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I‘m working on a publication for work that will include books we‘re looking forward to for 2021. Have you got any books you can‘t wait for with release dates in 2021?

Pictured are some of my recent purchases that I had been hotly anticipating.

Definitely could‘ve read this in one sitting if I had had the time. Yes it‘s a book about an open relationship, but it‘s also about people finding themselves and what they actually want in relationships.

The biggest complaint I've seen about this book is the ending. I LOVED the ending. I like Paterson's writing. She creates real characters. Chris is kind of awful, but not completely, but really, the ending was perfect for him. He's not ready for anything else. He's one of those people who wants things until he gets them. Emily, who I should hate, I liked. Kathryn, who I start out hating, I cheer for in the end, her passiveness a thing of the past.

So excited to do this challenge next year along with the #pop18 📚 ❤ So many great topics!
#BOOKED2019
@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Picked this up as I continue to read from the literary prize longlists - this was on the Giller prize longlist - and what a fascinating read it turned out to be. Nuanced characters, emotion and humor, and a truly compassionate examination of a nontraditional romantic relationship. (Also, the audiobook narrator was great!) Definitely a recommend from me! #gillerprize #readingwomenchallenge #litsyatoz

Kathryn and Chris have a great relationship. When Chris develops a crush on someone else, it alters everything. Often times we seclude ourselves in a relationship and forget other people. But, part of being in a relationship is OTHER people. Now a days, you get hundreds of likes on a photo and we are more connected than ever. Yet, we have no one to feed our cats when we are away. This felt like a good examination on friendship, isolation and ❤️.

Ideas about alternative relationships are always swirling around in the air whenever I get together with my friends. Traditional marriage is becoming more obsolete in my circles & Zoey Leigh Peterson has written a book that so perfectly captures some of the choices we are lucky enough to make today, even if challenging. Open relationships, transparency with our partners, exploration of crushes, & community living are all discussed here. Loved it!

I absolutely loved this book about an unconventional relationship. It's so much more beautiful and complex than what you might expect from a novel about a couple experimenting with an open relationship. Chris and Kathryn are both so complicated and likable for different reasons, and Peterson writes with such emotional honesty and insight. It's wistful, sincere and empathetic. I would've read another 200 pages.

Welp.

The life of an introvert.

It‘s shameful. It‘s shameful for two people to love each other for so long and then decide to stop🔗

Had to finish this today to get 50 books in for the year!! I really liked the writing style oft this book, but the ending made me sad.

Thanks for the tag @Caroline2 😁
1: To not buy any new books and read all the unread ones I already own!
2: Most likely One Dark Throne.
3: To read a few more “classics”
4: The secret Santa Winter/summer solstice swaps. ❄️☀️
5: Good music and a cup of tea
6: @EmmaPlum

Here are the five books I'm most looking forward to finishing next year. #2018reads #tbr @CharissaWeaksAuthor

#rocktober #slipperypeople This chapter was a telling of Chris‘s love life culminating in this paragraph. Just FYI, he leaves Penny for Kathryn, who after 9 years allows him to start dating this girl he meets at the laundromat who he can‘t stop talking about, Emily. I appreciated this book about an open relationship. The relationships weren‘t based on sex or competition. They were complementary and the end is not the train wreck you expect.

I am looooving this book! #STACKEDUP #weekendreading

14 days of staycation, here I come! 😍#librarybooks

No idea what this book is about...just love the cover. #shallowhal

Things I learned from reading this lovely and creatively written book, full of engaging characters, about one couple's decision to have an open relationship:
1. I should not project my fears and insecurities onto other people's unconventional yet consensual relationship.
2. I should mind my own damn business. 3. I hated this ending.
4. I will read anything Zoey Leigh Peterson writes in the future.

So the guy telling the story is Chris. Chris is Kathryn's husband. He is on a date with Emily. This is one of those open relationship stories where I'm kinda waiting for everyone's hearts to get wrecked. Or maybe, you love someone so much that if they were your spouse but you knew they had a chance to be happy with someone else also, you would be ok encouraging it...lol jk. I'm enjoying the writing but all the feelings are awkward. Super awkward.

I was very skeptical about this book. Here's why: An unflinching, sage and mesmerizing portrait of an Open relationship.I had my mind made it that it would be cheesy and just possibly a bit judgmental but it was neither! This was so well written and incredibly interesting. I'd definitely recommend it as a quick summer read!

You're not sad, his mother says. It's called being an adult.

I love reading because it helps me look at the world in ways I hadn't before. This book made me think. This idea of having an open relationship seems very foreign to me.

Spoiler: I thought the most poignant part is at the end when Kathryn tells Chris he should start dating and he replies that he wants the opposite of dating. He had it and wanted something else. This book actually made me a little depressed, but I ended up liking it.

Next up on my tbr...

I loved loved loved this book ... until the end left me disappointed. Such rich characterization and such shining authentic emotion. Beautiful understated writing too. It's a wonderful exploration of love, relationships, and non-monogamy although again I'm a bit uneasy about the book's conclusion on those issues. I'm curious to talk to other people who've read this, especially anyone who's poly. Also, I loved the Vancouver setting!

#Riotgrams Day 18 #SomethingPretty. Flowers my partner got me (not for Valentine's day but for no reason last week cause he's cute like that) with this debut novel about love and relationships by Vancouver trans author Zoey Leigh Peterson. I think the cover is so pretty!

"But Chris was not in love with Val. His crush on her was strictly academic. He didn't want to see her naked, he wanted to read her thesis and then read everything she cited in her thesis." I dunno, that sounds like love to me. #nerd

I liked this book and was a little nervous coming into it due to the poor reviews I read prior to starting. But I honestly think those readers didn't get the message Peterson was trying to convey. The book is an emotional, funny look at an open relationship and ends up morphing into a serious, moving novel that really makes the reader connect with the protagonists on a deep level. For me, this was a very reflective book.

Yup! #wildfridaynight