Adventures in the Great Wide Somewhere // Travel By Page to Italy

It's no secret I am in love with Italy. It falls just behind the UK in where my mind always goes to and where my heart lays. The food, the culture the architecture, the history, there is nothing about Italy that I don't love. So of course, I find myself reading quite a few books that take place here. Today I'm featuring my favorite books that take place in Italy, both past and present, to help you travel by page to one of my favorite places in the world...Italy.

Adventures in the Great Wide Somewhere // From Page to Plane with The Empress of Rome Series

Daughters of Rome // Empress of the Seven Hills // Lady of the Eternal City

Genre: Historical Fiction

Pages: 400 // 486 // 512

Source: Bought
Publisher : Berkley
Previous Book in Series: Mistress of Rome

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Love Me Hard

"I am Athena. 
Before that I was Thea, singer and slave and lover of gladiators. 
Before that I was Leah, daughter of Benjamin and Rachael of Masada. 
I am as mortal as you, you common little man. 
And I fear no one."

--Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome

Genre: Adult Historical Fiction

Publisher: Berkley

Pages: 470

Publication Date: April 6th, 2010

Source: Borrowed

Previous Books in Series: First in series of 4 companion novels
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My Thoughts

The Belle
This book sat on my Goodreads TBR shelf for quite awhile. I had inspiration one day to purge my TBR there because it's so unused and I wanted to either read these books or delete them. I've been on a historical fiction binge and a lot of books on there were of that genre so Mistress of Rome immediately jumped out. And wow. This was one of those unexpected and wonderful experiences while reading that made me so happy I finally picked up this book.

Kiss List {January 2017}

*Token sentence about how I can't believe the first month of 2017 is already gone* I personally feel like the month hasn't flown by! Probably because I started my new job and sitting in 8 hours of orientation for 7 days will make any month seem long. With that said, with the month feeling a bit longer it was PACKED with AMAZING books! Because of that, I'm going to be doing a special Kiss List post on Monday highlighting all the incredible reads of January. The purpose for Kiss List 2.0 came about because I wanted a post to gush about my favorite book of the month that really stood out to me but this month I honestly could not choose. Once you see my pics, you'll understand if you've read any of them. But that's Monday, TODAY is about all the rest...

Kiss List {November 2016}

November went so fast, I cannot believe it is December! It's crazy to me how fast time flies especially around the holidays. I am a huge fan of Thanksgiving, Fall in general, Christmas, and the entire month of December and this time of year seems to go especially quickly. It's like it knows how much I love it and goes faster to get away from my crazy love. I'm excited to talk about my favorites in books, television, makeup, music, and travel! Don't forget to tell me in the comments what you've been loving this past month!