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Everyone Is Beautiful
Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel | Katherine Center
14 posts | 17 read | 10 to read
Lanie Coatess life is spinning out of control. Shes piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in the Northeast. Shes left behind family, friends, and a comfortable lifeall so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. If only she could remember what they were. These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead lastand when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance, its the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than shes willing to count since the day she said I do, Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. Its time to rise up, fish her moxie out of the diaper pail, and find the woman she was before motherhood capsized her entire existence. Lanie sets change in motionjoining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. In the end, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process. Katherine Centers Everyone Is Beautiful is a hugely entertaining, poignant, and charming new novel about what happens after happily ever after: how a woman learns to fall in love with her husbandand her entire lifeall over again. From the Hardcover edition.
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ornatelyplain
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It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous, than to sit pretty for pictures.

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Cyndij82
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Mehso-so

Love Katherine Center books but this one was just ok.

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BkClubCare
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A charming story of juggling self + couple + family; the challenges of a marriage with children. Center has such a positive outlook and is never sappy, often hilarious, and just darn good. I wasn‘t so sure I wanted to be in this world of chasing 3 young boys around while holding onto some romance, but this worked for me by the end. Our heroine lives through it all by loving her way through it all.
#EstherFest #DogsofLitsy

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CoffeeK8
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I just loved this book. Katherine Center understand marriage and the work that goes into keeping the love alive. #romancy

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CoffeeK8
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A short vacation before school starts back up! #beach 😎

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MaggieCarr
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Pickpick

So, so relatable. Never stop fighting for your marriage, for your family, for yourself. I love that despite giving up sleep to work on herself, physically and by starting photography, Lanie found healing in her new circumstances. I really enjoyed all the little quirks of parenthood and the nods to the never-ending ponderings of why we do what we do in response to our kids.

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ontheBL

“I hate to say it, but I will. Children, despite their infinite charms, are an absolute assault on a marriage.”

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ncsufoxes
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Finished reading this while my youngest was in speech therapy. Flying back from the east coast to the west coast slowed down my reading since I have started falling asleep while reading. Anyhow, short book & a fun read. It was a sweet story about college sweethearts & what can happen after having kids & changing careers or in this case going back to school (which I can relate to as my husband when back for his PhD when our oldest was 2).

ncsufoxes First #bookspin book down for the month of July 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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robinb
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I always enjoy Center‘s books, some more than others, and this one falls in that category. Lanie and Peter met in college, have been married 9 years and have 3 boys (all aged 4 and under). They move from their beloved Houston home to Cambridge for Peter‘s musician‘s dream. This is a story about everyday life, marriage and parenthood and trying to juggle it all while also not losing your own identity. Humorous but also thought provoking. 4/5⭐️ 🔻

robinb This was my October #BookSpin. @TheAromaofBooks 4y
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robinb
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“I believe the eyes see everything through the heart - and nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.”

-Katherine Center

❤️❤️❤️

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Clwojick
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Listening to the tagged audiobook while enjoying the view from the lake. ♥️

#NewToYou #MayMadness #litsywalkers @RadicalReader @TheReadingMermaid

Deifio Wow, you must be way farther north than me! Here everything's green already! 6y
Deifio Enjoy all the flowers and leaves when they come out. Spring is my favourite time of year! 🌱🌷 6y
Clwojick @Deifio Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It snowed yesterday... and it‘s only been +8 all week. We have very short summers here, and the grass is only ever green for 4 months or so. 6y
BooknerdsLife What a beautiful view! 😍Look so much like our weather here (which is Autumn atm) 🍂🌾🍁 6y
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Mamashep
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Book three for #24in48. Katherine Center is always a fun read.

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Smartypants
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Mehso-so

Another great light-hearted #summerread.