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Look, country house parties are nothing but trouble

The Austen Playbook (London Celebrities #4) by Lucy Parker

April 12, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

Freddy Carlton is in a bit of a funk. The latest in a long line of a famous theater family, her career is going well, but she’s not really enjoying it. Like any British heroine, she heads off to the country to clear her head. It is a truth universally acknowledged that an actor in a rut must be in want of a spot of murder, mayhem, and true love.* And like any romance novel heroine, where there’s a country house, there’s a grumpy sod […]

“Your relationship is a great adventure. Treat it as such.”

Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, Rachel Carlton Abrams

April 12, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman are renowned psychologists who specialize in what makes happy, healthy, long-lasting romantic relationships work. One of John Gottman’s claims to fame is to be able to determine, with 94% accuracy, which couples are headed for divorce on the strength of a five minute snippet of conversation. I read Dr. Gottman’s Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work before I married my husband. Neither of our parents have marriages we wished to emulate, and research is my love language. […]

Betcha on land, they understand that they don’t reprimand their daughters

Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige

April 2, 2019 by J 2 Comments

Mera of Xebel wants more than anything to fight for her throne, but no one seems to be listening. Everyone, including her father, expects her to marry her childhood friend, Larken of the Trench, and let him take over their country’s long-running rebellion against Atlantis. Mera, determined to follow in her mother’s warrior footsteps, hatches a plan to eliminate the heir of Atlantis. But the Atlantean prince turns out to be not who Mera expected to find. I always enjoy Mera when I read Aquaman […]

Read this when you’re ready to Kondo your phone

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

March 25, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

Reading Cal Newport’s books is mild masochism for me. I feel judged (and found wanting) by them, though I readily admit that this says more about me than Newport himself. I find him sort of insufferable and smug, and it was rather appalling when I reached a moment in Digital Minimalism when I realized that my reaction to Newport’s latest thesis is not dissimilar to the ridiculous “Marie Kondo hates books” hot takes that went around the internet in January. Cal Newport is Marie Kondo. […]

Making a way out of no way

The World According to Fannie Davis: My mother's life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis

February 18, 2019 by J 1 Comment

Bridgett Davis opens this love letter to her mother with a hell of a story. When Bridgett’s second grade teacher displayed suspicion about just how many pairs of shoes her pupil had, Fannie Davis very emphatically wasn’t having it. I won’t spoil what happened–you can probably catch the whole thing in the free sample on Amazon–but suffice it to say that the opening story serves two purposes: to get the reader on Fannie Davis’s side, and to reassure the reader that one is in excellent […]

Super hot, but also not?

Passion & Ink (The Sweetest Taboo #2) by Naima Simone

February 17, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

I had just finished another Naima Simone book a day or two before I spotted this available on Netgalley. I really enjoyed the other book and immediately requested this one. (So, standard disclaimer: I was provided a complimentary copy of this book via NetGalley in order to facilitate a review.) I’m sorry to say I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the other Simone book. Let’s start with what went right. This book is hot! The sex scenes! Simone knows what she is doing […]

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