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If Goodreads had an “On This Day” feature, it would tell me that six years ago today, drawn by its cover, a reference to my favourite actor, and a review that promised this was more than just a celebrity memoir, I picked up this book. I didn‘t know I‘d be up till 2 am reading several nights in a row, had no idea what this book would come to mean to me. It‘s beautiful, and heartbreaking, and infused with hope, and truly special.

When your flatmate makes a note about you in a book and you aren't quite sure how to take it...

"Ah, you couldn't escape."
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Here's hoping that's not hurricane related...

My latest for Book Riot is a group post in which several of us answer this question. How would you answer it? https://bookriot.com/2017/02/16/books-we-want-to-make-the-whole-world-read/

If Goodreads has an On This Day feature, it would have told me that five years ago yesterday I started reading this gorgeous book. Never in a hundred years would I have guessed what it would come to mean to me.

(My review is here: http://brusselsclaire.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-review-come-to-edge-by-christian... and I also wrote about it here http://bookriot.com/2016/01/08/on-buying-the-same-book-again-and-again-2/)

When you scream so loudly about someone else's good news that your roommate thinks you must have just heard from your agent or something.

No matter how many times you fall in love, it always comes at you sideways. It always catches you by surprise.