Next Chapter: 2025

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Jan 02, 2025

Happy New Year! Excited to start 2025 with all of you. How did I spend my NYE? Well, my boyfriend and I ordered in pizza, reorganized our bookshelves, finished our rewatch of New Girl, and fell asleep before midnight. It was honestly perfect.

Reading Lately

The Favorites by Layne Fargo (out Jan 14th) ❄️⛸️❤️‍🔥

My first book of 2025 is a resounding 5 star read that I’m quite certain is about to be one of the buzziest books of the year. It's Daisy Jones & The Six meets Wuthering Heights, but make it olympic ice dancing. The audiobook is fabulous with a full cast of talented voice actors. I started it yesterday on a long drive, and I never wanted the drive to end. Which is pretty unheard of while sitting in LAX traffic.

And Swifties, this book is definitely for you! A real quote from the book that I aggressively agree with, “too many people sleep on The Last Time, but real Swifties know, it’s a bop.”

*Thank you Random House for my gifted physical and audiobook copies*

Every bookstagram friend of mine has been raving about The Favorites, and you can add me to the list. This book is worth the hype. Such a fun one!

January Book Club

In 2025, Reading Lately Book Club here will be in partnership with

Preoccupied

’s Los Angeles monthly Walking Book Club.

Our January read is The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave 💚

Estranged siblings chase a fifty-year-old family secret that shaped their father’s mysterious life—and death…

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On January 12th at 11am, all are invited to join author Laura Dave and

Preoccupied

for a walk around Santa Monica ending at Zibby’s Bookshop, where we’ll shop the bookstore 20% off. Coffee will be provided. If you live in Southern California, hope to see you there! And if you don’t, let me know if you have any questions for Laura I can pass along.