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Vi, here are your picks. I hope I found some good options for you. 🤞🏼❤️Valentine’s Day!❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋
TBR: Bombshell by Sarah MacLean
NEW: Texas Legacy by Lorraine Heath
💃🏽 Date Night 🕺
TBR: Cold Blooded Liar by Karen Rose
NEW: Best Laid Plans by Lauren Blakely
💐Flowers 🌹
TBR: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare
NEW: Virgin River by Robyn Carr
💍 Jewelry 💎
TBR: First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
NEW: Year One by Nora Roberts
💛 Galentine’s Day! 💛
🚶🏾♀️ Dressing Down 🧎🏻♀️
TBR: Funny Story by Emily Henry
NEW: Forgotten Sins by Rebecca Zanetti
🥂 Girl’s Brunch 👩🏻🤝👩🏾
TBR: Random in Death by J.D. Robb
NEW: The Family You Make by Jill Shalvis
💅🏼 Spa Day 💆🏻♀️
TBR: Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
NEW: How to Howl at the Moon by Eli Easton
🍫 Chocolates 🍪
TBR: Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
NEW: Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words by Tara Sivec and Andi Arndt
Happy Reading!
Thank you MKat! Great options there. I will see how much I can get to in Feb.
Hi Carina!New picks were a challenge for you because so many of my favorite books are already on your TBR! Fortunately I could use some of them since it didn't appear that you'd ever read the author before, otherwise I'd still be hunting! 😁 I hope I found something you'll enjoy!
❤️ Valentine’s Day! ❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - Pick a book that has dressy clothes on the cover or a Historical Romance.
NEW: Surrender
TBR: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
💃🏽 Date Night 🕺 - Select a book published in February of any year or one of your favorite romances.
NEW: One Reckless Summer
TBR: Texas Cold Case Threat
💐Flowers 🌹 - Recommend a book with flowers on the cover or a book with a primarily red cover.
NEW: Seventh Heaven
TBR: When You’re Mine
💍 Jewelry 💎 - Pick a book with jewelry on the cover or featuring a wealthy character.
NEW: Barely Breathing
TBR: Just One Date
💛 Galentine’s Day! 💛
🚶🏾♀️ Dressing Down 🧎🏻♀️ - Pick a book with casual clothes on the cover or a Contemporary Romance.
NEW: Flat-Out Sexy
TBR: Securing Caite
🥂 Girl’s Brunch 👩🏻🤝👩🏾 - Select a book featuring good friends or a book with food on the cover.
NEW: The Bromance Book Club
TBR: Death by Chocolate
💅🏼 Spa Day 💆🏻♀️ - Pick a book with hands or feet on the cover (gotta love a mani/pedi day!) or one with pastel colors on the cover.
NEW: Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words
TBR: When We Found Home
🍫 Chocolates 🍪 - Recommend a sweet, feel good or humorous romance.
NEW: Sit...Stay...Beg
TBR: Head Over Heels
Sabrina wrote: "I'm so excited about some of these new-to-me recs! 💜 I've made a shelf just for these 16 books. I wonder how many I can make it through in February. 😂 I know for sure I'll get through at least one!"Hey Sabrina, glad to see you liked those N2Y recs. Happy Reading!
MountainKat wrote: "Hi KathyD! As usual, finding new books was the hardest part of making picks for you - but I did it! I hope I found some good options for February. 🤞🏼❤️Valentine’s Day!❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋
TBR: [boo..."
thanks, Kat! I see lots of great options...for February and beyond! 😉
Erin wrote: "Hi Maggie! Here are my picks for you:Valentine's Day
Dressing Up
TBR - I Love Rock and Roll - dress on cover
New - Heartless Bastard - suit on cover
Date Night
T..."
Thanks Erin! There are some new to me that look really good! Thank you for the picks.
Carrie, I'm throwing in the towel for a couple of hours on the new picks. Every time I try to search your shelves GR times out. I am able to search others' shelves but with yours I get no where. So, I am going to post my picks from your TBR and come back a little later and add the new books. They will be included in this message when I finally get GR to play nice. 🙄❤️Valentine’s Day!❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋
TBR: The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning - Such a good series!
NEW: Surrender by Pamela Clare
💃🏽 Date Night 🕺
TBR: The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole - The beginning of another great series!
NEW: Ain't She Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
💐Flowers 🌹
TBR: Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione - This series in on my reread list!
NEW: Midnight Man by Lisa Marie Rice
💍 Jewelry 💎
TBR: Magic Mourns by Ilona Andrews - Love everything they write!
NEW: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
💛 Galentine’s Day! 💛
🚶🏾♀️ Dressing Down 🧎🏻♀️
TBR: Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood - Looks cute!
NEW: Laid Bare by Lauren Dane
🥂 Girl’s Brunch 👩🏻🤝👩🏾
TBR: Kiss of Crimson by Lara Adrian - This is on the reread list too!
NEW: Exclusively Yours by Shannon Stacey
💅🏼 Spa Day 💆🏻♀️
TBR: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune - Love his work!
NEW: The Darkest Hour by Maya Banks
🍫 Chocolates 🍪
TBR: A Wedding Story by Dee Tenorio - Sounds fun and the other book I read by the author was very sweet!
NEW: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune - I'm going with this one even if it is a reread!
Fran wrote: "Hi LaurLa!Here are your picks for February....I hope you find a gem or two here!"
Thank-you very much!! Appreciate the extra time and effort! These look great as always!
MountainKat wrote: "Carrie, GR isn't letting me search your shelves. I'm going to give it a little longer and if it still isn't working I will post picks from your TBR until I can find you some new options. Hang tight!"Goodreads hate my shelves, I think I need to take the time to purge some books from it.
Carrie wrote: "Goodreads hate my shelves, I think I need to take the time to purge some books from it. "That might help. The only thing that makes sense is that your shelves are so large it times out when I try search them. I tried with other group members that have large shelves and was able to search shelves of almost 34K, but not ones over 38K, yours are almost 44K.
But as of now, I have tried multiple browsers and had both Fran and Karen try to search too. It always times out. I will keep trying, but I'm not sure what else to do. 🤨 🤷🏻♀️
Haney Hayes wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "I'm in.Please pick from link: Audio
Please don't pick all the books from the same page, There are many books so please scroll through"
Hey Rebecca! Here's your picks, I hope you e..."
Thanks Haney Hayes
Rebecca wrote: "Haney Hayes wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "I'm in.Please pick from link: Audio
Please don't pick all the books from the same page, There are many books so please scroll through"
Hey Rebecca! Here's your..."
Anytime! I enjoyed picking only Audio! You have some great books on your list and I tried to swing them but they didn't fit the categories!
Hi again Carrie - I'm still trying and GR is still timing out. ☹️I've reached out to Sonja (she made your January picks) to see if she can search. I'm not sure when she will be able to check though.
I don't know if this is a GR glitch or if it really is just a size thing. 🤷🏻♀️
MountainKat wrote: "Hi again Carrie - I'm still trying and GR is still timing out. ☹️I've reached out to Sonja (she made your January picks) to see if she can search. I'm not sure when she will be able to check thou..."
She's been able to do it a few times, I don't know how lol. I am so sorry for the trouble. I've been on the is site since 07 so thats alot of years to add books.
Hi Darcy, I am so SO sorry for posting my picks so late, i had exams and didnt have the time to check goodreads :(Hope you enjoy them and let me know if any repicks are needed!
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - Pick a book that has dressy clothes on the cover or a Historical Romance.
TBR :The Marquis Who Mustn't
New :The Viscount Who Loved Me
💃🏽 Date Night 🕺 - Select a book published in February of any year or one of your favorite romances.
TBR The Friendship Study
New Stay with Me
💐Flowers 🌹 - Recommend a book with flowers on the cover or a book with a primarily red cover.
TBR : The Gamble
New : The Girls I've Been
💍 Jewelry 💎 - Pick a book with jewelry on the cover or featuring a wealthy character.
tbr It Takes a Rake
new The Selection
💛 Galentine’s Day! 💛
🚶🏾♀️ Dressing Down 🧎🏻♀️ - Pick a book with casual clothes on the cover or a Contemporary Romance.
tbrTastes Like Shakkar
new XOXO
🥂 Girl’s Brunch 👩🏻🤝👩🏾 - Select a book featuring good friends or a book with food on the cover.
tbrWhen in Rome
new It Ends with Us
💅🏼 Spa Day 💆🏻♀️ - Pick a book with hands or feet on the cover (gotta love a mani/pedi day!) or one with pastel colors on the cover.
tbr Inheritance
new A Thousand Boy Kisses
🍫 Chocolates 🍪 - Recommend a sweet, feel good or humorous romance.
tbr Life's Too Short
new Red, White & Royal Blue
Alyssa wrote: "Hi Darcy, I am so SO sorry for posting my picks so late, i had exams and didnt have the time to check goodreads :(Hope you enjoy them and let me know if any repicks are needed!
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - ..."
Hi Alyssa, thank you for making your picks even though you were delayed. No repicks are needed, but you were supposed to make your picks for the below you on the list, not the person above you. I am only pointing that out so that in the future there hopefully won't be any mix ups. 😊
I'm still trying Carrie with the same results... 🤨
It's February and you know that that means....It's time to start reading your picks!! 📚
~KarenH~ wrote: "Hi Erin!Our tastes overlap some but there's a lot that's different too, so I hope I was able to find something that will interest you!
❤️
Valentine’s Day!
❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - Pick a book th..."
Thanks so much KarenH! I super excited to read some of these that I have never heard of. Crossing my fingers that I get to several this month.
MountainKat wrote: "I'm still trying Carrie with the same results... 🤨"It's odd how some people can and some people can not, i wonder if the time of day plays a roll if the site is already too busy.
Carrie wrote: "MountainKat wrote: "I'm still trying Carrie with the same results... 🤨"It's odd how some people can and some people can not, i wonder if the time of day plays a roll if the site is already too busy."
I've tried multiple times of day...
I sent a message to GR help - maybe they will have a solution. 🤞🏼
MountainKat wrote: "Carrie wrote: "MountainKat wrote: "I'm still trying Carrie with the same results... 🤨"It's odd how some people can and some people can not, i wonder if the time of day plays a roll if the site is..."
I have broken goodreads 😂
Thanks so far for the picks and the effort, if nothing works you could just wing it and if by off chance I have read the book I can do the next in the series or another by that author as an idea.
Carrie wrote: "Thanks so far for the picks and the effort, if nothing works you could just wing it and if by off chance I have read the book I can do the next in the series or another by that author as an idea."I will see if I can figure something out. I am super busy today, trying to prep the house and food because I am having surgery again tomorrow. So it could be a few days unless I get enough stuff done earlier.
I did hear back from GR though:
"We currently have a pagination limit in place to help us improve site performance."
I did ask if they could give me an approximation of the limit to help on the group, but haven't gotten a response to that as of now.
Hi again Carrie! I went into the way back machine to try to find some books that might be new to you. Feel free to swap out for the current one in the series or even another by the author if that fits your reading better. Or even just something you really want to read. So sorry for the delay and i hope that at least some of these are new to you!PS - I did hear back from GR, they would not give me an approximation of their limit as it is a potential security risk. I thought that might be the case. After my, admittedly unscientific experiments, I would guess your shelves need to be at or under 35K to be searchable.
MountainKat wrote: "Hi again Carrie! I went into the way back machine to try to find some books that might be new to you. Feel free to swap out for the current one in the series or even another by the author if that f..."Thank you for all the effort and as to the 35k or under Goodreads needs to up their game lol or no more books are allowed to be published 😂
Alyssa wrote: "Hi Darcy, I am so SO sorry for posting my picks so late, i had exams and didnt have the time to check goodreads :(Hope you enjoy them and let me know if any repicks are needed!
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - ..."
You did great with the new to me, only one was I have read before and most of the others but 2 not even on my shelves. Thank you again
Carrie wrote: "Hello Heather here are your pick, I hope you find something you enjoy for February "Carrie, thank you for all the great recommendations! I read
. This has been on my virtual and physical TBR for quite a while, so I was glad to finally have had a reason to read it and I am so glad I did. It was very good! I have added several of your recommendations to my TBR.
Heather wrote: "Carrie wrote: "Hello Heather here are your pick, I hope you find something you enjoy for February "Carrie, thank you for all the great recommendations! I read [bookcover:Médicis Daughter: A Novel..."
I am happy to hear :)
~KarenH~ wrote: "Hi Erin!Our tastes overlap some but there's a lot that's different too, so I hope I was able to find something that will interest you!
❤️
Valentine’s Day!
❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - Pick a book th..."
These are some great picks and I've already finished a few!
Thanks so much for some fun reads.
Finished:
Dear Grumpy Boss
Hard as It Gets
In Process:
Baden
Behind the Net
Birthday Girl
Haney Hayes wrote: "Got all these added to a reading list. So I can check dates now and figure out where I will be getting them from, whether that be Amazon, Kobo, or the Library. It's such a great list and you picked..."Where did February go?? Glad you liked your picks, Haney, and hope you found them! I do the same... library first! We couldn't afford my reading habits! Enjoy!
Rebecca wrote: "Hi Marie,I hope you like your picks! if you want to change anything just let me know.
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - Pick a book that has dressy clothes on the cover or a Historical Romance.
TBR ~ Four Aunti..."
I read The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
as well as The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Sonja wrote: "Haney Hayes wrote: "Got all these added to a reading list. So I can check dates now and figure out where I will be getting them from, whether that be Amazon, Kobo, or the Library. It's such a great..."Hey Sonja! I have enjoyed them so much. I actually only have two more to read to finish them off. They are planned for then next two days.
I read Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston and I loved it. The writing is so bright and I smiled a lot while reading. Thank you, Aoife!
☘KathyD☘ wrote: "Hi Darcy…Here are your picks for February…I put headphones next to the ones I’ve read on audio and enjoyed in case you’re an audio reader also. Happy reading!❤️Valentine’s Day!❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋
..."
Hi Kathy,
I managed to read The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie, (Trust) Falling for You, On Dublin Street by Samantha Young, Naked in Death, and Listen to Me. You definitely got me into some new series and authors, especially the Death series and Fusion series. Thanks so much for the thoughtful picks, and I hope you had a great reading month too!
Darcy
Hi Fran - I managed to read 3 this month! One new pick in that as well. Thanks again!!👠 Dressing Up 💋
✅TBR: State of Affairs ♾️ dressy ♾️ 02.07 ★★★★
💍 Jewelry 💎
✅TBR: Fierce ♾️ wealthy ♾️ 02.25 ★★★★
✅NEW: Extra Credit ♾️ wealthy ♾️ 02.16 ★★★★
Hi SunnyCAGirl! Thank you so much for the picks for February. Real life interfered with my reading last month, but things picked up towards the end of the month and I was able to read 5 of the picks.Love and Other Wild Things by Molly Harper 2.6.2024 - Fun!
The Bright Spot by Jill Shalvis 2.13.2024 - Loved it!
My Favorite Bride by Christina Dodd 2.16.2024 - Really enjoyed this one!
Cherry Picked by May Archer 2.21.2024 - So good!
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer 2.24.2024 - Crazy!
And I have To the Moon and Back and Temptation Ridge lined up for March! Thanks again!
Hey Sonja! I was able to get all of my February books read! Thank you so much for the recommendations!
MountainKat wrote: "Carrie, I'm throwing in the towel for a couple of hours on the new picks. Every time I try to search your shelves GR times out. I am able to search others' shelves but with yours I get no where. So..."I forgot to update, I read a new to me Midnight Man (2.3 stars ) and off my selected shelf Kiss of Crimson (4 stars)
Thank you!
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Our tastes overlap some but there's a lot that's different too, so I hope I was able to find something that will interest you!
❤️ Valentine’s Day! ❤️
👠 Dressing Up 💋 - Pick a book that has dressy clothes on the cover or a Historical Romance.
NEW: Surrender
TBR: Vision in White
💃🏽 Date Night 🕺 - Select a book published in February of any year or one of your favorite romances.
NEW: Hard as It Gets
TBR: Beneath This Ink
💐Flowers 🌹 - Recommend a book with flowers on the cover or a book with a primarily red cover.
NEW: Dark Lover
TBR: Say I'm the One
💍 Jewelry 💎 - Pick a book with jewelry on the cover or featuring a wealthy character.
NEW: Naked in Death
TBR: Dear Grumpy Boss
💛 Galentine’s Day! 💛
🚶🏾♀️ Dressing Down 🧎🏻♀️ - Pick a book with casual clothes on the cover or a Contemporary Romance.
NEW: Baden
TBR: Love Me Today
🥂 Girl’s Brunch 👩🏻🤝👩🏾 - Select a book featuring good friends or a book with food on the cover.
NEW: Crazy Stupid Bromance
TBR: Birthday Girl
💅🏼 Spa Day 💆🏻♀️ - Pick a book with hands or feet on the cover (gotta love a mani/pedi day!) or one with pastel colors on the cover.
NEW: First Grave on the Right
TBR: Behind the Net
🍫 Chocolates 🍪 - Recommend a sweet, feel good or humorous romance.
NEW: Simply Irresistible
TBR: Cocky Bastard