The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

Publisher: Doubleday Books Year Published: 2019 Page Count: 532 Synopsis: A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple–still madly in love after forty years–recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they’ve built. When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, […]

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Best Books of 2020

2020 is finally coming to a close. After a dumpster fire of a year, we bid farewell to a tumultuous, unnerving, anxiety-inducing, heart-wrenching year. With the close of every year, I try to reflect on life, which includes examining my reading year. I read 112 books in 2020. That is, objectively, a lot of books. […]

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Too Good To Be True by Carola Lovering

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: March 2, 2021 Page Count: 352 Brief Summary: Trust fund baby, Skye Starling, has always struggled to make relationships work. So when Burke Michaels comes into her life and seems to love everything about her, including Skye’s OCD, which has often been a point of contention with other men, […]

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The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser

Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: May 4, 2021 Page Count: 448 When Thea realizes her husband is having an affair with one of her friends and plans on leaving their marriage, she’s left heartbroken, blind-sighted, and confused. Then, she gets a call about a distant relative, an Uncle who she never met, but who left […]

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What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

Publisher: Harper Perennial Page Count: 118 Year Published: 2020 Genre: Poetry Poetry hasn’t always been my preferred genre. I have memories of reading Wordsworth and Byron in AP English classes, looking at the words, rolling them around my mouth, trying to make sense of the words. I always preferred novels. However, somewhere in my twenties, […]

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The Heiress Gets A Duke by Harper St. George

Publisher: Berkley Books Page Count: 320 Year Published: 2021 This is the story of August, a progressive heiress from New York, and Evan, a Duke from England who finds his inheritance floundering after his father left the estates in financial ruin. Soon, Evan’s mother encourages a marriage between August’s younger sister, Violet, and Evan with […]

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Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Publisher: Doubleday Books Page Count: 464 Published: 2020 I’ve read many WWII-focused books about women’s roles in the War, but none were as affecting as this. Lawhon is an incredible storyteller who constructs an incredible story about the real-life character Nancy Wake. Synopsis: “This book is based on the life of Nancy Wake, an Australian […]

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Publisher: Washington Square Press Page Count: 391 Year Published: 2018 Taylor Jenkins Reid is quickly becoming an auto-buy author for me. I fell in love with her writing when I read Daisy Jones and the Six when it was first released, and thoroughly enjoyed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I am eagerly anticipating her […]

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This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill

Publisher: Pantheon Page Count: 83 Year Published: 2019 Synopsis: “Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the […]

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My Anticipated Reads of 2021

Portrait of a Scotsman, Evie Dunmore Publication Date: September 7, 2021; Publisher: Jove; Pages: 448; Genre: Historical Romance Why I’m Excited: I read Bringing Down the Duke and A Rogue of One’s Own, the first two novels in the League of Extraordinary Women series, and loved them. The stories are quick reads, super steamy, and […]

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