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We just finished book 2 and are happily onto book 3 of the Penderwicks. I love these books so much! My oldest and I have already read them all but we’re all really loving having the audio on as we drive around town. If you haven’t read or listened to this series, I can’t recommend it enough! ✨ • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #nicolelovesbooks #kidlit #thependerwicks
Well, no one who knows me will be surprised that EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER was a 5-⭐️ read for me. Baseball + romance + small town? 👌🏼 ✨ After Clayton Kershaw’s performance in game 5 of the NLDS (💔) I keep thinking back to this story and how hard it must be for a pitcher to “lose his stuff.” I’m also married to a former pitcher and mother of a couple of young pitchers, and a former athlete who knows a fair amount about head games, so yeah, this book was a good one for me. And plus, the slow-burn swooniness of it was very well done. ✨ • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #nicolelovesbooks
I usually not one for set TBRs- I’m way too much of a mood reader. But between my shelves and the library here is a fallish stack of books I’m hoping to get through in the next couple of months. ✨ Any favorites in this stack? A few of them have been on my TBR for quite a while. ✨ Also, I finally finished the blog I started too long ago sharing some of my favorite reads so far this year. Link in profile for that! ✨ • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #amreading #octoberTBR #autumnreading
“The sweater left a trail of fuzzy puffs everywhere, but she’d had it since college. When she wore it and drank something hot, she liked to imagine it gave her autumnal superpowers and a certain cozy appeal.” -Evvie Drake ✨ Do you have a favorite cozy sweater? I put on mine last week for the first time this season. (It only lasted for a short time in the morning, but that’s ok.) I call this my “grandma/homeschool sweater” and it’s beyond cozy. I wear it all day on cold homeschool days, and I actually got it from my great-aunt. 😆 ✨ Now I’m also going to imagine it gives me autumnal superpowers when it gets cold enough to wear more. ✨ • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #amreading #sweaterweather #coffeeandbooks
Oh boy did I love this book! I devoured it in a day and a half and found it strongly living up the the hype. ✨ It’s a Beauty & the Beast retelling but in a subtle and creative way. There are still 2 more books to go in the series so I’m sure when I look at the 3-book arc, it will make even more sense as a retelling. I loved the parallel world aspect (as this is the type of fantasy I most prefer), and loved the characters. ✨ This was #bookstagrammademedoit, or rather, #meredithmademedoit (via @currentlyreadingpodcast), at its finest! 😉 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #acursesodarkandlonely #cursebreakers #amreadingya
Congrats to @carolinestarrrose and @alexandrabye on the publication of their beautiful new book A Race Around the World. ✨ My kids and I all love this story of the adventurous Nellie Bly and Elisabeth Bisand making their way around the globe as fast as they can. ✨ Two parallel stories are told with delightful pictures and a narrative that gets the reader excited to see what’s going to happen fast and who will complete the journey first! ✨ Who wins the race around the world first? You’ll have to check this beautiful book out to see! I’ll definitely be sharing this one with my kids’ history teacher- what a great look at two brave (if unknown) women from the late 1800s. ✨ And thank you, Caroline, for the copy of your book baby! • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #booknerdigans #amreading #kidlit #picturebooks
October! 🍂 I have some exciting things to look forward to this month, including, of course, more books to read and keep reading, in addition to a sweet vacation, my husband’s birthday, and hopefully more bags of maple + sea salt kettle corn from Trader Joe’s. 😁 ✨ I got my first ever BOTM box yesterday too, so I’ll be opening that up later today- yippee! ✨ Also, I need to figure out what the kids and I want to be for Halloween! 🎃 What are you excited about for October? And what are you dressing up as? ✨ • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #booknerdigans #amreading
Doesn’t Harry Potter in an apple orchard just scream autumn? 🍎🍂 We escaped to the mountains today on a perfectly fall-ish day to eat pizza and beer, pick apples, and then round out the afternoon with some pie and ice cream. ✨ Of course I had to bring my copy of Goblet of Fire to photograph out in the wild. I thoroughly enjoyed my re-read of this one. There were so many nuances and details I had forgotten. My son and I almost watched the movie last night... but then he decided he’d rather watch it in the daytime. 😉 I don’t blame him— that ending is intense! 😭 ✨ It’s going to be back up to 80 in a week here in our local mountains, but today it was in the mid-50s and foggy. Happy Saturday wherever you may be! ✨ • • • • #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #bookgeek #booklove #readersofinstagram #harrypotter #harreadpotter #thereadiscoverproject
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