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Summer Reading

I love books.  😍

I've been an avid book reader since the 5th grade when my older cousin was letting me read her teenage Sweet Dreams book series.  Anyone remember those?  I LOVED those.  And Sweet Valley High?  Though I was more into the Sweet Dreams series I think because they were stand alone stories.  My cousin let my sister and I have the books and then when my cousin started reading Judith McNaught it was game over for me on young adult novels for a long while, we gifted the Sweet Dreams series down to our younger cousin who was a big reader also.  But I mean Judith McNaught is still hands down my favorite romance novelist and the other J's, Julie Garwood, and Jude Devereaux.  I started getting back into young adult when L.J. Smith came out with The Vampire Diaries in 1991 😛 .  I bought almost all her books (excluding Night World, because I wanted time to get into that and never did because I was obsessed with the other series haha) and reread them so much that the book cover was starting to come apart haha.  Man, were those the days of waiting for a book to come out, no blogs or social media to keep up with, talk about having patience!

I read anything I could get my hands on in our school library.  Mystery, horror, suspense, young adult,  I loved reading.  And I still do...

Over the years I kept coming back to young adult novels and romance, maybe because it's the first genres of books I fell in love with,  so I'd say those are my favorites when I need to "escape".

Last year my goal on Good Reads was to read 60 books...I ended up reading 65 😮.  Mind you I was also pregnant half the year so that helped with having time to read.  This year because I have a 4 year old and a 6 month old, I dropped my goal to 25 and I'm now reading book #27.

My #27 book this year is The Lady's Guard by Christi Caldwell.  It's the 3rd book in the Sinful Brides Series.

Some other titles I just reserved at my library are:
When I'm Real by Erin Watts
Now I Rise by Kiersten White
Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson
Once and for All by Sara Dessen
The Traitor's Kiss by Erin Beaty
The Black Witch by Laurie Forest
Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

What are you reading this summer? 🌞 I'd love some suggestions to add to my list 😄

😘XO, Yolanda

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