Weekly Bookish Wrap Up

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 the 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.

Non-bookish things:

We’ve had another lovely week of weather and I’ve been able to get outside and do a little bit of clearing to prep a garden in the back corner of our yard. Hubby has almost finished fully securing the garden for the pups to play whenever, wherever and so our next job is weed suppression and creating garden beds. I’m looking forward to making more and more progress as we move into spring and I plan to reward our hard work by purchasing an outdoor setting for the back alfresco area.

I made the plunge and purchased a Kindle Colorsoft as an early birthday present and I absolutely love it. The colours aren’t as bright as my tablet or phone but I knew that going in. I have it on the brightest setting for my old lady eyes and find it makes reading more comfortable and portable than any other option. I can imagine it will become my constant companion everywhere I go so now all I need to do is personalise it.

I spent most of yesterday afternoon/evening trying blending techniques and playing around with my colouring in and am very happy with my results so far. There are so many ideas I want to try… too many ideas and not enough time. I often find myself wishing sleep was optional.

Bookish things:

This week I’ve read three books. As hoped, I finished Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score. I have come a bit late to this author but I am thoroughly enjoying her work. I have the rest of this series already downloaded on my Kindle and plan to finish it over the next month or so.

I also finished Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young but I didn’t love it as much as the first book in the series. While it was good to revisit the characters from the first book, Next of Kin, I didn’t really feel the feels between Lane and Matt. Honestly, I didn’t really even like Lane all that much, so that was a bit of a bust for me.

To get over that disappointing read, I listened to All the Time in the World by Cara Bastone. An immersive read, it was overwhelming in places, but as usual the banter pulled me through it. A few times, I was tempted to turn it off… usually after travelling through a ‘wormhole’… but I stuck with and was rewarded with a well thought out resolution and a HEA.

Books read this week:

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score – ★★★★

Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.

Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order.

Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of.

There’s a reason Knox doesn’t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.

At least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.

Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young – ★★★

Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and simply put? She’s not happy. So after a night out celebrating (drinking) on her birthday she makes one hell of an impulsive purchase. A giant, yellow, forty-eight passenger school bus that she intends to make a home.

With little-to-no renovation experience but a large sum of inheritance money, Lane enlists the help of her friend Matt—a mechanic by trade, handyman by practice, and hottie by nature.

While their mutual attraction is undeniable, Matt and Lane have silently agreed that a friendship is the only thing that could ever exist between them. Matt’s a total family guy with “settle down with me” tattooed across his forehead whereas Lane is entirely commitment-averse.

So, when Matt offers to help her with the bus and in the bedroom with no strings attached, Lane’s feelings evolve faster than you can say “just good friends.” But she soon discovers that in order to build something new, she has to first heal her past.

All the Time in the World by Cara Bastone – ★★★★

Celeste Varick has a simple find one of the last wormholes on earth and walk right in. The catch? She has no idea where she’ll land, or that she’s about to fall for the one stranger chasing the same impossible leap.

Everett Ludlow booked the same charter to the same island to find the same wormholes at the same exact moment. A kind-hearted sceptic, he doesn’t believe in fate but is desperate enough to leap into the future to save someone he loves.

Forced together in the wilderness, two lost souls start tempting fate, and each other. Neither came here looking for a partner; they came to fix the pasts and futures haunting them. But the longer they brave the wild together, the more the present starts to feel like the one timeline worth fighting for. And as the wormholes draw closer, the scariest leap isn’t through time at it’s taking a chance on happiness together, right here, right now.

Bookish Challenges:

2026 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 55/100 books

Audiobook Challenge: 39/50

20 (10) Books of Summer (Winter): 10/10

And that’s my bookish week.

I hope you’ve had a wonderfully bookish week.

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