Meet the book lover ♡

 

If you have stumbled across this post because your looking for a book recommendation or you have clicked from my Instagram then hi, my name is savannah and i love to read. I found it as an escape method in 2020 when the world paused for a while (very bizzare time) in a year where it was very stressful, i found reading brought me a sense of peace and took away my anxiety for a little while. In the summer of 2020 i welcomed my second baby, so naturally reading was then pushed to the back of my priority list and to be quite honest i was always asleep whenever i could as mums and dads will know the first year of having a new born baby is filled with a lack of time and sleep. 

Skip forward to 2022 i had more time and a routine, more time to sit down after 9pm and be able to sit and read if i wanted to. I picked up a popular book on the shelf of Tesco spontaneously, truth be told it was the pretty pink cover with flowers that pulled me in i didn't even read the blurb, and if you have read that book you will know its not all that pretty inside. I read and got lost in the story like no other. i remember crying and feeling emotions, anger, happy, frustrated, it really was like watching a film but instead of a screen, it was pages filled with words. This book was 'it ends with us' by colleen hoover. Whilst now i wouldn't class it as my favourite book as i have read so many since and its one i necessarily wouldn't read again as i did find it very emotional and hard to read some parts (please check trigger warnings) i do however thank this book (more so the author) for been the one to grab my attention and pull me back into the reading world, ever since i haven't let that time of reading slip away from my day again as i class it as my time, my selfcare time, my relaxing time whatever you want to call it, it brings me a sense of calm and enjoyment to my day that i look forward to.

My favourite genre is fiction. I adore romance, ya, and fantasy especially "romantasy" which if your not sure what that is, its fantasy with romance as not every fantasy book has a romance sub plot to it. I haven't read a lot of fantasy books, but the last 10 months of this year has made me realise i really love the fantasy genre and cant wait to explore more books and fantasy authors. I also like mystery and occasionally a thriller, thriller is definitely not my favourite but i can appreciate a good one that genuinely makes me jump, i love Frieda Mcfaden, the housemaid was one i love i found it disturbing but i know there is so many good ones out there, i want to dive into Riley Sagers thrillers as i see them recommended all the time. I like non fiction to, i love the occasional memoir of a celebrity i admire,  i love getting to have a glimpse into their life. i love books about life, one i really liked this year was Dolly Aldertons 'everything i know about love'. I really recommend that one as it brought me laughter and a emotional feel reading the realities of growing up in your twenties. 

Some other things i love, coffee (cant get enough) you will come to notice over time a picture with my book will always accompany a beverage and that beverage would either be a caramel latte, iced coffee or a matcha, i also enjoy watching reels of coffee been made lol. I love the autumn, the sound of crunchy leaves, the sound of rain hammering down on the windows, i love wearing warm fluffy socks, i love hot bubble baths and just soaking in it for an hour until my skin has wrinkled up, i love makeup and doing my skin care, i teach kindness to my children as i think its the best quality you can have, treat each other with respect, i love Gilmore girls i have only watched three seasons of it so this year is the year im re watching and finishing them all (how exciting) i love a good book series and that feeling when you've finished said series, it feels like you've achieved something and i love that feeling. that exciting feeling of waiting for the next book in a series (currently itching for 'into the dark' by Jessa hastings)  i love dogs and share the occasional dog or cat content on my stories, one day i will have a dog or a cat. i love my children, been a mama is the best thing to happen to me and my children are my whole world. i would love to be a teacher one day, im currently a makeup artist and been in the beauty industry for 9 years, i love music especially 90's r&b i could listen to anything from that era all day. Im also a big swifty and cant wait to see her in concert, i love artic monkeys and saw them live this year, they were amazing i have loved that band since i was around 15.

My favourite books as of now are the windy city series by Liz Tomforde and the magnolia parks universe by Jessa hastings, these two series are so different to each other but equally i love them both so much. I have a lot more books that i class as my favourites but if you was to ask me what my top two books it would be the books from these two series that are my number ones. I'm a big harry potter girl to just a fyi.

Think of this as a long introduction but also i hope you have gotten to know me a little better and will enjoy my book recs i post, and my reviews as my captions on instagram always tell me its to long when i have so much more i want to say in my review. Going to insert some of my pictures from my instagram you can find me over there at @savreadwhat 

Thanks for reading my first post. 

                                                                         Sending love x