What To Read This Valentine’s If You Don’t Want To Read Romance

It’s valentines day! I’ve seen some good lists of romance novels float around the bloggosphere, and thought I would supplement them with a list of books that are cosy but not romantic. Sometimes, you’re just not in the mood for romance. It may not be your cup of tea, you may want to focus on pampering yourself instead this weekend, or you may be going though a horrible break-up and want to read ANYTHING BUT.

Tis The Season Book Tag

Really Emmie, another Christmas book tag? Well, er… yes. I love tags, I love Christmas and I need to get these out of my system before it’s January :).

I was tagged by Elanor @ Reading At Teatime. Thank you! ❤

1. Do you have a favourite winter read?

Well, I just did a poll on Instagram about winter being the perfect time to read murder mysteries, but apparently no one agrees with me XD.

I also recently wrote a post on 5 Books To Get You Into The Winter Spirit, including one murder mystery ’cause NO ONE CAN STOP ME ;).

20 Books I Will Always Recommend

I love lending books to people. It makes me very excited to share books I enjoyed with other people and even more excited to pick out a specific book I think they’ll like. One of my friends has been borrowing books from my personal library very frequently lately and we’ve gotten to a point where she only asks for ‘a new book’. She has no idea how AMAZING this is for me! I pick out books and she reads them without question!

I really love the book-recommendation function of the book blogging community, but I’ve realised that I myself hardly ever write posts that do that. To change that, here is a short selection of the books from my library that I often recommend to people ‘in real life’.