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I bet just you love that Mr. Darcy, and your sentimental heart beats widely at the thought that he and, well, you know, whatever her name is, are truly, honestly going to end up together.

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

February 14, 2019 by baxlala 7 Comments

Tell me there’s a book based on You’ve Got Mail and I’m pretty much going to read it immediately. Which is what I did with Alex, Approximately and I found it UTTERLY DELIGHTFUL. (Sidenote: I don’t know of any other books based on You’ve Got Mail/The Shop Around the Corner/Parfumerie but if you do, why haven’t you told me about them yet?) I digress. Back to Alex, Approximately. Bailey is a classic film loving teen who moves across the country to live with her dad, […]

Is butter a carb?

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

February 12, 2019 by baxlala 1 Comment

I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to read outside my wheelhouse. Somewhere along the way, I got stuck in Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Dystopian/Romance/YA, or WHATEVER MADE UP WORLD GENRE I could find because why read unless you can escape to a better or more interesting world than the one you’re currently inhabiting? The problem there is that I sometimes fall into a book rut and need to dig my way out by way of something different. At that point, I usually decide to read a book […]

It feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears.

My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

January 29, 2019 by baxlala 2 Comments

I’m so torn on this book. I was all set to rip into it for not being the book I wanted it to be, which was a story about a young American woman’s lighthearted romp through the English countryside while she led a Harry Potter-esque existence (keeping the book magic, losing the outright magic) during her tenure at Oxford. Who wouldn’t want to live vicariously through such a character? This is what I got for the first half of the book. Ella arrives in England […]

Those who’ve seen us, know that not a thing could come between us

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

January 28, 2019 by baxlala 1 Comment

According to Goodreads, this is the second book I’ve read by Jessica Knoll. I have a vague memory of reading Luckiest Girl Alive, which Goodreads says I read in November of 2016. I trust Goodreads more than my own brain in this case, because I have very little memory of that book and I apparently didn’t review it. I gave it four stars, though, which is (at least) one more star than I’d give The Favorite Sister. I wouldn’t say I particularly enjoyed reading The […]

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Vox by Christina Dalcher

January 9, 2019 by baxlala 1 Comment

Lately, I’ve been escaping into sci-fi, fantasy, and romance novels so often that I felt I needed a dose of reality. Vox might have been too much reality. Parts of it infuriated me so much that I had to put the book in the freezer down to allow my blood pressure to drop. So, not super relaxing, but it was good. Vox is told in the same vein as The Handmaid’s Tale, wherein our heroine is suffering through a grim dystopian future. Though there are […]

Emmalita on The Girls Get their TurnI haven't read this, but I do try to say at every opportunity that CL Polk is one of the nicest people on the internet....
Jen K on Don’t Mess With a Family of Honey Badgers!“Where did she get flour?” That scene was hilarious... there’s a scene in the third one about a tree (and cats) and it’s so dry...
andtheIToldYouSos on Everyone should read this book, but the people who need it most won’t. (CBR12Bingo: How To)this sounds excellent- adding it to the TBR ASAP
octothorp on Everyone should read this book, but the people who need it most won’t. (CBR12Bingo: How To)I forgot to include the best line from the book: the plural of anecdote is not fact.
Malin on “The only girl he liked in ages was going to kill him when she found out that he was trying to get her not to like him for a story.” (CBR12 Bingo)I love your idea of going for romances for the colour diagonal, there really are so many good and colourful covers to choose from. Glad...

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