My hold on tagged book came in after 10 weeks - so started this during #HyggehourReadathon #hyggehour
Snow falling, fire going (forgot picture) - great way to end an evening.
Normally during this hour I am with a group of friends doing a “spiritual reset“ for the week ahead - snow left me home tonight, resetting on my own 😊
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Make a great day everyone 📚
pickI really didn‘t know what I was getting into from the cover / blurb. This was a lot deeper, darker, and more reflective than I was expecting. I would never have bought it for my MIL for Christmas if I‘d had trigger warnings. Oops - we shall see how she likes it.
Going through my '24 reading, I do not read many “fun“ books - my story graph mood chart is heavy on the dark and dreary. but here are 6 reads from this year that I thought were a ton of fun (even if some of them tackle a bit heavier topics)
pickJust as delightful as many reviews promised! I‘m a bit of a curmudgeon at times, so the cover art and potential romance here made me wary. Then all the positive reviews and the inclusion of this on #ToB25 twisted my arm and I‘m so glad I gave it a shot. Authentic-feeling characters who experience grief but also joy find connection in unexpected moments and situations, during a wedding week in RI. Even if there was a tad bit of cheese, I loved it!
pickFinally had a chance to finish this after a hectic Christmas Eve/Christmas morning. I enjoyed this - I liked the fact that Espach takes what is essentially a rom-com/commercial fiction set up but treats it in a more contemplative way. I think appreciating Phoebe‘s “awakening” to her own power to decide, to act or influence others, is the crux of liking or disliking this. Without that some of the unrealistic elements would have put me off a little.
