Calm Your Anxiety Journal: Guided, Gentle Prompts for Soothing Stress and Quieting Your Anxiety by Ms. Liza Kindred
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I loved this excellent book around diving deeper into how to work with your anxiety. It’s a combination of concepts, exercises and reflection. You can do some of it in one sitting but there are also several exercises to help you ongoingly and to reflect as you do them over time. I found it to be very useful.

with gratitude to edelweiss and quarto group for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

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For You & No One Else by Roni Loren
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Roni Loren’s Say Everything series is my favorite of all romance series. I love every single character in her stories and I love the way they talk to each other and the way they care for each other.

And this one is no exception.

Eliza and Beck make the most lovely couple. Each struggling with their own journeys and each reserved and scared and closed off for different reasons. And yet they find each other and can’t help but love each other even if they don’t want to admit it to themselves.

I love these imperfect and yet deeply kind characters who understand that the world is not perfect and that we can love and care for each other just the way we are.

Love everything about this series.

with gratitude to netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What a beautiful story about love, loss, grief and living life on your own terms. Loving someone enough to walk alongside them in their journey and choosing them over your own self. I loved every moment with this book.

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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have savored this book over the course of many weeks. I have binged her TV show and I will have to watch it and read this again several times before i can fully internalize it. The concept of near enemy is something that will stay with me forever now that I know it and as with all of Brene’s books, my life will not be the same now that I know what I know.

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I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed Casey McQuiston’s previous two novels and I had high hopes for this one. It did not disappoint! This is the story of Chloe, Smith and Rory who have all kissed Shara right before she disappears. So even though they have nothing else in common, they band together to find and decipher the clues Shara has left behind so they can find her.

There’s so much more to the story, of course. It’s about the religious town/school they attend, how most of the kids (and adults) do not have the freedom to be who they are. How things are not what they seem. How when we look at the world, we make assumptions about others and how easy their lives must be.

It’s a fun and poignant story. I loved it.

With gratitude to netgalley and Macmillan Audio for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

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Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 stars. A really fun locked-room mystery. Not the kind of story I usually would pick up but it was fun and interesting with memorable and well-developed characters.

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