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Slimmed down my awards to top ten favorite quotes, scenes, and top twenty favorite reads of the year.

List of favorite reads is at the end if tl;dr applies :)

Any reading reading highlights someone wants to mention before we fully move into 2026?

GRs won't let me comment on 2026 challenges anymore, annoying, because you all bring individual delight to me on here so I want to individually thank you, but as it is, Happy New Year and happy reading to one and all!

Going to check in on here more in 2026, but I can be found on BlueSky and my blog.

Let me know if ever feeling like a buddy read and can't wait to chat and discover books again with you all :)

His brother appeared by their side as Mason started chafing her cold hands lightly between his

I love little acts of caring like this, it's such a great way to show instead of of spelling out his character and emotions.

After Marta, he still flicked off the lamp on the nightstand and said: Goodnight, sweetheart, sleep well. After Marta, he whispered the words from his side of the bed, but from the other there was no longer any reply.

Trying not to sob my way through this.

"I hope ghosts aren't real. I hope that time does soothe suffering-that instead of being stuck here, that girl is sunning herself in a field of flowers, free in whatever afterlife she believed in."

This has some tv show Supernatural vibes I'm enjoying!

I can struggle with Shupe but an Anastasia retelling will always get me to come running.
I'm thinking more about how this is going to be received, it's clearly written stylistically trying to update historical romance for booktok/new readers and that's already telling me there's a problem in my lack of getting emerged into the story.
(Y'all I didn't bat an eye at the 3some, that fit to me, lol)

What a prologue for a romance, oozing pustules and pools of vomit. 😂

Buddy reading this over on StoryGraph!

This says #1 in the series, but I don't know if I buy that, a little confused in beginning

If you're a Big Brother tv show fan, this would darkly be fun for you.

He was aware of Lily’s skirts brushing the shoe on his outstretched leg as she passed in front of him, and of an odd tightening of his throat and chest.

Buddy Reading this over on StoryGraph!

I love it's hitting them moments like this. All it takes is a brush of skirts on shoe and the man's lost, lol.
But oof, just about lost in the wall of text format this author does.

"Oh, yes," she said, "I must trust you. Just as all my life I have had to trust the men who have had the care of me. It is one of the great benefits of being a woman. One always has a man—a gentleman—to take responsibility for one's care. All a woman has to do is what she is told to do and she will be eternally happy. What could be easier? [...]."

"I hardly think I’m mistaken. Look at you." She smiled; her lips parted slightly as she tilted her head upward. A glutton for punishment, he bent to meet her, letting the warmth of her breath tickle his ear. “You can scarcely breathe.”
The hair stood on the back of his neck. The music stopped. She stepped back, and he cleared his throat in an attempt to appear collected.

“I never thought you could possibly be mine, Wei-wei,” he said, his voice heavy. “I just wanted to ask.”

My god.
Don't mind me, just over here whimpering.

Buddy Read

He was an element outside of her little compartments, the double-courtyards and the thick stone mansion walls that kept the world away—or her contained within. His very presence set her senses on alert and her mind on fire.

Buddy read comments: Buddy Read

Neither of them said anything until he walked up to the edge of the pool, dropped his pack, unbuckled his sword and began unbuttoning his shirt.
"How's the water?" he asked.

Feral for scenes like this!
Blog post with quick trying to elaborate why scene hits so good WhiskeyintheJar Romance

I put this up in the Book Buddy Reading group but who knows if anyone got a notification because GRs hates when we communicate I guess but,

Does anyone want to Buddy Read with me in March?

I was thinking The Hidden Moon by Jeannie Lin but since that's in a series, I understand if someone doesn't want to jump in, so open to other suggestions.

Beth and her husband are happily married, but that all relies on the past staying buried.

When Gabriel, a past love who broke her heart, suddenly comes back into her life, tensions start to rise.

Danger, deadly secrets, and jealousies are resurfacing with consequences.
Beth is going to have to make a choice between the woman she once was and the woman she has become.

A love story with thriller twists!

Blame Sam I AMNreader for putting me on Midnight Poppy Land, now I'm reading a Webtoons graphic novel.

After that USA vs Canada game, what other book would I be reading??

Also, starting this today.

I'm staying in the Gilded Age and Paris!
But this is alternative Paris and there's magic.

Maybe also the dreaded love triangle. We'll see how I cope, lol.

Buddy Reading this over on Fable

Glitzy atmosphere beginning and locked boat murders!

Anyone want to buddy read something with me this month?

Just realized I don't have one planned and I told myself I was going to try to do one once a month.
Up for pretty much any book.

Can buddy read on here, StoryGraph, or Discord.

Aurora's book!

A reader of the series, I'm excited to see the sizzling groundwork laid in the first two books come to fruition between our physician Aurora and new duke Apollo.

Also, French Riviera!

Starting this one today.

Murder, storms, red herrings, and second chance romance!

The way I love a good quote!

2024 Fav Quote - WhiskeyintheJar Romance

What is a quote you read last year that still lingers in your mind?

I love looking back at what I read to get nominees for this award,

Favorite Scene - Whiskeyinthe Jar Romance

tl;dr
Winner - Sleeping Beauty by Judith Ivory
HE BROKE THE DOOR DOWN TO GET TO HER

Continuing with my book awards,

Favorite Secondary Character: WhiskeyintheJar Romance

Who or what, stole the spotlight for you in 2023?

Ok, ok, last (fingers crossed behind back) holiday book!