Appreciate a Dragon Day was earlier this month, so January seemed like an appropriate time to talk about dragon books. (Was this post supposed to go up on that holiday? ...Maybe. Oops.) I have always loved dragons, back from the days of buying Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles at the Scholastic Book Fair (still on my shelves), and probably before, and continuing on through many, many dragon and dragon shifter books and movies. I've cut this list down ruthlessly, mostly because I was getting utterly overwhelmed by the number of dragon books I've read, and am giving you a handful of dragon shifter/dragon romances. I'll have to do another post one day with others.
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Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating! And happy Monday if you're not! This is my last holiday book rec post of the year. I meant to have it up a few days ago, but holiday preparations (so much baking) and continuing struggles with fatigue post covid delayed me. There's still time to dive into some festive romance, though! I'm certainly still reading them. Today's recs are all contemporary romances.
Only one week until Christmas, and I feel like I am so behind! My cards aren't finished and nothing is wrapped and I have not read nearly enough holiday romance (I have made a lot of cookies dough, though). Last time, I recommended some fantasy/paranormal books. This time it's historical romance.
December is here (and nearly half over...how...), and this time of year, I love winter holiday romances. There's just something even more heartwarming about a holiday romance, you know? I thought I would do a few book rec posts of holiday romances—there are so many wonderful holiday romances that it's been difficult narrowing down my choices, but I've done my best. Today's post includes holiday romances that are fantasy or paranormal.
Since it's somehow December (where did last month go???), it's time to talk about November's reading. I did more rereading in audiobook than reading new books last month, but I did read a few that I want to share with you.
If you're in the US like I am, Thanksgiving is celebrated tomorrow and I thought I would share some Thanksgiving romances in case you're looking for something to enjoy over the weekend (or to escape into if family gets to be too much...).
Happy Halloween, my darlings! If you're celebrating, I hope you have a delightfully spooky day filled with the best treats. I'm going to do my best to contribute by bringing you some more paranormal book recs. Today, I have some ghost romances for you. These fall into two categories: stories in which the love interest is a ghost and stories in which there are ghosts (some as antagonists and some not). I'm taking a break from posting paranormal recs this week (stay tuned for more on Halloween, though, and you can find my witch recs here and my vampire recs here) because it's Asexual Awareness Week, and I want to mark it with some book recommendations. These books all have characters (mostly main characters) on the asexuality spectrum. You can also check out this collection of ace spec books—I haven't read all of them, but I'll be taking a look too and a couple of mine are included.
I'm continuing my paranormal book recs this week with some vampire romances. There isn't anything scary here—like I said last week, I love spooky and atmospheric and paranormal, but I don't do horror. I don't seek out vampire books the way I do witch books, but I don't avoid them either and I read a ton of paranormal. And I've read/watched a bunch of vampire stories over the years—Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles books in high school (and the movie—I haven't seen the new television show yet, but I've heard it's fantastic, so it's on my list), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both movie and show, and later on some of Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake books and a few of Lynsay Sands's Argeneau series, and the Twilight series as well. Here are some of my favorite vampire romances that I come back to often:
It's October and my favorite time of year, and I've thrown myself into all the cozy things—cooking and baking favorite fall recipes with lots of pumpkin and butternut squash and apples and soups, fall decorations and candles, happily pulling out the sweaters and tights and boots. I also love that it's spooky season. I'm not into horror or anything too scary, but I do love my books to be witchy or otherwise paranormal this time of year (or just cozy autumn reads), so I thought I would do a few book rec posts this month. I'm writing this one while drinking apple cinnamon herbal tea out of my witch mug and eating a pumpkin muffin.
Today, I have a list of witchy (mostly romance) books for you. I have always loved witch stories in books or other media from reruns of Bewitched when I was a kid through Charmed and Sabrina the Teenage Witch to reading The Witching Hour and the other Mayfair Witches books when I was fourteen or so to Practical Magic, which is still one of my favorite movies (and maybe the only time I've ever said the movie is better than the book), and of course Nora Roberts's various witch series. I'm currently in the beginning stages of writing a witch series of my own and putting the love of those stories to use. I'll share more about that when I can, but for now, here's my list for you (which took ages to narrow down). |
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