The Birthday Book Tag

I’m in the middle about my birthday, I mean, I’m glad I made it to 30, and I can’t believe it has been 9 years since I came out as trans, and it’s still a journey, and it will keep being that for my living days because from day to day, you change, and so does your body. Anyway, I saw this birthday book. I thought it was cute to do so here we are. The latest time I saw this was on Confessions of a Serial Reader.     

        Count your birthday along your TBR shelf and then subtract your birth month: 

     

If I understood the question correctly, this book would be the one. So, you and Jason?.. by Nasty Nikki, and I’m the first to read it on Goodreads.

Goodreads Blurb:

So, You and Jason?

Angel wasn’t looking for trouble.
He just wanted a quiet new college time, maybe a nice boyfriend, and definitely no drama.
But then he stumbles across Jason’s blog—complete with a post about *him*. Not flattering, not private, and absolutely not something Angel can ignore. Because every word is a disgusting lie, spiced up with filthy details—and there’s nothing Angel can do about it.
Or… maybe there is.

Determined to get revenge, Angel dives headfirst into Jason’s world, ready to expose him, embarrass him, make him pay. What he doesn’t expect is the way Jason looks at him when they’re alone, or how fast mockery turns into heat. The stories in that blog might be fake—but what if Angel actually wants to find out what it would be like if they were true?

Enemies. Rivals. Something else entirely.
Every line Angel swore he wouldn’t cross is starting to blur, and the only question left will payback be enough… or will he end up giving Jason exactly what he claimed all along?

If you could spend your birthday with any fictional character who would it be and why?

Emma Blake and Sage Morrison touched me in ways I wouldn’t have guessed.

Goodreads Blurb:

When city-raised Emma Blake arrives in rural Colorado for a wildfire prevention internship, she never expected to find herself evacuating a ranch with Sage Morrison, the firefighter’s daughter who makes her question everything she thought she knew about courage, home, and her own heart.

As dry lightning ignites multiple fires across the mountains, Emma and Sage must work together to save not only Sage’s family ranch but also the future they’re beginning to imagine together. Between controlled burns and crisis evacuations, defensive space and desperate choices, two girls discover that some fires destroy—and others forge bonds strong enough to last a lifetime.

Find a book that takes place in the season you were born in.

A cute wintery rom-com

Goodreads Blurb:

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been looking for in this stunning novel.

When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is—all the nostalgic movies set in New York she’d watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe gelato didn’t quite do it justice. 

But Bobby, Iris’s best friend, isn’t about to let her hide away. He drags her to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy, and as they walk through the food stalls, a little family-run gelateria catches her eye—could it be the same shop that’s in an old photo of her mother’s?

Curious, Iris returns the next day and meets the handsome Gio, who tells her that the shop is in danger of closing. His uncle, sole keeper of their family’s gelato recipe, is in a coma, so they can’t make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batch, she realizes that their gelato and her gelato are one and the same. But how can she tell them she knows their secret recipe when she’s not sure why Gio’s uncle gave it to her mother in the first place?

Iris offers her services as a chef to help them re-create the flavor and finds herself falling for Gio and his family. But when Gio’s uncle finally wakes up, all of the secrets Iris has been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she’s been building all winter long.

Find a book the colour of your birthstone.

January’s birthstone is the garnet, so red it is. The Mistress of Auschwitz by Terrance D. Williamson is a novel I found for free on Kindle, which I recently read.

Goodreads Blurb:

Based on the harrowing life of Eleonore Hodys, The Mistress of Auschwitz follows the true story of a political prisoner detained in the notorious concentration camp. While experiencing all the horrors of the holocaust, Eleonore turns to friendship for survival. Through companionship with another female prisoner, Eleonore must decide if she has the courage to join the resistance movement which is planning the overthrow of their wicked oppressors. Matters are only complicated when Eleonore unwittingly attracts the attention of the Commandant and she is forced to decide between her own comfort or her principles.

Pick A Book Set In A Time Period, World, or Country You Would Like To Have Been Born In:

Here (Malta), and in a time when there is no war in the world

What book or bookish thing do I want for my birthday?

More time to read and write, and a better Excel Sheet for my reading stats.

Tagging

I’m tagging no one this time around because I have no clue whose birthday is soonish.