My goal this year is to read 65 books. I’ll post my picks as I start them. Hopefully, you’ll read along with me!
TSM Book Club Goal: 65 in 365
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June Book Selections
TSM Book Club Book #26: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Started: June 25thFinished: June 29thTSM Rating: 5/5 I feel smarter when I read Ali Hazelwood’s books. And also dumber.😂 Hazelwood has he PhD in neuroscience so naturally all her characters are women and men of STEM. She infuses science into her books and when her protagonists get together they nerd out on all their combined…
TSM Book Club Book #25: Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
Started: June 19thFinished: June 25thTSM Rating: 5/5 I cannot stress enough how much I love Tessa Bailey. Her books are so fun and funny and sexy. Her female leads are strong and self-assured and vulnerable. Her male leads are built for these women. They add a softness to them, even with their simplistic brute strength.…
TSM Book Club Book #24: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Started: June 11th Finished: June 18th TSM Rating: 5/5 Abby Jimenez is such a beautiful writer. She weaves hope and humor so seamlessly with dark topics that it’s sometimes easy to forget the serious nature of her characters’ issues. Yours Truly exists in the same universe as Part of Your World, focusing on Ali’s best…
TSM Book Club Book #23: Love at First by Kate Clayborn
Started: June 2nd Finished: June 11th TSM Rating: 4/5 Love at First was such a sweet book about family, life, death, and learning how to allow yourself grace and love. Nora and Will are as charming as enemies as they are alluring as a couple. Their neighbors and friends — their found family — provide…
May Book Selections
TSM Book Club Book #22: The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah
Started: May 22ndFinished: June 2ndTSM Rating: 4/5 It is only by pure coincidence that the last two books I picked up to the end of May featured protagonists struggling with mental health issues with varying degrees of severity. Both deal with heavy topics of suicide, depression, loss, drug abuse, and parental abandonment. Direction of the…
TSM Book Club Book #21: Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev
Started: May 22nd Finished: May 31stTSM Rating: 4.5/5 It is only by pure coincidence that the last two books I picked up to the end of May featured protagonists struggling with mental health issues with varying degrees of severity. Both deal with heavy topics of suicide, depression, loss, drug abuse, and parental abandonment. First up…
TSM Book Club Book #20: The Ones We Fight For by Katie Golightly
Started: May 6th Finished: May 21st TSM Rating 4/5 This was my first time reading a book on Kindle. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it’s convenient to have a book at the tip of my fingers and the highlighting on demands clutch. On the other hand, it’s more time on my phone,…
TSM Book Club Book #19: The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Started: May 2nd Finished: May 13thTSM Rating: 3/5 The Verifiers was an interesting read. It’s a niche organization that specializes in tracking online dating matches. It follows the story of Claudia Lin, who works for a mysterious agency of private investigators on steroids. The story begins with a client, Iris Lettriste, who comes to the…
April Book Selections
TSM Book Club Book #18: Well Played by Jen DeLuca
Started: April 26th Finished: May 1st TSM Rating: 3/5 So this was the second book in the Well Met series. I wanted to like it, but I didn’t love our heroine, Stacey. She is the stereotype of a ‘basic white girl,’ and I’m not here for it. Much of the book felt like it was…
TSM Book Club Book #17: When In Rome by Sarah Adams
Started: April 20th Finished: April 25th TSM Rating: 4/5 This was so cute. From Amelia and Noah’s meet-cute to their many attempts to keep their hands off each other to Amelia’s ongoing struggle to make the perfect pancake, I enjoyed When In Rome so much. Sometimes romance novels can be a bit cringey with how…
TSM Book Club Book #16: The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Started: April 14th Finished: April 19th TSM Rating: 3/5 The Unhoneymooners follows Ethan and Olive as they travel to Maui on his brother and her twin sister’s honeymoon after the entire wedding party is infected with an awful case of food poisoning from seafood Olive and Ethan opted out of. This was fun and frustrating…
TSM Book Club Book #15: What You Wish For by Katherine Center
Started: April 5th Finished: April 14thTSM Rating: 5/5 A couple years back while perusing the fiction section of my favorite used book store, I came across three Katherine Center novels. I’d never heard of her, but the book covers were beautiful and the the blurbs on the back were interesting so I picked them up.…
March Book Selections
TSM Book Club Book #14: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Started: March 21st Finished: April 5thTSM Rating: -/5 So this took a while.😅 I full intended to finish this book before the end of March, but it took a while for me to really get into…like over one hundred pages. After finishing it, I’m left with mixed feelings. On one hand, it was well written.…
TSM Book Club Book #13: The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
Started: March 15thFinished: March 21stTSM Rating: 4/5 I’m a sucker for stories about writers. Anytime I find a book where the protagonist is a writer of some kind, I will always read it because I’m always curious about other peoples point of view about writing, from the process to actually being a writer. It’s just…
TSM Book Club Book #12: Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Started: March 7th Finished: March 15thTSM Rating: 5/5 When I posted this as book twelve I said that I loved how full and realistic Anita Diamant’s characters are. In each of her novels, the stories focus on the strong connections women make when facing change and adversity. Day After Night was no different and the…
TSM Book Club Book #11: Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
Started: March 1st Finished: March 6th TSM Rating: 5/5 I love Tessa Baily. I read It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinkerlast year and loved them — Hook, Line, and Sinker being my fave of the two — then I went back and started reading more of her books. I’m a fan for…
February Book Selections
TSM Book Club Book #10: Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Started: February 24th Finished: February 28th TSM Rating: 5/5 Phew. That’s the…
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TSM Book Club Book #9: Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
Started: February 17th Finished: February 24thTSM Rating: 4/5 Quarter-life crisis. Complete debilitating…
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TSM Book Club Book #8: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Started: February 10thFinished: February 17thTSM Rating: 4/5 This story was so consistently…
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TSM Book Club Book #7: Fake It Til You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
Started: February 6thFinished: February 9thTSM Rating: 5/5 This book was so much…
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TSM Book Club Book #6: Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Started: February 1stFinished: February 6thTSM Rating: 4/5 Dark. Melancholy. Isolated. Bright. Funny.…
Read MoreJanuary Book Selections
TSM Book Club Book #5: Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Started: January 26thFinished: February 1stTSM Rating: 3.5/5 I meant to finish this…
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TSM Book Club Book #4: Artemis by Andy Weir
Started: January 19thFinished: January 26thTSM Rating: 3/5 I read The Martian a…
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TSM Book Club Book #3: Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood
Started: January 15thFinished: January 18thTSM Rating: 5/5 I fell in love with…
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TSM Book Club Book #2: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute By Talia Hibbert
Started: January 7th | Finished: January 14thTSM Rating: 4/5 Remember high school?…
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TSM Book Club Book #1: Well Met by Jen DeLuca
Started: January 2nd | Finished: January 7thTSM Rating: 3.5/5 I’ll be honest…
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The Saucy Mama 