Susan’s Book Blog

Like a lot of people, I think, I really need to pull back on how many books I buy. I have this massive TBR pile that I desperately want to get through (why can’t I read 47 books at once??? 😭) and seriously need to stop adding to it already.  I still have a dozen or so preorders waiting on their release dates, scattered throughout 2022. My Book of the Month club membership is a potential extra dozen books or so, one sprinkled in every few weeks. And I recently signed up for Illumicrate’s two subscriptions: their regular monthly book box and their quarterly romance-centric sub, Afterlight. So I definitely have those to look forward to, like little Christmas gifts throughout the year. I won’t exactly be hard up for new books, whether they’re just new to me or new to everyone. So I’m going to try to be good and not seek out new books quite so much while I bulldoze my way through my TBR. And I’m going to try to be better about impulse purchases… like the ones below… 😬 I came across...

 Very much looking forward to getting into both of these! I got the paperback of Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell today and was approved for the The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian on NetGalley (woooo!!!!) and I am so excited for both!  Stay tuned for reviews… 

 Ok so I went a little crazy this month. Not sure why. But here’s the books I got this month to add to my way out of control TBR pile. I think my New Years resolution for 2022 is going to have to be Read Only From the TBR!  I am so excited to have discovered Olivia Dade, Lucy Lennox, and Jenny Holiday. I absolutely adore All The Feels, Virgin Flyer, and Duke Actually. I’m also very much looking forward to trying Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven cycle books and trying Colleen Hoover. I’ve heard so much about both of them. I read the first chapter of Shadow and Bone and I have high hopes it’ll be enjoyable. A very interesting world in that book. Can’t wait to see where it goes…  After reading CS Pacat’s Captive Prince trilogy this year, I’m super eager to try Dark Rise. I have no idea what to expect with Caraval but I wanted to give it a try. I think my 2022 TBR is looking pretty good! Have you read any of these? Any faves? Disappointments? Thoughts?

 The year is going to be winding down soon and I was thinking about all the books I’m excited about in the coming year. A couple I’ve been able to read ARCs of, and others I’m just waiting patiently for like everyone else. ⏳ 🕰 📚 Books I’m Highly Anticipating in 2022 Book Lovers by Emily Henry Available May 3, 2022 A by the book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation . I adore everything I’ve read by Emily Henry so far so I am very excited about this one! Anticipation for this one has been swirling around Bookstagram for months. Her writing is next level and always filled with emotion and humor. I can’t wait to meet these characters. This one is going to live up to the hype. Click here for more info and preorder links Weather Girl  by Rachel Lynn Solomon Available January 11, 2022 (Berkley) A TV m...

 These just arrived and I am so excited! I’ve already read the Captive Prince trilogy and Jay’s Gay Agenda (they are uhh MAYYY zingggg!) but I had to have them for my bookshelf. The rest are being added to my TBR pile and I hope to get to them very soon. (Sorry to the books that have been on my TBR forever. 😬) I’ve only read three of Cat Sebastian’s books (Two Rogues Make a Right, and the two Cabot novellas) and I am a HUGE fan of her style. I’ve heard so much about The Queer Principles of Kit Webb and am so excited to get to it. She writes such great characters and always has a wonderful, smart sense of humor. She’s the best. Payback’s a Witch is one of those cute seasonal holiday finds that I was intrigued by. I think it’ll be a great Halloween read next week. In Deeper Waters I know less about but I know I’ve read a lot of excellent reviews for it and really look forward to digging in. Not really sure what to expect from Dark Rise , and it’s not normally a genre I read muc...