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Let’s Talk: Cossette’s 2024 Reading Goals, Content Goals & Tracking

Hello friends, and happy new year! I hope you’re having a lovely 2024 so far, and that your year is filled with lots of good reads, good health, and lots of fun adventures. Personally, I’m really excited for a fresh start, especially after a much needed content creating break. Last year, I had a bit of a mediocre reading year — not necessarily in quantity of books (although I did read a lot less in 2023 than I did in 2022) but in terms of enjoyment, and just got pretty burnt out from bookstagram and book blogging in general. Over this break, I took some time to think about how I want 2024 to look for me, in terms of a reader, a bookstagrammer and a book blogger, and thought it’d be fun to share all of that with y’all here!

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Let’s Talk: Caitlyn’s Favorite Reads of 2023

You know what time of year it is, my friends! It’s time for me to chat about my favorite reads of the year!

Truth be told, 2023 has been…a weird reading year? Some books were fantastic and others were…not. But the ones I loved I really did love. I actually didn’t rate all of these books 5 stars, some of them I gave around a 4.5, but these are the books that I’ve continued to think about throughout the year.

So, grab your favorite holiday treat, get cozy and let’s talk about my favorite books of 2023!

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Let’s Talk: 24 Books I Want to Read in 2024

Hello friends! As 2023 comes to an end, I wanted to highlight 24 books I want to get to in 2024. I’ve been particularly bad at reading from my physical TBR pile in 2023, and so all 24 of these books are books I’ve either had sitting on my shelves for ages, or recently gifted ones. I’ll be sharing more about my 2024 reading goals in the new year, but for now, here’s my 2024 physical TBR priority list!

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LET’S TALK: COSSETTE’S MOST ANTICIPATED 2024 RELEASES

Hi, hello friends! I can’t believe 2023 is almost over, and 2024 is just mere weeks away. I’ve been pretty out of the loop lately, but I’m hoping to get back into reading more in 2024, especially given how many incredibly exciting books are on my 2024 radar! Please note: this list does not include any books published by St. Martin’s Press, in compliance with the boycott.

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Review: Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime?

Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. But after getting dumped by her first love and waitlisted at her dream art school all in one week, she has no intention of putting her heart on the line again to get it back. So when local curmudgeon Mr. Montgomery walks into her family’s Pittsburgh convenience store saying he can help her, Audrey doesn’t know what she’s expecting…but it’s definitely not that she’ll be transported back to 1812 to become a Regency romance heroine.

Lucy Sinclair isn’t expecting to find an oddly dressed girl claiming to be from two hundred years in the future on her family’s estate. But she has to admit it’s a welcome distraction from being courted by a man her father expects her to marry—who offers a future she couldn’t be less interested in. Not that anyone has cared about what or who she’s interested in since her mother died, taking Lucy’s spark with her.

While the two girls try to understand what’s happening and how to send Audrey home, their sparks make a comeback in a most unexpected way. Because as they both try over and over to fall for their suitors and the happily-ever-afters everyone expects of them, they find instead they don’t have to try at all to fall for each other.

But can a most unexpected love story survive even more impossible circumstances?

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Review: Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons

Was the greatest ever love story a lie?

The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo’s attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life.

Soon though, Rosaline begins to doubt all that Romeo has told her. She breaks off the match, only for Romeo’s gaze to turn towards her cousin, thirteen-year-old Juliet. Gradually Rosaline realizes that it is not only Juliet’s reputation at stake, but her life .With only hours remaining before she will be banished behind the nunnery walls, will Rosaline save Juliet from her Romeo? Or can this story only ever end one way?

Shattering everything we thought we knew about Romeo and Juliet, Fair Rosaline is the spellbinding prequel to Shakespeare’s best known tale, which exposes Romeo as a predator with a long history of pursuing much younger girls. Bold, lyrical, and chillingly relevant, Fair Rosaline reveals the dark subtext of the timeless story of star-crossed lovers: it’s a feminist revision that will enthrall readers of bestselling literary retellings such as Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 

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Review: The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado

Could you plan the Fall Formal with your (hot) nemesis? Whit Rivera is about to find out.

Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in, like, the most embarrassing way imaginable), so when they’re forced to organize the fall formal together, it’s a literal disaster. Sparks fly as Whitney—type-A, passionate, a perfectionist, and a certified sweater-weather fanatic—butts heads with Zay, a dry, relaxed skater boy who takes everything in stride. But not all of those sparks are bad. . . .

Has their feud been a big misunderstanding all along?

Blisteringly funny and profoundly well-observed, The Fall of Whit Rivera is a snug and cozy autumn romcom that also tackles weightier topics like PCOS, chronic illness, sexuality, fatphobia, Latine identity, and class. Funny, honest, insightful, romantic, and poignant, it is classic Crystal Maldonado—and it will have her legion of fans absolutely swooning. 

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