What’s on my TBR?

If I love a book, I usually struggle to put it down… which means, when life isn’t really fucking chaotic, I finish books in a few days – at MOST. It also means I stay up way too late reading. I’m talking 2 o’clock in the morning, struggling to keep my eyes open late night reading sessions that I regret the next day when it’s time to drag myself out of bed and get ready for work. I go through phases where I’ll read multiple books per week. Some weeks it’s one, sometimes two, and when I’m feeling really crazy, sometimes more. There’s just something about losing myself in a story that I can’t get enough of.

But if I don’t like a book? Yea, my track record with books that I don’t fall in love with by chapter 3 is BAD. Really bad. If I’m not enjoying book, I almost immediately send it to the discard pile. The rejects. The “I’ll absolutely never finish reading this book” graveyard. There are more books there than I am going to admit in my first blog. I’d prefer you get to know me a little better before you start judging my impulsive reading habits – or in this case, my impulsive NOT reading habits. It’s for the best, I promise.

You’d think if I read books as often as I say I do my to be read list would be short. It’s not. One of my favorite ways to pass time is scrolling through goodreads (or tiktok, or instagram, or amazon – I don’t discriminate) to find new books that sound interesting. Books that I will definitely read… One day. 👀

So what’s on my TBR at the moment?

Obviously I can’t (I guess I could, but I won’t) share them all right now, but here are a few that I plan to read soon:

Better Than Expected by Haley Cass

Haley has quickly become one of my favorite authors. If you haven’t read anything she’s written – do it! Now! And start with Those Who Wait. Haley’s writing style is quick, witty, and sexy and you really can’t help but fall in love with her characters. She often writes follow up novellas, which is SO nice when you’re mourning the loss of your favorites after you finish a book. I recently read another one of Haley’s novels – When You Least Expect It – and this book is the follow up

Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter

I haven’t read anything by Lee Winter, but this book sounds ridiculously funny. This exact part of the description alone is enough to make me want to read it.

Muffin maker Olivia Roberts has had it with her awful exes taking advantage of her good nature. The theft of her nana’s beloved stuffed penguin is the absolute last straw. She puts up an ad at her local crime bookstore for a henchperson to help her enact a little mild revenge.

But it also has great reviews! As an Aries I love a little bit of chaos, and this sounds like just that.

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

Becky is a former clinical psychologist that specifically worked with teens and children – who better to write a queer teen coming of age novel? Young adult fiction isn’t my go to genre but this premise of this book is so relatable – a girl, who is a self proclaimed hopeless heterosexual and avid pride ally (it’s a canon even, really), falls for her friend… who just happens to be a girl. A book about a girl who thinks she is straight until something happens that makes her question literally everything (it’s me, hi!)? A must read.

Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston

I read my first Ashley Poston book late last year (The Seven Year Slip) and immediately loved it. Her novels always seem to have something a little supernatural – ghosts, time travel, fictional towns that are somehow real. My favorite book of hers that I’ve read so far was The Dead Romantics. It was quirky and mysterious and I loved it. I just finished another Ashley Poston book this week. Sounds Like Love doesn’t come out until June 17, 2025 but I can’t wait to read it.

About That Kiss by Harper Bliss

Harper Bliss is another author I haven’t actually read yet, but I’ve been recommended her books a number of times. I wouldn’t typically choose a book about a movie star as my first pick from an author – but I’ve heard great things about this one! A closeted actress with a dwindling career who is cast in a lesbian rom-com – and inevitably finds herself smitten with her costar. I’ll actually probably start this one soon.