Now that Thanksgiving is over and it's "socially a Now that Thanksgiving is over and it's "socially acceptable" (whatever that even means) to get holly jolly and festive as can be (which I've been since the start of November), tell me which books are on your holiday season TBR! 🎅🏼
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I wrote up my Christmas reading list at the beginning of last week and lemme tell ya, I'm apparently attempting to read a book a day in December with how many titles I added 😂 But there are just SO MANY cute and festive holiday romcoms that I need in my life this season 🤎
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Usually, I find myself reaching for a couple of rereads, including THE AFTERLIFE OF HOLLY CHASE which I listen to every December without fail because it is my *favorite* Christmas book 📖 And this year I'll be rereading LOVELIGHT FARMS as well since I adored it so much last year 🎄
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I've found myself enjoying small-town romances more than ever before and when I discovered Sarah Adams's books this year, I fell head over heels in love 🤎 I gobbled up both When in Rome and Practice Makes Perfect and I've been itching for more books with these vibes 🌾
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In case you're unfamiliar with it, magical realism is a genre where the real world has an undercurrent of magic or fantasy ✨ One of the most common ways authors incorporate this element is with time travel of some sort ⏳ I'm an absolute sucker for it! 😍
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Lately, I've been gravitating toward a lot of magical realism and a few of my recent favorites have been:
🌾 The Unmaking of June Farrow
🎇 The Second Chance Year
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When do you decorate for the holidays? 🎄 As a When do you decorate for the holidays? 🎄

As a kid, my family waited until the day after Thanksgiving. As an adult, I thought, “If it’s the most wonderful time of the year, why not make it the longest?” and started decorating the first weekend in November! 🙈

[#ad] This @kingofchristmas Tribeca Blue Spruce was so easy to assemble and add to my small space 🙌🏼 It came with protective “fluffing” gloves (spot my mom even wearing them to help me out), an off-season storage bag, and a remote with 8 light settings to make things merry and bright ✨

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Have you read any "booksta favorite" fantasies thi Have you read any "booksta favorite" fantasies this year? ⚔️
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Not only did I enjoy rereads of some special ones like Addie LaRue, The Nature of Witches, The Grishaverse, Strange the Dreamer, Shades of Magic, and The Starless Sea, but I also picked up a few of the hyped books I've seen circling the online bookish world over the last couple of years (and had some hot takes on a few of them but what's new) 📚
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🌙 Bring Me Your Midnight (5 stars, favorite book of the year
☕️ Legends & Lattes (5 stars)
🏛️ Babel (5 stars)
🪻 Foxglove (4 stars)
🌊 Curious Tides (4 stars)
🩸 Assistant to the Villain (4 stars)
👑 The Foxglove King (4 stars)
🌗 The Celestial Kingdom Duology (3.5 stars)
🍎 A Curse for True Love (3.5 stars, 3.5 stars to trilogy)
💦 A River Enchanted (3.5 stars, don't plan to read sequel)
🧚🏼‍♀️ These Hollow Vows Duology (2.5 stars)
🐉 Fourth Wing (2.5 stars)
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If you could create your dream bookish tea blend o If you could create your dream bookish tea blend or coffee roast, what would it be and what would you name it? ☕️
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While the name The Espresso Edition indicates that I’m a coffee girly through and through (and I am–can’t live without my morning cup of joe), I also love tea 🫖 In fact, I’m an equal-opportunity warm beverage sipper, which is why I was so excited to give @drinkchapters a try 🤎 You can read a full review of these bookish beverages at the link in my bio 💻
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🦌 Shadow and Bone
❣️ Shades of Magic
⛓️ The Prison Healer
🎪 Caraval
🧚🏼‍♀️ Wicked Lovely
⚱️ The Daevabad Trilogy
🩸 All Souls
🦋 Strange the Dreamer
⚔️ The Falconer
🌊 All the Stars and Teeth
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Lifestyle · January 13, 2020

2020: The Year of the Books

I didn’t have a reading goal set for myself last year, and I ended up reading 30 books. I’ve set 30 as my reading goal in 2020 and plan to surpass it.

I absolutely adore reading. I’ve always been a bookworm. As a child, you would find me up at 2 in the morning, wide awake, with a book in my hands – or fast asleep with a book lying open next to my head and the lights still on. In my high school years, I would take books to read during lunch and I distinctly remember the pride of reading the entire Twilight series during spring break of my senior year. Then suddenly, I became less passionate about reading. Sure, I enjoyed the occasional story, but watching new TV shows became a priority, and reading kind of went out the window.

A couple years ago, I found my love for books yet again. This time, I used them as my wind-down method in the evenings. Rather than staying up and scrolling through my Instagram feed until midnight, I put on some relaxing lo-fi and picked up a book to read until I was ready for sleep. This became such a habit that I now find myself having trouble falling asleep if I don’t read first, or at least listen to an audiobook. Last year, I devoured 30 books – a goal I didn’t even set, but was proud of accomplishing by the end of December. This year, I plan to surpass that, and I’m officially giving 2020 the title, “Year of the Books.”

My plan is pretty simple: I’m going to read more.

Rather than turning on Disney+ or Netflix while I’m working, I’m going to listen to audiobooks. I have a list of titles already lined up on Audible and Goodreads so I never run out of stories to fly through. I’m already 3 books in, and it’s only the second week of January! I was joking with my husband this morning, telling him how I was such a total book nerd growing up, and he returned my joke with a compliment, saying that being a bookworm makes you smarter. I want to continue learning, whether that’s through fiction (yes, you can learn from fiction), self-help, or even poetry and memoirs.

Last year, I checked off a significant number of books from my reading list, and this year, with the help of Goodreads, I plan to accomplish even more, by staying on top of what I’m currently reading, and not getting sidetracked by shiny new covers (because that happens). Here are some of the titles I’m most interested in getting my hands on this year. Tell me, have you read any of them? Would you like to see my reviews once I’m finished?

30 Books to Read in 2020

  • Unravel the Dusk by Elizabeth Lim
  • American Royals by Katharine McGee
  • The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout
  • Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody
  • The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
  • Renegades by Marissa Meyer
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
  • Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
  • Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
  • All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace
  • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
  • We Met in December by Rosie Curtis
  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
  • Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
  • The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
  • The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
  • 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
  • So This is Love by Elizabeth Lim
  • As Old As Time by Liz Braswell
  • House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
  • Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
  • Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
  • I’ll See You in Paris by Michelle Gable
  • The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
  • The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
  • The Deep by Solomon Rivers
  • With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
  • The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
  • The Switch by Beth O’Leary
  • Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

In addition to these titles, I’ve actually already finished a couple of books and I’m currently reading a few more. Want to know what I’ve read (and what I’m reading)? You should definitely follow me on Goodreads.


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Now that Thanksgiving is over and it's "socially a Now that Thanksgiving is over and it's "socially acceptable" (whatever that even means) to get holly jolly and festive as can be (which I've been since the start of November), tell me which books are on your holiday season TBR! 🎅🏼
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I wrote up my Christmas reading list at the beginning of last week and lemme tell ya, I'm apparently attempting to read a book a day in December with how many titles I added 😂 But there are just SO MANY cute and festive holiday romcoms that I need in my life this season 🤎
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Usually, I find myself reaching for a couple of rereads, including THE AFTERLIFE OF HOLLY CHASE which I listen to every December without fail because it is my *favorite* Christmas book 📖 And this year I'll be rereading LOVELIGHT FARMS as well since I adored it so much last year 🎄
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Recommend your favorite small-town romance 🏡
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When I was younger, my mom would say that my sister was her country mouse and I was her city mouse... but now we're BOTH country mice and I'm proud to live near a small town where everyone at the cafe, plant shop, and bakery know my name 🥰
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I've found myself enjoying small-town romances more than ever before and when I discovered Sarah Adams's books this year, I fell head over heels in love 🤎 I gobbled up both When in Rome and Practice Makes Perfect and I've been itching for more books with these vibes 🌾
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When do you decorate for the holidays? 🎄 As a When do you decorate for the holidays? 🎄

As a kid, my family waited until the day after Thanksgiving. As an adult, I thought, “If it’s the most wonderful time of the year, why not make it the longest?” and started decorating the first weekend in November! 🙈

[#ad] This @kingofchristmas Tribeca Blue Spruce was so easy to assemble and add to my small space 🙌🏼 It came with protective “fluffing” gloves (spot my mom even wearing them to help me out), an off-season storage bag, and a remote with 8 light settings to make things merry and bright ✨

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It'll come as no surprise to you that there are a LOT of warm tones and neutrals in my cozy cottage, especially browns like this gorgeous oak dresser from @sauderusa 🤎 You'll also spy plenty of soft and rich greens, deep burgundy, and hints of ivory--basically all the earthy vibes 🌲
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Have you read any "booksta favorite" fantasies thi Have you read any "booksta favorite" fantasies this year? ⚔️
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Not only did I enjoy rereads of some special ones like Addie LaRue, The Nature of Witches, The Grishaverse, Strange the Dreamer, Shades of Magic, and The Starless Sea, but I also picked up a few of the hyped books I've seen circling the online bookish world over the last couple of years (and had some hot takes on a few of them but what's new) 📚
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🌙 Bring Me Your Midnight (5 stars, favorite book of the year
☕️ Legends & Lattes (5 stars)
🏛️ Babel (5 stars)
🪻 Foxglove (4 stars)
🌊 Curious Tides (4 stars)
🩸 Assistant to the Villain (4 stars)
👑 The Foxglove King (4 stars)
🌗 The Celestial Kingdom Duology (3.5 stars)
🍎 A Curse for True Love (3.5 stars, 3.5 stars to trilogy)
💦 A River Enchanted (3.5 stars, don't plan to read sequel)
🧚🏼‍♀️ These Hollow Vows Duology (2.5 stars)
🐉 Fourth Wing (2.5 stars)
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Did you read any of these this year? 📖 
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If you could create your dream bookish tea blend o If you could create your dream bookish tea blend or coffee roast, what would it be and what would you name it? ☕️
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While the name The Espresso Edition indicates that I’m a coffee girly through and through (and I am–can’t live without my morning cup of joe), I also love tea 🫖 In fact, I’m an equal-opportunity warm beverage sipper, which is why I was so excited to give @drinkchapters a try 🤎 You can read a full review of these bookish beverages at the link in my bio 💻
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[ad] Chapters Tea & Coffee is a small business that offers both loose leaf teas and premium coffee roasts that are designed for book lovers 📖 They kindly sent me 2 tea blends and 2 coffee roasts and lemme tell ya, I'm obsessed 😍 In fact, I enjoyed their Chapters Café Roast in my latte this morning and I'm currently drinking a piping cup of their Chai Café Vanilla as I write this caption👌🏼
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Which would you drink first:
🪶 Poet's Study Earl Grey
🍨 Chai Café Vanilla
🐦‍⬛ Raven's Roast Dark Roast Coffee
📚 Chapters Café Roast Espresso 
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What is your favorite fantasy series (*right now*. What is your favorite fantasy series (*right now*... because we all know how quickly this can change)? 📚
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When it comes to books, fantasy is my first love 🤎 It all started when I was 6 years old and my family read The Chronicles of Narnia together--I was hooked and the rest is history 😂
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I still adore Narnia (and desperately wish for a wardrobe that would transport me to another world), but I also have SO many other favorite fantasy series now 🙈
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Here are 10 that have really stuck with me over the years:
🦌 Shadow and Bone
❣️ Shades of Magic
⛓️ The Prison Healer
🎪 Caraval
🧚🏼‍♀️ Wicked Lovely
⚱️ The Daevabad Trilogy
🩸 All Souls
🦋 Strange the Dreamer
⚔️ The Falconer
🌊 All the Stars and Teeth
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Have you read any of these? ☕️ 
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When they tell you it’s too early to decorate fo When they tell you it’s too early to decorate for Christmas but you can’t hear them over your holiday spirit 🎅🏼

[#ad] This year, I added a @kingofchristmas tree to my home, and let me tell you, it’s the best artificial tree I have ever had 😍 I chose the 7’ Tribeca Blue Spruce with 550 warm white lights (named Wirecutter’s Best Artificial Christmas Tree 2023–and they’re SO RIGHT) ✨

Stay tuned to see how easy it was to assemble this tree (and for more holiday home content) 🤎

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Which authors write books that ALWAYS have the bes Which authors write books that ALWAYS have the best quotes for you? ✍🏼
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Rachel Griffin's books never cease to amaze me with their absolutely breathtaking quotes 😍 I've read The Nature of Witches three times and seem to find new quotes to love with each reread 📖 Bring Me Your Midnight is my favorite book of 2023 and it also has countless gorgeous quotes (including this one that she included in my personalized preorder) 🫶🏼
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A few other authors whose book quotes always blow me away:
Amber McBride
V.E. Schwab
Leigh Bardugo
Matt Haig
Taylor Jenkins Reid
justin a reynolds
Abby Jimenez
Roseanne A. Brown
John Green
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Have you read books by any of these authors? 📖 
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