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2019 Bookish Resolutions

February 13, 2019 / bookishconnoisseur / 4 Comments

Now that we're a full month and a half into 2019, I figured it was about time I laid out my bookish resolutions of the year. Better late than never, right? First, my Goodreads goal is to read at least 85 books. I read 90 last year, so this goal shouldn't be too hard to … Continue reading 2019 Bookish Resolutions

Beat the Backlist 2019

January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 / bookishconnoisseur / 5 Comments

Happy 2019 everyone! This year, in order to try and manage my TBR (a bit), I'll be participating in NovelKnight's Beat the Backlist Challenge! The rules of this challenge are simple, books must be read from start to finish in 2019 and your chosen books must have been published in 2018 or earlier. All info … Continue reading Beat the Backlist 2019

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Happy Thursday lovelies! Any plans for the day? It’s rainy here and all I want to do is curl up with a book! . Thank you so much to @amazonpublishing for sending me this beautiful historical fiction, How Fires End by Marco Rafalà! Synopsis: A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and, ultimately, redemption. . After soldiers vacate the Sicilian hillside town of Melilli in the summer of 1943, the locals celebrate, giving thanks to their patron saint, Sebastian. Amid the revelry, all it takes is one fateful moment for the destiny of nine-year-old Salvatore Vassallo to change forever. When his twin brothers are killed playing with an unexploded mortar shell, Salvatore’s faith is destroyed. As the family unravels, and fear ignites among their neighbors that the Vassallo name is cursed, one tragedy begets another. . Desperate to escape this haunting legacy, Salvatore accepts the help of an Italian soldier with fascist ties who ushers him and his sister, Nella, into a new beginning in America. In Middletown, Connecticut, in the immigrant neighborhood known as Little Melilli, these three struggle to build new lives for themselves. But a dangerous choice to keep their secrets hidden erupts in violence decades later. When Salvatore loses his inquisitive American-born son, David, they all learn too late the price sons pay for their fathers’ wars. . Written with elegiac prose, How Fires End delves into the secret wars of men; the sins they cannot bury; and a life lived in fear of who will reveal them, who will survive them, and who will forgive them.

Have you ever been given a book that you know is just perfect and that you will pass along to all of your friends? If not, maybe it’s because you haven’t picked up The Vagina Bible yet! 💗 This book was written by @drjengunter , who is an OB/GYN and I love the blurb in the cover that says “Buy this book if you have a vagina or if you spend any time at all in reasonably close proximity to one.” Thank you so much to @kensingtonbooks for sending this beauty my way! . . #thevaginabible #jennifergunter #nonfictionbooks #feminism #kensingtonbooks #bookishconnoisseur #beautifulbooks #booklove #everyoneshouldreadthis #readthisbook #timetoread #buythisbook #partner #booksofinsta #lovebooks #bibliophile

Happy happy #teatuesday friends! I hope you’re celebrating the weekly holiday with your favorite cuppa! I’m SO EXCITED that my very favorite tea is back in stock at @adagioteas ! Autumn Mist Green tea is truly the perfect autumn tea. It has a soft smoky flavor with the perfect amount of sweetness to round out this beautiful tea. 🍁🍵 . . #adagioteas #myadagio #teatuesdays #teastagram #instatea #teagram #tealove #tealovers #teadrinkers #teaandbooks #booksandtea #bookishconnoisseur #teaphotography #teatime #autumnmist #autumntea #beautifultea

What is your favorite thing about reading? I love being transported to another world! Atmospheric worlds that I can imagine walking within are always my favorite! ✨ Thank you so much to @atriabooks for sending me a copy of Tidelands by Philippa Gregory! Books with maps are always so easy to get lost within and I cannot wait to read this book, it sounds so fantastic and I hear there is a cliffhanger ending! Synopsis: England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. . Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. . Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.

I know it’s a bit early to be thinking about Christmas, but I love reading winters novels in the month of December and it’s the perfect time to start planning! ❄️ A Wedding in December by @sarahmorganwrites releases September 24 and you definitely need to add it to your winter TBR! Thank you so much to @harlequinpublicityteam & @harlequin nbooks for sending this book my way! Synopsis: In the snowy perfection of Aspen, the White family gathers for youngest daughter Rosie’s whirlwind Christmas wedding. First to arrive are the bride’s parents, Maggie and Nick. Their daughter’s marriage is a milestone they are determined to celebrate wholeheartedly, but they are hiding a huge secret of their own: they are on the brink of divorce. After living apart for the last six months, the last thing they need is to be trapped together in an irresistibly romantic winter wonderland. . Rosie’s older sister, Katie, is also dreading the wedding. Worried that impulsive, sweet-hearted Rosie is making a mistake, Katie is determined to save her sister from herself! If only the irritatingly good-looking best man, Jordan, would stop interfering with her plans... . Bride-to-be Rosie loves her fiancé but is having serious second thoughts. Except everyone has arrived—how can she tell them she’s not sure? As the big day gets closer, and emotions run even higher, this is one White family Christmas none of them will ever forget! . . #aweddingindecember #sarahmorgan #sponsored #partner #harlequinpublicityteam #hqnbooks #harlequinbooks #christmasread #christmasnovel #winterreads #wintertbr #bookishconnoisseur #romancebooks #holidayromance #holidaybooks #addtoyourtbr

Happy Monday! If you know me, you know romance isn’t always my first choice genre, but every time I read a romance novel I realize what I’ve been missing! What genre does that for you? 💗 I owe a huge thanks to @anoveltakepr for sending me Raze by @roanparrish ! Definitely a book I’ll be reading quickly before @bookishstateofmind steals it from me! 😘 Synopsis: Sometimes the walls we build to save ourselves have to come tumbling down. . For the last ten years, Huey has built his life around his sobriety. If that means he doesn't give a damn about finding love or companionship for himself, well, it's probably better that way. After all, the last thing he wants is to hurt anyone else. Until Felix Rainey walks into his bar, fresh-faced, unbearably sweet—and, for some reason Huey can't fathom, interested in him. . As the eldest of five kids, Felix Rainey spent his childhood cooking dinner, checking homework, and working after-school jobs. Now in his twenties, he's still scrambling to make ends meet and wondering what the hell he's doing with his life. When he meets Huey, he's intimidated . . . and enamored. Huey's strong and confident, he owns his own business—hell, he's friends with rock stars. What could he ever see in Felix? . As Huey and Felix get closer, the spark catches and soon they can't get enough of each other. But Huey's worked hard to avoid intimacy, and Felix threatens his carefully constructed defenses. Huey realizes he needs to change if he wants to truly put his past behind him—and build a future with Felix. . . #raze #riven #roanparrish #anoveltakepr #romancereads #romancenovels #mmromance #contemporaryromance #bookishconnoisseur #booklove #lovebooks #romancebookstagram #beautifulbooks #timetoread #readinglife

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