Hello and hey to the pumpkins that spice up my day a latte! 🎃🤣 Yep, that’s going to be the set greeting for Autumn in these parts! And also yes, for the duration of this time you will be referred to as pumpkins too which only just dawned on me there 😅. Cute pumpkins tho don’t worry! (….. phew, nice save 👌😂). Sooo how are you doing? 🧡 Happy October!! Jokes aside, do you like the opening line? I’m a bit obsessed with it which is why I decided to make it into a full time thing 🙈. Come Winter I’ll never want to look at it again 🤣. Now I’ve just got to think of a catchy Christmas line but we’ll tackle that bridge when we get to it!

For now it’s Fall (I’m trying to incorporate that into my vocabulary now 🍂🤣) and it’s raining too so yayyyyy 🥳…😭. It was nice until it wasn’t anymore but I guess it can’t all be golden brown leaves and rain that rests 🌧️😂. It’s all fun and games until out of nowhere we’re in the minuses and I’m yet to unpack any of my winter weather clothes that Autumn accepts as it’s own 🥶 last night was like a hellish icebox even if that’s not possible and there I was in Summer pj’s asking myself why I don’t set more productive plans and actually do them like UNPACKING ❄️ but gooOO autumn, yeah! I love you really 🍂😂.

Now, what’s this season without a bookish post here and there? (Here is one and there are more on the way! 🤣). I realized the other day that I’ve forgotten about some of my books and yeah that can be an easy enough thing to do but here comes the twist…….and it’s mega…….once upon a time I either really wanted these books and/or was head over heels whilst I was reading them in a “I see nothing else but this book” sort of way 📚.

….How could I forget something that’s had an impact like that?? 😵 I mean, I can forget to switch off the lamp on my bedside cabinet and wake up in the middle of the night in shock thinking a ghosts after putting the light on for me but THIS?? 🤯

Too shocking for words.

Except those words (they made it past the shock 🤣). Actually, leaving the light on can creep me out for days so if we’re being honest here that can go to the top of the class and win but truth be told we’re not being honest (… we’re being truthfully not honest…mmmkay 🤔). This is a time to be unexplainably dramatic and in bookish terms, I don’t know where my head has been at!! I intend to find out tho 🧐.

Random thought that aside from being about books I can’t tie in: Do we own books or do they own us? 💁🏽 While that question sits unanswered I’ll get on with the post 📚 Let’s go over some of the books I’m sort of amazed I forgot about:

Front Lines by Michael Grant

AM I A COWARD?

Her face is wet but her mouth is dry. Her heart is beating heavy and slow. Her breaths are shallow. Soon now. Soon they will be there, wherever there is. It is a mission, it is a commando raid. It will almost certainly be combat.

IT ALL LEADS TO THIS

Rio Richlin and her friends are going to war. But will they be strong enough to prove themselves on the front lines?

I used to be obsessed with all the Gone books by Michael Grant and for a while after I finished with them I sought out his other books too. BZRK would have been the first and I wish I’d given that more of a chance as I no longer have it 😑 and I worked my way round before happening upon Front Lines and feeling like I’d hit the jackpot 💰. The only problem was that it’s told by more than one character and lil me was lost + I think I didn’t like one of them but that’s beside the point 😂. I don’t know if I want to pick this book back up again and you know when the years go by (I must have had it for over 5 now) and more books run on from it (….yeah Lucy it’s called a series), well that’s putting me off 😂. Gone was different as I went into it aware that more was coming and I was all over it but long story short I don’t know if I can commit to a non-fantasy story that goes on and on (like I am right now but more annoying…😁). Perhaps I’ll change my mind but I don’t know if I’ll go back to this book.

Toffee by Sarah Crossan

I AM NOT WHO I SAY I AM – MARLA ISN’T WHO SHE THINKS SHE IS

It’s not safe for Allison at home and so she runs. But with nowhere to stay she hides in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. Except the house isn’t empty. An elderly woman, Marla, lives there. She is lonely, and often confused. She mistakes Allison for a friend from her past called Toffee and invites her in.

Allison is used to hiding who she really is and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so Toffee is who she becomes. But as Allison realises how much Marla needs a real friend, she begins to ask: Where is home? What does family mean? And who am I really?

I don’t understand how I could have forgotten about this when I remember being so invested in it!! I literally posted a picture of it alongside a rant to my Instagram feed and that’s huge because the only presence over there right now is tumbleweed flitting about the place. It’s rare I go on there so to think that I posted about Toffee by Sarah Crossan, it’s got to have been good! 😂 Now that I’ve come across it again the plotline is flooding back but I know I’ll have to start over from the very beginning either way to familiarize myself fully and that always goes further with putting me off getting back to a book no matter how good it is. By the time I make it to where I was I’ll end up setting it aside all over again at this rate I just know it 🤣.

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

What advice would you give the younger you… and would you listen?

As far as time machines go, a magic telephone is pretty useless. TV writer Georgie McCool can’t actually visit the past; all she can do is call it, and hope it picks up. Is she going crazy or is this a chance to make things right with her husband, Neal?

Maybe she can fix the things in their past that seem unfixable in the present. Maybe this stupid phone is giving her a chance to start over … if that’s what she wants…

A heart-wrenching – and hilarious – take on fate, time, television and true love, Landline asks if two people are ever really on the same path, or whether love just means finding someone who will keep meeting you halfway.

I’m unsure if I even finished the first chapter of this! Maybe I did, I’ll have to check on that but either way I have absolutely no recollection of what happens so it doesn’t really matter 🤣. I vaguely remember taking a picture of it within this book haul and the rest was a blip in time if I did in fact read it (the name of that haul adds insult to injury but we won’t talk about that). There’s actually another book on that list I forgot about – The up side of unrequited but seeing as that’s by Becky Albertalli and I’ve listed another one of her books below I’ll just leave that mention there and feel even more ashamed of myself (when you remember one, these books just come crawling out from the rafters I tell you 😕😂). The summary of Landline still intrigues me so don’t worry I’ll get around to reading it one day (…oh you weren’t worrying? That’s fine too 😓…I guess it’ll have to be 😭😂).

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually right on the beat – but real life is a little harder to manage. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends she’s bisexual, not even her openly gay BFF, Simon.

So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friendship group starts to fracture. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high, and it’s hard for Leah when the people she loves are fighting – especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.

I actually said to myself the other day: “Love, Simon was good! You should get Leah on the Offbeat to see what it’s like!”…..and then I realized I’ve already got it 🤔. Don’t know how that mindset works but there’s one tiny thing that could be important. I only remember thinking Love, Simon was good. I can’t actually remember what happened or who Leah even is exactly 😶 but I can vaguely recall wondering what was going on in her life as she was a sideline character. I need to go back, figure out what happened and feel that way again before I begin Leah on the Offbeat or maybe I don’t have to and it can serve as a standalone novel? I don’t know but I want to 💭.

Filter This by Sophie White

The Glossie Influencer Awards are fast approaching and Ali Jones is hell bent on a win and breaking through 10,000 followers on Instagram. But when Ali inadvertently leads people to believe she’s pregnant, she quickly realises that playing the ‘Mummy-Influencer’ card could be her ticket to Insta-success. And she’s not going to let a small detail like a fake pregnancy get in her way. Even if the reappearance of Tinder Sam, who seems determined to take his role of ‘baby’ daddy seriously, makes things a little more complicated…

Elsewhere on Insta, Shelly Devine, Ireland’s biggest influencer (and Ali’s idol) is also guarding secrets from her followers, and her husband…

Both Ali and Shelly have decisions to make but as the night of the Glossies draws near, will they realise what’s important before they lose what matters most?

I was super into Filter This and am actually excited to give it a go again because another thing I can’t for the life of me remember is even putting this back on my bookcase!!!+!!!!! (Just remembered I’m being extra today). It’s like someone didn’t want me to read this book I swear. My unconscious mind probably thought I could do with putting away one of the many books I had on the go at the time, ‘she won’t remember’ it said and it was right in thinking that but I don’t appreciate going against myself…and I’m confused by this whole scenario too so I’ll stop 😵.

Okay so that wasn’t too bad considering I have a lot of books! (Even if the list ended up being packed full of YA I swear I take on other genres too….the rest just tend to be otherworldly 😅). If I’m being honest there are loads within my Enid Blyton collection that I can’t remember as well that didn’t make this list (it’s bound to happen as I have over 300 E.B books 😬), they’re basically there for a nostalgia kick though so can rest assured I won’t be getting rid of them anytime soon 🙌🤣. I had someone in my family asking me in a roundabouts sort of way to pass them on to somebody else a few years ago and I was like: if your insinuating what I think you are then I don’t think we should be on a first name basis anymore. Move along now 😁 there’s nothing to see in this hoarders paradise 😂.

I guess this post could be another way of saying TBR (to be read) in that I tend to forget what’s on there as well! 🤣 I mean who doesn’t have a TBR list as long as history itself? 🤷🏽‍♀️ I feel justified in not being alone with that one even if the bookshelves are caving in, they’ll have to last that bit longer 😂. Anyway, thank you for reading!! ✨ I guess this lot can’t have been forgettable in a bad way if at one point I either wanted/enjoyed them!? Some things aren’t there to be questions…but you are:

Share the books you’ve forgotten about in comments section unless…you know, you’ve forgotten about them which is kinda the whole point 🤔. Remember them to tell me, then forget again! 👏 Simples 😌.

And yes I realize I’ve now called you a pumpkin and a “thing” but I think what we’ve got going on is strong enough to get past that 😅. Any books featured today capture your attention? For all my forgetfulness I do want to talk about them so let me know if you’ve read any of them! 📚 Right, I’m out of here. I’ll see you again next week! The only thing set in stone with regards to that post is you’ll get the same intro again so no surprise there (I already let the cat out of the bag on that one 😹). See you soon, stay safe, take care and….🤔…yeah that’s it, buh-bye! 💗💗

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