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    Book Review:: Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty

    March 21, 2025

    Cause of death, age of death. Would you want to know? For some on one fateful domestic flight between Hobart and Sydney the prediction from one of…

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    Book Review:: Intermezzo | Sally Rooney

    February 28, 2025

    I am perpetually entranced by the writing of Sally Rooney. Her prose is simple and sad, poetic and deeply honest. Each of her novels feels like a…

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    Book Review:: Beartown | Fredrik Backman

    February 14, 2025

    For most, hockey is just a sport, but for one little town deep in the forests of Sweden, it is everything. For the first time in decades,…

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    Emergency Contact | Lauren Layne & Anthony LeDonne

    December 13, 2024

    Listen up people, I’ve found some essential holiday romance reading here for you. Emergency Contact is a hilarious holiday rom-com second chance romance with a planes-trains-and-automobiles style…

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    Book Review:: Toto | A.J. Hackwith

    December 10, 2024

    You think you know what the yellow brick road will bring. You have no idea. When you live life through the eyes of a bad dog, it’s…

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    Book Review:: Christmas is All Around | Martha Waters

    December 6, 2024

    One of the common ingredients in a holiday romance is a character who doesn’t like Christmas. Well Charlotte takes that to the extreme. As a young child…

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    Book Review:: Mistletoe & Mr. Right | Sarah Morgenthaler

    November 29, 2024

    Moose Springs is a magical place of hearty hometown comfort, constant hilarious (and sometimes nefarious) antics, and the kind of romance that will melt your heart into…

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    Book Review:: Is She Really Going Out With Him? | Sophie Cousens

    November 17, 2024

    Despite personal grievances against the title of this contemporary romance novel, Is She Really Going Out With Him cannot be further faulted. This is my third Sophie…

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    Book Review:: Ghosted | Sarah Ready

    November 15, 2024

    Sarah Ready does it again! This is the second book of hers I’ve read and I think I liked it even more than Wished. I especially recommend…

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    Book Review:: The Vanishing Year | Kate Moretti

    November 8, 2024

    Tis the season for suspenseful, twisty books, and The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti will certainly scratch that itch for you. Zoey has a pretty great life…

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Emily's bookshelf: read

What the River Knows
The Rule Book
Wild Love
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
The Cheat Sheet
The Rom-Commers
Not in Love
My Not So Perfect Life
First Down
Clean Sweep
Greta & Valdin
The True Love Experiment
Killing Floor
Hate Mail
The Unhoneymooners
This Bird Has Flown
Savor It
Thank You for Listening
This Summer Will Be Different
The Last City


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