Ana Coqui

Garlic! It is the basis of nearly all my seasoning. Bread…eh I can live without it.

Thinking of you and your family. May you have all the support and the best of care.

An update about me and my publishing plans for 2025-2026:

In early September (specifically, they day before our first overseas vacation in seven years), I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Apparently she hadn’t been feeling good in the heat. They had her start back down on her own and she fell off a cliff!!

Wow use pick up all the time and never had that happened. Seems like that store has an issue!

Grieving daughter of cruise ship passenger left behind on remote Australian island says ‘there was a failure of care’ Suzanne Rees, 80, was found dead on Lizard Island a day after her cruise ship the Coral Adventurer left without her

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Elderly woman found dead on tropical island after cruise ship leaves without her - East Idaho News BRISBANE, Australia (CNN) — A cruise passenger in her 80s, who had just embarked on a 60-day luxury tour around Australia, was found dead after being left behind on a tropical island. The passenger, w...

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$50,000 cruise and they forgot her. This feels like a premise for cozy!

And now reading through blurbs I discover one of the previous series features the detective in the other timeline !! God I love authors with backlists to explore!!

I just borrowed book 1 to check if I had read it would have been better prepared for the ending and having skipped to the end…I sure would have! I think I’ll jump back and read book 1 after all!

Screenshot of Cover of The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer A Mystery by Ragnar Jónasson Narrated by Cicely Whitehead, Jane Slavin, Rufus Wright Language: English from Libro Fm The cover is an empty desk and chair with papers scattered on the floor

82. The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer A Mystery by Ragnar Jónasson (cozyish mystery)

Bk 2 but I jumped in with this one & enjoyed it all the way to the last chapter where I was not prepared for the cliffhanger ending of one of the storylines!

Cw: abuse, stalking, murder, lies.

I read the ARC for this and enjoyed it! This is a great price!

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It is really bittersweet. She would have loved the discussions.

Giant invasive, pet-eating snakes take over Puerto Rico: ‘It’s very, very bad’ “My cats are gone, my chickens are gone … It’s a problem.”

We have Python hunts in PR thanks to irresponsible owners releasing them into the wild. Truly frustrating. nypost.com/2024/05/21/w...

Oooh. Those sounds great.

Yes! It makes such a difference in the tone of the books and my ability to enjoy them that we aren’t reading straight copaganda.

Libraries are political!!!!!!!! !!!!

There is enough there that I will definitely read the next book. The audio narration was very good and enjoy the MCs.

That made me give it a little more space and the book itself definitely calls out queerphobia and the MC practices magic in ways outside her own slot in the magical world (witch who also does sorcerer magic) so I’m hopeful that KA is going to complicate the magical world more, break up the certainty

So although I really liked the voice I almost quit it because the magical worldbuilding has little room for trans people, very gender segregated. (Witches only have daughters, werewolves are only male). Then I was told that it’s the same system as Kelly Armstrong’s Bitten series (KA is KA)

81. Witch of the Wolves by Kaylee Archer (Historical PNR, WW/WM)

Kidnapped by her werewolf father Cordelia must untangle the lies and figure out who to trust and who to fear. Great inner voice & big conflicts.

CWs: sexism, threats of SA, violence, murder, queer phobia.

Oh yes those are both great. I do put mystery with rom and Romsus into different mental boxes.

My RomSus go to this year have been Katie Ruggle, Laura Griffin, Rachel Grant and Toni Anderson.

Best to think of any gov employee as living in AU where military/cia folks are actually fighting the good fight.

I do love that all of them don’t assume all LEO have good intent.

what's the tiniest microtrope in romance that lights your soul on fire?

examples: mine is when a person's expression subtly "softens" while looking at their LI in public

I have a friend who loves when 2 characters sit on opposite sides of a wall/closed door and each press their hands to it

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈

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Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨

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80. Between Then & Now (Wardham 1) by Zoe York (WM/WW, marriage in trouble novella).

Too many things left unsaid and fears and insecurity building up for Carrie and Ian.

CWs: PT: unplanned pregnancy, pregnancy loss.

Dear fellow overweight hypermobile people: what kind of desk chairs do you use? Because I can no longer use my very good desk chair because my body does not like sitting like a normal person.

77. Skinny Dipping Dare bk 1 WW/WM

78. Ambushed by Love bk 3 (reread) WW/WM 50+ widower

79. Take a Chance on Me bk 2 AW/WM

all from the SEALs at Camp Firefly Falls by Zoe York.

Summer camp romances that get more serious and complicated than any one expected. Really enjoyed the conflicts!

Ha!