🎧 Podcasts I’ve Been Listening To This month has been a bit of a podcast personality split. On one side: Heart Starts Pounding, a newer listen for me that blends true crime, mystery, supernatural stories, and generally darker, spookier themes. It’s eerie in that “I shouldn’t listen to this before bed” kind of way… so … Continue reading Other Pursuits – June 2026
A weekly catch-up from my reading life — what I’m reading, buying, obsessing over, abandoning, annotating, and generally spiralling about. Think of it as part reading journal, part life update, part chaotic book club chat. This Week’s Goal: Get Back into Fantasy 📖 Current Read: Thorn Bird by E. Kennedy 🎧 Currently Listening: Kingdom of … Continue reading The Reading Diaries #3
An unexpected spark between a hockey player and the coach’s daughter might cause them to cross the line in the next Dalton University book from international bestselling author Bal Khabra. Kian Ishida is all about parties, hockey, and living in the moment. But when he realizes he’s headed to the NHL without his degree, his … Continue reading [Book Review] Embrace by Bal Khabra
I used to love doing tags when I first started blogging and seeing as its my Birthday today its seems like the perfect one to come back with. Lets get into it. 🎈1. The Birthday Candle A book you read years ago that has never quite left you. I know I have mentioned this book … Continue reading The Birthday Book Tag! 🥳
Small town. Big secrets. And one ridiculously hot mistake she doesn’t regret. Everyone in the smalltown of Red Bridge, Vermont, knows Tad Hanson, the hot sheep farmer who can’t control his flock. He doesn’t believe in forever, but he’ll be the best time you’ve ever had—right now. What they don’t know is why. He’s too … Continue reading [Book Review]Where I Should’ve Been by Max Monroe
Summer is finally here so I thought I'd share my reading plans. Furybound The Ballad of Falling Dragons Rites of Stirling Broken Dove Starside Light Wielder Harvest Season Project Hail Mary I'm actually so excited to read all of these books. I have a fair few sequals to get through, heres hoping they are all … Continue reading My Summer TBR
Zinnia Falling for a stranger over coffee? Fine. Learning he’s your art history professor? Problem. Nick is guarded, intense, and so tightly wound I ache to unravel him. I know it’s wrong to pursue my professor, but he keeps showing up anyway—at the coffee shop, outside of class—as if he can’t stay away any more … Continue reading [Book Review] She’s Worth the Risk by Jen Morris
A weekly catch-up from my reading life — what I’m reading, buying, obsessing over, abandoning, annotating, and generally spiralling about. Think of it as part reading journal, part life update, part chaotic book club chat. This Week’s Goal: Finish off all my book reviews! 📖 Current Read: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune … Continue reading The Reading Diaries #2
After reading Laura Brown's recent Telegraph article, "Gen Z's taste for fairy porn lays bare the MeToo generation's hypocrisy", I have thoughts. Quite a few, actually. Lets get into it. The Telegraph recently described romantasy as "fairy porn", reducing an entire genre to a lazy stereotype. Here's why that argument misses the point. I've been … Continue reading Romantasy Is More Than “Fairy Porn”: A Response to The Telegraph
A hockey team captain and a bubbly staffer mix business with pleasure when they start fake dating through the wedding season in this hot sports romance perfect for fans of Mariana Zapata and Elle Kennedy. Darcy Kendrick is used to putting out fires. As an overworked admin to a hockey team, she’s seen it all. But … Continue reading [Book Review] Big Stick Energy by Sarina Bowen
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