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The Weekly Share Vol. 2

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Welcome to The Weekly Share! Inspired by some of our favorite content creators we are going to end the week on a positive note– by sharing some of our favorite bookish happenings, links, recommendations and book deals from the week.

Bookish Happenings

Julie Moody-Freeman’s two part interview with retired romance editor and founder of RWA Vivian Stephens on The Black Romance podcast is a must-listen for romance readers. It’s fascinating to hear her experiences with romance publishing in the 80s.

OprahMag.com created this great interactive guide to Black owned independent bookstores, I’ve already placed an order in at Loyalty !

Aiden Thomas’ Cemetery Boys debuted on the NYT Bestsellers list, making it the first fictional YA book by an openly trans author to hit the list. It has also been longlisted for the National Book Award,

Links & Reccomendations

When it comes to at-home workouts I want ones that are fun and never feel boring or repetitive. This week I thought I’d recommend four of my favorite at-home workouts – Kat

I just discovered Target Threshold’s Wax Melts. They are affordable fire-safe ways to fill a room with fragrance plus they have a ton of dupe Bath and Body Works scents.

Looking for new podcasts? I’ve recently added Audibly Addicted and the Audiobook Lovin Podcast to my rotation of work from home podcast, both feature in-depth interviews and conversations with some of your favorite romance audiobook narrators. – Jess

Book Deals

The Weekly Share Vol. 1

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Welcome to the inaugural The Weekly Share! Inspired by some of our favorite content creators we are going to end the week on a positive note– by sharing some of our favorite links, recommendations, book deals, and our favorite bookish news from the week.

Bookish Happenings

Links & Reccomendations

  • I am drinking a lot more homemade coffee drinks and to spice things up I’ve been on the hunt for syrups and discovered Amoretti ! Their Crema Di Pumpkin taste just like Starbucks’ PSL. – Kat
  • Attention bloggers, two sources I just discovered for free (free free) aesthetically pleasing images are Pexels.com and Unsplash.com. They beautify any content! – Jess
  • Looking for a TV show with 100 + hours of entertainment? I’ve been watching NBC’s Chicago Fire, it’s an over-the-top action-packed drama that has somehow been on for nine years? Plus it’s free on IMDBtv – Jess

Books and Sensibility By The Numbers 2019 !

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It’s that time of year where we crunch the numbers from the books we’ve reviewed on this blog in 2019. We keep track using a review tracking spreadsheet in Google Sheets and turn it into an infographic on Canva. This isn’t indicative of all our reading because the romance blog has its own stats and there are books we’ve read that haven’t been reviewed.

 

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Our Top Five Books of The Year

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Los Angeles Bookstore Hop

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You may have noticed Kat and I had an irregular posting schedule for a few months and while part of it was a slump, it was also because we were deep into planning a  trip to Los Angeles. We wanted to get a taste (literally, 80% of what we did was eat) of West Coast vibes and being book bloggers we had to, of course, visit some of L.A’s popular book stores.

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Our ApollyCon 2019 Recap

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 This year Kat and I made it to our first big romance reader event!  ApollyCon is only  2 hours north of us and has been on my radar for years. What started as a signing for Jennifer Armentrout fans has turned into a 3-day fan convention. The big reason I wanted to go this year was to meet Elle Kennedy. Kennedy has become very well known for her New Adult Briar U series but I’m a big fan of her romantic suspense Killer Instincts series and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to meet her.

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