A Court of Silver Flames (ACOTAR Book 4) by Sarah J. Maas

So Nesta had become a wolf. Armed herself with invisible teeth and claws, and learned to strike faster, deeper, more lethally. Had relished it. But when the time came to put away the wolf, she’d found it had devoured her, too.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJuly 11, 2023Fantasy, favorites, magic, series

A Court of Frost and Starlight (ACOTAR Book 3.5) by Sarah J. Maas

It’s a time of rest, too. And a time to reflect on the darkness—how it lets the light shine.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJuly 7, 2023Fantasy, favorites, magic, series

A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOTAR Book 3) by Sarah J. Maas

My friends—they had gone to war and back and had not found it worthy of glorification, had not let its memory become rose-tinted in the centuries following.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJuly 4, 2023Fantasy, favorites, magic, series

A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOTAR Book 2) by Sarah J. Maas

When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJune 30, 2023Fantasy, favorites, magic, series

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJune 27, 2023Fantasy, favorites, magic, series

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

Nothing comes from nothing. No brain is an island.

Nonfiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJune 23, 2023recommended, informative, Psychology, science

Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People by Lindsay C Gibson

Integrity is meaningless when your highest good lies in your immediate advantage of the moment. Integrity can’t be sustained in a person who privileges their feelings over factual reality.

Nonfiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJune 20, 2023recommended, informative, Psychology, new releases

Lockwood and Co Series by Jonathan Stroud

Doubts, like ghosts, gain strength in darkness

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJune 16, 2023Fantasy, favorites, series

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Men find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksJune 2, 2023Fantasy, favorites, magic, series, new releases

A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

A Most Agreeable Murder feels as if Bridgerton and Agatha Christie came together, with a sprinkling of Twilight, and made a book.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksMay 30, 2023new releases, ARC, mystery

Everything's Fine by Cecilia Rabess

Sometimes it’s better to be happy than right.

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter

Scientists are finding that certain discomforts protect us from physical and psychological problems like obesity, heart disease, cancers, diabetes, depression, and anxiety, and even more fundamental issues like feeling a lack of meaning and purpose.

Nonfiction BooksBeguiled By BooksMay 23, 2023recommended, informative, Philosophy, Psychology

Coward: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It by Tim Clare

Anxiety works by anticipating and inhibiting. It says: Don’t do that, you’ll get hurt. Don’t do that, you’ll be disappointed. Don’t do that, you’ll embarrass yourself. Anxiety likes routine. It likes predictability. It likes knowing outcomes.

The Bookbinder by Pip Williams

If you shrink yourself to the smallness of your circumstances, you’ll soon disappear.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksMay 16, 2023favorites, historical fiction

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Words are our tools of resurrection.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksMay 12, 2023favorites, Book Gifts, Five Stars, historical fiction

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May

There is no one predator from which to escape; there are many. We are in the business of running now. It is all so urgent. Every year, it seems we must run harder. There is no other solution. We can only run, and panic, and chatter out our fears to others, who will mirror them back to us.

36 Lessons after 36 Years

It’s not been an easy year, but I’m so incredibly fortunate. Please enjoy my annual list of things I’ve learned.

PersonalBeguiled By BooksMay 5, 2023Goals

Through Smoke and Sand by Corrie Hathaway

What if we could handle the hard things better if we soaked up magic and wonder the rest of the time?

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksMay 2, 2023Fantasy, magic, new releases, Family

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Wasting talent like yours is like burning a pile of money in front of a poorhouse. It’s cruel and it stinks.

Fiction BooksBeguiled By BooksApril 28, 2023new releases, Contemporary fiction, ARC, children, YA (young adult), kids

Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright

Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.

Nonfiction BooksBeguiled By BooksApril 25, 2023recommended, informative, Philosophy, Psychology