Well, right now I can write a whole post about my bookish issues, but the main one is Readathin: the whole goal is to read the books from your old TBR, but my brain wants to do the opposite. Plus, I have a book idea that sounds fun to me, but it will involve the novel This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page and the book lists in it, which I’m worried might upset the author. This post came around because I was mad at Amazon. I got a list from BookBud, and there was a book I wanted, but since I live in Malta, it won’t let me get it, so I went and got it somewhere else and got four more books with it.
Goodreads Blurb:
One last championship. One defiant rookie. One deadly order that could cost Tane Rivers everything—including his heart.
Tane is staring down the barrel of his final season with the Toronto Enforcers. The legendary thirty-eight-year-old is an All-Star veteran who’s given his body, blood, and total loyalty to the franchise. But the Cardini family, the mafia syndicate that runs the team, has other Tane must reign in their explosive new signing, twenty-one-year-old rookie phenom Jacob Gosling.
Jacob is pure chaos on and off the ice. Cocky and instinctive, he lives for the nightlife and the endless high of being the league’s hottest prospect. Defiance is Jacob’s default… until the bosses decide enough is enough.
Tane’s orders from the Cardini family are break the brat’s rebellion, enforce submission by any means. But what begins as tense mentorship erupts into something raw and heated clashes turn into steamy discipline where Jacob learns the sting of Tane’s hand feels better than any party high.
Guided by Tane, Jacob slowly discovers the quiet appeal of cozy nights together and the pull between them deepens into something neither expected.
Then the threats arrive. A rival crime family targets the Enforcers’ playoff run—and Jacob is in the crosshairs. As danger closes in and the season hurtles toward its explosive climax, one final shift could win everything… or lose it all.
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Butterflies? Levi Bailey does not get butterflies. Well, at least he didn’t until Meredith Porter spilled coffee all over him.
Meredith has plans. Big plans. She is done being safely wrapped in bubble wrap. She is ready to live. That’s what her list is all about—living and experiencing. Is it fate that her list of learning, trying, and experiencing continues to bring her into the path of grumpy Levi Bailey? She isn’t sure—but she doesn’t mind. Levi is just a misunderstood cinnamon roll and Meredith plans to enjoy every second of helping him realize that.
Levi’s life has a routine. He’s been running it for years. Go to work, care for Mom, watch over the siblings. If he’s lucky, he’ll get to play with his niece Alice, before his head hits the pillow at night. It may sound boring, but it’s worked for years. Why mess with a good thing?
Only… it’s not that great. And now that his mother isn’t sick and his siblings are grown, they don’t really need him. Where does that leave Levi? It would seem, in the hands of quirky, unpredictable Meredith Porter and her list. This girl is too young and too innocent for the likes of Levi. He has no business taking her to yoga or teaching her to ride a bike.
He certainly has no business falling for the twenty-three-year-old who has pretty much been living under a rock her entire life. Yep… no business at all, and yet there are a million butterflies disturbing his insides, telling him to kiss the girl, to give this thing with Meredith a chance. Telling him that maybe, just maybe, he is worthy of affection from someone as good and pure as Meredith.
Then again, what do dumb ol’ butterflies know anyway?
Goodreads Blurb:
Tam Remington had her life planned out. Until a conversation in a broken lift—with her worst enemy—changes everything.
For a decade, Tam has quietly held YorkMart together whilst others took the credit, making herself smaller in the process. When she’s briefly promoted to acting Managing Director, she finally has a chance to shine—until her promotion is snatched away and handed to Jack Cesaroni—the man brought in to do the job that should have been hers.
Tam expects nothing but disappointment from Jack. But when they’re trapped in a lift between floors thirteen and fourteen, he sees what no one else has: Tam is exceptional. That single word of recognition sparks something Tam thought she’d lost—and an unexpected connection she never saw coming.
Now Tam faces an impossible choice: stay being the smaller version of herself she’s become used to, or take a leap and reclaim the vibrant, authentic woman she once was—and discover how wonderful it could be if she lets someone see the real her…
Goodreads Blurb:
Elise, an artist grieving the loss of her son and a fracturing marriage, is in North Norfolk to restore Marsh House to its former glory, its walls adorned with the fading murals and paintings of its long-ago owner, Lilias Carter-Brown. Elise makes an immediate connection to the house, to Sam—a carpenter and a comfort—and to history itself when an old photograph draws Elise into Lilias’s heartbreaking past.
In 1939, with war threatening, Lilias and her sister turn Marsh House into a sanctuary for London evacuees—a young boy and his mother. But it’s the boy’s father, Harry, an enlistee soon to report for duty, with whom Lilias forms an unexpected and intimate bond. When Harry suddenly vanishes without a trace, it changes the course of Lilias’s life forever.
Now, as Elise and Sam work to solve the mystery of the disappearance, the restoration of Marsh House is bringing Elise back to life as well—to love again, to put her and Lilias’s pasts to rest, and to finally move on.
Goodreads Blurb:
What if princesses didn’t always marry Prince Charming and live happily ever after? In this stunning anthology—elegantly presented in a red, clothbound hard cover with gold-toned metallic debossing—15 favorite fairytales have been retold for a new generation. These princesses are smart, funny, and kind, and can do anything they set their minds to.
Focused on issues including self-image, confidence, LGBTQ, friendship, advocacy, and disability, these stories are perfect for sharing between parents and children, or for older princesses or princes to read by themselves. They teach that a princess is a person who seeks to help others, is open to learning new things, and looks for ways to add purpose to their lives and the lives of those around them.
Alex
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