What I am Studying Vol. 131.

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Whats up darlings,

The climate has lastly turned in my a part of the world and I’m craving all issues cozy: if the plan isn’t studying whereas swathed in fuzzy blankets in entrance of a fireplace with cinnamon tea, I don’t need it.

2025 as been a whirlwind for me: I’ve traveled virtually each month, which is a wild factor for somebody who was once too sick to face up for very lengthy to say.

Touring in my new(ish) actuality as an individual disabled with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome seems to be very completely different than touring used to search for me as a fairly wholesome particular person, however I’m so grateful that my physique has been capable of get stronger and achieve the endurance to let me go on adventures once more.

Because the 12 months winds down, I’m making an attempt to do the identical: I’m embracing the comfy, close-to-home feeling that winter provides me and utilizing it as inspiration to relaxation earlier than the brand new 12 months….whereas additionally planning to go to NYC yet one more time after which come house and rejoice Christmas and Hanukkah with prolonged household on either side.

I hope that you just’re capable of take some cozy recharge time for yourselves because the climate will get colder, my darlings.

xoxo,
Becky

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What I’m studying

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna: Bookshop.org | Amazon.

Ever since she was a baby, Mika Moon has been an obedient witch: all the time following the strict guidelines that her guardian taught her to maintain her magic and their neighborhood a secret. However it’s a lonely life, so she decides to take a threat and begin a TikTok account for making actual potions that she pretends are faux.

However when her TikTok catches the eye of an uncommon family on the lookout for somebody to assist three younger witches rising up collectively regardless of the strict guidelines in opposition to that type of association, she begins to understand that all the things she thought was settled about her life would possibly truly be due for a change.

I want I may put this e-book in a blender and drink it. It’s so cozy and heat and full of affection! Cozy fantasy with a sprinkle of romance. Severely, like a readable hug in your mind. I purchased it as a present for a good friend inside minutes of ending it.

You Ought to Be So Fortunate by Cat Sebastian: Bookshop.org | Amazon.

This e-book a couple of sardonic reporter slowly, inevitably, and fully falling in love with knowledgeable baseball participant with golden retriever power is the most effective romance I’ve learn all 12 months.

Mark Bailey isn’t a sports activities reporter, however he’s spiraling out after dropping the person he anticipated to spend his life with when his boss assigns him to cowl some baseball video games whereas his co-worker is out sick. Quickly, Mark finds himself assigned to a day-in-the-life diary characteristic that’s meant to rehabilitate the picture of the native staff’s latest participant who’s caught in a horrible droop, hotshot Eddie O’Leary.

Set in 1960’s NYC, this lovely queer love story offers with loads of worry round being outed and fear over homophobia from the world at giant, however watching these two characters select one another in large and small methods as they develop nearer and nearer stuffed my coronary heart with heat.

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