Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you have made on your current books, Goodreads Reading Challenge or anything else Goodreads related.
This week’s pick is: Dust Storm by Maggie Gates
—Christian—
Rule Number 1: You ride in my truck; you let me open the door.
Another problem was the last thing I needed. Unfortunately, Cassandra Parker was mine.
But the biggest problem of all?
It wasn’t the beautiful stranger sticking her nose in my operations.
It wasn’t the bulldozer she was driving over my way of life.
And it definitely wasn’t the fact that she was living in my house.
My biggest problem? The engagement ring on her finger.
—Cassandra—
Rule Number 1: If you’re going to kill someone, make it look like an accident, cry at the funeral, admit to nothing, and deny everything.
To be clear, I didn’t want to be Christian Griffith’s problem. But there I was: exiled from New York, stranded on a cattle ranch, and desperate to salvage what was left of my career.
Living with a single dad and his children was a downgrade from my high-rise office and city comforts, but I agreed to it for one simple reason: to save my job.
A hot cowboy wasn’t going to lasso me into staying a second longer than necessary.
Why do I want to read it?:
I’ve had a lot of luck this year with small town romances, particularly steamy series featuring cowboys, so when I came across this one I thought, why not? It doesn’t have the greatest rating on Goodreads but you can’t really judge a book that way, so I’m excited to give it a go.
This week’s reading progress:
This week I read 3 okay to good reads – an improvement from last week, in both the quantity and the quality of books read.
2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 46/75 books (61%)
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Bookish Me 
That sounds like an interesting book. Just judging by the cover I wouldn’t have picked it up so that has shown me! I don’t tend to look at Goodreads ratings until I finish a book and then I think was I reading something else 🤣.
3 books is good and I’m glad that it was an improvement in terms of enjoyment. I am currently trying to get through my list of deadline books so that I can get onto my own. We shall see if I manage it by the end of the year 😂
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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Good luck with your deadline books. Happy reading!
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Thank you. They look good so hopefully I will enjoy myself whilst panic reading 😂
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