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With so many AMAZING books coming to our television/movie screens soon, I had to ask my book besties: what is a book they would LOVE to see some to life on the screen? 🎥🎞️📺 And let me tell you… they delivered! ❓QOTD: so now I’m asking you, which of these would you love to watch? Or, suggest your own book to screen adaptation!
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kinda chic to make friends on the internet✨ never did I think I would find best friends on the internet, but here we are 🫶🏼 so thankful for this community & books bringing us together!
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🩷Pink titles🩷 I’ve barely read one ebook this month let alone any physical books, but I still like making pretty stacks! Don’t worry I always have an audiobook going 😂 ❓what’s your current read and what format is it? Tagging some people if you’d like to make your own pink title stack! Feel free to do this even if I don’t tag you 🩷
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🧡 Kin review 🧡 🎧 13 hrs 10 min | @knopf | @prhaudio 👭 A powerful, emotional buddy read 📖 Literary fiction | Historical fiction ⚠️ Content warnings: DM for details ✨ I know you’ve seen this one everywhere, but hear me out...I read this book TWICE in two weeks! The second time was the audiobook and it was so powerful! A huge thank you to @alltoo.wellread for my SIGNED physical copy that she so generously gifted to me! Her thoughtfulness knows no bounds. BACKGROUND Annie and Niecy are ‘cradle friends’. Best friends by choices, sisters by circumstance. While coming of age during the Jim Crow era, both girls try to navigate life motherless in ways that are unique to them but also side by side as best friends. IMPRESSIONS To say this book blew me away is a gross understatement! Kin is a living, breathing story about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South. A sweeping, undeniably unique coming-of-age story, all you want to do is pull these girls into a giant hug and tell them they’re wonderful, beautiful, and loved. And oh the side characters! Some only show up once or twice but they make such a powerful impact. A well-written side character can make or break a book for me and Tayari handles them with such a beautifully deft hand that it wouldn’t be the same without them. The nonlinear timeline and unique chapter structure give the reader a tangible version of character development and plot progression. Each character arc is beautifully composed individually, but it’s how they weave together that gives Kin its heart. It’s truly one of a kind! AUDIO Angel Pean and Ashley J. Hobbs were phenomenal. They were better than I could have imagined! The passion and emotion conveyed by both was both engrossing and I highly recommend going this route! GIVES Sula by Toni Morrison and The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams RECOMMENDATION There are both achingly beautiful and gut-wrenching parts of the girls’ stories that will sit with you forever, and there is no question that I recommend this book to everyone. This would make a fantastic book club choice or
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Lets be real: there are *plenty* of reasons to follow or unfollow me! As a nearly 40 year old (November!), I feel pretty confident in who I am. I just happen to be someone who wants to be cozy, loves a good paranormal or magical realism romance, and if given the option would only eat potatoes. 🥔 I spend too much time on graphics (for reviews and bookish memes) because it's fun and makes me happy. I rate books off vibes - and usually if I cry, 5 stars. I also stay up way too late reading books. It's a legit problem. I'm just a millennial girl doing her best! And full disclosure, I had to edit this caption twice because the amount of exclamation marks I initially used made me look unhinged. !!!!! 😂 Thanks to @sherry_reads_books , @laura.getslit , and @seealliread for the tags! ⬇️ QOTD: Why do you follow me?
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Eleven months after ordering and my Bridgerton Illumicrate set is here! ✨ I have wanted this set since it was first printed. But as a SAHM, I felt guilty spending *so much* money on myself, espcially on books (and when I already own the second book). But that didn’t stop me from occasionally looking online to see if anyone was selling their set which LOL because omg the prices people were charging. So when the most recent reprint was announced, I knew it was now or never. And this time, I felt less guilty about the purchase. Mostly because I was starting as a substitute teacher, but also, because I realized that it’s okay to treat yourself to nice things once in a while (and I had been thinking about these books for what, two years?). I still waited until almost the last day to place my order though. 😂 Zero regrets. I love them and am currently deciding which bookshelf will be their forever home. ⬇️ QOTD: What’s a book purchase you have zero regrets about?
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✌🏼 for Tuesday - Loved It, TBR These authors have become autobuy for me. I really loved…. 🧡 The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane 💛 The Help 🩷 How to Age Disgracefully I have high hopes for… 💚 Lady Tan’s Circle of Women 💙 The Calamity Club 💛 Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting .
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Ruby Red Bookstack for July ❤️ I always say that all my favorite guys were born in July (my husband and both my sons’ birthdays are this month, and yes, it's as chaotic as you'd imagine it to be). So, in honor of my guys, here's a red Bookstack - inspired by Jully's birthstone: Ruby! ⬇️ QOTD: What's your birthstone? Mine is topaz/citrine! 💛 🫖🫖🫖 BOOKS FEATURED • Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer • Thrum by Meg Smitherman • The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes by Chanel Cleeton • Savor It by Tarah DeWitt • Fake Skating by Lynn Painter • Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins • Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen • The Very Definition of Love by Sophia Benoit • The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter . . . 🏷️ Bookstagram, book recs, romance reader, bookstack, red books
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✨Ya girl loves a trend…but make some silly✨ I’ve seen a few of these going around and I KNEW I couldn’t pull off a Netflix documentary or the birthday color chart, so I took the easy route. 😂💃🏻 💭 Which one’s your favorite?? Bonus points if you recognize what the boombox is from. 🤌🏼 Life saving | Oreos don’t have parasites | still don’t get this whole word search thing | audiobooks | Libro | prha
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Match Your Mug Stack Another day, another Bookstagram challenge throw back! They were so fun guys so if your like “this girl is 3 years behind” just know I’m loving it. One of my favorite mugs since Gilmore Girls is my very favorite show, and a stack of books I’ve read and loved. Not to mention I had a cup of hot green tea in here while balancing and taking the photos and I DIDN’T SPILL ANY! No one is more surprise about that part than me. Let me know if you’ve read any of these, if you give this oldie but a goodie challenge a whirl, and if you have any other fun book challenges I should try because I’m trying to bring back the fun on here! Happy Tuesday ✌🏻
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Library Book Sale Haul 🛍️ ⬇️ QOTD: Does your library do a book sale? Where's your favorite place to buy second-hand books? This past weekend was a local library's yearly book sale and omg I was so well behaved. Partly because I only brought one bag and I'd have to walk back a mile in the Summer heat carrying everything, but also because I'm trying to be responsible. I have so many books on my physical tbr shelf that it's starting to stress me out (but not yet enough for me to stop adding to it, apparently)! So I only ended up bringing eight books home with me: four for me, two for Joe, and two for the boys. Bet you’ll never guess which books are for who. 😂 🫖🫖🫖 BOOKS FEATURED • The Lodge by Kayla Olson (ARC Copy) • The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney • Dog Man: Unleashed by Dav Pilkey • The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold by Ally Carter • The Women by Kristin Hannah • Star Trek Chronology by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda • Star Trek Encyclopedia by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda . . . 🏷️ tbr list, library book sale, second hand books, romance reader, bookstagram
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Thank you, @putnambooks, for the gifted eARC in exchange for my honest thoughts. #putnampartner Under Story by Chloe Benjamin My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ✋🏼 emojis to describe this book: 🌎⏳🍄‍🟫⚡️🧠 📖 512 pages Pub Date: September 1, 2026 Genre: Environmental Literary Science Fiction 🔥🔥 This is difficult for me to quantify, because there are few scenes that are mostly fade to black in nature, brief, with low detail CW: grief and loss, loss of a child, childbirth Quick intro: Listen, I’m not even going to try. Quick thoughts: How does one gather any sort of coherent thoughts about this epic and sweeping literary science fiction triumph!? This book has everything. Environmental themes. Multi-universes. A love story. Motherhood. Guilt and fears and regrets. Redemption and healing. SCIENCE. Mushrooms. Trees. Physics. Speculation. The list goes on. And listen, I learned more about fungi and Antartica and physics that I had ever planned to when I reading this book, but I’m also not mad about it. 🤣 All of the science and heady stuff is so rooted in LIFE. In connection. And it felt very human. Essential and fundamental. This book was an absolute mind BENDER (there’s a four letter word that starts with F that I want to use, but I will refrain lol). It felt like a fever dream. It was also haunting and magical. I had so many whys and hows along the way. I lost count of how many times I had to stop reading just to mentally work out HOW everything worked. Seriously the world-building was so impressive. There are some aspects that will never leave me and will continue to haunt me. Ok, so yes. This book was five stars for me. But I don’t think it will work for everyone. It is LONG. And it is serious. This book is for the reader who likes a heavier, more intellectual sort of read. It is extremely thought-provoking. It demands to be discussed. And ultimately, I found it to be SO impressive and extremely satisfying. It will be among my top reads of the year. 💭QOTD: If you could time-travel to any period in history, where would you go?
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