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Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood My rating: 4 of 5 stars i love Ali Hazelwood. She's just fun. I don't care that they are always similar. I enjoy them. View all my reviews

The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden My rating: 2 of 5 stars i don't know why i do this to myself. why? View all my reviews

We Are Too Many: A Memoir by Hannah Pittard My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this book to see if I liked Pittard's writing and wanted to read another book by her. I also thought, of course, that the story was crazy and wanted to know more. It's interesting that all 4 of them are writers and both of them wrote a book about it. Her writing is sharp and stays with you. View all my reviews

Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner My rating: 5 of 5 stars Regardless of whether you're an engineering manager, or any kind of manager (in our outside of tech) you will find this book to be valuable. It's grounded in knowing who you are, caring about your team and creating a meaningful dynamic. There are so many small and big things you can take away from this book if you're a first time manager or a really seasoned one. Highly recommended. View all my reviews

An Eye for an Eye by Carol Wyer My rating: 3 of 5 stars I really liked this story but I listened on audio and, for me, the narration was terrible. It was flat, british accent that made it super hard for me to follow or care for some reason. I did love how the story all came together in the end. View all my reviews

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote My rating: 4 of 5 stars It's really interesting how short and different the book is compared to the movie. The book is more like a character study. Shows you how much a movie can diverge. And sometimes the movie is so much more popular. View all my reviews

What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella My rating: 4 of 5 stars i loved reading about this and I feel incredibly sorry for Kinsella. I really hope she is the major major exception so she can write another story one day about how she completely beat this. View all my reviews

All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby My rating: 4 of 5 stars I love SA Cosby's books. They are always exceptional. Great story, great writing, great characters. You can't help but get sucked into the story and they are always exceptional. Highly recommended. View all my reviews

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Burkeman does it best. His books are changing the way I think, the way I feel and the way I live. What more could you possibly want from a book? View all my reviews

The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was slow. It was ok but, in my opinion, it wasn't amazing. Maybe I am just too used to huge twists. It did entertain me so there's that. View all my reviews

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed this sweet book that was a little magical but mostly about a small community coming together. View all my reviews

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney My rating: 4 of 5 stars I loved Normal People so much that it will be very hard for any other book to come even close. And while I didn't love the previous one, I did really like this novel. This is about two brothers who are mostly estranged and their dad dies. And they go through the grief of that in different ways. It's slow and deep and beautiful. At least it was to me. View all my reviews

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love Anne Tyler. I've loved every single novel she wrote and this one is no exception. Her stories are often quiet and on the surface, about "nothing" but a slice of life. This one is no exception. It's about three days in Gail's life. We see her losing her job, we see her ex coming to stay with her and taking over her space and even bringing his cat along, we see her daughter preparing to get married and finding out things she didn't know. We see Gail hoping and wishing the best for her daughter and not knowing how to navigate any of this. The thing about Tyler's novels is that they feel real and true and quiet in the best way. Her writing is beautiful to me and her characters are so real, they could easily jump out of the book. I love reading her stories. I love these slices of life. I love these people who are so flawed and yet try so hard. with gratitude to K...

A Forty Year Kiss by Nickolas Butler My rating: 4 of 5 stars This quiet novel was a joy to read. On the surface, it's about Charlie who moves back near his hometown to find his old love now that he's older. He wants to reconnect and find a way to be with her again even though they got divorced forty years ago. Even though I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop or something big to happen, this novel stayed quiet the whole time. The characters were real and interesting and they stayed with me after I finished reading. I found I could relate to them. This is a story about grief and loneliness and poverty and being a single parent and of course above all about regret and second chances. with gratitude to netgalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review View all my reviews

The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood My rating: 3 of 5 stars silly but fun. I liked the idea a bunch and the execution was cute but also ordinary. View all my reviews

In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn My rating: 4 of 5 stars Interesting, heartbreaking and a lot to think about how people think they would be vs how they actually are in the event of something unexpected where your life is at risk. View all my reviews