Melanie/Mel

Somewhere, Belichick and JorDON are smirking.

The Seahawks kicker for SuperBowl MVP

Thank goodness for that halftime show bc this game and all the commercials are a snooze.

a man in a suit and tie is making a gross gesture with his hand Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a gross gesture with his hand

All. These. AI. Commercials.

The hardest of nopes. Absolute fucking grifter behavior trying to cash in on a genre she has zero respect for.

Well, this has been a day.

Screenshot of Love Hard by Nalini Singh with a shirtless man holding a rugby ball. He has a Samoan influenced tattoo going across his upper chest and right shoulder and arm.

21. Love Hard by Nalini Singh

Read 🎧: 2/4/26-2/6/26

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Thank you!

Thank you!

Remi and Roxie, my two mini labradoodles

The best two doggies ever

they’d left it. So my spouse contacted FedEx and the company he’d ordered these strawberries from. Long story short, I now have 2 boxes of chocolate covered strawberries in my fridge. 😳

Yesterday was my 16th wedding anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, my husband ordered me a box of chocolate covered strawberries bc I have a fondness for them. FedEx was meant to deliver it on Tuesday, said they’d delivered it but I did not receive it or recognize the picture of the house where

…I’m sorry, what??

Suleikha’s books are awesome!!

Happy birthday!!

My (always female) techs have been wonderful at distracting me (they have first hand experience with how awkward and uncomfortable it is) so I’m hoping you end up in the hands of a good tech who will do likewise.

A hand, palm side up, with two mini painted wooden ornaments on it. One has been painted with the book cover Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas, while the other has been painted with the stepback cover from the same book, featuring a couple kneeling towards each other on the grass. Stepback artwork is by Max Ginsburg.

happy Derek Craven day!!🥳

Screenshot of Fire Line by Maggie Gates with a cartoon illustration of a white man in a white tshirt and jeans and a cowboy hat holding and kissing a white woman with black and white hair in a tshirt and pants with an apron on and a full sleeve of tattoos. They look to be standing in front of a window overlooking a ranch.

20. Fire Line by Maggie Gates

Read: 2/1/26-2/3/26

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Review: Dirty Hit by Livy Hart Dirty Hit by Livy Hart Contemporary Romance February 2, 2026 by EntangledReview by Melanie Hockey romance seems to be having quite the resurgence right now, given that we all collectively lost our …

My smexy review of Dirty Hit dropped today:

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Remember how I said we had plans to try to reduce Amazon wishlist dependence for our whistle printers?

We'd love to get enough polymaker gift cards so we can do a bulk buy directly from the manufacturer and get a stack of filament for an entire urban area.

were even more things that resonated this time around that I missed the first time around. I just really really love this book.

Continuing my rereads of Nalini Singh's contemporaries and this is hands down my favorite Nalini contemporary. There is so much in this book that makes me feel seen and I relate so hard to Nayna and Raj's story. It's funny, it's been 8 years since I first read this book and upon rereading it, there

Screenshot of Rebel Hard by Nalini Singh with a shirtless man with a very toned torso standing against a wall, smiling. He's wearing dark pants and you can only see his face from the nose down.

19. Rebel Hard by Nalini Singh

Read 🎧: 2/1/26-2/3/26

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Andrew, formerly known as Prince, being formally reported to the police while our current Orange in chief still goes about his merry way.

Duper hot sounds like only the person who made it thinks it’s the hottest thing ever.

My playlists these days are entirely populated by the music of my youth.

Jennifer Lawrence was recently on Amy Poehler’s podcast, Good Hang and they were talking about what new music JLaw listens to and she said she doesn’t even know what new music there is and how does one find good new music since radio is pretty much dead and I’ve never felt more seen in my life.

It’s February, so here’s my annual reminder that it’s ok to ignore hot takes about genre romance written by people who have never read a single genre romance in their lives. Give yourself the gift of peace (or, as much as is possible in this current timeline).

The entire series is about women seeking revenge on men who’ve done them wrong and well worth the read

Bennet and I loved their complicated road to a HEA. Fans of Kennedy Ryan's brand of hyper emotional and angsty romances should definitely pick this one up.