Top Ten Books On my Winter TBR ('23-'24)
Changed my mind, we're doing TTT after all, just on a Wednesday.
I read, let's see...3? off the fall TBR, which was exactly as haphazard and scattershot as this one is going to be. At least a couple of them are likely rolling over to be read this winter, but I'm not going to commit to that or repeat them here; these are brand new ideas!
. A Cat Cafe Christmas - Codi Gary
It turns out with the exception of The Santa Suit this past March, I haven't read a Christmas book in SIX YEARS. I very much want to rectify that; I miss the cozy feeling you get from them this time of year. And what's better than a romance and CATS.
Christmas By the Book - Anne Marie Ryan
I bought it at a book sale in April and have been waiting to deploy it. The hope is I won't love it so that I can then let it go. The Danger is that if it's even 3 stars (and I can't see how it won't be) I WILL want to keep it for the same reason I bought it -- that stinkin' beautiful cover.
Just Like Magic - Sarah Hogle
I'm told this is ridiculous as heck, but I'm now so intrigued I want to try it, based on how much I loved Twice Shy.
Tell Me Everything - Minka Kelly
Switching gears real quick, I don't remember hearing about this before it was part of the Goodreads Choice awards, but I'm honestly kind of intrigued despite not having watched Friday Night Lights (yet?) or really anything she's done except that stalker horror movie w/ Leighton Meester.
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
I'm waiting until the holidays to check this out (got my hold all paused at the top of the queue) so that I have time off from work and can ensure I read & return it to the massive waitlist as quickly as possible, one week at most.
The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway - Ashley Schumacher
Am I super excited about this? No, not least because I hate this cover with the ~plus size~ heroine looking like she's made of balloons/has sausages for thighs/has been hit with a Willy Wonka blueberry-swelling curse (let's not even talk about her bizarre lack of a torso), but I figure I'll like it more than the bad boy in her sophomore effort.
Emily Wilde's Encylopedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
I need to be off the waitlist and into reading this book like NOW before I over-hype it to myself through sheer anticipation. Why is everyone keeping this book so overdue. I started out 9th on the list for 2 copies at the end of September and I am still only sixth.
Mother of Death & Dawn - Carissa Broadbent
Welp somehow* I'm not only reading but invested in the one kind of book I've always sworn I would never read: a massive adult fantasy/romantasy trilogy. My library doesn't own it, so I'll be waiting for the audiobook to come in, but then I will finish this series out.
(*I saw a moodboard + quote on Tumblr from book 2 -- "You were the one who wanted to save the world. I only ever wanted to save you," and that's basically all it took for me, in my permeable softened-by-the-Loki-series-toward-stories-with-magic state, to look up the series and immediately decide to give it a whirl) (the casting does not translate. and even that didn't deter me)
If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
I had intended to read this in the fall, honestly (a decision I didn't make until mid-October, when this book went from "a popular title that simply does not interest me" to me seeing it on a list of "books Loki would read" and changing my mind immediately), but then various library books jumped in front and now I still don't really know when or where I'm going to fit in it. But. I BELIEVE THAT I WILL.
The Only One Left - Riley Sager
Hopefully I'll be off the waitlist by the end of winter, anyway (44th on 10 copies). This is the last Sager book I'm excited about before I have to wait for annual releases like everyone else, but eager to get to it when I do.
I read, let's see...3? off the fall TBR, which was exactly as haphazard and scattershot as this one is going to be. At least a couple of them are likely rolling over to be read this winter, but I'm not going to commit to that or repeat them here; these are brand new ideas!
. A Cat Cafe Christmas - Codi Gary
It turns out with the exception of The Santa Suit this past March, I haven't read a Christmas book in SIX YEARS. I very much want to rectify that; I miss the cozy feeling you get from them this time of year. And what's better than a romance and CATS.
Christmas By the Book - Anne Marie Ryan
I bought it at a book sale in April and have been waiting to deploy it. The hope is I won't love it so that I can then let it go. The Danger is that if it's even 3 stars (and I can't see how it won't be) I WILL want to keep it for the same reason I bought it -- that stinkin' beautiful cover.
Just Like Magic - Sarah Hogle
I'm told this is ridiculous as heck, but I'm now so intrigued I want to try it, based on how much I loved Twice Shy.
Tell Me Everything - Minka Kelly
Switching gears real quick, I don't remember hearing about this before it was part of the Goodreads Choice awards, but I'm honestly kind of intrigued despite not having watched Friday Night Lights (yet?) or really anything she's done except that stalker horror movie w/ Leighton Meester.
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
I'm waiting until the holidays to check this out (got my hold all paused at the top of the queue) so that I have time off from work and can ensure I read & return it to the massive waitlist as quickly as possible, one week at most.
The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway - Ashley Schumacher
Am I super excited about this? No, not least because I hate this cover with the ~plus size~ heroine looking like she's made of balloons/has sausages for thighs/has been hit with a Willy Wonka blueberry-swelling curse (let's not even talk about her bizarre lack of a torso), but I figure I'll like it more than the bad boy in her sophomore effort.
Emily Wilde's Encylopedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
I need to be off the waitlist and into reading this book like NOW before I over-hype it to myself through sheer anticipation. Why is everyone keeping this book so overdue. I started out 9th on the list for 2 copies at the end of September and I am still only sixth.
Mother of Death & Dawn - Carissa Broadbent
Welp somehow* I'm not only reading but invested in the one kind of book I've always sworn I would never read: a massive adult fantasy/romantasy trilogy. My library doesn't own it, so I'll be waiting for the audiobook to come in, but then I will finish this series out.
(*I saw a moodboard + quote on Tumblr from book 2 -- "You were the one who wanted to save the world. I only ever wanted to save you," and that's basically all it took for me, in my permeable softened-by-the-Loki-series-toward-stories-with-magic state, to look up the series and immediately decide to give it a whirl) (the casting does not translate. and even that didn't deter me)
If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
I had intended to read this in the fall, honestly (a decision I didn't make until mid-October, when this book went from "a popular title that simply does not interest me" to me seeing it on a list of "books Loki would read" and changing my mind immediately), but then various library books jumped in front and now I still don't really know when or where I'm going to fit in it. But. I BELIEVE THAT I WILL.
The Only One Left - Riley Sager
Hopefully I'll be off the waitlist by the end of winter, anyway (44th on 10 copies). This is the last Sager book I'm excited about before I have to wait for annual releases like everyone else, but eager to get to it when I do.