Books with Noel

  Happy Saturday lovelies!!     Wow, it's been a hot minute since I felt up to posting on here & wasn't in a major reading slump. 😬 It feels like the last two years I was burnt out on writing & reading so much I've slowly had to army-crawl my way back out of the hole. What have you found yourself reading lately? I feel like I'm in a mood for more regency era romance novels, quite an abrupt reading mood compared to my usual fantasy-based reads lol! I stayed up late for the first time in forever to finish reading a book, Rogue Countess by Amy Sandas , the other night. It was funny, enemies to lovers slow-burn I loved to root for, & just so refreshing to read! It's the first in a series so I'm looking forward to checking out the other books by the author. This first one was free on Amazon's kindle store so I got it to see and ended up loving it!  I seem to be reading more via ebook than physical books now? I've always loved holding the book as ...

  So I realized that I haven't been giving a lot of book recommendations or telling you guys what my list of ''forever favorite books'' are!  However.... I have a list for my lists...so....  My book recommendations will only be my favorite books that I definitely suggest and will be grouped in different lists (Ex: retellings, standalone, middle grades, etc.) 😀👏 So here's Noel's All-Time Favorite Standalone Books! Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen AMAZON | GOODREADS   This ultimate classic is for any chick-flick lover, it's romance and comedy central! To this day I will read any retelling and any ''sequel'' of it that someone writes *squeals* . The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern AMAZON | GOODREADS   Magic and romance intertwine in the fight for this magical circus, making this a forever favorite! I had been suggested to read this a while ago, but finally, read it and fell in love with it last year! Whi...

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin Published: June 2nd, 2020 Genre: Adult Fiction | Contemporary | Romance AMAZON | GOODREADS    Synopsis:   Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, regulars, and, most notably, her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her as often as possible to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee that she offers them. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of their hilarious and touching confidences. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a man—Julien Sole, local police chief—who insists on depositing the ashes of his recently departed mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that the grave Julien is looking for belongs to his mother’s one-time lover, and that his mother’s story of clandestine love is intertwined with Violette’s own ...