Cannonball Read 18

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I miss going on vacations

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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3.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Travel Official book description: Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, […]

Alex irrationally hates any song with a saxophone in it. That’s the level of beautiful detail you get here. #CBRBINGO – Travel

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 14/30 Objectively, this book deserves five stars. It is impeccably put together. It is funny. It is detailed. It has such well-developed characters. Impeccable use of theme. And all the lovely, small details she uses make it so immersive! I really liked it a lot. Would recommend to anyone. But I have a special place in my heart for her previous adult offering, Beach Read, and this didn’t quite reach that level for me where it’s basically like, I […]

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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One of the reading groups I am part of chose People We Meet on Vacation for our August read. I quickly poked around my library catalog and saw that it had a stunning number of holds and put in my request immediately, expecting it to take a month or so for a copy to make its way to me. Surprise, surprise, I somehow got a copy in a week (I think I managed to get lucky with my local branch). I grabbed it as I […]

Behind in reviews, we are doing a weird omnibus

The ABC Murders by Hercule Poirot

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry

Falling for a Rake by Eve Pendle

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The ABC Murders – *** Picked up on a whim after a recommendation! As I’m also v behind in reviews and somewhat struggling to remember specifics of all the books I’ve read, it’s a perfect opportunity to put into practice my rating scale. Hercule Poirot mysteries are a mainstay in a very specific type of comfort reading, and honestly Christie is a genius for being able to write so many varying tropes in a way that feels connected but fresh. I definitely thought we were […]

Don’t Judge THIS Book by the Cover (seriously)

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Disclaimer: I picked up this title based upon an NPR Books discussion, and upon seeing the cover, really had no idea what I was getting myself into, as evidenced by the fact that I offered it up to my MIL’s book club, which includes her sisters and 82-year old, very Catholic mother.  Heavens to Betsy.  There are very few beaches in this book, that’s what I’m telling you. January Andrews, authoress and former girlfriend to a handsome doctor, is broke.  At the funeral of her […]

Much better than a light summer read

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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I put a hold on Beach Read after narfa reviewed this book back in the summer and I can already tell it’s going to be one of my favourite books of 2021. This book follows a romance writer who has become cynical about love and a literary writer stuck in the research stage. To get past their writers block, they swap genres for the summer. Shenanigans ensue. This book tackles what I think is the most taboo subject in romance – deliberate, ongoing infidelity, and […]



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