To me, one of the best things about reading is finding a book that really surprises you. Maybe you had it on your TBR and were really looking forward to it and it somehow was even better than you expected. Maybe you’ve never heard of it before, decided to pick it up on a whim and suddenly you’ve found your new favorite book. Regardless, I love having a new read really surprise me, so today, we’re going to talk about the 2024 reads that did just that!
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One of my favorite things to do every December is work on my anticipated reads list for the next year. There are so many books coming out in 2025 that I’m excited for, but I managed to narrow the list down to 8 books!
A few of the books that would be on this list I actually have ARCs of already, so they won’t be mentioned in the full list, but I will mention them at the end of the post. Get comfy and cozy and let’s talk about anticipated reads for 2025!
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Happy December, my sundrops! I know, I know, I say it basically every month, but I really can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year. I love this time of year and am really excited to close out 2024 in a great way.
Let’s chat all things December!
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Hi friends! Another month has come and gone. November has been a pretty stressful month to be honest. I kind of feel like I experienced this entire month in a stress induced haze, but let’s talk about how the month went for me anyway!
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Hi besties 💜 we’re coming up on the end of November at this point (what) and I’m sure that like me, many of you are thinking about the holiday season and the gifts that you’re going to get people (and let’s be real, the gifts you’re hoping to get as well).
Since I’m always on the lookout for bookish things, I thought I’d do a post on some bookish gift ideas for the bookworms in your life/some things that you can add to your own wishlists! If you’re in need of some gift ideas, keep reading!
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A Blood Water Paint-style historical YA in prose and verse from New York Times bestselling author Joy McCullough. For as long as she can remember, Carmela Tofana has desperately wanted one to be an important part of La Tofana Apothecary, her mother’s apothecary in the Campo Marzio neighborhood of Rome. When she finally turns sixteen, she’s allowed into the workroom of the shop, where her mother and two other women make some of the most effective remedies in all of Rome. They also dispense a healthy amount of good, non-medical advice to their clients. But the workroom of La Tofana is no simple place, and for every sweet-smelling flower extract to be prepared, there’s another potion where the main ingredient is blood or something even less pleasant. And then there’s Aqua Tofana, the apothecary’s remedy of last resort and one of several secrets Carmela never bargained for in all her years of wishing to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Everything Is Poison is a story of a deadly secret hiding in plain sight and of the women who risk everything to provide care for those most in need.
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With the exception of the ARC I’m currently reading, all of the ARCs I have are 2025 releases. Most of the time I like to read an ARC either the month before it’s released, or the month it is released, but I have a few that I’m just so excited about that I’d love to read them before the year is out. Most of these actually come out in January, so I’ll be reading them either this month or in December, but I’ve got a few others that are coming out a little later that I can’t wait to read!
Get comfy and cozy and let’s chat 2025 ARCs I’m most excited to read!
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Hi friends! And just like that, it’s November! I can’t believe we’re already in the second to last month of the year. If you’d like to know some of my plans for the month of November, keep reading!
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Hey besties, (Karen Smith in Mean Girls the Musical voice) Happy Halloween! Oh boy oh boy what a month October has been…there have been a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but we got through it!
Get comfy and cozy and let’s chat about all things October!
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Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.
Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.
One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?
Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.
Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.