My favorites and my borrowed list are overflowing, but is that going to stop me?
Ha. No. Please tell me what you’ve discovered in your reading subscriptions!
If you’ve got any of the subscription services like Scribd, Kindle Unlimited, or Kobo Plus, I want to know what your latest discovery is.
(Kindle Unlimited has a deal right now for $4.99 for two months, FYI.)
Library folks may also be using Hoopla Digital to access ebooks and audiobooks, and services like Kanopy to watch scripted series and documentaries.
As for me, I found some books inside KU that I’m very excited to read!
First, in a recent podcast episode about The Bachelor, Jodi McAlister recommended A Wolf in the Garden by Allegra Hall, which is a shifter romance by a Maori author with Maori characters. (The Maori are the Indigenous people of Aotearoa, aka New Zealand.)
A friend asked me if I’d read Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino, who I learned is a teacher in my school system. My friend told me she’d inhaled it and hadn’t stopped thinking about it since.
It’s about a young woman who gets sent to live with her great aunt for a summer in 1960 after she’s caught making out with the rabbi’s son. They go to the Jersey shore! There’s matchmaking!
My friend said she loved this book so much, and is making her way through Sara Goodman Confino’s backlist.
I also added a very long (580 pages!) YA/teen mystery thriller called A Curse in Kyoto, by SJ Cullen. A cursed museum exhibit, a missing student at the British School of Kyoto, and two teens for “an unlikely alliance” to try to find out where the student went, and what the heck is going on. I’m really into stories that transplant me to a whole other world (see my review for Blood of a Gladiator, which takes place in ancient Rome) and even though the page count is a little daunting, I’m going to try it.
And over on Hoopla, I’ve got the audiobook for Passion Favors the Bold by Theresa Romain saved for listening during my next quilting project, along with the audio recording of Chelsea Devontez’s memoir, I Shouldn’t be Telling You This.
Finally, I found the audiobook of Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp on Hoopla, after several folks talked about it in the podcast Patreon discord. This is book one of the Pies Before Guys series, which is a truly perfect series name.
Do I want more recommendations? Of course! The favorites list has no limit! So, what are you watching, reading, or browsing?
Please share! What recent treasures have you discovered? What’s on your TBR inside your subscriptions?