It’s Time Travel Thursday! Hosted by Emily at BudgetTalesBookBlog, this is where you get to relive all those bookish memories! Take a look back at what you were reading this time last year (or the year before or the year before that…) and compare it to what you are reading now!

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This Time Last Year (2025) I was reading:

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Synopsis

Emma Harper never wanted her quiet Boston bookstore to become the epicenter of chaos, but between a sharp-tongued cat, an overzealous best friend, and a mysterious letter addressed to her long-dead grandmother, quiet is officially off the shelves. Fiercely independent, bookish, and a little impulsive, Emma has always been more comfortable with paperbacks than people… until the past refuses to stay archived.

Jack Bennett looks like he walked straight out of a glossy magazine: polished, disciplined, and irritatingly composed. A tech CEO with a family legacy wrapped in secrets, Jack has spent his life in control, until one obscure out-of-print novel and a misplaced envelope drag him into Emma’s world of crooked shelves, late-night research, and inconveniently strong chemistry.

When a decades-old feud between their grandmothers resurfaces, Emma and Jack are forced into an uneasy alliance that feels a little too much like the beginning of a love story. But as sparks fly and secrets unravel, the question becomes: can two people who guard their hearts like rare first editions trust each other enough to rewrite the ending?

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Currently I am Reading:

Comparison:

Love, Locked and Loaded is very much a contemporary mystery romance novel. In that regard it can compare to both of my current reads separately.

Greetings of the Season is a regency romance that takes place obviously on Earth, just back in the day lol.

When the Magic Comes has some mystery elements as well, it just takes place in a fantastical world.

A very interesting comparison for sure lol.

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What were you reading this time last year? How does it compare to what you are reading now?