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Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

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 Eve is the youngest and flightiest of the Brown sisters. She didn’t really make much of an impression on me in her sisters’ books other than she was present when they needed her. That’s a really good characteristic, being there when needed. At the beginning of Act Your Age, Eve Brown, Eve is updating her journal explaining why she has shuttered her wedding planning business after one successful (except for one disaster) wedding. She is determined to put the incident behind her and move on to […]

Magnificent Foolishness

The Reserve by Russell Banks

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      There was a movie director in the 1950s who specialized in glossy, noir-adjacent melodramas featuring the gorgeous rich in amazing locations (lake-adjacent!), Douglas Sirk.  Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, and Imitation of Life are a few of his works, and they generally starred actors such as Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman.  That was absolutely the vibe this book gave me from the start.  I hereby nominate Rock Hudson, Barbara Stanwyck (she does gorgeous rich crazy lady so well), and Henry Fonda […]

Opposites Attract Fake Relationship Holiday Romance Novella – a book made for me

Her Pretend Christmas Date (Cider Bar Sisters #2.5) by Jackie Lau

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I received an ARC of this novella from the author, in exchange for an honest review. Her Pretend Christmas Date releases on December 8th, 2020. I am a sucker for a holiday romance novella. I read and enjoyed Lau’s Holidays with the Wongs series (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Valentines Day) and after reading The Ultimate Pi Day Party earlier this year I signed up for Lau’s reviewer list – and Her Pretend Christmas Date is the first work I’ve received as part of that. […]

Hard Times for These Times

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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So, Hard Times.  Or to give the book its full title, Hard Times for These Times.  And has there ever been a more perfect title for These Days? If you are unfamiliar with Charles Dickens, besides, perhaps, A Christmas Carol, there are a few things you ought to know about the man.  The man is, nearly always, On A Mission.  (OK, the Pickwick Papers is just plain fun.)  He’s from the Victorian era, newspapers have just been, more or less, invented, and his books are […]

Groundhog Day teen romance

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

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I read Opposite of Always (2019) by Justin A. Reynolds a while ago now. I can’t even remember how I first heard about it, but I really enjoyed it. It’s a very original, young-adult romance novel. Still somewhat unusual in the teen romance world, it’s written by a black man, and the main roles are people of color. Jack is our protagonist. He’s had a deep crush on Jill (yes, Jack and Jill) since he ran into her on their first day of high school. Unfortunately for […]



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