Category: Book Reviews

THE HOEMANCE BOOK CLUB APRIL, MAY & JUNE 2023 PICKS 💕📚

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Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! Today’s post is my obligatory second-quarter Hoemance announcement! The Hoemance Book Club is a romance book club I run with my friend Rebecca (from over at @ bookishlyrebecca) over on Discord! We’ve been reading romances together since 2021 and have no plans of stopping!

Last quarter we read Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute, Seven Days in June + Do I Know You? You can find everything we read in 2022 here. Here’s what we’re planning on reading in April, May and June!

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Find out more about the book club here ↓  & find our catalogue of past books here.

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THE HOEMANCE BOOK CLUB JANUARY, FEBRUARY & MARCH 2023 PICKS 🥰💖📚

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Back in 2021 Rebecca and I started The Hoemance Book Club and we’ve absolutely loved discussing romance books with our book club every month so we’re keeping the book club running this year too and we have so many exciting romances to read with you all!!
Last year we read some real bangers like Weather Girl, Delilah Green Doesn’t Care & The Romantic Agenda. You can find everything we read in 2022 here.

Find out more about the book club here ↓  & find our catalogue of past books here.

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How To Read Mariana Zapata’s Books | Publication Order vs Chronological Order | Updated 2022

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Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! Today I’m going through how to read Mariana Zapata’s books. Mariana Zapata is one of my favourite authors of all time and definitely my favourite romance author. her books can all be read as standalone but a lot of the later ones included cameos with other characters so today I’m writing up a quick summary of which books are connected and how you should read them.

Honestly, I started with The Wall of Winnipeg and Me and then went from there and I think it’s fine to just pick and choose whatever most interests you and then go on from there. The cameos rarely impact the plot in any major way and you can treat all of MZ’s books as standalones, but if you want to read in either publication or chronological (from what I can guess) order, that’s what I’m going through today!

If you’re looking for a quick graphic to save to your phone I highly recommend this one I found on Pinterest.

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Graphicsathon Round 7 Announcement ✨Graphicsopoly ✨ Diverse December!✨

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Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog. If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I’ve been co-hosting the Graphicsathon for a few years now so I’m super excited to announce the latest round which is focusing on diversity since there are so many amazing diverse graphics out there that we want to highlight! We’re also using this round to really get on top of our Goodreads/Storygraph challenges since it’s set in December!

Follow our Twitter here & join the graphicsathon Discord here! We’ll be doing reading sprints throughout the readathon and we also have a buddy read and prompts so it’s going to be a lot of fun and I know we’re going to have some great discussions. I’m really looking forward to reading with you all!

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The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann mini review // the hoemance book club 💕

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Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog. Today I’m bringing you a mini review (what?? on this blog???) of the latest Hoemance Book Club monthly pick! The Hoemance Book Club is the romance book club that I run with Rebecca from BookishlyRebecca. We started this in 2020 and we’ve been really loving discussing romance books with you each month. We have a discord where we talk about the book club picks and also have a general chat section and channels where we can recommend books to each other and organise buddy reads as well as any other bookish and non-bookish things you can think of!

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i read the entire kingdom of the wicked trilogy in 12 hours lol i’m unhinged

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Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! I’m in the mood for some romance today and I have the day off from work so I’ve decided to take advantage of my reading motivation! It’s 11am and since today is the only day this week that I’m not busy so I’m dedicating the entire day to reading the Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy by Kerry Mainsalco. The last book in the trilogy came out in late September and I’ve been waiting for a free day to binge the trilogy and today is finally that day!

I have read book 1 before but I haven’t read the other books so I’m excited to see where this trilogy goes, especially since I don’t really remember what happens in book 1!

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THE HOEMANCE BOOK CLUB OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2022 PICKS 💕📚

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Last year I introduced the Hoemance Book Club here on my blog and since then we’ve been reading a romance a month and it’s been an absolute blast! We’ve read some total bangers like The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang and Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon which have become fast favourites! I’ve been loving discussing our monthly picks on our Discord with everyone in our club and I can’t wait to discuss our new picks too!

Need some new Storygraph challenges to dive into?

You can join the Hoemance challenge here on Storygraph and we’ve also put together two separate challenges for anyone interested! There’s the Romance Buzzword challenge for anyone who wants a more laid back challenge & there’s also the Reading Romance challenge which is just a list of 13 prompts you can add your read books to over 2022!

  • Find us on Twitter & Instagram (I highly recommend following our Ig, we post lots of romance recommendations on there and it’s a blast!)
  • Join our Discord here
  • Suggest books for future reads here
  • Join our StoryGraph challenge here

Find out more about the book club here ⬇️  & find our catalogue of past books here.

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The Bodyguard by Katherine Center mini review // the hoemance book club 💕

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Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog. Today I’m bringing you a mini review (what?? on this blog???) of the latest Hoemance Book Club monthly pick! The Hoemance Book Club is the romance book club that I run with Rebecca from BookishlyRebecca. We started this in 2020 and we’ve been really loving discussing romance books with you each month. We have a discord where we talk about the book club picks and also have a general chat section and channels where we can recommend books to each other and organise buddy reads as well as any other bookish and non-bookish things you can think of!

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Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley mini review // the hoemance book club ✨💕🧁

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Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog! Today I’m reviewing Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley which was our July book club read. Since 2021, Rebecca and I have been running The Hoemance Book Club and we’ve absolutely loved discussing romance books with our book club every month with everyone on our Discord! We’ve read so many exciting romances lately and we can’t to read some new favourites this year too! Earlier this year we read some real bangers like Weather Girl, Book Lovers and The Wall of Winnipeg and Me.

If you want to join our book club, it’s open to everyone and in September we’ll be reading The Bodyguard by Katherine Center! Join our Discord here!

Find out more about this month’s book here ↓  & find our catalogue of past books here.

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