Happy Tuesday, reader friends, and welcome to the final Top Ten Tuesday for 2020 thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. As always, this week’s topic looks back at our favourite books for the year. I’m also kicking off my annual Emoji Files awards where I break down my favourite reads for the year into the following categories:
The Swoony Awards – all the romance (le sigh!)
Got Me In The Feels – the books that reached in and plucked my heartstrings
The WOW Awards – suspense, thrills, high stakes, and surprises
️ Take Me Away . . . – fully immersive reads that took me to times and places far away
The LOL Awards – from light-hearted to bust-a-gut humour
Today, I’ll be giving you my swoony favourites of 2020. Stay tuned over the next four days to get the rest of my 2020 highlights!
What makes a romance a swoony read for me? I love emotional connection between the hero and heroine—shared experiences, shared laughter, shared tears—and of course, genuine romantic tension springing from that emotional connection. I don’t want to be told about the characters’ developing feelings so much as I want the writing to make me FEEL them! And yes, Mimi Matthews may be a bit of a favourite… 😊
Ah, the lady swoons!! Brilliant. 🙂 I have only ever read Gentleman Jim and it caught me completely bu surprise. I love revenge (pseudo-revenge in this case) stories. Happy TTT and Happy 2021 in advance!
~My Top 10 Tuesday Post @Lexlingua
Happy dancing to find RECKLESS on your lovely list, dear lady! Thank you for reading my tales and including them in wondrous company!
I’ve heard so many good things about Mimi Matthews books.
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Ahhh! I’m so thrilled to see Always You up there with such wonderful books! Honored, sweet lady!
I don’t usually read romance, because I need my books to be relatively clean to enjoy them. I mean, I don’t object to same-sex romances or the like but I don’t want to hear about the characters’ bed habits. That being said, I’ve heard there’s a lot of clean romance out there and I see your post is tagged Christian too. I”ll definitely check out some of these books.
These look like great reads! I’m glad they made your year brighter.
I love your approach tot his. How fun! And it looks like you found a lot of great reads this year. Love and a Little White Lie sounds so good.
Fun! I haven’t read any of these, but some of them look like books I would enjoy. I’m definitely going to take a closer look at a few of these.
Happy TTT!
Susan
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I’m glad you read so many good books! I don’t think I read anything swoony in 2020.