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Continue reading →: September Book Club: Tropesick by Lauren Okie
If you’re new here, I run a romance bookclub at my local independent bookstore, The Briar Patch in Bangor, Maine. Hoppily Ever After meets monthly at BookSpace, and our new spinoff romantasy book club, A Burrow of Rabbits and Readers, meets quarterly! The great thing about running a book club…
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Continue reading →: Maas Madness Book 1: A Court of Thorns and RosesWe’ve made it through the first 5 days of Maas Madness! That means if you’re reading along, we finished book 1 today, A Court of Thorns and Roses. The ACOTAR series is a re-read for me (I’ve never read the Throne of Glass or Crescent City series). But it’s been…
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Continue reading →: It’s time for Maas Madness!I thought I would re-read the ACOTAR series before Splintered Harmony and Forgotten Melody come out. Then I heard that you should probably read all of the Sarah J Maas universe, because there is crossover. I’ve never read Throne of Glass or Crescent City, but they’ve been on my TBR…
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Continue reading →: August Book Club: The Open Era by Edward SchmitI’ve always loved watching tennis, and I love gay romance stories so choosing The Open Era by Edward Schmit for our Hoppily Ever After book club was an easy pick! Rising star of tennis Austin Hardy has always dreamed of playing in tournaments like the US Open, but he’d rather…
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Continue reading →: Pattern Test: Shell Tee by The Knit Purl GirlI don’t do a lot of pattern testing these days, but I was inspired to try this one when I saw it pop up on my Instagram feed. A basic tee, but made special with stripes. This is the Shell Tee, by Sophie Hemmings of The Knit Purl Girl. I’ve…
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Continue reading →: To Fix, or Not to Fix?See that little blue stitch marker there? That’s where I missed a stitch. I noticed my pattern wasn’t quite working up the way it was before, but it was still going. Just…a little weird. So I counted my stitches, and I was 1 short. I went back to the end…

