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Hmmmmmmm.
I really enjoyed parts of this slow and gentle story following a singer throughout the decades of her life in St. Louis. There aren’t any crazy ahas but instead the journey of a life with ups and downs.
The epilogue though was not for me.
If you want something a little tender and meandering, do this one, but read the epilogue at your discretion.
Thank you for the gifted copy!
Between Friends & Lovers was a perfect beach read!
Doctor and influencer Josephine Boateng has carried a torch for her super rich and famous actor best friend Ezra. Cue Ezra’s inconsiderate attitude and enter patient and thoughtful novelist Malcom. But will Ezra lure Jo back to him?
Some fun twists and turns and a relationship that is easy to root for - I flew through this one.
Thank you for the gifted copy!
Finished this book last week!
Plays Well With Others follows a mom in NYC trying to keep up with the intense mom culture - especially applying to kindergarten.
At times funny but also at time teeth gritting as things go sideways. It was a quick and fun read though would have loved a bit more character development!
I left this copy at the beach house in hopes a future guest grabs it and enjoys it. Thank you for the gifted copy!
I have been savoring one of my most anticipated summer reads all week.
To say I was excited to receive a gifted copy of this book from is an understatement. I’ve been a Rainbow Rowell fan since Eleanor & Park hit shelves in 2013.
Slow Dance weaves us between present and past as we learn about Shiloh and Cary’s friendship - navigating lives that are messy and complicated and not always how they expected. The characters are unique and relatable and all the heart strings are tugged.
I can’t wait to finish the book this weekend. Keep an eye out for it when it publishes next week!
Did you have an author you were obsessed with in middle school?
Mine was Stephen King. So imagine how delighted I was when The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill started to give me those classic King vibes.
This horror/fantasy alternates between past and present. We learn the origin story of a group of kids with special powers and also their return to their hometown to rectify past mistakes.
If you enjoy this genre - definitely recommend. Happy pub day to The Dissonance, and thank you to for the gifted copy!
Anyone else in Friday treat mode after a busy week?
Mine is coffee and some pages of Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books. I am loving this story of a town’s journey of transformation through books - despite the best efforts of the local book banning busybody, Lula Dean.
Thank you for the gifted copy!
For me? I have long underestimated how good a popsicle tastes on a hot day.
Home sweet home after a good vacation but unecesarily long travel day. Nothing went horrendously wrong but also nothing went right.
✈️Drop a travel horror story in the comments if you’ve got one.
But I got home to fun book mail! A book about a book? Yes, please! Very excited for No Two Persons by . Thank you for the gifted copy.
Recommendation time! Drop some great summer reads in the comments.
A few from me:
☀️Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
☀️Crazy Rich Asians
☀️Bridget Jones’s Diary
☀️People We Meet on Vacation
☀️Summer Sisters
If you could find out how long you had left to live, would you?
In The Measure, everyone 22 and older across the world wakes up one morning to a box waiting for them. Inside? A string that it is soon discovered shows the exact length of the individual’s life.
The book follows multiple people whose lives intersect across a year of navigating this new information. It looks at politics, prejudice, and love, joy, and connection.
I really enjoyed this one. It was the unique combo of easy to read and thought provoking.
Thank you for the gifted copy!
I just finished reading The Rachel Incident last night, and it was a delight!
Set in Cork, Ireland in 2009, this book will make you remember was life is like in your early 20s - discovering yourself, the importance of friendship, the slight self-centeredness, and the decisions big and small that rock your world. All with some interesting Irish history and cultural touch points thrown in.
Rachel and her best friend James plan her seduction of her English professor - which doesn’t go as planned but sends their lives down paths that continue to intersect.
Thank you for the gifted copy!
Two thumbs up 👍🏻 👍🏻
I had seen good reviews of I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue, but it still beat my expectations.
Office worker Jolene is all about keeping her head down and getting work done - until an HR incident, layoff rumors, and surprise access to the entire company’s emails.
This is a delightful story reminding us that people aren’t just who they present at work. Lives are complicated and messy - and looking one click deeper can totally change perception.
Thank you for the gifted copy!
Happy pub day to this cozy, beachy read!
The Seaside Sisters follows two sisters and an aunt living their lives, navigating their careers, and sorting out their relationships in the beachside city of Chatham.
If you are looking for a read that floats by without too much drama, a lot of Chardonnay and food, and with characters you root for - this is a good one to pick up.
Thanks for the gifted copy!
Does “technothriller” mean anything to you?
I had never heard the term but now that I’ve read Going Zero it feels like an obvious subgenre description. Twists and turns line a thriller, lots of technology at play - but not sci-fi because it’s scary close to reality.
In Going Zero, big social media tech pairs up with big government CIA data to create new tools for tracking down basically anyone. To test the capabilities, 10 Americans are selected to “go zero” and the experts have 30 days to hunt them down.
Some interesting explorations of the tension between the individual right to privacy and the community desire for safety.
Other thing I learned - the author Anthony McCarten has written several screenplays including The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour, and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Thank you for the gifted copy!
Let us know what has captured your interest!
The Five Year Lie had me zipping through the final pages last night to see how it turned out.
This book involves some love, some corporate espionage, some underhanded dealings, and a good handful of twists. I fancy myself a savvy thriller reader but there were a few things here that kept me guessing until the end.
Thank you to for the gifted copy!
Mother’s Day might be over, but I’m still channeling mom vibes this week.
I’ve been reading The Book of Mothers by Carrie Mullins which takes a look at moms in classic literature and considers how the same ideals do (or don’t!) apply. So far I’ve particularly enjoyed the look at Marmee (Little Women - are moms allowed to be angry?) and Matilda (Anne of Green Gables - how do we view adoptive parents?). This book went on sale on May 7th - thank you for the gifted copy!
I’m also enjoying a tasty treat courtesy of gifted to me for Mother’s Day. Out family is enjoying taste testing their products. This morning I’m pairing their strawberry toaster pasty with my coffee. Swipe to check out the product - plant based and real fruit!
Do you have a moment from your past you would change if you could?
I had a nice stretch of down time on Mother’s Day, and I spent all of it reading The Memo. This book gave me Oona Out of Order vibes in a great way! Thank you for the gifted copy.
Jenny Green feels like she has made a series of missteps throughout her life and wonders if she just missed the memo on how things were supposed to go. Turns out she did! She’s given an opportunity to change her past in the week leading up to her 36th birthday - but needs to decide if it’s worth it.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! This job is a hard one - with no training or schooling and a lot of pressure.
After you are done gushing over the sweet little trinkets from your kids, take some time to do whatever YOU want, and don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it.
Happy Monday! We are getting ready for some serious ☀️ this week in the PNW which means great outdoor reading weather.
I am currently reading Mind Games by Nora Roberts - thanks for the gifted copy! It has a little bit of everything - mystery, thriller, supernatural, romance. Can’t wait to see how it ends!
This book releases on May 21st - consider putting it on your summer reading list!
[warning: there is violence so avoid if that isn’t your cup of tea]
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Just over here rereading again!
It has been roughly a decade since I read the A Discovery of Witches trilogy. Somehow I missed on the first time through that it is basically Twilight + Outlander. And I dig it.
Halfway through book 2 and excited to get to book 3!
Happy Sunday! May your coffee be strong, your books be engrossing, and your kids be entertained.
True story of my Monday night this week.
This book is a tough one to review. I am not sure if I loved it, I thought I was going to dislike it, but I liked it?
I normally struggle with chaotic characters which I thought Ada would be - since she is set up as a free wheeling 20-something pursuing two love interests. But I ended up really liking how authentic she was - totally true to herself.
So all in all I give it a - hey, if you need something kind of fun and unexpected then give it a try.
(Thank you for the gifted copy !)
Anyone else have a kid who is just a default early riser?
We are at the beach for a long weekend. Day One started at 5:20am. It’s now 10:15am, and we have gone for a walk, eaten breakfast, played basketball, built two new dining room chairs, played an hour of pickleball, and now the kids are in the hot tub.
Finally a few minutes to dive back into A Wedding in Lake Como. Thanks for the moment of peace !
I loved this book! It was a delightful rom com with a dash of friends to lovers and casual twist on only one bed at the hotel. Excellent banter and no signs of annoying miscommunication.
If you are looking for something light and fun, highly recommend!
Did you watch and read Stephen King at much too young an age? Were Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer formative movies of your youth? Do you wish any of this was true?
If so, Midnight on Beacon Street is the book for you. A teenage babysitter in 1993 - One night. One house. One dead body. Need I say more?
It’s also a quick and bingeable read. I have about 50 pages left that I can’t wait to get through tonight. Thank you for the gifted copy!
Good book alert! 🚨
I loved There There by Tommy Orange and was so excited when I got a copy of Wandering Stars (thank you for the gifted copy)!
This novel builds on the before and after of There There - tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and tying it back in to where There There left off.
I’m about halfway through and savoring this one!
Reading Update!
I have spent the last month and a half rereading the entire Throne of Glass series - and it was a delight. But it’s time to get back into some new reads.
I’ve only just started The Last Time She Saw Him by Kate White (thank you for the gifted copy!) - and so far it is the perfect choice to ease me out of comfort re-read territory.
Kiki Reid has her first interaction with her former fiance at a party - only for him to be found dead in his car that same night. All signs point to su***de, but Kiki doesn’t buy it. What happens next? We shall see.
This one is available in May!
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Maybe a low estimate
Convenient
Or should I say “taking a trip”
The other week Foster came out to tattle, and I said “I’m not interested.” He went back into the playroom yelling “MOM SAID SHE’S NOT INTERESTED!”
Please excuse me while I go down this rabbit hole #momhumor
Need to work on my mean voice
They know me too well #parenting
When they just hand you the baby and let you walk out of the hospital with it #parenting
Anyone with a tried and true early rising child knows there will be no sleeping in #morningperson #earlyriser #parentlife
I wanna thank me because I DGAF. #millennials #eldermillennial #genz #skinnyjeans #anklesocks
Who us? We’re great. #marriagehumor
Ahhhhh the joy. #momlife #parenthumor
Sport sibling life is probably the best life #youthsports #baseballmom
Flattered but annoyed #momlife #momhumor
Work, sports, school, activities, rinse and repeat every week #familytime
Wow you figured out how tongs open and close, that is really cool! #parenthumor #parentlife
I’m not the suggestor. #parenting
From Eric Northman to The Northman #alexanderskarsgård #ericnorthman #trueblood #thenorthman
Oh, me? Aligned. #corporatelife #corporatehumor
In car “my legs are too tired” Inside “can we go play baseball”
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