Author: jenny_bean_reads

Mid-year(ish) Challenge Update!

2 Dandelions Bookshop Bingo BoardI have 2 prompts left, read an AAPI author (reading Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee now), and attend a poetry event at the shop. There are poetry open mics every month so I have 7-8 more tries! The Novelist ChallengeI have three of these left. I know it’s set up to […]

Still 3 Months to Recap…. oops

Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of me spreading myself too thin… Life never stops, but the deep winter and slow to come spring push me down into depression and then life continues… I forget to stop and breathe. I forget to take a second and remind myself that this is something I […]

Well, I got behind, didn’t I?

A quick catch up of all the monthly wrap ups I didn’t post since November’s(?!?!?!) November A link to my monthly reading on StoryGraph if you prefer the text to the photo. December A link to my monthly reading on StoryGraph if you prefer the text to the photo. A lot of holiday novellas in […]

ARC Review: Chilled and Thrilled by Cleo White

As you can probably tell by my IG as of late, I’ve been a part of Cleo White’s ARC team for Chilled at Thrilled (among others). I finished this morning (11/8), and I am delighted to report this was spicy af, y’all. Damn! I loved how the Cleo built in the status of all of […]

ARC Review: Elfemies to Lovers by Jennifer Chipman

This book was promised to be Hallmark + spicy, and whoooo boy did it deliver! It was so on point that I can’t not make an individual post about it. The spicy scenes were so spicy and so perfectly interwoven into the light narrative that I devoured them. A light holiday rom com that really […]

Better Than and Nothing Like the Movies – Lynn Painter

Way earlier this year, I recommended a YA romance, The Do-Over by Lynn Painter to my daughter. I thought she might enjoy it. She said ok (she has a ginormous TBR of her own) and nothing else was said. Fast forward to the new school year (middle school, omg), she comes home with a book […]

I've got 99 problems and White Heteronormative Patriarchy is basically all of them.

Fuck.

I feel the need to say something, because I don’t want you to think I don’t care about what just happened in the US this week. Because I do. I care so much, I barely slept Tuesday night. I volunteered, I gave money, I posted on my personal page constantly about registering to vote, voting […]

How to Help a Hungry Werewolf

Y’all. I didn’t even have this on my TBR. It was on the new books cart for my department at work and once I read the synopsis, I was IN. It took me a minute to get into this second chance romance, but about chapter three or so, I was so hooked. The banter was […]

Monthly Reading Recap: Spooky Edition

Well, October flew by in a blink, didn’t it? Every time I sat down to write up a week’s worth of reading, I would get distracted and never end up writing anything, so this month is a review of faves and less than faves I read over the 31 days of October! While I didn’t […]

Covers of books JBR read in September

September Recap!

We had two weekends of back to back family weddings so this is coming out a little later! One more stride towards getting back to a more regular posting schedule. So many spooky reads this month! Some favorites: Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist (ARC) by Ali K. Mulford and K. Elle Morrison I saw a comment […]