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Author: Kim and Tanya

  • Favorite Book Covers [The 2020 Edition]

    Favorite Book Covers [The 2020 Edition]

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    At the end of the year, we like to look back at our favorites reads – Popular Books Worth the Hype, The Best Books [Kim] Read This Year, Favorite Audiobooks [Tanya] Listened To and now, our Favorite Book Covers. + TANYA PATRICE + War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi Cover Art Art Directed by Tony Sahara and Kristin…

  • This is How We Do Christmas [The 2020 Edition]

    This is How We Do Christmas [The 2020 Edition]

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    We love the holiday season and both of us tend to go all out with the Christmas vibes in our house – from decor, music, movies and foods. ✰ TANYA PATRICE ✰ This holiday season is memorable because my youngest is headed off to college next year. He’s excited that he’ll still continue swimming as…

  • A Month of Faves [Blog Event – Here at Last]

    A Month of Faves [Blog Event – Here at Last]

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    If you’ve been waiting for #AMonthofFaves, it’s here at last. We posted it to Instagram but neglected to post it here to the blog. For those of you that have reached out and said you miss it and would like us to post it, thank you! It’s nice to know that there’s still interest in…

  • 2021 Bookish Intentions

    2021 Bookish Intentions

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      KIM  I didn’t set many goals for 2020 and that turned out to be a good thing. With the year going totally off the rails for a lot of us, I found that my only goal was to survive! One of the things that helped me survive was books! My creative outlet was the…

  • Popular Books Worth the Hype

    Popular Books Worth the Hype

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    Which books did you read this year that you saw all over blogs, your friends were pushing or it was praised to the high heavens by the critics? Did you agree that the books deserved the praises being heaped on them? Every year since 2015 – in the last month of the year, #AMonthofFaves, we…

  • Monthly Motif Reading Challenge [December Check In]

    Monthly Motif Reading Challenge [December Check In]

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    Welcome back to the 2020 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge! It’s the final month! Your challenge this month is to read a book that gives you thrills or chills. Then link up to where you posted about it in the comments, on our Goodreads GXO Reading Challenge group or on Instagram using the hashtag #MonthlyMotifGXO. And don’t forget to…

  • Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge [December Check In]

    Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge [December Check In]

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    Welcome back to the 2020 Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge! You made it to the last month! Your challenge is to read a book that includes one of this months Key Words in the title. Then link up to where you posted about it in the comments, on our Goodreads GXO Reading Challenge group or on Instagram…

  • Booked Out [November 2020]

    Booked Out [November 2020]

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    How was your month in books? Which book was your favorite? With so many reading events this month – did you participate in any? + KIM + I seem to be developing a routine of ho-humming my way through the first two and a half weeks of the month. Somewhere around the 20th of the…

  • Let’s Talk About the Goodreads Awards Finalists

    Let’s Talk About the Goodreads Awards Finalists

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    It’s become a tradition for us to share with you our choices for the Goodreads Choice Awards. Every year the competition is fierce – and for the 5th year in a row, we’re highlighting the books we’ve read (and want to read) in each category. FICTION TANYA PATRICE – Last year’s prediction of the winner was…

  • Favorite Books from the Past 3 Autumns

    Favorite Books from the Past 3 Autumns

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    For both of us, we don’t read as much in the summer, but once the cooler temps and early nights of the Fall season roll around, we start reaching for more and more books. This also means that at least some of the books read in Fall end up making our best books of the…