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Posted July 10, 2026 / Friday REPORT, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments This Friday R.E.P.O.R.T will consist of what I’ve been reading, eating, planning (instead of playing, I don’t really think it works for me), obsessing over, recommending, and treating. Written on Wednesday 7/8. I was really determined to get caught up on my reading challenge and I managed to do that with the Summer Lovin’ collection. I will admit, this was a pretty bad grouping overall.

Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune Genres: Adult, Contemporary Published by Berkley on May 5, 2026 Also by this author: Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake, This Summer Will Be Different, One Golden Summer Format: Audio/Physical (410 pages) • Source: Purchased, Spotify Audiobooks Goodreads • Amazon • Barnes & Noble Best friends have one week in paradise to fix their friendship or fall apart in this heart-stopping, utterly romantic new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author...

Posted July 7, 2026 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review.

Posted July 2, 2026 / Bookmark Lit Bulletin, Features, Wrap-Ups / 0 Comments The Bookmark Lit Bulletin wraps up the last month in reading and what was on the blog, as well as what’s coming up next. You can check out my book haul, books read, posts shared, challenge updates, etc. You can read past bulletins here. If you’re looking for more personal updates, you can check out my Lauren Lately feature; it highlights my life events and non-bookish fun from the previous 30 days.

Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I felt like there weren’t a lot of books on my “tbr-unreleased” shelf but there are plenty here to share apparently! I’ll go month by month though I know the end of the year is a little lean still.

My monthly TBR feature here shows my progress based on last month’s TBR, my plans for this month, and anything else I might be thinking about from a reading perspective. Sometimes I feature a little poll at the bottom so you guys can help me figure out a certain title I should read from a group of books. My goal for this summer – and ideally June if I could help it – was to get back on track for my reading challenge.

Posted June 25, 2026 / Book Challenges, Features / 0 Comments I like to take a look at my annual/year-long reading challenges and see which prompts are missing, as well as what books may fill those gaps..and which prompts are juuuust not happening lol. I’m writing this on June 15th so it doesn’t reflect a true midpoint of the year, but just a little over.

Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I posted my Summer TBR and bucket list since that’s something I usually try to pin down by Memorial Day weekend.

I’ve been utterly terrible about watching TV shows or keeping up with new release movies that I’m excited about. I track everything in the TV Time app but unfortunately if you don’t mark the first episode as “watched” when it comes out right away, the show will move out of the immediate to-watch list… and then I forget it exists. I wanted to go through my app and see what I’ve been missing out on and should prioritize. Widow’s Bay This is the top show on my list probably.

Five by Ilona Bannister Genres: Adult, Mystery/Thriller Published by Crown on May 5, 2026 Format: Audio/Physical (240 pages) • Source: Aardvark Book Club, Spotify Audiobooks Goodreads • Amazon • Barnes & Noble NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “[A] sizzling summer thriller . . . a kind of morality tale, a Rorschach test for all of us.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Five lives. Five stories. Four will live—one will die. Who it will be?