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102 reviews

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

i had a really hard time understanding this book. i struggled to follow along and picture what was happening. i didnt have any interest in reading the parts that took place in 1847. i feel like nothing was explained very well. it wasn't until the end that i felt like i was following much better but even then i didn't understand why what was happening was taking place. 
however, i loved graham. he was very funny and charming. i think the overall plot is very interesting, but just could've been executed better. i didn't see the plot twist coming and although it made me more confused, i did like it. i also found it interesting that graham gore and his whole past story line was based on real events, that graham gore was a real person whom the author did extensive research on to turn into a character for her book. graham gore fan fiction is what this book was. 

A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

i wanted to DNF this book from the first chapter but i kept hoping it would get better... it just didn't. the writing felt cringey and reading about two 8 and 15 year olds making out made me feel icky. both characters were annoying. i get that the guy had this bad boy thing going on and i usually like the grumpy/sunshine trope but i just hated it in this book. i feel like neither of them had much personality and i couldnt feel the connection between them. it made even more upset when the guy started being really unnecessarily mean to the girl. it also didn't help that i just spent 2 week with my cousin who is also 15 with long blonde hair and who has a step brother named rune so all i could picture was them which made the reading process all the more difficult for me. anyway i just hit my breaking point and couldn't take it anymore 

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

this book is so sad but even more interesting. i felt that it was veryyy long but the shocking and surprising events kept pulling me back in. i grew very attached to certain characters. the ending made me feel sad and unfulfilled and yet i'm not sure it would have made sense for the book to end any other way. 

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.5

Funny Story by Emily Henry

funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

very cute honestly, just felt annoyed with the main character sometimes 

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

“I will share your joy and sorrow / Till we’ve seen this journey through.” ❤️‍🩹

Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

dolly alderton so perfectly describes the importance and the kind of unique love felt from female friendships. i couldn't help but think of my best friends as i was reading. some of my favorite quotes: 
"I know what it is to feel like you’ve always got a lighthouse – lighthouses – to guide you back to dry land; to feel the warmth of its beam as it squeezes your hand... I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain... It’s introducing them to your colleagues at a work event and basking in pride as they make people laugh and make you look lovable just by dint of being loved by them. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s waking up in a country neither of you have been in before. It’s skinny-dipping at dawn. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is just yours. It’s a big, beautiful, ebullient force of nature... I know that love happens under the splendour of moon and stars and fireworks and sunsets but it also happens when you’re lying on blow-up air beds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport or in a traffic jam."

"The perfect man is kind, funny and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves."

💌🎀❤️‍🩹

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

this might be my new favorite book. it felt like a love letter to reading, like a hug in book form. this story, the characters, it all emulated love and warmth. the ending is predictable but the kind of predictable where you don't even care because you've come to love these characters and want them all to be happy. i cried lots of happy tears.