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. 
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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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#themidnightlibrary #magicalrealism #mentalhealthbooks #bookcommunity #bookishvibes Matt Haig, books with mental health rep, magical realism books, book recs, favorite books, escapism, book hangover, reread worthy, comfort book
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Fashion, Winter · February 15, 2019

Styling Boyfriend Jeans for Winter & Friday Five

Step outside of your comfort zone and style boyfriend jeans for winter in the cutest way possible.

Who says they’re reserved for the warmer seasons? Boyfriend jeans are one of my favorite kinds of pants to wear. They’re comfortable and different than the skinnies I typically reach for. Usually I find myself pairing them with tighter tops (even bodysuits) or front-tucked t-shirts, but for this outfit, I actually chose an oversized sweater. I wanted to prove that it’s possible to wear two “oversized” pieces together without them looking chunky or shapeless.

Two ways to easily add definition to your body while wearing larger items is with belts and “skinny” shoes. I decided on a patent belt with a larger buckle and sock booties that go higher up on my leg – hiding themselves beneath the hem of my jeans. Just by wearing these two pieces, my outfit looks less bulky and more chic. I even grabbed a larger tote bag which makes my body appear smaller – and the icing on the cake was my baker boy cap. I’m still not over how cute these are, and I’ll probably be wearing them for months (maybe even years) to come.


Outfit Details
sweater c/o Chicwish | pants | hat c/o Scala via Lipton Publicity | necklace | belt (available in beige and red) | similar booties | earrings | bag

Friday Five Vol. 2

Clothing Items I’m Eyeing

This sweatshirt my friend Summer posted about. It’s so cute and so affordable!

It might still be cold outside, but that doesn’t mean I can’t bring more springtime colors into my wardrobe! I’m obsessing over this sweater.

Is it so bad that I just wish for a good pair of black skinnies? This pair is my favorite style.

Articles You Loved

I may have written this post a year ago, but it’s still getting tons of love. You’ll especially want to read it if you love coffee as much as I do.

Our wedding ceremony was beyond beautiful, and it seems you all loved reading about it as well! Click here to relive it with me.

Not even surprised that ya’ll enjoyed this outfit post as much as I did. Certainly my favorite ensemble from 2019 so far.

Movies I’m Excited About

Isn’t It Romantic seriously looks adorable. I’m a sucker for a good rom-com.

I’m basically counting down the days until Captain Marvel. If you’ve been reading my blog for long enough, you’ll know I’m a huge superhero buff!

Comedy and action? Yes please. Shazam! seems like a hit waiting to happen, plus it stars one of my favorites: Zachary Levi.

Aaaand of course you might sense a running theme when I say I’m most anticipating Avengers: Endgame. It’ll be an end to an era, but I’m certainly looking forward to it.

New Beauty Products I’m Eyeing

It’s only a few days until Urban Decay releases their Naked Reloaded eyeshadow palette. I’m a huge fan of the Naked line of products, so I’m beyond thrilled to try this out!

I’ve always loved Origins face masks. Their new release sounds super intriguing.

I keep hearing about this concealer at a drugstore price. Hmmm – time to test it for myself.

Recipes I Want to Try

I haven’t made anything with seafood yet, and these wraps sounded beyond delicious to me.

It’s been so cold outside that I’m nearly always craving soups and stews. Gimme gimme this goodness.

My husband and I really enjoy spicy things, so naturally this casserole caught my eye!


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Katie N
7 years ago

I love how you paired those booties with your jeans! I always think booties styled like that will look silly on me, but I totally need to try it!

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Cathy
7 years ago

I love these jeans and sweater together! You look chic and effortless. Your hat style was all over the runways in New York last week for fall 2019-you are ahead of the curve! Love that!

XOXO
Cathy

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Liz
7 years ago

I SO wish I could pull of boyfriend jeans! They look amazing on you and you styled them perfectly!

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Lyddiegal
7 years ago

Sock booties and boyfriend jeans do seem like the perfect pair for winter! No cold ankles – my favorite!
https://www.iamchiconthecheap.com/

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Helen
7 years ago

This look is SO cute! I love boyfriend jeans and that sweater is everything!

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Anna English
7 years ago

As a girl with wider hips and bigger thighs, I love boyfriend jeans! They are my go-to denim for sure.

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Katie N
7 years ago

I love how you paired those booties with your jeans! I always think booties styled like that will look silly on me, but I totally need to try it!

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Cathy
7 years ago

I love these jeans and sweater together! You look chic and effortless. Your hat style was all over the runways in New York last week for fall 2019-you are ahead of the curve! Love that!

XOXO
Cathy

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Liz
7 years ago

I SO wish I could pull of boyfriend jeans! They look amazing on you and you styled them perfectly!

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Lyddiegal
7 years ago

Sock booties and boyfriend jeans do seem like the perfect pair for winter! No cold ankles – my favorite!
https://www.iamchiconthecheap.com/

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Beth
7 years ago

You always look great in whatever you wear! I am a big fan of this look on you.

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Lee
7 years ago

Girl you are ROCKING those bf jeans! They are a trend i just have no been able to make work for me. Going to try again with some of your tips! *wish me luck* lol
Lee | LegalLee Blonde

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Shannon
7 years ago

I love this look! I wouldn’t think to pair an oversized sweater with boyfriend jeans but you look absolutely adorable! Thanks for the outfit inspiration!

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Beth
7 years ago

You always look great in whatever you wear! I am a big fan of this look on you.

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Shannon
7 years ago

I love this look! I wouldn’t think to pair an oversized sweater with boyfriend jeans but you look absolutely adorable! Thanks for the outfit inspiration!

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Indya | The Small Adventurer
7 years ago

I simultaneously cannot WAIT for Endgame, and I also don’t want it to happen. I know it’s going to heartbreaking, and I know it’ll be the end of so many beloved characters, whether they survive or not, simply because the actors are moving on. I love the Marvel universe so I know this one is going to be a tear-jerker for me!

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Indya | The Small Adventurer
7 years ago

I simultaneously cannot WAIT for Endgame, and I also don’t want it to happen. I know it’s going to heartbreaking, and I know it’ll be the end of so many beloved characters, whether they survive or not, simply because the actors are moving on. I love the Marvel universe so I know this one is going to be a tear-jerker for me!

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Gentry
7 years ago

You are totally working those BF jeans! Super duper cute!

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Gentry
7 years ago

You are totally working those BF jeans! Super duper cute!

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Azanique Rawl
7 years ago

I wish I looked this chic in boyfriend jeans! This outfit is so fun for winter 🙂

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

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Hillary Conheady
7 years ago

Totally in love with this whole look! And love how you added the hat!

xo, Hillary | hillheady.com

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Azanique Rawl
7 years ago

I wish I looked this chic in boyfriend jeans! This outfit is so fun for winter 🙂

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

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Lauryn Hock
7 years ago

Thank you for the tips! I have the hardest time styling them, but they look amazing on you!

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Morgan
7 years ago

I love wearing mine all year round too! And I like how how you paired them with the tall booties!

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

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Summer
7 years ago

So gorgeous and chic as ALWAYS, Stephanie!! The photo location is perfect for it, too! Love those jeans paired with those boots – the options are endless with them. And yes!! I can’t get enough of that sweatshirt!

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Taylor Mobley
7 years ago

I love the way that you styled these with those velvet boots. SO CUTE.

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Morgan
7 years ago

I love wearing mine all year round too! And I like how how you paired them with the tall booties!

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

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Summer
7 years ago

So gorgeous and chic as ALWAYS, Stephanie!! The photo location is perfect for it, too! Love those jeans paired with those boots – the options are endless with them. And yes!! I can’t get enough of that sweatshirt!

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Taylor Mobley
7 years ago

I love the way that you styled these with those velvet boots. SO CUTE.

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Abbie Gatherum
7 years ago

Boyfriend jeans are the best! Love this post so much.

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Laura Leigh
7 years ago

They are SO good!!! And of course, you styled them absolutely perfectly! Really love them paired with those boots gal!

xo Laura Leigh
Louella Reese

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Liz
7 years ago

SUCH a cute outfit! I really love those boots! Wish I could pull of the jeans lol!

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Abbie Gatherum
7 years ago

Boyfriend jeans are the best! Love this post so much.

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Laura Leigh
7 years ago

They are SO good!!! And of course, you styled them absolutely perfectly! Really love them paired with those boots gal!

xo Laura Leigh
Louella Reese

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Jordyn Sifferman
7 years ago

Okay, I have never really liked how boyfriend jeans look on me but your outfit in this post is SO cute its making me want to give them another shot. Head to toe you look ADORABLE!

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Liz
7 years ago

SUCH a cute outfit! I really love those boots! Wish I could pull of the jeans lol!

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

I love boyfriend jeans, they’re so comfy! I love how you styled them!

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Belle
7 years ago

This is such a cute look! It’s perfect with the hat!

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Jordyn Sifferman
7 years ago

Okay, I have never really liked how boyfriend jeans look on me but your outfit in this post is SO cute its making me want to give them another shot. Head to toe you look ADORABLE!

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Alyssa Avant
7 years ago

The sweater is very cute! I don’t think I could pull off those jeans though.

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Kait | Slumber & Scones
7 years ago

That whole outfit looks so cute and cozy! I love the hat on you so much.

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Kelsie
7 years ago

You look so cute! I love the red door behind you and the brick makes your outfit pop. Cute jeans!

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Kileen
7 years ago

These boyfriend jeans are so cute and I love how you styled them!! Love it with the oversized sweater too!

Kileen
cute & little

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Catherine
7 years ago

I am loving these boots with this outfit! XO

Cathclaire
http://www.cathclaire.com

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Greta
7 years ago

Boyfriend jeans are my favorite right now. So loose and comfy and they look great with sweaters!

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torey
7 years ago

Love how you styled these! and your tote is perfect! x

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Catherine
7 years ago

I am loving these boots with this outfit! XO

Cathclaire
http://www.cathclaire.com

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TianShanae
7 years ago

Love your sweater! You look so cozy.

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TianShanae
7 years ago

Love your sweater! You look so cozy.

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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? 📚

—

#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. 
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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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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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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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