This book was my first historical romance, my first YA book, and my first pirate romance! To this day, I still love historical romance and gobble up all the pirate romances I can find. Catherine and the Pirate by Karen Hawkins This is the book that made me fall in love with travel romance and also inspired me to dream big and go on a huge European excursion!Ģ. Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is “Books I Recommend to Others the Most” and feels slightly redundant, because the books I recommend to others the most seem to also appear in my TTTs the most! I’m going to dig a little deeper into my life of reading and share titles I have recommended a lot during various parts of my life and not just the ones I recommend the most at present. What are some of your hobbies? Do we share any? I don’t love either of these, but they’re good for me. I love binging shows and watching movies. I do this more in the fall and winter months than any other time, but I love making yummy treats! Sometimes this is over lunch or just parked in the living room. I love sitting around talking or spending time with friends and my mom and sister.

I also love running to the craft store for yarn. I have fun hunting for books, crochet patterns, decorations, and other fun things I’d like to own someday. I love building wish lists on Amazon and Etsy.

I love going through stuff to get rid of, re-organizing my stuff, making spreadsheet inventories of my yarn and embroidery floss, and switching up my decor.įor me, I enjoy shopping even when I’m not spending money. I love researching things I’m interested in including natural healing, religion, history, art, cryptozoology, and urban myths and legends.

Let me know if you’re interested in being Switch friends! I could always use people to race with on Mariokart and I love visiting Animal Crossing islands. I have a Nintendo Switch and love all my cozy games like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, Story of Seasons, Dreamlight Valley, Potion Permit, Little Dragons Cafe, Grow: Song of the Evertree, and Mariokart. I can make anything in any color(s) of the rainbow! I just set up an Instagram page for my business ( if you’re interested in taking a look! Last year I taught myself to crochet and started up my own business this year! I make small stuffed toys and sell them, either as ready-to-ship or commissioned pieces. I’m never not in the mood to talk about books, but sometimes it’s fun to talk about other things too! So this week I’m sharing ten other things that I take up my time (some of which I enjoy more than others)! Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is “Things Getting in the Way of Reading” and was lovingly stolen from A Cocoon of Books during freebie week because I loved the idea so much.

Christmas Obsession by Darcy Rose