Adriana Renee
7 years ago

Great outfit! I love graphic tees! I feel like you can easily make any outfit with them!

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Tanvi Rastogi
7 years ago

I love a good graphic tee. You rock everything you wear.

❥ tanvii.com

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Gentry Adams
7 years ago

I definitely think graphic tees can work for those of us who are no longer 16 🙂 Your accessories make this look so chic!

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Morgan of Traveling Trendy
7 years ago

Seriously, NOTHING beats a good graphic tee! I absolutely adore how you paired it with the dressier pants and the yellow purse to bring out the colors in the shirt. It also looks like your shooting location is identical to the flower on the shirt! Absolutely stunning.

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Katherine
7 years ago

I still totally adore graphic tees, but I’ve stayed away from them lately and now I need to go back! The way you styled this one with the palazzo pants is amaaazing and so cute! I love finding the fine line between dressy and casual and this is perfect!

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Vanessa
7 years ago

Love your outfit! This is great to keep in mind, I have tons of graphic tees but not many of them are as cute as these! A lot of them are from college 😛

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Kim
7 years ago

I love how you styled this graphic tee! I love that graphic tees are popular because they can really show off your personality and can be dressed up or down.

xoxo,
Kim

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Alix Maza
7 years ago

Love a good graphic tee! Super cute choices.

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Candace
7 years ago

Graphic tees are stylish, super affordable and comfy!! Can’t ask for more. I liked how you paired it!

XO
Candace

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Indya | The Small Adventurer
7 years ago

I practically LIVE in graphic tees when I’m just at home, or running errands, but I’ve never looked this good in any of them before! 😍 Thank you for sharing ways to dress up this clothing staple of mine, as I do have so many that I love, and would like to wear more than just my jeans with them 😂

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Diana
7 years ago

Graphic tees are so cute and easy to wear! Love how you styled this one!

xx
http://www.thedecemberdame.com

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adriana
7 years ago

Yesss! Love this, graphic tees are the best! You can dress them up or down which is the best part!

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adriana
7 years ago

Yesss! Love this, graphic tees are the best! You can dress them up or down which is the best part!

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Melissa
7 years ago

This is a cute look! I have a ton of nerdy and nostalgic tees and love to wear a bandanna scarf, jeans, and cuff bracelets to give it a rockabilly vibe! I like all of your coffee picks!

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Melissa
7 years ago

This is a cute look! I have a ton of nerdy and nostalgic tees and love to wear a bandanna scarf, jeans, and cuff bracelets to give it a rockabilly vibe! I like all of your coffee picks!

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Mollie
7 years ago

I’m obsessed with graphic tees right now! I hope sneakers and tees never go out of style – I live for comfy chic outfits! Loving this Gucci-inspired one on you.

xx Mollie

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Tara Fuller
7 years ago

you’ve totally inspired me to buy that shirt!!

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Kelsey
7 years ago

Graphic tees are my favorite!!! And you sure do know how to rock them!!

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Jasmine Vargas
7 years ago

I am such a graphic tee kind of gal. Always have been. They’re just fun to wear and comfy.

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Summer
7 years ago

I have been all about the graphic tees lately! This one is so fun!

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Tara Fuller
7 years ago

you’ve totally inspired me to buy that shirt!!

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Kelsey
7 years ago

Graphic tees are my favorite!!! And you sure do know how to rock them!!

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Jessica
7 years ago

Graphic tees are the best! They are so much fun to dress up or down! So incredibly versatile.
xo Jessica
http://www.whatsfordinneresq.com

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Megan
7 years ago

I have the tee you’re wearing and wear it with anything, I’m on a huge graphic tee kick!

Megan | http://www.pipmegan.com

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Laura Leigh
7 years ago

Found a new love for graphic tees and now I’m obsessed! Absolutely love how you styled this one gal!

xo Laura Leigh
Louella Reese

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Taylor Mobley
7 years ago

This tee is amazing!!! You make anything look incredible though.

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Morgan
7 years ago

I love dressing them up too!! And gosh I just love these pants on you!

-Morgan
How 2 Wear It [] http://how2wearit.com

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Nicole
7 years ago

Oh I definitely love a graphic T, and I’m 38 years old now! I especially love mine with a blazer or a long cardigan with denim.

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Laura
7 years ago

I love how you styled your graphic tee! Such a cute outfit. So wish I could pull off wearing cute hats like you can.

xo, Laura

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Deborah
7 years ago

Yay! I love graphic tees and I love dressing them up too with nice pants and a blazer sometimes! I really love your Amour tee, so pretty!

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Julia Comil
7 years ago

I love your hat! Such a great look!! I love it!!

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Alix Maza
6 years ago

Love a good graphic tee! Super cute choices.

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Jasmine Vargas
6 years ago

I am such a graphic tee kind of gal. Always have been. They’re just fun to wear and comfy.

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Kim
6 years ago

I love how you styled this graphic tee! I love that graphic tees are popular because they can really show off your personality and can be dressed up or down.

xoxo,
Kim

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Indya | The Small Adventurer
6 years ago

I practically LIVE in graphic tees when I’m just at home, or running errands, but I’ve never looked this good in any of them before! 😍 Thank you for sharing ways to dress up this clothing staple of mine, as I do have so many that I love, and would like to wear more than just my jeans with them 😂

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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? 🤎

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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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#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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