HAPPY MONDAY!! NOT A BIG LIST TODAY but a couple of favorites are on here and a few tropes to choose from. π Though the big winner is the “best friend’s brother trope” (which I love – though I’ve NEVER had a crush on my best friend’s brothers so I can’t relate – but I can imagine…) π
Three things:
1.) I spent a whole calm weekend at home, catching up on my house stuff, snuggling my dogs, binge-watching Netflix shows (nothing too exciting to recommend on that front). Just a nice quiet weekend after last weekend (which as amazing and fun but also hectic) and then this past work week was insane for me (and I had to do lots of overtime) but this weekend, and this upcoming week should be calm. Ahhhhhh nice. π Oh I DID catch up on the latest “Love Is Blind” season, so I can’t wait to see the reunion this week. Eeeeeeep! That’s going to be tumultuous. I LOVE IT. Total guilty pleasure.

2.) My latest crop (other than my constant bell peppers) are radishes!!!! I am so thrilled with the radishes – perfect size, perfect color, perfect radish-y taste. My canary LOVES the radish greens (their lettuce-y top is totally his thing). I’m impressed with my little raised bed garden. Oh and!!! Tiny baby green beans are growing. You guys. They look IDENTICAL to regular size green beans but in tiny mini form. Like baby muppet green beans!! π
3.) But also this weekend, I was having so much fun finding past emails and comments that I had missed with adamant book recommendations detailed and full of heart why that book was a must read. So… I’m starting a new thing. π I’m dedicating posts to them!! Old or new, if the heartfelt email (or the excited email) gives me a blurb jolt or sounds right up our alley, I’m adding it to the blog! So if you have one for me, let me know. The short recommendations, as usual, will be added to the Friday Finds or fun lists like that, but the detailed and personal ones, those will be posts!! I’ve always been about my fellow readers and what they love to read as well as what I love to read, so I’m excited to highlight these too.
In fact… here’s an example of one I received:
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The Fix: A Novel by Mia Sheridan β Nov 1 2025- Hell to Pay (Portland Devils Book 6) by Rosalind James β Nov 1 2025
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- Save Us (Maxton Hall Book 3) by Mona Kasten β Nov 4 2025
- Sin Bin (D.C. Stars Book 5) by Chelsea Curto β Nov 4 2025
- The Accidental Christmas: Wild Rose Point by Lori Foster β Nov 4 2025
- With Friends Like These: A Novel by Alissa Lee β Nov 4 2025
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1. I’m always meeting people at concerts and swearrrrr that we’ll keep in touch but of course it never happens! But last month I sang and danced all night with my new BFF, Kris, and this weekend he and his partner came out for the night. We tortured our significant others with Callum Kerr (the show we went to) and talked non-stop in the hot tub till 3am. And now we have plans for Wurstfest and possibly Thanksgiving. Kindred souls for sure!
2. I can’t wait for the reunion either, but this season of LIB was the worst IMO. Didn’t the first season feel like they had actual adults? This group was awful.
3. I’m going back to Isla Mujeres soon and I cannot wait! This time, we’re not planning a single thing but sitting on the beach and eating from food trucks. It will be heaven!