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Coffee + Books: Celebrating 7 Years of Literary & Coffee Passion☕️

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Hi, my beloved bookish family! How are you today? I hope you’re having a wonderful day filled with incredible reads.  🥰 I’m thrilled to bring you a very special post because, believe it or not, our cherished blog just celebrated its 7th anniversary a couple of days ago! 🥳🥳🥳 7 YEARS! Can you believe it? It’s mind-boggling, but it’s also the perfect moment to share a recommendation post where I go all out trying to persuade you to read each of my favorite books from over the years. 🎉  Plus, I’ll throw in some fresh titles from my TBR list. Let’s dive in! 🙌🏻

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ve probably noticed that there’s only one thing I love more than books, and that’s coffee! ☕️So, I came up with the idea of combining them in a fun and unique recommendation post.✨ Plus, we’re celebrating the birthday of my baby blog, who’s actually a fully grown lad at this point—quite the grown-up 😂.

I can’t start this commemorative post for such a significant anniversary without thanking you, dear reader, whether you’ve been with me from the beginning or have recently discovered me online. I deeply appreciate the support and love I receive every day. I’ve always believed in the wonderful community of bloggers and readers, a community that is always there to support and encourage you at every step. However, my conviction has grown even stronger after returning from a long break. Despite my absence, I’ve seen familiar faces leaving comments full of love and excitement towards me and my blog. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I truly couldn’t be happier for deciding to start this blog so long ago. This space provides me with security and the freedom to express my ideas and my passion for reading, thanks to what we’ve built together: a community that is now more than that, it’s a family. I’m excited for those who have been here from the beginning, those who inspired me to start, and also for the new names that have emerged in recent years. What pride to be part of this wonderful world!❤️❤️❤️

You know me, I’m all about the cheesiness, but I had to get it off my chest. 🥹 Now, without further ado, this post will follow the following dynamics…

I’ll be showcasing at least five different types of coffee, naturally choosing the most popular ones. Alongside each coffee, I’ll be bringing you a selection of books that I feel would be the perfect companion for that particular brew. I’ll be categorizing them by genre and/or atmosphere, or depending on the vibes. I think you’ll understand it better as the post unfolds. 💫

With all that said, I’m very excited to bring you a new post on the blog. I genuinely hope you enjoy it! 🤩I aim to provide recommendations not only from books I’ve read but also include some titles with similar vibes that could pair well with specific types of coffee, expanding your range of options. 😊 Thank you for being on the other side reading; you’re amazing. Now, without further ado, let’s get started!❤️

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Book Recommendations | Standalone Books Edition 🌲

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 🌲 Hi, guys! I hope you’re having the most wonderful day, having incredible moments, and reading the best books.❤️ Today as it’s Friday I feel like bringing you a fun recommendation post of those that I LOVE creating & sharing with you, so we can have a relaxed moment and hopefully add a lot of books to your TBR. I realized that 2 years ago I finished with my series where I recommended only standalone books, and OMG, I can’t believe I didn’t make another list of my recommendations in two years. 😲 Obviously, I’ve already read many more standalone books to share with you and I’m very excited to bring you these types of lists because I know that sometimes it can be a challenge to choose what to read next, right? so I want you to have a resource here on my blog and a small place where you can go if you need recommendations. 👏🏻 

So how will this be? You know that I like to give a special touch and a different thing to my recommendation posts since I want it to be a fun experience for you and that you can also really feel they’re more personalized recommendations where I think that hopefully, you can find the perfect book just for you. 💕  That’s why this time I’ve decided to classify the books by categories according to how they’ve made me feel while reading them so you can find the one that resonates best with you and your reading tastes. For example, I have classified those standalone with a magical touch, those more complex and you can even find some lighter ones to enjoy.  😊 

If you want to know my complete thoughts on each of the books you can do so by clicking on the names of the books, which will take you directly to my review without spoilers  🙌🏻 

I hope you like this idea very much, I always try to bring you the best of me and that we can have a good time together and chat a little about books because that’s why we are here, right?  🥰 
Thank you SO SO much for the infinite support, you know that I feel it very deeply in my heart and I treasure every comment, like and shared that you give to my posts, I put a lot of love in my work and the recognition is always a blessing. Thank you, mis amores, for being there always 🥺 & now, let’s get started, I’m super excited! 🌲 Read More »

Pumpkin Spice Latte Book Tag 🍂

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⭐️ Hi, guys! I hope you’re having a wonderful day and a great start to the week! ❤️ Today I bring a fun book tag to share with you, I was looking through my tags and nominations, and I can’t believe I didn’t remember this one, I just adore the idea, so I’m super excited to do it. I’ve been tagged by the wonderful Azia | The Uncharted Word | to do it and I feel super grateful, she’s a blogger that I personally LOVE for her sweet personality and wonderful/beautiful content, so if you haven’t checked her blog out yet, I invite you to do it now! you’ll not regret it. 🥰  PS: Azia, darling, I’m so sorry it took me so many months to do the tag, I’m catching up, I promise 😅  

It’s autumn here in Argentina, and even though I know that most of you are living warmer climates right now, I’ll go against all odds and I’ll get comfortable with my coffee and my blanket to write this lovely autumn tag.☕️  As always, I hope you enjoy it and that you share all your thoughts with me, you know that I LOVE that we interact in the comments, now without further ado, let’s begin! ⭐️ Read More »

Top 10 | Light & Fluffy Books to Read During Quarantine 🍵

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🍵 Hi, guys! I hope you’re having the most incredible day and enjoying your readings.❤️ Today I felt that it’s a good time to bring a recommendation post, with this top 10 where I’ll be sharing with you light and easy to read books to enjoy in these stressful and difficult times that the world is going through. 🥰 I just want you to have a small source of resources here on my blog in case you don’t know what to read or find it difficult to get hooked on the very complex and overdeveloped plots, maybe some books touch heavy and hard-hitting topics that can be a bit too much for some people in such tragic moments, so I thought about putting a little bit of myself to help you in case you want to read something fluffy, fun and simple, but in the best way in the most heart whelming and beautiful way. Obviously, some of these books will touch on topics of life and growth and personal search, also family and romantic themes, but I want to give you a reading that when you finish it you feel good, you know? That can put a smile on your face and give your heart a break. 💞
So without further ado, I hope you enjoy the post and all my recommendations, they’re made from my heart with much love, so I hope you enjoy them if you decide to read any, they’re all wonderful! 😍 & LET’S START! 🍵Read More »

February Wrap Up | Witchy Reads, Out of my Comfort Zone & First DNF of the year 🎍

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🎍 Hi guys! I hope you’re having a beautiful day full of good readings.❤️ Today I bring you a new post… my February Wrap Up! where I’ll tell you ALL about my readings of the month. I think this has been a pretty good month, but it happened too fast for my taste, I usually enjoy February a lot because it’s the birthday month and everything feels very exciting, but on the other hand, it may be good a good thing that was a fast month because I’m so ready for the colder seasons to come, I’m in need of my beautiful autumn, I can’t wait! 🍂 

As I said, it was my birthday on February 22 🎊, I turned 26, I have a birthday post if you want to check it out, I’m leaving it HERE. So, yeah! has been a truly beautiful month, I’ve spent time with my family and I concluded that I’ve never I felt better than right now, so I can’t complain I had a very nice day with my boyfriend and my loved ones & besides all that, I’m SO SO blessed to have each one of you in my life, I’ve never had so many comments of love and beautiful wishes on my birthday before!! 🥰  It makes me want to cry because it’s really a blessing, you made me feel so special and loved, and you don’t know how much it means to me to have you, SO SO happy to be part of this beautiful community. Thank you, guys! 😭  *feeling shy*

My month was quite good in terms of reading, you’ll see more as always in my statistics, but basically, I read a normal amount for me and I’ve had a couple of books that I’ve loved with all my heart, in general, I enjoyed almost everything I read, which is always a good thing. This year I’m undoubtedly prioritizing reading things that I think I’d like or I’m very curious about, I want to focus more on that instead of the amount I read in itself, you know? 👏🏻 
I participate in the #Februwitchy I had a lot of fun and I read 2 of my favorite books of the year so far thanks to this, so super happy to have participated, I read only two books for the read-a-thon but it’s ok, I just wanted to be part, such a great idea to read about witches, which is something that I LOVE so much. 🧙‍♀️ Spoiler Alert! I’m in fact writing about witches in my own project, so you can imagine how passionate I am.
Then I also read a romance with a lot of hype and pick a book from my TBR Jar, which is full with your choices from my TBR LOWS & HIGHS posts, and you’ll see how it went, but I’m glad to be doing this, is a way to read books that have been in my TBR forever.
Plus, I have a couple of ARCs to talk to you about, one of them was an amazing surprise, probably a great revelation of this 2020. 😍  

Super excited to talk to you about ALL these readings and share my thoughts, I feel so energized today, for some reason, I think I’m feeling the March vibes in me(? lol … Now, Sofi stops talking & Let’s START!, I hope you enjoy. 🎍Read More »

Book Review | Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Title: Red, White & Royal Blue

By: Casey McQuiston

Series: NO

Pages: 421

Published: May 14th, 2019

By: St. Martin’s Griffin

Genre: NA | Contemporary | Romance | LGBT+

Buy it: Book Depository

 

 

Synopsis

What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?

When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.

Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn’t always diplomatic. 

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February TBR | First TBR Jar Pick of the Year, ARCs & Witchy Reads 🎍

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 🎍 Hi, my beautiful bookish friends! I hope you’re having the most incredible day with the best readings.❤️ Today I bring you a new Monthly TBR, where I share with you my reading plans for the month of February. This is a super special month for me because it’s my birthday month! YAY! 🎊 I’ve never been a fan of celebrating my birthdays, but this year I feel so blessed with so many good things in my life that I’m really super excited about it and besides being able to celebrate my 26 years with you, nothing makes me happier! 😭 And for this special month, I’ve planned a special stack of books to enjoy and share with you.
I think that seeing the whole picture I had a very good January in readings, I’ve read a lot, I’ve almost completed my TBR and I’ve also reached a record for me in pages read, so I’m very excited to continue with that streak during the year and obviously in this February.

Speaking about my readings, I’m super excited to tell you that I’ll be participating in the #Februwitchy readathon hosted by Asha | A Cat, A Book, and A Cup Of Tea | This readathon takes place throughout the month of February and there’s no specific rule you just have to read books about witches 🧙‍♀️ , and it works both if it has the name witch in the title as if it’s specifically about witches, you know? I leave the link in case you’re interested and want to know more, all you have to do is sing up in a Google Doc, the one that Asha provides you and there you can add your TBR and your books read during the month. It will be a lot of fun! so if you like witches I recommend you check it out. Personally, I’ll not be reading ONLY about witches, but I do have a small stack that has been reserved to participate because you know that I LOVE witches 👏🏻 and there are several books that I’ve been wanting to read for a while, so it’s perfect, I’m doing this as a gift for myself in my birthday month & nothing can be better. 😍 

Then I also have a couple of ARCs, as always, which I feel absolutely blessed to be able to read before their release date & in addition to ALL of this, I have a book that I’ve been wanting to read for months now, with another one that I’ve chosen from my TBR Jar. As you know, I’ve started doing the Lows & Highs posts every Sunday in order to clean my TBR and from there you have chosen a book every week, a book that has gone directly to my TBR Jar, so from there I have chosen one for the month, and I’m a little scared about it, but I think it will be fun to know what I think and share it with you. 😊  So without further ado, I want to jump right into to show you everything I plan to read in the month of February, I hope you enjoy it and thanks for being there ALWAYS 💞, you’re amazing. 🎍Read More »

January TBR || Start an ambitious year with a variety of book genres & exciting new reading challenges 🎍

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🎍 Hi, my beautiful bookish friends! I hope you’re having the most incredible day with the best readings.❤️ Today I bring you a new Monthly TBR, where I share with you my reading plans for the month of January. I’m SO SO excited because this is the first post of this 2020!!! 🎊 So before I start HAPPY NEW YEAR, guys! My best wishes to you & your family, I hope this year is full of success and enriching situations, of learning and much growth in all areas of your life, from here I send you all my good energy and vibes so that this new year begins wonderfully.

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So here we are!, VERY grateful that you’re still there and decide to share another year with me, it’s a blessing, today I’m very excited to share everything I plan to read during the month of January. 🥰
As I mentioned while planning my personal new reading challenges for this 2020, I decided to focus on reading some of the old popular YA trilogies/duologies/series that I’ve had on my bookshelf forever and haven’t read yet, I think and I hope it’s something entertaining for you, I want to read the entire series in the month and then I’ll make a unique post talking about each of the books, maybe with mini-reviews and stuffs. 👏🏻 What I’ve done is put a poll on Twitter so that everyone can vote and for this month we already have a winner, so super grateful for all the people who have voted, the winning series has almost the 60% of the votes, so I’m very excited to finally read it (I’ll tell you more about it down below)
Then I also have 3 ARCs for this month, I really didn’t expect them to be SO many but still, I’m excited to read them, I have 2 high-fantasies that I’m dying to share with you and a romance that sounds adorable. 😍
After EVERYTHING, and I know that I’m being ambitious, but hey, it’s what I want to do this year so let’s act as if it were normal 😂, I want to try to read a couple of popular romance books of 2019. I told you I wanted to start to read genres that I almost never read and since I already have a LOT of fantasy in my TBR for the month, I thought it would be a good idea to read a lighter romance, especially since it’s summer where I live and I would love to have some light options to take to the Beach.😎
This introduction is already much longer than I expected 😅, but I wanted to be able to explain my plans well to you, so now without further ado, let’s start with one of MANY TBRs to come! 🎍

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The End of the Year || Book Tag ☕️

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☕️ Hi, guys! I hope you’re having the best day and are enjoying your readings! HAPPY MONDAY.❤️ Every year I decide to do this tag because it’s A LOT of fun and a perfect way to summarize a little this end of the year and also order my thoughts. This last month of the year has arrived and I’ve planned so many fun posts to share with you, but I thought it would be right to start with this one. 😊 I know that most of you have made this tag a little earlier, the previous month, but since I haven’t had time, I’ve decided to do it anyway. I know everyone knows what this “The End of the Year” tag is about, I won’t make of this a long introduction so, we’ll jump right into the questions! I’m excited & hope you enjoy it!☕️Read More »