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Continue reading →: The Amateur Marriage Feels Like Watching a Train Crash
Authored by Anne Tyler; Published in 2004 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ There was something about The Amateur Marriage that was oddly compelling: it felt like watching a train wreck in real time. As the main couple, Pauline and Michael, had their first of many fights, I felt myself wincing and swearing…
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Continue reading →: Martyr! Made Me Anxious
Authored by Kaveh Akbar; Published January 2024 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have an anxiety problem—a version of hypochondria. I’ve lived much of my life in fear of dying of a terrible disease, regardless of how realistic that scenario is. Martyr! simultaneously set off this anxiety within me and relieved it for 300…
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Continue reading →: The Good Part Pushed Me to Give Thanks
Authored by Sophie Cousens; Published September 2023; Fantasy, kind of? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ The plot of The Good Part, on its face, does not seem too exciting. Like the classics 13 Going on 30 and Freaky Friday, magic pushes a 26-year old into her future self to experience life as…
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Continue reading →: Say You’ll Be Mine Charmed Me
Authored by Naina Kumar; Published January 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Say You’ll Be Mine is a great beach read. Did I know how it was going to end within a chapter? Yes, of course. But did it charm me anyway? Yes, it did. The plot is an old romantic…
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Continue reading →: Crescent City Took Me to a Whole New World
Authored by Sarah J. Maas; final book published January 2024; fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ What would it be like to have a world with vampires, necromancers, fairies, and… smart phones? Throw in a dash of oppressive dictatorship and a plucky rebellion, and this series is what you get. I feel…
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Continue reading →: Watermelon is a Rollercoaster
Authored by Marian Keyes; Published 1995; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I listened to Watermelon rather than reading it, and I must say, it was an excellent way to experience the novel. Throughout the whole wild ride of it, it felt like I was catching up with a girlfriend over drinks…
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Continue reading →: Check & Mate is the Best of Niche Romance
Authored by Ali Hazelwood; Published November 2023; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I know that Check & Mate is technically a young adult novel. I know that. But, to me, it managed to mostly transcend the age group–it could be that I love niche romances, and that I don’t know a…
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Continue reading →: Bright Young Women is All About Brave Women
Authored by Jessica Knoll; Published September 2023; Thriller/Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ In some ways, Bright Young Women reminded me of the Barbie movie. As pink and fun as it appeared, what shone through when I watched it was the generation of women older than mine coming to terms with the…
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