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JUST FOR THE SEASON is out July 7th
@gallerybooks / Repped by @rootliterary / Gleeful Regency romps

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November class drop:
11/1: Embroidery Class: Textural Gourds — 2:30–4:30 PM
11/4: Painting Class: Ombre Sprayed Edges — 6:30–8:00 PM
11/5: Polymer Clay Class: Charcuterie Board — 6:00–8:30 PM
11/6: Books Right Now Book Club — 6:30–8:00 PM
11/10: Painting Party: Make a Bookish Display — 6:30–8:00 PM
11/12: Gold Foiling Workshop — 6:30–8:00 PM
11/14: Mending Class: Sashiko Style Visible Mending — 10:30 AM–1:30 PM
11/14: Ballard Art Walk — 6:00–8:00 PM
11/16: Emotional Damage Book Club — 7:00–8:30 PM
11/17: Historical Hellions Book Club — 7:00–8:30 PM
11/18: Sportsball Book Club — 7:00–8:30 PM
11/21: Stained Glass Class: All Seeing Eye — 11:00 AM–2:00 PM
11/21: Craft Party: Sprinkle Embroidery — 2:30–3:30 PM
11/22: Stained Glass Class: Snowflake — 1:00–5:00 PM
11/22: Reading the Rainbow Book Club — 2:00–3:30 PM
11/30: Wrecked Romantasy Book Club — 7:00–8:30 PM
#seattlethingstodo #seattleevents #craftclasses #bookclub #romancebookstore first photo by @clicks.canvases

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Another highlight of this weekend: book club with a favorite new historical romance author @rachel.griffiths.writes. We loved her newest release, JUST FOR THE SEASON, and had a blast talking to her about house parties, fashion as politics, naming heroes and animal metaphors.

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Coffee and currently reading ☕📖

Happy Friday bookworms! Anyone else sooooo ready for the weekend? I can't wait to sleep in and enjoy some quality reading time. It's been a hot minute since I've read a historical romance, one of my favorite genres, so when I saw a recent post of Just for the Season by @rachel.griffiths.writes that made me laugh AND drew me in, and then found it in Libby, I knew I needed to read it! In my happy place this morning enjoying this with my latte. Have a great weekend!

QOTD: Coffee or tea? How do you take it?

#coffeeandcurrentlyreading #currentreadandcoffee #historicalromance #justfortheseason #rachelgriffiths

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I’m just a girl, standing in front of the World Wide Web, begging the people to read the books I like. Is that so much to ask? Why else am I constantly online?

If you answered “you’re constantly online to start drama and to be grumbly about big releases everyone else is excited for and to be a mosquito in the ear of publishers” can you shut up? It was rhetorical.

The answer to why I’m always online is to get you all to read the books I love! Duh. And to mine threads for sht talking, but only I get to say that.

So here is a little reading guide of the books I’m begging you to read. We’ve got fantasy book recommendations, historical romance book recs, Romantasy and monster and fantasy romance, contemporary romance, and then whatever A Good Person falls into (besides my favorite book).

Look, I’m also not just begging you to read books. I’m also begging myself to get off my phone and read my TBR. How magnanimous.

And then we have a public service announcement that if you consider yourself my friend you are now in the warning period. You have 10 days left to finish Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb or our friendship is over. Just kidding 🤣 But our Realm of the Elderlings buddy read is in full swing, and we are having a blast. BUT YOU ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Do you even like me?

What is that one book you always recommend to friends?

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my favourite historical romance books 💙

these are some of my favourite HR books! after fantasy, historical romance is my second most read genre so it’s only about time i recommend my top tier books! these are all amazing, and i loved the stories in them so much! my favourite one you say? it would actually have to be erin langston’s christmas short story called some winter’s evening. i kid you not, it’s only 192 pages but my number one favourite of all time and honestly I think about gavin and emilia weekly 😭🥹

i am still in my early days of reading historical romances, but if you want an excellent list of recommendations then please check out my friend @literaryrobin page for me! i mean i literally get all my recs from Robin and will sometimes randomly just enter their dms and be like ‘rec pls’ and that’s how we are friends 🫶🏼

if you have any other recommendations or authors i should check out, pls let me know!

#books #romance #histrom #bookish

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You guys?! How has it already been four years of posting about books? And other rage bait tactics?

I just wanted to say that I appreciate each and every one of you who has been with me on this little journey. Reading is… one of my only two hobbies, and I love that I’ve been able to create this little space online with so many amazing people I consider my friends whether or not we’ve made it out of the group chat.

I thought I would do a little “what I have learned over the last four years,” but honestly I don’t really know much. I post about books. I talk to my friends. I try and fail at not comparing myself to others. I try to be original. I am always authentically me, though. And occasionally that seems to resonate. But occasionally I want to live laugh love off into the sunset and delete this account. But so far I have been able to pivot enough to keep this a place that brings me joy.

And what would a book post be without books?! I’ve dropped in four of my favorite books from the last four years. I love them all dearly, and I would recommend each and every one with my my life. And if I could convince you to do one thing over the next year it would either be to read Realm of the Elderlings or to try historical romance. I’m literally begging you.

Anyways, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT. How long have you been on booksta?!

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If it isn’t obvious, I am fully obsessed with my little Tobleroni 🐶 I can’t believe how lucky we are to have him as part of our family 🥹 as such, I’m starting a new series! Every Tuesday, I’ll feature some of my fav books (with the help of Toby).

❓Do you have a favorite genre of books?

First up, histrom baby 🥰 my fav romance sub-genre! I grabbed a few of my 5-star reads to feature, and specifically kept it to one book per author in order to highlight 14 different authors. But trust that most of these authors have written more than one histrom that I adore 😍

Have an amazing day everyone 🩷

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#booksbooksbooks #bookrecs #romancebooks #historicalromance ; historical romance; book recommendations

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Some exciting changes to our November book clubs:
1. We are partnering with Rashi from Books Right Now to bring back her book club
2. Author Kamilah Cole will be joining our Romantasy book club in person
3. We are changing some dates around due to the holidays. (okay the last one isn’t exciting but it is a change so let’s pretend).

1. 11/6 - Books Right Now: Rooted, Leopold Goût
2. 11/17 - Historical: Just for the Season, Rachel Griffiths
3. 11/16 - Emotional Damage: Once in a Timeline, Iman Hariri-Kia
4. 11/18 - Sportsball: Kulti, Mariana Zapata
5. 11/22 - Reading the Rainbow: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Sara Raasch
6. 11/30 - Romantasy: Wicked Endeavors by Kamila Cole

#seattlebookstore #seattlebookclub #romancebookstore #romancebookstagram #romancereads

1. 11/6 - Books Right Now: Rooted, Leopold Goût

11/16 - Emotional Damage: Once in a Timeline, Iman Hariri-Kia

2. 11/17 - Historical: Just for the Season, Rachel Griffiths

11/18 - Sportsball: Kulti, Mariana Zapata

11/22 - Reading the Rainbow: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Sara Raasch

11/30 - Romantasy: Wicked Endeavors by Kamilah Cole (Kamilah will be in attendance!)

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🌟CONVINCING YOU TO READ MY FAVORITE BOOKS BASED ON THE FIRST LINE 🌟

I love these books and I love the first line in each of them. I highly recommend all of them!

⁉️: Is there a first line that you love from a book?

🏷️: book recommendations, romance books, bookstagram, ARC reading, books to add to your TBR, fantasy books, lit fiction books

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I’ve been designing Regency costumes for a stage play, so it was the perfect time to celebrate this one (with help from the fabulous cast!) . . .
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A jaunty Regency romance in which an outspoken heiress commanded by the queen to find a husband by the end of the season invites a series of eligible suitors to her country estate, only to be saddled by the supervisory eye of her brother’s friend, the taciturn duke who ghosted her years earlier and who’s been struggling with his feelings ever since. The set-up provides plenty of opportunities for the two to spar and spark as he simmers with jealousy and desire, and as she baits him with witty teasing and a delightful talent for embroidering hidden insults into handkerchiefs for him. The history between the two lays a rich groundwork for big feelings early on, even as the pair avoids confronting what drove them apart years ago. With the help of a deliciously meddling grandmother and an attraction too strong to resist, eventually, the two can’t help but collide. I loved that the heroine co-owned and managed a textile mill, and my fashion-history-loving heart delighted in the descriptions of the jacquard loom, the embroidery, and the feather motif in the damask. We also get lots of other fun details about clothes, an exploration of the power of artistic expression, and several fabulous barbs about gender dynamics that still hit close to the mark in today’s society. It’s a fun, flirty, smart, sexy read, with an independent, modern-minded heroine, a noble hero wracked from the start by love and lust, a fabulous cast of supporting characters, and an empowering celebration of not just pushing back against the rules, but of overturning them completely, especially when love is on the line.
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Have you read this one? What did you think?
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#books #bookstagram #rachelgriffiths #bookishcosplay #isew

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you don't even need to read dark romance to find some quite frankly TERRIFYING shit in your romance books 👻

Drop your favorite romance books that I missed and tell me what the true *horror* in it is! Unserious answers only.

#RomanceBooks #Bookstagram

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Mini Review Monday🪩💗

An eclectic choice today! These all had such crazy different vibes, but that speaks to my reading style perfectly honestly.
Happy Monday friends! I hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready to tackle the week fresh!

Books:
Wild Reverence by @beccajross
(Thank you so much to Saturday Books for the gifted digital galley)
The Butcher by @jenniferhillierbooks
Katabasis @kuangrf
Just for the Season by @rachel.griffiths.writes

❓are you an eclectic reader? What’s your most read genre? How was your weekend?

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