I spend a lot of time at the bookstore browsing and I noticed last year I was mainly concentrating on and picking up those books that I was familiar with. So one of my goals this year was to purposefully seek out books that I haven’t heard of or just pick up covers that drew me in without any knowledge and attempt to expand my reading.
I definitely didn’t buy all of these. (One so far with three definite ones to come.) But they all went on my TBR pile.
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe and Jenny Colgan’s whole slew of books with cute deserts and recipes. I’m a sucker for cooking and stories like Chocolat. This is the book I bought and I’m about fifty pages in. Cute so far. I do hope they stop talking about characters weights soon though or I’m going to get annoyed.
Songs About a Girl by Chris Russell. This one is about a photographer whose old classmate asks her to photograph the behind the scenes of his band’s rise to fame. The synopsis gives me some Almost Famous vibes. A book about music and photography!
FYI the YA section was the hardest to find books I had never heard of…
As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti
In this town you get one wish on your 18th birthday and it’s going to come true. So you better be super careful what you wish for you know?
Haunted in Hollywood by Loey Lane
Okay, this looks like a goofy summer reader. It’s a ghost story about a Vlogger who must solve the mystery of the murderous ghosts at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. I’m a sucker for the Roosevelt Hotel so it could be interesting.
The Revolution of Marina M. by Janet Fitch
A coming of age during the Russian Revolution. A time in history that appeals to me a great deal and the cover blurb compares it to Doctor Zhivago which is a classic I’ve always meant to get to. (One of these days
