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A Summerween Romance

I Haunt it That Way by Isabelle Popp

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I’ve really struggled with how to review I Haunt it That Way because I enjoyed it so much but it is a weird book. A weird book I loved, but difficult to describe. I Haunt it That Way is a ghost story and a romance. Like Popp’s debut, Let’s Give ’em Pumpkin to Talk About (which I also loved), it’s about shifting how we see. It’s about grief, not only for someone we lost but for versions of ourself that we couldn’t be earlier. In Haunt, […]

“He was an overeager puppy and she was an aloof cat, and he was bound to get his nose swiped at least once or twice.”

Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabelle Popp

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I was reading another book and it hit a highly dramatic bit, and I was not in the mood for it. So, I pivoted to the next book on the physical pile on my end table and thus, Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About became my Sunday read (and my Cannonball book). I’m glad it was because this romance featuring the human equivalents of an over-eager golden retriever and a reticent to trust black cat was exactly the wavelength I was on.   Sadie Fox agreed to come home to Pea Blossom, Indiana, to care for her father’s beloved pumpkin farm while he tends […]

Sadie didn’t so much like people as suffer her own attraction to them.

Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabelle Popp

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I recognize that books are not therapists, but I can’t actually afford a therapist, so books are what I’ve got. It took me a bit to dive into Isabelle Popp’s Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About because I have recently read some wonderfully emotionally devastating books, and I was not up to a book with a fraught father daughter relationship. After a couple of books that I enjoyed in peace, I opened Pumpkin to Talk About again and within two chapters was completely in […]



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