“Heard it in a Love Song” by Tracey Garvis Graves

Title: Heard it in a Love Song
Author: Tracey Garvis Graves
Publisher:  St. Martin’s Press
Year: 2021    
Genre(s): romance
Part of a Series: No

Rating: 

Why I read it: Got it as part of Once Upon a Book Club’s 12 Days of Bookmas a couple years ago.

Summary: Layla and Josh meet at his daughter’s school where Layla works as a music teacher. Slowly, they form a friendship that turns into more. But they both have just gotten out of marriages for different reasons so they aren’t quite ready for love. Will they prove to be what each other needs right now? Or are they still playing with fire that could burn them all?

My Books of 2024

 

Goodbye, 2024!

It’s the first Friday of 2025, which means it’s time for my annual wrap-up!

So here we go!

If you missed it, I recapped the most popular reviews of the first half of 2024 in this post.

Let’s see what the most popular reviews of the second half of 2024 were.

“Yours, Unexpectedly” by Rachel Lewis

Title: Yours, Unexpectedly
Author: Rachel Lewis    
Publisher:  Self-published
Year: 2024    
Genre(s): romance
Part of a Series: Yes, Book 1

Rating: 

Why I read it: I entered a giveaway for it and though I didn’t win, decided to read it anyway.

Summary: Rebecca “Bex” Bardot needs to take a fine arts course in order to graduate. She gets placed in an Intro to Acting course and discovers the TA is Anders Olsson, her brother’s best friend and the person Bex has had a crush on for several years now. Unknown to her, Anders has been harboring feelings for her as well. As he prepares to complete his master’s and relaunch a career derailed by his untreated ADHD, will he finally take a chance? Will she?

“Famous for a Living” by Melissa Ferguson

Title: Famous for a Living
Author: Melissa Ferguson
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson    
Year: 2023    
Genre(s): romance
Part of a Series: No.

Rating: 

Why I read it: Once Upon a Book Club pick

Summary: Cat Cranwell has built her life around social media as an influencer. But when scandal ruins her reputation, she finds her life in shambles. Her best option is to move out to Montana and accept a position from her uncle, who is a park ranger. Out there, she learns more about herself and who she wants to be as well as how to use social media responsibility. Most importantly, she meets Zaiah Smith – a man who seems to hate everything about her life. But will that change as she changes?

Election Day Rewind: “Why They Marched” by Susan Ware

 Tuesday is Election Day here in the United States.

If you are eligible to vote and are registered to vote, I strongly encourage you to go vote if you haven’t already done so. It may seem like your vote doesn’t matter but it does. Every vote does.

Recently, I went to go see the musical Suffs, which tells the story about the women who secured the right for women to vote in the United States. I loved it and I’m so sad it’s closing in January. If you can see it on Broadway before the New Year, I strongly encourage you to do so. If you can’t, a national tour is launching in 2025 so I encourage you to see it if it comes to your neck of the woods.

And you can always listen to the cast album. The music is amazing.

Some (More) Reads for Halloween!

Two years ago, I wrote this post about some books you could read for Halloween. I’ve decided to update the post with a few more books I’ve read that could also fit the season.

So here we go!

Again, I’ll start with some spooky and suspenseful reads.