Has anyone found a winter themed book like

• witches guide to fake dating a demon
• violet thistlewaite is no longer a villain
• paybacks a witch (thistle grove series)
• the mating game

I would love to read something a bit more aligned with the season but I haven’t really found anything that is fitting what I am looking for. Would love for it to be a cozy book with plot, and some spice if possible!

I have also read The Spellshop and The enchanted Greenhouse as well as the Hazel Beck series

Thanks so much!!!

The first release to penetrate a public bookstore is a hardcover. I don't like things that are hard—well, most things, and not right away, at least. I take issue with any book below 369 pages being forced into stiff boards and a tight spine, and I'm slightly weirded out when someone just grabs a new release hardback, especially in the heat of summer. It’s as if the mere sight of that rigid jacket has undone them in public.

But who am I to judge when publishers sing out their voices, would a hardback not be part of the choir? I'm, of course, talking about desire; and desire doesn't care about timing. I know it took me a while to crack that first hardcover, so why do some people insist on having it hard and fast? Do they simply lack the patience to wait for the softer, more yielding paperback that arrives later, sometimes complete with flaps? Who doesn't love flaps? I do.

How many pages make a book worth the hard edition? Do we truly like it hard, or are we simply afraid to admit we’d rather wait for something that bends to our grip, that doesn’t resist when we finally open it late at night? I find it hard to believe people genuinely like the hard one at first sight.

I use interested for books im curious about reading but dont have a lot of feeling for. But now ive got like 300 books between the two shelves. I need to cut them down as am overwhelmed. I have my own shelves like “excited tbr” etc. But any other tips?

Thank you!!!

EDIT: i mean like tips on how to decide if a book is truly one for the tbr? A la marie kondo “does it spark joy”? Or “would u wash or throw away this item if it got poo on it”?

I used to read a lot of romance among other genres, but majority of it was romance. I have been blaming the fact that almost all romances come under the same format and pattern with slight differences (85% true) but the truth is, i'm nearing 30, and I do think my taste is changing and i am unable to grasp what genres i'm into? I read Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb and actually had a nice time, a book i tried to read 5 years ago and failed because it felt boring. I still read romance, don't get me wrong, but i always get bored half way through because maybe it is personally not my thing anymore. Same thing happened with thrillers/mysteries.

Has anyone felt or gone through the same thing?

(whispering) I liked Ilya's monologue to Shane in russian and "You wear glasses?" parts way more the way they did it in the show than in the book 🥺

I have a bad habit of reading way too many books at the same time. I am now trying to keep myself to one or two, but it is so hard not to pick up another as well