Dirty PlansCarissa Knight(The One Night Stand Club)Publication date: January 5th 2024Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance Who knew finding true love would mean juggling a secret club’s rules, rethinking marital boundaries, and a best friend you suddenly want to kiss? Lily’s life was predictably pedestrian: side-step her husband’s aloofness, indulge in racy novels with her audacious book club, and dream about feeling that kind of passion in her own life. But a surprise run-in at a cheeky adult toy shop flings her back into the orbit of London, her endearingly rogue-ish childhood best friend, now the manager of Club Nocté—a nightclub…

It’s that time. The time to set goals that I will try valiantly to stick to, and might actually partially succeed at hahaha. I always think of goals as more of a rough plan than anything else. Life happens. You can’t always prioritize what you want! But I still like to try to at least plan things out. So, here we go. Blog goals for 2023. — Post a review a weekI don’t think this one is going to be too hard, because I actually have been reading! Just…. not reviewing what I read. I’m out of practice. — Finish…

Am I the only one who constantly feels like the week between Christmas and New Year moves like absolute molasses? I always end up working. Everyone else is pretty much always on vacation. It just feels like I’m this little island who is waiting patiently for everyone else to return. *sigh* Ah well. At least it gives me time to plan for the blog in 2023. As you can tell, 2022 saw this blog sitting on the back burner a LOT. This was the year we went back to work in the office, and the little work/life balance that I…

Ever since November started, it feels like things have been crazy busy. Which, in a way, is great! It’s made work fly by and also made it so that I had the best time at Thanksgiving. However since I’ve been so unorganized as well a lot of stuff has fallen to the wayside. Including, alas, my reading. I was aiming for 52 books this year and I’ve only made it to 46. That’s pretty good though, in my opinion! And since I’ve had more gems than duds, it’s hard to be mad about it. Now that I have some planners…

Being the responsible human I am, I went to go and get my COVID booster and my flu shot before I went on vacation. I knew I’d be seeing my baby niece, and so I was like “Let me just make sure I’ll stay well!” to convince myself to get shots. Friends, I was so proud of myself. And then I got a cold. Oh, and this cold. Awful. As I type this I keep having to take breaks to sneeze and wipe my eyes. It looks like I got punched in the nose. Ack. It’s a whole mess. I…

Yup, that’s what this post is. A bunch of utter nonsense. I wanted to post in here but I couldn’t figure what I wanted to write and so… you get this bit of rambling. Or, perhaps I could tell you what I’m reading right now? Yes, let’s do that. It feels less boring than going on about my garden plans for this weekend. Haha. I’m in that mode again where I’m picking up many books and reading them simultaneously. It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, and it honestly feels kind of weird! Also nice, in a way.…

Once again I am sick, and once again I have no idea where I got it from. *sobs in small coughs* One of the best parts about being home more often is that I don’t get sick nearly as often as I used to. However the downside is that when I do get sick, it’s pretty brutal. On the bright side, it’s not COVID! So I’ll take it. I’ve spent most of today medicated, and feeling sorry for myself. I’ll be totally honest, I’m a big baby when I’m sick. I remember as a kid I used to LOVE sick…

We’re on day five of an insane heatwave here in Southern California, and I am going slowly insane. Yesterday, with humidity, it was 115 degrees. Like… what? WHO? I moved away from the desert on purpose to avoid temperatures like that, and they are so very much made worse by humidity. I’m so thankful we now live in a house with A/C and that we have blackout curtains. We’ve been living in a cave, but at least it’s a cool cave. The one benefit to being trapped inside by the heat is that I have more time to catch up…

Ah summer. How I used to love you, and how I don’t love you now. We’ve just finished a two week heatwave and I barely survived. It seems the older that I get, the more I crave cool weather and hot drinks. Warm sweaters, and cozy blankets. Man, I really want the weather to turn already. Too bad I live in So Cal where that won’t happen for quite a while hahaha. On the bright side, being trapped inside with the A/C meant that I’ve actually got a fair amount of reading done! I’m on book 34 of 52 for…