Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic was submitted by Dedra @ A Book Wanderer, and gives me the opportunity to just say “I LOVED THIS BOOK PERIOD”. Maybe I’m a bad book reviewer, but if I love a book too much I don’t know what to say about it without spoiling everything or making my review too long and detailed for anyone to actually want to read it. So I sit on it for a while, and never feel equipped with the words to do it justice so I just… never write one! It’s completely ridiculous! Anyway, here are some books I absolutely loved and wholeheartedly recommend, but never reviewed.

1. The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
2. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
4. Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Sarah Morgenthaler
5. The Winter King by C.L. Wilson
6. Snowflakes at the Little Christmas Tree Farm by Jaimie Admans
7. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
8. The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
9. The Fortunate Ones by R.S. Grey
10. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

What books have you loved so much you couldn’t review them properly?

Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is a love freebie in honor of Valentine’s Day, so let your imagination run wild and come up with your own topic centered on the theme of love! I decided to move away from books today and share my favorite rom com movies of all time. These are comfort movies for me, and make me very happy!

1. The Holiday
2. Leap Year
3. Letters to Juliet
4. When In Rome
5. Music & Lyrics
6. Legally Blonde
7. The Proposal
8. Father of the Bride
9. Just Go With It
10. It Was Always You

What are some of your favorite romantic movies?
Any fun Valentine’s Day plans?

Welcome to another TTT! Can you believe it’s February!? This week’s topic is “Books With Character Names In the Title” and was submitted through the topic suggestion form by both BookLoversBlog and Lucy @ Bookworm Blogger, so thank you both for the fun idea! Do you have a great idea for a future TTT topic, too? Submit it through the form and then keep an eye on the schedule! I do my best to use all the topics submitted, provided they haven’t already been done before and are not too specific that they will prevent some people from being able to participate. This week I’m trying to share books I haven’t talked about much on the blog. Most of the them I’ve read and loved, but a couple are from my TBR (marked with an asterisk) that I hope to get to soon!

A Christmas Bun for Ulysses by Sarah Morgenthaler
Lord Dashwood Missed Out by Tessa Dare
Carrie Goes Off the Map by Phillipa Ashley
To Love Jason Thorn by Ella Maise*
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
The Allure of Julian Lefray by R.S. Grey
Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim*
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Winter by Marissa Meyer (my favorite of the series)
Lucy Checks In by Dee Ernst*

Can you think of other books that have names in the title?

Welcome to another TTT! This week I’m sharing my top ten favorite new-to-me authors I read for the first time in 2021! Most of the authors in this list have been writing for a while and I only just picked up a book of theirs, but I did include a debut author because I had to! I’m including which book(s) I read, and how many stars they got from me. I originally thought this was going to be tricky since I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to find 10 new-to-me authors from last year, but I actually read a LOT more new authors than I thought I did!

1. R.S. Grey

• Hotshot Doc, 5 stars
• Date Me Like You Mean It, 5 stars
• The Beach, 2 stars
• The Fortunate Ones, 5 stars
• The Allure of Julian Lefray, 4 stars
• Anything You Can Do, 3 stars
• The Foxe and the Hound, 3 stars

2. Jenny Bayliss

• The Twelve Dates of Christmas, 5 stars

3. Brigid Kemmerer

• A Curse So Dark and Lonely, 5 stars
• A Heart So Fierce and Broken, 5 stars
• A Vow So Bold and Deadly, 4 stars

4. Julia Kent

• Little Miss Perfect, 4 stars
• Fluffy, 4 stars

5. Eloisa James

• A Kiss at Midnight, 4 stars

6. Julia Quinn

• The Duke and I, 4 stars
• The Viscount Who Loved Me, 4 stars
• An Offer from a Gentleman, 5 stars
• Romancing Mister Bridgerton, 3 stars
• To Sir Phillip, With Love, 1 star

7. Cindy Steele

• A Christmas Spark, 5 sars

8. Ali Hazelwood

• The Love Hypothesis, 5 stars

9. Andy Weir

• The Martian, 4 stars
• Project Hail Mary, 5 stars

10. C.L. Wilson

• The Winter King, 5 stars

Which authors did you discover in 2021?

Welcome to another TTT! I’m not one of those people who can read 200-300 books a year. I can’t even read 100 books a year, yet my TBR list grows exponentially as the years move on. As such, I always begin a new year looking back at all those highly anticipated releases I didn’t get to. How does one climb out from under all those amazing sounding books when more keep being added on top?? A mystery of the universe, I suppose. Today I’m sharing ten books released last year that I was super excited about and plan to make a priority this year, even though I’m already swimming in over 50 2022 books I’ve received for review. I’m not complaining! I’ll get it done eventually!

1. Meet Me in London by Georgia Toffolo
2. Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis
3. When Sparks Fly by Helena Hunting
4. Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
5. To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne
6. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
7. Float Plan by Trish Doller
8. The Duke Heist by Erica Ridley
9. Love at First by Kate Clayborn
10. The Fastest Way To Fall by Denise Williams

What 2021 releases were you excited for but never got to? 
Have you read any of these? Which ones should I prioritize (or even leave in the past altogether)?