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Happy Mother's Day weekend to all the moms, may you feel appreciated and get to relax and read a great book 🥰. For anyone who struggles with this holiday, my heart goes out to you and I hope you can also lose yourself in some good reading ❤️.

When your friend tries to wish you good things and hopes you get a five star soon, so you scroll back to see when your last five star was...but it's been so long, now you're depressed 😭

I ran around so much this weekend with errands and family stuff that my brain still cannot calm down. I have the attention span of a squirrel any time I pick up a book 😅 so novellas and shorter reads it is!

You know what feels extra great after slumping and starting to read and enjoy books once more? Doing all the organizing of your TBR, updating lists, and being excited to read these amazing sounding blurbs again.

My slump is still very much in effect, but I decided I was in a better mental place and wanted to bookcialize again. I missed y'all!

Lots of free ebooks today in case my fellow slumpers need some different options! Sending everyone 5 star read energy ❤️ or just "finish a damn book" vibes.

When I’m slumping I: want to reorganize my TBR, make new shelves on GR, whine like it’s going out of style, add find new friends when they write amazing reviews that make my slumpy self eye a book, and struggle to review what I do read. So if y’all see any of these activities, send good vibes 👀😂.

2024 hasn't been an awesome book year yet for me (or some of my friends). Maybe the eclipse tomorrow will magically reset something or we should start saging some TBRs 😅.

It's spring break here so my updates, reviews, and responses may be spotty. Spending time with family and day tripping it up while rereading, recharging, and maybe sneaking in a new read or two before returning to our regular schedule. Hope y'all get some time to soak up some sunshine this week too! ❤️

My TBR is back to growing way faster than my reading can keep up. All these new releases too! It’s such a good problem to have while I drown in choices 😂, right before I won’t be able to read much next week.

I told my daughter just now that one of her book options for an assignment made me cry when I read it at her age and she looked at me in horror and said, "A book made you cry, really a book?!" I feel kind of sad now that none of her books have ever done that for her...or maybe I'm just a more sensitive reader. It's cool though, I'll keep on needing tissues with my books, happily.

I'm going to my first ever book signing tomorrow. It'll have a bunch of authors I've read in the last couple years and I'm so nervous/excited to get some signed books and talk the ears off any other readers (un)lucky enough to be in my proximity. I'll be quieter this weekend but I wish everyone happy reading! And just in case, if any of my GR friends are maybe also going, reach out!

Thanks again GR for limiting how many of my friends' updates I see. Manually going through the list to see who might have updated recently is super fun, loved it, 10/10...🙄. On the flip side, y'all are adding and reading some good books!

I love this hero right from the start so fingers crossed because I’ve been slumping!

I'm going to be much quieter on here for the next few days due to needing a mental disconnect (read: parenting is hard and mentally/emotionally exhausting). Hope everyone has an amazing week!

Sometimes mood reading takes me on a journey, but not the cool kind where I get a dragon on the way. Just the kind with lots of bathroom breaks and weird signs and funky snacks, that eventually leads me somewhere incredible, only to dump me back out trying to figure where to go next.

The way I keep running to Libby to see if a couple upcoming releases have been added yet each time an arc review pops up on my feed 🏃‍♀️🤣

This book was just what I needed 😍

The panic I feel when an older book doesn't have a single review by one of my friends and I have to sort through unknown reviews 👀😱😂

Braced to cry but excited for this one!

I took a break from GR until I could finally finish a book (kind of like taking away your kid’s favorite toy when they’re behaving badly 🤣). But now I finished one and I’m back! Missed y’all beautiful people ❤️.

It's fascinating how feelings change during a DNF streak. From after the first DNF when you're still hopeful it'll just take the *right* book to deeper in when you've DNF'd more books in one day than you finished in the last week and your thoughts shift to "all is lost, it feels like I'll never finish another book again". Spoiler - I will finish another book again, my reading mood's just an overdramatic loon lol.

I just want to book stalk my friends and enjoy this community but GR is over here filling my feed with old reviews, hiding top friends’ updates, and I just scrolled past a friend’s amazing review showing -1 comments when it had a bunch. Maybe all our troubles with this app are actually a bizarre real life set up for a contemporary romance but if so, we need that to get going.

I needed to laugh and Cassandra Gannon is usually a good bet for this 🤞. Plus, I need Trev to be redeemed.

This winter’s been brutal on me for colds. Great for snuggling in and getting extra reading in, but bad for doing almost everything else. Like trying and failing to write a book review because of a fuzzy head.

I smile and tip my drink to her. “Let’s put it this way, if the mothers at Rolling Hills Elementary knew what that man was like in the bedroom he’d need a security detail outside his door.”

Yes he would 🔥

When he first told me the story of him being adopted and always wanting to know what a traditional, nuclear family was like, my heart broke. Which is crazy because I didn’t think I had one. But apparently I do when it comes to Oliver. And in just a few months, this man has become one of the most important people in my life. I know I can’t be cynical or rude about this. I have to consider his feelings.🥺

”That man over there? You might not see it, but he looks at you like you’re the only one in the room. Every time you spoke at dinner tonight, he couldn’t take his eyes off you. He memorized every word you said. And the way you look at him? You don’t realize it, and maybe I’m the only one who does see it, but you look at him in a way I’ve never seen before. That has to mean something.”

👏

I hold my camera up and smile, while Izzy gives me an ‘I hate you’ look. I’ve never seen a picture that represents two people more.

I love them together so much

I know it would be in my best interest to keep this as platonic as possible. Which is so unlike me—my love language is physical touch. And acts of service. And gift giving. And of course I can’t leave out words of affirmation. Yes, I know that is four out of five, but I have a lot of love to give.

He’s so adorable! Jen described him as the greenest flag in her review and he really is.