HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO BOOKISHLY EVER AFTER aka the LAST Paper and Hearts Society book!

 Hi Everyone!

I think I might cry when this book finally arrives on my doorstep because yes: it's the final The Paper and Hearts Society book! This series means the absolute world to me and saying goodbye will be very emotional! But TODAY is the publication day so if I can convince you to read it then you can pick it up now! In this post I want to share all that Lucy Powrie has unveiled about it and why this series is so special to me.

I first picked up The Paper and Hearts Society in Waterstones by chance but I am eternally grateful I did! I read it about two or three years ago now and I wasn't really sure if reading was for me anymore. But this book reignited my passion for books and gave me confidence in myself. I fell head over heels in love with the characters, plot line and everything about the book. 

I remember turning to the back of the book and seeing a photo of Lucy Powrie and links to all her social media and YouTube under the name lucythereader. In March 2020, I got a mobile phone and I went onto YouTube and searched lucythereader. It came up with her channel and I had a scroll through. My first video was her unboxing Read With Pride, the second book in the series, and I instantly wanted it. I didn't return to her channel for ages but something kept enticing me to search it up in YouTube again and have another look. At that point my mindset was very much 'there are perfectly good contemporary books, why read something written two hundred years ago?'. I then subscribed but only for her Paper and Hearts Society content. But bit by bit I watched her bookshelf tour and bookshelf organisation and ended up wanting to read a few classics. 

But that 'wanting to read a few classics' has turned into a passion for the whole genre! I have read Jane Eyre and loved it so much, I've read and fallen in love with Pride and Prejudice...I also through Victober discovered other booktubers and the whole booktube community that I had no idea existed! I've been inspired to read more, write more and all their videos make me so cosy and calm and I don't know where I'd be without them. 

Lucy Powrie also inspired me to pick up some Emily Bronte poetry, which I now love. Her channel has given me so many reading ideas from Alice Oseman to more recently Women Who Did and All The Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman. I could go on forever! 

If I could, I would thank her from the bottom of my heart. Because without picking up The Paper and Hearts Society that day in Waterstones, I wouldn't have known about Lucy Powrie, I wouldn't have searched up her channel, I wouldn't have found out about how great classics really are, I wouldn't have found the booktube community, I wouldn't have been inspired to keep reading. So Thank You Lucy Powrie!

Now you understand why I talk about her ALL THE TIME!

What she has unveiled about Bookishly Ever After makes me SO excited! I will give you the synopsis and a photo she put on her twitter of the first page...

Synopsis: 

Ed is excited. He's just landed his dream job at beautiful independent bookshop, Woolf and Wilde, but he soon discovers being a bookseller is a very different game to being a customer - the hours of shelving books, logging ISBNs and dealing with customers is overwhelming. So Ed does what Ed does best - smiles enthusiastically, fist pumps the air, and pretends that everything is totally under control. He just hadn't bargained on his new colleague, Hannah, seeing through his façade.

Then Ed discovers that his mum is dating for the first time since splitting up with his dad. He decides to distract himself by being the best bookseller Woolf and Wilde has ever seen, but will it be at the cost of his Paper & Hearts Society friendships?

If Ed can find a way to be himself, he might find making new friends and keeping old ones comes more naturally, and even get to know himself a little better in the process ... Can Ed let his guard down for the love of books? 

The first page...

If you preorder you also get a postcard which I have done but I didn't tell write a blog post about it because I didn't want to bombard you with too much Paper and Hearts Society all at once, although there will be a review up VERY soon because I will literally start reading this as soon as it reaches my front door! Unfortunately, by the time this post goes up, you will not be able to pre-order - sorry!

Each Paper and Hearts Society book is written from a different perspective and I am so excited to get a book written from Ed's point of view as he is such a funny, loveable and sweet. I am expecting to laugh a lot! 

It will be bittersweet to say goodbye to these characters but it has been an amazing journey and I want everyone to read this series! 

In conclusion: I am going to cry reading this, it is published TODAY and PLEASE READ THIS SERIES!

Even if you don't, I wish you happy reading!

The first two books in the trilogy...

The last one...