I know, India how can you start a book club if you’re never even around! Well I’ve been around, just not over here. I’ve been putting up videos on my youtube channel which you can click on here, which is also where I talk about the new book club. It doesn’t have a special name for right now I supposed it will be Page Turning Book Club, or Page Turning Club… I don’t know. Any thoughts?!
To really be involved in the book club you need to be subscribed to my youtube channel and to get all of the perks you should check out my Patreon, here as well! I’m really excited and a bit nervous to be doing this book club because I’m always worried that people won’t participate, but I’ll deal with that later and I’ll have a book club by myself…what else is new lol. I’ve attached the video below, which talks more about it and I hope to see you there!!
The first two books are going to be:
Legendborn by Tracy Deon for our PG-13 book and Raze (Scarred Souls #1) by Tillie Cole for our R rated book. You can click on the titles to view them on Amazon or you can try and find them in your local bookstore. I know Raze is also on KU for those that have KU.
Anyways, I hope to see you all in the book club and in the chats!! Until next time,
I know, I know, I know, I’m late as usual. We’re halfway through 2023 and I’m just now talking about my favorite books from 2022, but better late than never right?
I gave a lot of books in 2022 4 stars, but some still stood out from the rest. This post is solely going to be a list of my favorites from 2022. It’s been so long a lot of them I cant remember why I loved them. I’ll link them to Amazon, give them a genre or a category, and say the star rating. Lets get started!
Flock (The Ravenhood #1), Kate Stewart
Romance, I’m going to say edgy romance over a dark romance
Four Stars
This Man (This Man #1), Jodi Ellen Malpas
Romance, dark romance
Five Stars
Lords of Mercy (Royals of Forsyth University #3), Angel Lawson
Romance, darkkkkkkkk romance
Five Stars
Crave (Crave #1), Tracy Wolff
Fantasy, Young Adult
Four Stars
Chasing Love ( Dark Love #1), Kat T Masen
Romance
Five Stars
Madison Kate Series, Tate James
Romance, Dark Romance, Reverse Harem
Four Stars
Allison’s Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts #1), CM Stunich
Romance, Dark Romance, Reverse Harem, Alice in Wonderland Reimagining
Four Stars
Kings of Chaos (Dirty Broken Savages #1), Eva Ashwood
Romance, Dark Romance, Reverse Harem
Five Stars
Queen of Anarchy (Dirty Broken Savages #2), Eva Ashwood
Romance, Dark Romance, Reverse Harem
Five Stars
Sin & Chocolate (Demigods of San Francisco #1), K.F. Breene
Romance, Fantasy
Four Stars
Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie #1), Nisha Sharma
Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Fake Dating
Five Stars
Glutton for Pleasure (Pleasure Series #1), Alisha Rai
Romance, Ménage
Five Stars
I read a lot more books later year than I typically do. I also was going through a lot last year, so I don’t remember much. It’s my goal to try and do at least monthly reading wrapups again, so I can try and remember them better, but also remember my thoughts on them better.
So apparently y’all really do like these wrap-ups huh? Well, let me start posting them consistently. If you don’t want to read this post, I’ve already recorded this for my youtube channel, which you should totally check out and subscribe, and have placed it down below. I’m a couple of months behind, but that’s okay you’ll get over it. I had a good reading month in September and probably hit my average reading. I read 5 books and all of them were either romance or contemporary. Some were great and some… not so much. I’ve added links to all of the books that will take you to amazon. Some links may be affiliate links. Let’s get down to these books though!
American Queen is the first book in the New Camelot series by Sierra Simone and boy oh boy is this book hot and steamy. I love how this book is told from two different time frames intertwining the past and the present. I also love how the perspectives are told and how you always feel like you’re getting the view of all three perspectives and their stories. This romance features a love triangle/polyamory/mmf as well as military and politics. It’s such an incredible ride and I can’t wait to finish the rest of the series.
Save The Date was recommended to me by my romance guru, Steph over at Steph’s Romance Book Chat. It’s probably the one recommendation that she gave me that fell flat. She gave it to me because I got engaged this year and I have been in a wedding type of mood. Lord knows I still need to order save the dates hahaha, but this book fell flat because it didn’t offer enough tension and I felt like it tried to wrap things up too quickly. This book features fake dating. The tension it tried to bring in just was there for a shock factor and it didn’t even shock. It also was not steamy enough.
Parental Guidance was another book my romance guru recommended and this one I loved! I truly loved. It was a 5 star read for me. This romance is a sports romance that features fake dating, dating apps, and parents choosing for them. I loved the dating app and how it all fell into place and I also loved how the parents were involved in this book and in developing this relationship. This was just such a great book.
I Dare You was another sports romance. This one following a collegiate athlete, which I definitely enjoyed because it was different than the other sports romances, which mainly follow professional athletes. I liked how the conversation of collegiate athletes not being paid was brought up and how that can really put a strain on their lives because they don’t have enough time to get a paying job. I liked the relationship in it and how it all came about and how college relationships can be a little different. I truly did enjoy this book and I enjoyed the speed at which the relationship developed.
Now, I have multiple videos on I’m Not Dying With You Tonight. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and liked the tempo that it was written at, it’s very fast-paced and as with riots, which are also very fast. I will leave the other videos linked as well. I loved the topic of this book and how it was written from two different perspectives. I did think that there was some character development lacking in our black main character, but I thought there was a good representation of the culture as it was based on Atlanta’s inner-city areas.
I gave this book 4 stars!
All in all I felt like September brought out some great reads and was mainly a romance and contemporary month for me! If you’re looking for more on each book make sure to check out my wrap up down below!! Until next time,
All the time you can find posts of people saying that they don’t feel part of the bookish community, or how they don’t have friends and each time I see this I roll my eyes. Sorry, I do. I’m always left wondering what are you doing to garner friends in the bookish community. Are you expecting people to just “come up to you” on the internet and just be your friend? If so, you need to change your expectations. Also a lot of the friendships that you see happening on the internet did not happen overnight! They took months sometimes years to become what you see on the internet! It’s okay to be jealous, but it’s not okay to let it taint your view of the entire community. As a friend told me, find your tribe. They are there, but they’re just spread out a bit.
In order to have a friend, you have to be a friend. You have to be willing to put in the time to try and foster relationships and you also have to understand that not every person on the internet is meant to be your friend. Building platonic relationships take just as much work as building romantic relationships. Are you commenting on their content and doing it in such a way that leads to more discussion or is it just a “Love your video! New subscriber!”? Also, understand that it’s easy to get distracted on the internet and that just because it seems like people are ignoring doesn’t mean they are. They might have seen the notification and just forgot to respond to it. That happens! I do it all the time and then it’s like a week later I’m responding. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Sometimes I take a peek at something, but don’t have the time to respond right away and then because the notification is gone I forget about it.
You also can’t expect to be given everything and constantly take from others without giving something in return. That’s toxic. It’s hurtful plain and simple. Also, don’t try to become friends with someone in order to build yourself up. That’s rude. You also have to respect people’s boundaries! If people say they just can’t do it right now, let them have some space to breathe. The internet only shows so much of people’s lives, and sometimes we assume we know more when we really only know a fraction.
I posted a video on my youtube channel about this, that is not nearly as blunt as this post, but I felt like the blog needed some tough love and youtube needed something a little nicer. Feel free to watch! What have you done to build relationships in the book community? What is some of the advice that you have for others? Let’s talk down in the comments! Until next time,
It’s time for another tag! This time we’re talking about the honest booktuber and are you being truthful when you’re giving reviews and wrap-ups. I did this on my youtube channel and it was a lot of fun. I have put it down below, but I would love to see some bloggers answer the question as well as some other youtubers!! If you do the tag let me know! I want to see your answers!
–QUESTIONS–
1. Have you ever lied about reading a book?
2. Have you ever avoided a book because of controversy around the content/author?
3. Have you ever been sent a book for free and not disclosed it?
4. Have you ever bought a book with no intention of reading it?
5. Have you ever got caught up in booktube drama?
6. Have you ever had a hate comment, and did you respond?
7. Have you ever made a video just because you knew it would get views?
8. If you could go back to the beginning of your channel, would you do anything differently?
9. Are there any channels you wish you could be more like?
10. What’s something you love about your channel?
Let me know how you feel about some of these questions! Anything that you want to confess? Until next time,
Life is a Page Turner 