I am so tired of how the publishing industry handles sex scenes in books. I'm tired of having to check for sex scenes in books and sometimes missing it. I'm tired of trusting authors because of past books only to be taken off-guard in later ones. I'm tired of picking up books marketed towards teens only to find an explicit scene at the end (books for teens shouldn't have sex scenes in them and you will never change my mind on that). I love reading. I love reading romances. I

After having my second child, I really got back into reading as an adult, but I felt like I'd run out of books. I was rereading Brandon Sanderson books and every once in a while, I'd find a gem at the library, but I was floudering. I asked my Facebook friends for suggestions and got a few good ones. A few months later, I joined BookTube. Now, three more kids and eight years later, I have so many books on my TBR that I could not possibly read them all in my lifetime. It's a pr

One of my very favorite parts of parenting is reading aloud with my kids. I've loved it since my first was a baby (she loved to sit and be read to, even at a really young age!) and it's only gotten more fun as they've gotten older. I share books with my kids in two primary ways--I read out of a novel with them at bedtime for 20-30 minutes each night and we have a family audiobook that we listen to together (in the car, especially on long car trips, but also sometimes while co