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October Book Club
We are currently reading All The Colors Of The Dark by Chris Whitaker.
We would love to have you join us!
Book Launches and Tours
Amy Neff
July 29, 2024
Thomas Hooker Live
Hartford CT
Upcoming Book Talks
Book Talks are our (the readers) chance to chat with authors about their latest and upcoming novels and projects. Check out my current line up of author interviews.
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Book Talks are in conjunction with the Facebook group Bookish Pen Pals and are streamed LIVE
to the Bookish Pen Pals YouTube channel. You can view the live and the chat for free!
Coming Soon...
A BIT OF HISTORY
Welcome to my obsession...books...reading them, talking about them, recommending them, and, of course, talking to those authors who write them!
Keepreadingkristen started as a mantra to myself in the wee hours of the night rather than be responsible and go to sleep. Now you can find me on Bookstagram, Threads, and TikTok as @keepreadingkristen asking QOTD's, posting book reviews and memes, chatting with other readers and supporting authors!
I am also one of the admin team for the all female FB group, Bookish Pen Pals. Our members love being connected to books and authors! Are you female and over 18? Come join us on FB!
Past Events
Missed the LIVE Book Talks? Have no fear! You can watch them on the Bookish Pen Pals YouTube Channel by clicking the links below.
Sara Beth Durst
Sarah Beth Durst is a New York Times bestselling author of over twenty-five books for adults, teens, and kids, including her latest, The Spell Shop, which is a cozy fantasy. The Spell Shop features found family (and love), merhorses,
talking plants, and raspberry jam!
Bethany Jacobs
These Burning Stars, is a LGBTQ SFF space opera full of revenge, adventure, deceit, love, and loyalty.
Robert Dugoni
Best selling author, Robert Dugoni's latest novel, A Killing on the Hill, is set in 1930's prohibition Seattle and features gangsters, courtroom drama, and a twist that will leave you wanting more of the MMC, Shoe.
Kendra Elliot & Melinda Leigh
Kendra Elliot & Melinda Leigh team up their fan favorite FMC's in their debut collaboration, Echo Road.
Emily Lankow
Emily Lankow's YA Fantasy second book in the Fall of the Enclave series, Soulseeker will leave you begging for Book 3! Just when Monica and Finn survive the events in Riftrider, they are off on another adventure for Maul. This is a book of selflessness and found family.
Claire Kann
Claire Kann's latest romance, Looking For Love In All The Haunted Places, features found family, an ACE FMC, a spunky sidekick, and a "haunted" house you will fall in love with.
Ali Rosen
Cookbook author and TV Host, Ali Rosen's debut romance novel, Recipe for Second Chances, will take you to Italy in this sweet slow burn romance.
Z.S. Diamanti
Join the Griffin Guard in Z.S. Diamanti's epic adventure! Now a trilogy (if we don't include the Preludes)!
Emily Lankow
Follow Monica and Finn on their adventures in Book 1 in the Fall of the Enclave series, Riftrider.
Steve Manchester
Go back to the 1980's in Steve's series Bread Bags & Bullies! Plus, we played 80's Would You Rather!
Lina Ravenhill
Lina Ravenhill's dark vampire romance series is all about adventure, self-discovery, and it wouldn't be romance without love.
S.C. Lourie
S.C. Lourie, writer, shares her poems and discusses her book The Power of Mess.
Michael Breen
Travel the night road with Mike Breen and learn about his 2nd novel, Judd.
Jeanee Sacken
Travel with war photographer Annie Hawkins Green to Afghanistan in Jeanee Sacken's fiction series. Jeanee is an adventurer, writer, and photographer.
Danielle Coffyn
Danielle Coffyn shares her poems and talks about writing and recovering from an eating disorder.
What is Kristen Reading?
My physical TBR is crazy and often I am reading several books at once, including ARCs. Check out my latest reads here.
Fable App
Join me on the Fable App for my Book Club, Books & Banter!
We are currently reading The Forest where the Phoenix Sleeps by Brooke Marley Jones.
Brooke will be joining us in the Fable app to participate in the discussion and to ask and answer questions for us!
ARCs
- Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson
- The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff
- The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew (Oct. 2024)
- Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler (Aug. 24, 2024)
- In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King (Sept. 24, 2024)
- Dead Below Deck (Nov. 2024)
- Once More From the Top by Emily Layden (Sept. 2024)
- The Book of Dreams by Morgan Reilly
Reading Challenges
Do you do any reading challenges?
I am working on the A-Z Challenge for 2024 and the Goodreads 2024 challenge, which I set at 85 books.
The List...
- The Forest Where the Phoenix Sleeps
- Talismans, Teacups & Trysts
- They Called Us Girls
- Your Presence is Mandatory
- Decay: a tale of destruction
- Estrellas
- The Cardinal Club
- A Curse of Fang and Sword
- A Curse of Tooth and Claw
- A Curse of Blood and Bone
- A Hired Blade
- The Bloodborn Dragon
- Dissonance
- Sorrow Draw
- The Opal Queen
- Daughter of the Cloud
- Edge of Time
- Out of the Ashes
- Buried
- Daughter of Bathory
Just to name a few!
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