Whether it be a towering stack on your night table like mine, its own pristine bookshelf in your library, or a haphazard list in the back of your planner, what you read next can be a hard choice. In this week’s episode, I let you in on my future choices, and then we get to see if I actually get to those books or if i get sidetracked by new shiny ones beckoning me from my local indie.

Let me know what’s on your TBR list, so I can add it to mine.

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Links referenced in this episode:

• Let Go and Begin

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• Seattle Wave Books

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• Nook
• Kindle
• Harlequin
• Outlander
• Bridget Jones's Diary
• Marion Keyes
• Daisy Jones and the Six
• Normal People
• Sally Rooney
• Gabrielle Zevin
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• Jenny Colgan
• Joanne Harris
• Chocolat
• Emily Henry
• The Kissing Quotient
• Helen Huang
• Where the Crawdads Sing
• This Tender Land

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Valentine’s Day is coming and whether or not you celebrate or believe in the commercial nature of holidays, I am all for a reason to look at poetry about love. And if February makes me feel all the feels, then poetry in February is one way to escalate all of those feelings. Today, we look at three relatively modern ones. I mean within the last 20 years. We don’t need to go all the way back to Sappho or WH Auden to find the best romantic descriptions. Poetry lives and breathes as a reflection of our own times.

Here are the three I read:

Poem for My Love, June Jordan

Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife, Kai Coggins

The Hush of the Very Good, Todd Boss

What are your favorites?

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