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Authors Celebrate Valentine’s Day with #valentinesyourbook

Jamie Canaves

Contributing Editor

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

Whether you celebrate Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day, or glare at capitalism and couples while wishing you shot lasers out of your eyeballs, we can probably all agree on our love for books. I mean, that’s why we write about books and you read about books and we all read books! So I was delighted to discover #valentinesyourbook had started on Twitter, where authors use the classic “Roses Are Red” format to describe their book. Fun! Here are some of my favorites so far (some are under #valentineyourbook without the “s” cause thumbs man):

https://twitter.com/justinaireland/status/963471543186665472

https://twitter.com/zlikeinzorro/status/963435194509414400

https://twitter.com/yesitshanna/status/963446723774304256

 

https://twitter.com/clairelegrand/status/963459405974003712

https://twitter.com/RebeccaWritesYA/status/963449543823183872

https://twitter.com/RebeccaPodos/status/963445598857957377

https://twitter.com/ek_johnston/status/963545409233731584

https://twitter.com/sabaatahir/status/963539116049678336

https://twitter.com/ElleOnWords/status/963461244869951488

https://twitter.com/kierstenwhite/status/963546821762035712