Happy Sunday bookish peeps!
My Weekly Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post.
The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It’s also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. While the Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer and is a chance to share news. It’s a post to recap the past week on your blog and share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead.
This will be a very quick wrap up because I’m not very well at the moment.
Non-bookish things:
I’m still waiting on my exam results but I did get one of my assignments back with very good marks so I am pleased with that. The jury remains out about whether or not I will continue my studies.
We’ve had a very quiet weekend with much TV watching. I’ve been crocheting on and off but mostly just trying to rest while I’m under the weather. I did manage to finish the hexagon throw that I was making. I really love the way it turned out and feel proud of myself for trying a new pattern. It’s the perfect size to throw over a lap and the colours are just so pretty.
Bookish things:
Fever Dream by Elsie Silver did not disappoint. I finished it at the beginning of the week and now I begin the long wait for the next book in the series to be published. I really got a kick out of the reality TV dating show aspect of the book coinciding with the new season of Farmer Wants A Wife.
I have picked up my next paperback but haven’t gotten very far into it. Honestly, I’m only about 10 pages in. Instead I’ve focused on my audiobook library, listening to Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan and How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh.
Books read this week:
Fever Dream by Elsie Silver – ★★★★
Professional bull rider Emmett Bush is not looking for love. He’s looking for a paycheck to save his family’s farm from bankruptcy. So, when he agrees to be the leading man on a hot new reality dating show, Romance Ranch, he’s already decided it’s all one big performance.
Until Julia Silva walks onto his property. Smart, snarky, beautiful, and off-limits in more ways than one. As the location consultant on set and the little sister of his most bitter professional rival, she’s the last woman who should pique his interest.
Julia has been warned about Emmett. She knows better than to fall for his cocky swagger, broad shoulders, and smoldering good looks. Plus, she’s sworn off relationships.
But as Julia and Emmett work together, mutual distaste grows into an unexpected connection and then… something more. Soon, they find themselves searching for excuses to spend time together and out of reach of the cameras. Knowing glances. Stolen kisses. Secret rendezvous.
Still, Emmett signed up to play the role of an eligible bachelor searching for the one. His family’s land and legacy depend on him completing the show. The problem is, he’s already fallen in love. Just not with a contestant.
Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan – ★★★★
If they start by pretending, can they end with something real?
Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.
So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself—can she really start now?
How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh – ★★★
Ciara Sheridan’s father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish coast, the outline for the finale to his bestselling epic fantasy series that he wanted her to finish—and writer’s block.
Enter Sam Frank Sheridan fanboy and hotshot editor, sent from the New York publishing house direct to Ciara’s doorstep. Ciara was expecting a crusty old-timer, so the handsome young American is a surprise. And for his part, Sam was expecting Ciara to have written something by now.
Ciara and Sam have two weeks of the hottest Irish summer on record to write this novel together and secure Frank’s legacy—but will their own love story be the plot twist neither of them see coming?
Bookish Challenges:
2026 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 43/100 books
Audiobook Challenge: 30/50
20 (10) Books of Summer (Winter): 3/10
And that’s my bookish week.
I hope you’ve had a wonderfully bookish week.
#2026reads #books #bookblog #bookblogger #bookish #bookishposts #bookishme #reader #reading #weeklywrapup #sundaysalon #sundaypost #GoodreadsReadingChallenge