The Weekly R.E.P.O.R.T.

wk 22/52 - 2025

Jun 01, 2025

At this point in my parenting journey, I shouldn’t be surprised when things don’t go to plan. My 1st grader ended up with strep throat and missed her last few half days of school. What a way to start the summer! We are very eager to see the ENT next month.

R - Reading

🎧Audio: I bought Cross the Line by Simone Soltani during one of the Libro.fm sales a while back and finally listened to it this week. I’ve been wanting to branch out into some F1 sports romances and appreciated the diverse characters in this New Adult romance.

I started It’s Elementary by Elise Bryant, but felt too distracted during the day to get very far into it. I’ll pick it back up this coming week.

📕Kindle: Remarkably Bright Creatures is Daily eBook Deals’ May Book Club pick, and I read it at a pretty steady pace during the week. It’s fun to remind myself that literary fiction still resonates with my soul.

I had a some Kindle credits, so I gave in and bought Ali Hazelwood’s newest age-gap romance, Problematic Summer Romance. I read the first half in one sitting! I simply could not put it down! It’s her best writing yet, trust me.

I also read a few smutty Dramione one-shots on AO3: How to Finite a Glamour by CeeDuir, Say Please by ZeeBee3, and Will It Away by ZeeBee3. I know I have a few readers who are interested in fanfic so I’ll let you search for those if that’s your thing. 😊

E - Eating

breakfast casserole
hamburgers
Quesabirria
roasted carrots, rice pilaf, and Salisbury steak
fish sticks and tater tots
beef bulgogi udon noodles with eggrolls

P - Playing

O - Obsessing over

Style Toast’s quiz. Here are my results. How fun!!!

style toast

034: cool as a mother

Motherhood is weird to talk about. Complicated, beautiful, loaded. It’s all circumstantial, really. Love her or hate her, she’s your first and last impression. Just ask Freud. Her impact is undeniable, for better, for worse, or for your next therapy bill…

a month ago · 179 likes · 12 comments · Brooke

Also, the Jellycat Amuseables Dragon Fruit. I might have to snag this one for my daughter!

R - Recommending

Maddie’s Summer Reading Guide. I look forward to this list every year!

What Maddie Read

The Summer Reading Guide 2025 is here!

I honestly feel like I never know what to say when I’m writing these emails to drop a project as massive as my Summer Reading Guides. Believe it or not, this is my fifth annual SRG—I’ve had to count ‘em all dozens of times until it truly sunk in that I’m crazy enough to do this not once, not twice, but 5 times, yet here I am…

22 days ago · 100 likes · 15 comments · The TL;DR by What Maddie Read

T - Treating myself

An iced raspberry latte from my favorite local bakery. They’re wrapping up their Spring menu, and I’m looking forward to seeing their summer selections.

Hope you had a great weekend!

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