Favorite Media
Oh, man, this book y’all. I stayed up until 12:30am on a work night reading the second half of If I’m Being Honest because I couldn’t put it down. There was a delicious slow-burn romance that made me curl my toes and squee juxtaposed with a nuanced portrait of female friendship. There was fandom and passion projects and mental health and I may have cried a bit? UGH IT’S SO GOOD.
Listen: I was not a fan of this song for the longest time and then I watched Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper perform it at the Oscars and now I can’t get enough. (Including all of the covers.)
Stuff I Added to My Queue
Bad Blood came out last summer, but I’m still hearing good things about it, and I was in a (desperate) mood for some well-written true crime after struggling through Mindhunter. 👎
The cover of Cannonball caught my eye in an issue of Publisher’s Weekly, and then the summary just sounded so me that I had to add it to my TBR.
Where did The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane catch my eye? 🤷♀️ But that cover! And the summary! It gives me such Shadow Cipher vibes, and I am here for it.
I normally like my true crime more, I don’t know, high-profile? But every time I came across Say Nothing, I thought, “hmm, that actually sounds really interesting.”
Vicky recommended Starry Eyes as part of a massive YA romance post, and I couldn’t pass up something summarized as one of her “favorite enemies-to-lovers contemporary romances EVER.”
Another middle-grade mystery that reminds me of Shadow Cipher? A new Margaret Peterson Haddix? Gimme The Strangers now please.
Vita Nostra is a decade-old Russian fantasy whose English translation was just release a couple of months ago, and the combination of “adventure, magic, science, and philosophy that probes the mysteries of existence, filtered through a distinct Russian sensibility” sounds fantastic.
Ari featured Whisper Network as a recent TBR add, and it just sounds so delicious that I had to add it as well. (Especially because of this snippet: “If only you had listened to us,” they tell us on page one, “none of this would have happened.”)
ICYMI
- Cristina gave me serious FOMO reading her ALA Midwinter wrap-up
- Dani did the cutest top ten Tuesday post for her favorite book couples
- I was approved for so many ARCs this month–Star-Crossed (5/21/19), This Is Not a Love Scene (5/7/19), The Unhoneymooners (5/14/19), and The Wedding Party (7/16/19)–and now March and April are filled to the brim with new books to read. (omg so excite)
- Did you catch my January wrap-up and true crime TBR?
What were YOU up to in February? Let me know!
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