Category: Books
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Far Gone
I highly recommend adding this to your summer reading list – it’s the perfect read for a long day by the pool/beach or sitting in your backyard.
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The Flock
“My greatest hope is to be in an all-consuming love. My biggest fear is to be in an all-consuming love.”
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May Wrap-Up
May Wrap-Up! Somehow in May I read 16 books and I honestly loved them all. I was in the mood to read all the time and constantly was itching to pick up my book and get lost in the pages. I want to also mention that, yes, I read 16 books and that’s great but […]
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Our Woman in Moscow
“And what I have done this summer, I have done to repay my debit – the debt I owe her, the debt I owe to… all who came before me and saved me without knowing it.”
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“We can’t know why you are dying in the same way that we can’t know why you are living. Living and dying are both complete mysteries, and you can know either until you’ve done both.”
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The Last Thing He Told Me
“That’s how you fill in the blanks — with stories and memories of the people who love you. If they lie to you, who are you then?.. The person you thought you knew, your favorite person starts to disappear, a mirage, unless you convince yourself the parts that matter are still true.”
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The Guncle
“Grief orbits the heart. Some days the circle is greater. Those are the good days. You have room to move and dance and breathe. Some days the circle is tighter. Those are the bad ones.”
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The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
“Every human being — every single one of us — wakes up each morning hoping, believing, that today is not our day. Not our time. That the storm is not yet here. That our island will not be wiped out. That we will see the sunrise the next morning. That life is worth living.”
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The Soulmate Equation
The Soulmate Equation Thank you, Gallery Books, for gifting me a copy of The Soulmate Equation! 🧬 Genre: Romance Trope: Soul Mate/ Stuck Together Pub Date: 5.18.21 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Another Christina Lauren novel is in the books! While it isn’t my favorite of theirs (my fav. is In a Holiday, btw) but I did […]
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Anatomy of Desire
“We all make mistakes — some worse than others. But, I don’t think it’s fair to label a person for the worst mistake they ever made.”
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That Summer
“But here’s the truth: I think that people and things, and, maybe sometimes house, come into our lives for a reason.”
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The Siren
“𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦.. 𝘛𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 — 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.”
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People We Meet on Vacation
“This is what I want for the rest of my life. To see new places. To meet new people. To try new things. I don’t feel lost or out of place here.. I’m anchored only to this moment.”
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The Music of Bees
“𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳, 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦, 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.”
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Meet Me in Another Life
“You have to stop thinking of each life as self-contained. It’s the big picture. It’s the whole.”
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The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
“I am not the girl they want me to be. You cannot see the things I have seen or live them and be the innocent they all toast.”
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The Lost Apothecary
“It was beginning to seem like every person, every place, carried an untold story with long-buried truths resting just beneath the surface.”
The Bookend Diner 