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🧚‍♀️What I Read In June🧚‍♀️ . I know it’s basically mid-August, but I’ve been procrastinating! These are the books - ahem, romcoms - that I read back in June. . My highlights: ⛸️Behind the Net - Stephanie Archer⛸️ These two wer
romance books with fake dating >>>>>>>>>>>>
🌱 What I Read In May 🌱 May was a strange month, I was all over the place (literally away from home and physically having my ass handed to me by chronic illness), but I did manage to read some books! 2.5 of these were read the day I worked the local
“The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures to show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make he
🌷What I Read In April🌷 We’re more than half way through May and I haven’t posted my April reads! April included a trip to Amsterdam (where I bought zero books 🫡), some medical stress and sad family news, so I really wanted to just esca
🌧️What I Read In March🌧️ A rainy month full of staying indoors curled up with a book! As you can see from the picture…the rom-com train continues 🚂🚂🚂 and I found some new favourite romance authors in the process! My highlights: 🍋The Se
🌹What I Read In February🌹 . I took Valentine’s a bit too seriously in February and fell deep into the Romance rabbit hole…and I can tell you March hasn’t been any different so far. My highlights: ⭐️ Yours Truly - Abby Jimenez I
🏝️💓Emily Henry books RANKED💓🏝️ . 4th Place: You and Me on Vacation This was the book that made me realise that friends to lovers…just doesn’t do it for me. Sure, I love pining, but just get together already! You’re ruining your
❄️What I Read in January❄️ ❄️ I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki - Baek Sehee My dad bought me this for my birthday and I read it in a few sittings. Sehee transcribes her therapy sessions in this self-help/memoir hybrid, and the outcome is a
🎂Birthday Book Haul🎂 . A birthday weekend in London could only mean one thing…exploring some bookshops. We stayed in Shepherd’s Bush, whereas I usually end up NE when I’m in London, so we got to visit a few bookshops I haven&rsqu
🎄Books I Got For Christmas🎄 . 🎅🏼Disorientation - Elaine Hsieh Chou My boyfriend’s mum got me this on recommendation from @mrbsemporium when she gave them the brief ‘witty, feminist, and not mainstream because she will have read it&rsq
‘I wish he’d never told me her name. I wonder if the girl after me will talk of me to him as I talk to her. Will she scour the internet for meaning and patterns the way I do, will she compare her face to mine, will she obsess about all th