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The Bookmark Lit Bulletin wraps up the last month in reading and what was on the blog, as well as what’s coming up next. You can check out my book haul, books read, posts shared, challenge updates, etc. You can read past bulletins here. If you’re looking for more personal updates, you can check out my Lauren Lately feature; it highlights my life events and non-bookish fun from the previous 30…

Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2026 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I felt like there weren’t a lot of…

My monthly TBR feature here shows my progress based on last month’s TBR, my plans for this month, and anything else I might be thinking about from a reading perspective. Sometimes I feature a little poll at the bottom so you guys can help me figure out a certain title I should read from a group of books. July TBR My goal for this summer – and ideally June if I could help it – was to get back on…

I like to take a look at my annual/year-long reading challenges and see which prompts are missing, as well as what books may fill those gaps..and which prompts are juuuust not happening lol. I’m writing this on June 15th so it doesn’t reflect a true midpoint of the year, but just a little over. I create this post by looking at my immediate and upcoming TBR, review copies I plan to read, and books…

Summer TBR (incl. Progress) Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I posted my Summer TBR and bucket list since that’s something I…

I’ve been utterly terrible about watching TV shows or keeping up with new release movies that I’m excited about. I track everything in the TV Time app but unfortunately if you don’t mark the first episode as “watched” when it comes out right away, the show will move out of the immediate to-watch list… and then I forget it exists. I wanted to go through my app and see what I’ve been missing out on…

Man, this was so underwhelming and I’m bummed! I saw this book gain some steam online and get really favorable reviews, so I decided to pick it as my Aardvark book for the month. I wasn’t initially interested but the hype got to me a little bit. The premise sounds good and thrilling: you know one of the main characters (there are five of them) will die at the train stop, but won’t know who until…

I’ve noticed a really fun trend lately where authors are writing adventure-forward contemporary fiction and romance. These stories can have an Indiana Jones vibe, featuring paleontologists, archeologists, or scientists going out on a dig or quest or something similar. The first author I think of is Jo Segura; I’ve really enjoyed all of her books within this trope so far.   Her books follow…

I’ve written many times about my auto-buy or auto-read authors… if they release a book, I will be buying and/or reading it each time. I feel like this list is always evolving or at least growing. Some authors fall off the list for a while for one reason or another, then pop back up again later. For example, I religiously read Kasie West’s YA books for a while and then just grew out of them,…

It’s well-documented on here how much I love Sarah Dessen. I’ve been reading her books since I was a teenager and was really disappointed when we didn’t get another book after her last release in 2019. I started reading her Substack and was surprised to learn of her publishing struggles after such a storied career. Nonetheless, I absolutely preoredered CHANGE OF PLANS when it was announced and…

I’m someone who lovesss a seasonal TBR and a reading challenge. When you combine the two for a great reading season – summertime – I’m definitely going to get on board. I’m joining two challenges and tracking them on Storygraph, so I thought I would share here and cover some TBR options based on what I hope to read this summer. Book Clurb Some gals I know in real life have an in-person Book Clurb…

This Friday R.E.P.O.R.T will consist of what I’ve been reading, eating, planning (instead of playing, I don’t really think it works for me), obsessing over, recommending, and treating. Written on Thursday 6/4. R / reading My reading has still been off despite my desire to improve it. I’m really amped about some of the books on my Summer TBR and love reading outside, but I cannot stop scrolling…

The Bookmark Lit Bulletin wraps up the last month in reading and what was on the blog, as well as what’s coming up next. You can check out my book haul, books read, posts shared, challenge updates, etc. You can read past bulletins here. If you’re looking for more personal updates, you can check out my Lauren Lately feature; it highlights my life events and non-bookish fun from the previous 30…

Books I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. This could be a top 100 list at this point. There are so…

My monthly TBR feature here shows my progress based on last month’s TBR, my plans for this month, and anything else I might be thinking about from a reading perspective. Sometimes I feature a little poll at the bottom so you guys can help me figure out a certain title I should read from a group of books. June TBR May was a little better from a quantity perspective. I did a pretty good job of…

Last summer was one of the busiest and weirdest ones we’ve had – we packed up slowly for a couple of months, moved out of our rental house at the end of June, moved into a temporary Airbnb, immediately went to Maine for the Fourth of July long weekend, spent the rest of July in the Airbnb, bought my parent’s house, and moved into our new home at the beginning of August. My reading was not…

Unlike many others, I enjoyed Finlay’s book last year – I know others have read and enjoyed a smattering of books from his backlist but I just kept putting off reading them for whatever reason. As I sometimes do, I requested a review copy last year for PARENTS WEEKEND to motivate me to read it. THE ANNIVERSARY was another great read and I really should prioritize his backlist now! The concept is…