First Lines Fridays #139

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!
  

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First Lines Fridays #138

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!
  

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First Lines Fridays #137

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!
  

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First Lines Fridays #136

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!
  

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First Lines Fridays #135

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!
  

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2023 Most Anticipated Releases | January – June

I’m changing up my anticipated releases slightly, instead of posting monthly, I’m going to share the books I’m most excited about for the first half of the year. So expect another post in August for the second half of the year.

2023 Wrap-Up | Favorite Reads of 2023

I read some really fantastic books this year, and I am very excited to share with you all some of best books of the year for me. These books made me laugh, cry, and every emotion in between. So I thought I’d share some of the books that made the biggest impact on me this year.

First Lines Fridays #134

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!
  

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2023 Wrap-Up | DNFs & Disappointments

When I was looking at all the books I read last year, I was surprised at how little DNFs I actually had. Don’t get me wrong, I still happily and freely DNF a book if I’m not enjoying it, but I feel like I’m getting to know my tastes even better so I’m not picking up books I won’t like. So here are the books I DNF’d or were disappointed by in 2023. 

2023 Goodreads Year in Review

 2023 was a year of growth for me. I feel like I became more confident and comfortable in myself and feel like I know myself better than I ever have before. In my reading journey though, I feel like I haven’t strayed too far from my comfort zone and that’s something I’m hoping to explore in 2024. But let’s no get ahead of ourselves, here’s how my reading in 2023 went.