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How we Rate
Don’t let our RBF expressions fool you. We rate nicer than we look, or do we? We’ve been meaning to work on explaining how we rate for a while. We came up with the following simple, rating scale. This is…
Top Ten Tuesday Halloween Reads
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Halloween Freebie. For this, we each picked 5 books we’ve read that fit into a Halloween Reads category. What are your…
RBF Emily Henry Book Ranking
We agree on a lot of our auto-read authors – Emily Henry is one of them. We’ve both read all of her contemporary romance novels and we’ve even completed an RBF review of Funny Story. Because of this and many…
The Pumpkin Spice Café – Book Review
The Pumpkin Spice Café follows Jeanie after she finds her boss dead and decides to leave Boston and assume the responsibility of her Aunt Dot’s adorable coffee shop. In the process, she encounters a few mysteries and a local farmer,…
Best and Worst of 2024
We’ve made it to fall, arguably heading into the best part of the year. The best weather. The best holidays. My birthday. With only 3 months left in the year, I want to get back on track with my goals.…
Top Ten Tuesday – Bookish Brags
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Bookish Brags/Confessions. We opted to pick 10 Brags – and we’ve focused them on blog posts, sections of our website we…
Alyssa’s September Stats
There is something about the end of summer/start of fall that always has me forgetting about my well-laid plans. And not just my reading goals and challenges. Sometime in November I’ll go crazy planning for the next year… only to…
Top Ten Tuesday – Hyped Read/Avoided
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Books I Read/Avoided Because of the Hype (and did you make the right choice?) What hyped books do you regret reading…
Mariana Zapata Book Order
Apparently when I read one Mariana Zapata book, I must read MANY Mariana Zapata books. According to my StoryGraph stats, I did it last fall and I’m just finishing up another, more thorough, binge reading this year as I hinted…
Top Ten Tuesday – Fall TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List. For this prompt, we each selected 5 books we have on our fall TBR…
Favorite Reading Accessories
Half of reading as a hobby is collecting books, book and reading accessories, and other things that make reading more enjoyable. We’d also consider whatever makes reading more organized as enjoyable because we’re Type A and love charts, lists, spreadsheets,…
