We Live and Breathe Books: Sundays with Sam

Sundays with Sam is a combination of Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

My Week in Review

Happy Sunday! I hope August is off to a great start for you. The last two weeks of July were so lovely, I almost forgot it was summer....until August. I just keep thinking that there are almost 2 months of summer left. 😭

My life is dull, and my personal life was uneventful as always. It's going to be a while until I actually do anything.

On the Blog

Monday: Reviews - Whiskey Chaser, How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle
Tuesday: TTT - Still Haven't Read It
Wednesday: CWW - You'll Love It Here, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Thursday: Reviews - Chase Me If You Can, Darling Daffodils Farm
Friday: Spell the Month in Books - July 2026

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Stacking the Shelves

Aside from downloading a bunch of freebies, I purchased a book from my TBR that was deeply discounted - Messenger Cat Cafe. I also downloaded a read-now book because I love Emma Lord. I got a bunch of invites that were very much outside of my reading realm except Rabbit, Rabbit but I had already been approved on Netgalley for that one (LOVE JES!).

I don't really request a lot of books any longer, but I did submit a request for the new Mallory Marlowe book. I was really disappointed to be rejected since I greatly enjoyed her previous books. I don't even try for HUGE authors, but now, I am not even getting the smaller authors. *ho, hum*

Netgalley/Edelweiss

Unroyally Yours by Emma Lord

Purchased/Free

Messenger Cat Cafe by Nagi Shimeno
Camp Love by Ellie Belmont, Lacey Cole
To Love a Texas Cowboy by Julie Benson
Since the Day We Left by Kerk Murray
The Spotted Cottage by the Sea by Amelia Addler

Invites

Rabbit, Rabbit by Jennifer E. Smith
Written in Starlight by Sloane Brooks
American Nightmare by Alexandra Kyllingstad
Hive Mind by Allison Gunn

Read Last Week

I think I mentioned on my midyear tag that I might not do July's Easy Reading Challenge prompt. The prompt was to give an author a second chance, and I am super unforgiving it seems. Well, I was scrolling through Goodreads, and saw that my daughter added a book to her TBR. I asked her about it, and she thought it looked good. I had a widget for the book but was not going to download because I had read the author's debut which was fine but nothing out of this world for me. With my daughter's endorsement, I downloaded Fossil Feud, and it was one of my highest rated books this week.

As a STEM girl, I love books that feature science, and this one actually had quite a bit. It was paleontology which is not my area of expertise but still very interesting to read about. I thought the hero was fantastic, and I appreciated the heroine's drive and grit. Really liked it!

I also enjoyed Now Is Not the Time to Panic. This is my third book by Wilson which I have enjoyed. His stories are always a little weird but contain so much keen insight.

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