tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37762909264073748832024-03-07T22:26:17.981-08:00Books [Read] By LesLes G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.comBlogger752125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-22526789623577190622022-12-07T13:36:00.002-08:002022-12-07T13:41:22.632-08:0022': where we end & begin // jane igharo <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCPBs9nNeYq-J2QJWWl0W3SyNWKNlHToxRfXB0rdhUCg1k3u17jvlbibt2uMLIRQs6TKkOM21nyiFb3uW9Ze_0_GiMc6LRBWMygm4Yoxix91GiSK7d0v5bFWr20anSf7MXMJ7x9YDDrG-iJL2aqVEkS0Gz63hsFQVueeLE6sl6HduB5y-PbaASi4Tdw/s1080/20221117_120749.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1080" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCPBs9nNeYq-J2QJWWl0W3SyNWKNlHToxRfXB0rdhUCg1k3u17jvlbibt2uMLIRQs6TKkOM21nyiFb3uW9Ze_0_GiMc6LRBWMygm4Yoxix91GiSK7d0v5bFWr20anSf7MXMJ7x9YDDrG-iJL2aqVEkS0Gz63hsFQVueeLE6sl6HduB5y-PbaASi4Tdw/w400-h379/20221117_120749.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"He never discomforted himself to make her comfortable. how could he possible give up his life for hers? if you cant do the little things, how can you do something so big?"</span> </b></div></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 350</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: "october" - november 8, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 25 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097438-where-we-end-begin" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">uh, hmm... i dont remember much. i know it was way more action packed than the <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2022/12/22-sweetest-remedy-jane-igharo.html" target="_blank">last one i just read</a></b>. my memory is mush and all i remember thinking is "damn. kids are wild. having kids is wild. choosing who to have kids with is even wilder! like how do you know!"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i loved that the dad was like the "good guy" tho. like if people would have just said something, anything! <i>maybe </i>things could have been different between them two? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">reading wise. ive tapped out and im done with it for the year so ima just leave it at this. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one was good! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">(see below for notes i took as i was reading this.....this is all i got) <br /><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>NOTES</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">holy shit. how the fuck do i still have 2 hours to go on this damn audio!!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, im here because i want to take notes. jump on down if you wanna skip all this. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">...so romance books are still safe with me i guess because i am loving this one even though i still have 2 hours left! ah! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">- i still love books where couples are meant to be together but they're both too dumb* to be together (*dumb is the wrong word but ya know.....) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">80%: diiiiiis bitch just blew my mind backtracking the way she did!!!! here i was defending here and todavia la misma mierda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">ahhhh!!!!!! (ha! as of now, i have no idea what this means anymore) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i love Emeka! *crying face emoji* its always the ones you least expect that surprise you! (i forgot what this was also about)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">88% BITCH WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!<span> (i accidentally read further ahead when looking for a page and saw ahead of time but still) ...how the fuck did you hold onto that information for so long!? 38 fucking chapters bro!!!!!! (</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">...pertaining to the last note above: okay. she's right. she's 100 right as to why she didn't but damnnnnn, Gina. GO JANE IGHARO!!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TWb5eOHYFw-a-VOYEEv8pJCB61hXmaH0ITySLHkvqhh8yaj56eD-2HJmAw8MvbevmxESblFWaQ0bAURlLd8BW_e4oQsl_vKXcpm0L7-Jd0G0F-xaPzww1e-NHOfQU1mUzjxEHAiQcWLZEAYVNy3HurGa6DFINDeRQhdjkEEmoVlppEcgDpGeQbe5JA/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TWb5eOHYFw-a-VOYEEv8pJCB61hXmaH0ITySLHkvqhh8yaj56eD-2HJmAw8MvbevmxESblFWaQ0bAURlLd8BW_e4oQsl_vKXcpm0L7-Jd0G0F-xaPzww1e-NHOfQU1mUzjxEHAiQcWLZEAYVNy3HurGa6DFINDeRQhdjkEEmoVlppEcgDpGeQbe5JA/w394-h106/leeee.png" width="394" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SPOILERS</span></b><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">they meet when they are kids. they fall in love but her mom threatens him and she embarrasses him at Dunni's graduation. icing on the cake seeing as how she's leaving to princeton. or yale. i dont remember. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the plan was that she was going to go first, go to school, save her allowance and then bring him on over once his visa was approved. she goes, he disappears, she tries reaching him but he never comes around. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">he decides he wont come around until he makes something of himself. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">it turns out she's pregnant. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">she returns to her home for Tiwa's wedding, runs into him. they go thru all this shit, he sees her tattoo which says austen or jane... or jane austen. idk...and apparently that was supposed to be their child's name should they ever have one. i thought she had misscarried. turns out she had the baby and even though she spent like 45 months with him in Nigeria, she never tells him until he shows up at her door in seattle. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">anyway, blah, blah, blah,.....they end up together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the reason that the mom hated homie was because she was part of a relationship where she uplifted the man and he did her dirty and she was seeing her past "replay" in her present. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the dad (Dunni's) never knew that his granddaughters father was homeboy. when he finds out he reprimands Dunni for not having said something earlier. he stated that he would have helped them be together. (he finds out at the hospital after Jane Austen or whatever her name is is in an accident." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the reason that grama kept seeing Dunni in an accident or someshit was because she was engaged to Christopher. once she calls it off, grama stops dreaming the dreams.</div></span></div></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-39923170993332421372022-12-05T08:53:00.002-08:002022-12-07T13:38:51.999-08:0022': the sweetest remedy // jane igharo<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKfbvT7rIt7gHlKmrHuan6_PXvu9aa362NntFNMjGD4IvDM3Ne4aoBtkR4GfEYyEY68nj1JQ_HVYsp7gZd2v9W65z762x4oKC80VxzbLmjRw1gDqP2N3yB5IZxmGcrDgS4XBaGJOsrk966j_PWQ4UYT_vI-46X73OBPmF-DiYu7SHwFv1YTb2AjK49A/s1066/20221117_120733.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1066" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKfbvT7rIt7gHlKmrHuan6_PXvu9aa362NntFNMjGD4IvDM3Ne4aoBtkR4GfEYyEY68nj1JQ_HVYsp7gZd2v9W65z762x4oKC80VxzbLmjRw1gDqP2N3yB5IZxmGcrDgS4XBaGJOsrk966j_PWQ4UYT_vI-46X73OBPmF-DiYu7SHwFv1YTb2AjK49A/w400-h370/20221117_120733.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You can't hate someone free of charge. You have to pay a price- give something of yourself."</span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2021</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 293</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: october 21-23, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 24 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></b><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one was okay. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i wasnt crazy over it </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">BUT LOL THE UNIVEEEEEEEEEEEERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">han's dad rip's and now shes off to go meet her family. and of course they are <i>evil </i>and in the end it all works out and thats it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">and it wasnt bad but it was missing an umph. i think the part that lost me was when Tiwa goes all crazy at the reading....if thats not how she truly felt why the bust? it makes sense but meh. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">though i will say that i liked the reasoning behind homegirl automatically thinking homie was a bad dude. when all you've known is to expect the worst..., well why would that suddenly change? i do believe that part was beautifully executed. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">sometimes its so obvious. but reading this - er - having this read to me shed a different type of light on it for me. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway. hmm....i wish it could have been spicier in the sense that i wanted more drama (lol les! really!?) yes! remember the mom from her first book! lol </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">onto her 3rd book! (i have heard it since posting this and !!!) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9PfBLlbIccwJgp_xtQI708APNOq38wc48QhIOp-QrgP4ztkqwNyc2EHVfaGm4L96nf7MEyC5Qu694JL8JJgH7MBlaGq1Q3KPCe8-KsouxKgPrp6Zj0oA28lrWxkBAJ8hQ5-nkk6Uqyce8miLputY4Nk0Qq5phjMuKmd21NOgUBIZlVDpR3dYVTnNQTA/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9PfBLlbIccwJgp_xtQI708APNOq38wc48QhIOp-QrgP4ztkqwNyc2EHVfaGm4L96nf7MEyC5Qu694JL8JJgH7MBlaGq1Q3KPCe8-KsouxKgPrp6Zj0oA28lrWxkBAJ8hQ5-nkk6Uqyce8miLputY4Nk0Qq5phjMuKmd21NOgUBIZlVDpR3dYVTnNQTA/w400-h108/leeee.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">shit. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i did not do them right away so let me seeeeeeee......</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">the night before anything happens, hannah goes out with her friend to an event, ends up alone and meets LOHL </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">(love of her life bc i 4got his name). they both get important calls and they do not exchange any information. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">hannah's dad uh passes away and in his will its his wish that H travel to his home to meet the rest of his children. she goes and meets them. theyre against it. it turns out that the love of her life is homies with Tiwa and um...so the family gets along with Hannah and at first its fake but they all grow on each other and then the will is read and it turns out that Hannah gets to keep the home in Nigeria causing Tiwa to be all wtf and then H learns that they were all getting along with her because if they didn't they would not inherit anything in the will. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">of course she thinks that lohl is in on it also! (because he is a huge part of the family) but in the end it all works out and everyone is happy. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">also, tiwa is with her dad's homie. who is several years older than her. its on the DL, of course Hannah catches them and never says anything and then yeah, that's it. </span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-33126988847798224922022-10-26T10:33:00.000-07:002022-10-26T10:33:48.763-07:00'22: flying solo // linda holmes<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2QjvOCb4yyV6gTmARrYi5896khc97ezXQl07TrYk2q0pfqSSGNx3f7tWQD8rplTO4m0HrSZ_8J_oIW70i0hPVWA_z6IjBj2oHgasb3KeTm3zwjYitT02k85R-OMf3BuK7eSl8ZrufYfbtnY5iztdu35JyPXRZLygcqiXIggFzGTEdlN27Vx_4TkNssg/s1080/20221020_115114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="1080" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2QjvOCb4yyV6gTmARrYi5896khc97ezXQl07TrYk2q0pfqSSGNx3f7tWQD8rplTO4m0HrSZ_8J_oIW70i0hPVWA_z6IjBj2oHgasb3KeTm3zwjYitT02k85R-OMf3BuK7eSl8ZrufYfbtnY5iztdu35JyPXRZLygcqiXIggFzGTEdlN27Vx_4TkNssg/w447-h426/20221020_115114.jpg" width="447" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"people dont label anything, it drives me crazy.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">do me a favor, both of you, think of the librarians, think of the historians & label your stuff."</span></b></div></blockquote></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 304</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 23 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59089710-flying-solo" target="_blank">SYNOPSIS</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">meh.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It started off good and then it got to that whole self discovery/I don't wanna get married/but I don't wanna lose you drama and I was over it. I liked it better when she was trying to con Matt. I liked it all before she started beating it into us that she wants to live solo. And there's nothing wrong with that because I also don't see myself wanting to have kids but ๐</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">she's constantly having to mention that she doesn't want to share her space and it starts to sound repetitive after a while. even in the fucking epilogue. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don't regret reading it but I could have done without this one I think. nothing about Laurie made me be like "iloveheriwishherthebest!".....which, I do (wish her the best but not necessarily love her) but I could go on forever not keeping up with her and whatever happens between her and nick. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Idk.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's like a 2 part book. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first half is tryina get the duck and the second half is "i know what I want but I'm not willing to change my views for what I want" and ugh.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It wasn't a bad read, it had several funny moments but I think overall this wasn't memorable for me. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_lBh2QBHZDzammycpR_pBlbnUNI4_O051QTi0XrNnsQQZI2w5gS2iOrFXLWsByJd-DGPdXqqJM01zesSm_OradNlFMy-6UGhp6v7L77uZ46j3f6k6Fvx1XCT9DpGImhhJXGq_tpZMU5j8Ss5FdwkIvNeVMamJ2a2_y2X-4k1k97RM4b2m07Oz5I54mA/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_lBh2QBHZDzammycpR_pBlbnUNI4_O051QTi0XrNnsQQZI2w5gS2iOrFXLWsByJd-DGPdXqqJM01zesSm_OradNlFMy-6UGhp6v7L77uZ46j3f6k6Fvx1XCT9DpGImhhJXGq_tpZMU5j8Ss5FdwkIvNeVMamJ2a2_y2X-4k1k97RM4b2m07Oz5I54mA/w442-h119/leeee.png" width="442" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ima be hella honest with y'all, im so over this book i dont even wanna re-read the spoilers to check for misspelled words, so please pardon. ๐ฌ</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;">SPOILERS</b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Laurie's aunt Dot passes away so she goes to sort her things out. In the process she finds a wooden duck and Matt, the guy who was supposed to be helping her appraise things ends up stealing it under the pretense that it's a good fake original Carl someshit (already forgot the name). He gets a fake appraisal, buys it from under Laurie for $50 & then gives it to another crook to sell it thinking that its an og Carl someshit (when in fact it ends up NOT being an og Carl someshit in the first place! its a mess) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, Laurie sets up a scheme with her brother Ryan or someshit and they end up stealing back the duck under the pretense that a) It's fake and that b) Matt stole it from under John (the name that Ryan was going by since he was tryina steal it back). Supposedly John had a buyer who had to have it that very same hour and he was willing to split more $ with Rocky (the dude who Matt gave the duck to to sell) if he let him take it. Rocky did and they steal it back. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It turns out that Dot and Carl dated but he was married. Married to a woman who had a shit load of health problems (which leads me to wonder if Carl would have left his wife for Dot had she not been in need of so much care). They had a years long affair until they went their separate ways and in that time Carl taught Dot how to make the ducks. So the duck that Laurie found is indeed not a mothafuckin' Carl but a Dot original. She had carved that suck herself!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">thats it. thats the story behind the duck.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">-</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Laurie dated nick when they were kids, they broke up bc of the distance when they were in college but now they're doing the damn thing again. She fights it but they end up together. Well, yes long distance but mostly cus Laarie knew she was never going to go back & that he'd never leave their hometown so hay is for horses.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And that's the basics of it.</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-45675505386225600452022-10-26T10:24:00.000-07:002022-10-26T10:24:17.599-07:00'22: the lies i tell // julie clark<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMN1pau6x6ER3v6EHvQovEbdn0Tu7UqcuMvCUx3mvlIdxKKfRPpFFVvLJHVfBbbqIltT_1vhF4WLPom8U_Vhzt1tkfJvayMeEdm3Y78Bo2xmTUSO7vwvaZc4RaaXIpHfodGyesS7s-M-GKz-vZEU51jxGgflPgWN6k9x7JZ-FRrec7Nrc5ueeuSF-2g/s1176/20221020_115012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="1080" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMN1pau6x6ER3v6EHvQovEbdn0Tu7UqcuMvCUx3mvlIdxKKfRPpFFVvLJHVfBbbqIltT_1vhF4WLPom8U_Vhzt1tkfJvayMeEdm3Y78Bo2xmTUSO7vwvaZc4RaaXIpHfodGyesS7s-M-GKz-vZEU51jxGgflPgWN6k9x7JZ-FRrec7Nrc5ueeuSF-2g/w401-h436/20221020_115012.jpg" width="401" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote>"i believe in making your own opportunities. i believe in taking what you wanted from life, and if you had to hurt someone in the process, it had better be for a good reason because i also believed in karma."</blockquote></span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>:2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>:290</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: september 27-29, 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 22 in 2022 (oh shit! 22 in 22!๐) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59412817-the-lies-i-tell" target="_blank">SYNOPSIS</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED THIS BOOK!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once I opened it up I could not get enough. I didn't know what to expect but it wasn't this. Ahhh!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do I believe that Kat will succeed like Meg? Part of me wants to believe that she will but I think she's starting off <b>too big.</b> Meg learned from Cory. Kats just guna ace it on the first try?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Idk but I looooooooved this story!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Everything that Meg does with what she achieves makes me giddy because all of me also sorta expected her to be kinda greedy about it. She just wanted to exact revenge.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I just loved this one so hard!!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Julie Clark might just turn unto an auto buy for me! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i wish i had more to say but i think i looooved this book i want to own a copy now so that i can reread it right now speaks just about enough volumes. </span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">"maybe you judge me for holding him close instead of casting him out. but if you take a look at where cory is now, i think its pretty obvious that holding your enemy close makes it much easier to slip the knife back into their back."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzEArfproQm8RSLgz5smjZhwWO886UfTFS1BLjp9cX_sUNx_nrlzD3Cil1PH2tGUulgba0lHBGZaWaC5MQf99g0o6zVGuTmGZ8Hy76Npd4swWD1MuCWnNpG6Feej8dQ_q39ZCXFqsVZNz1HIMjn7254qp82XeVHlQzNW6cldoN7_aqVmbP2jVb2U4Kw/s500/20220116_134125.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzEArfproQm8RSLgz5smjZhwWO886UfTFS1BLjp9cX_sUNx_nrlzD3Cil1PH2tGUulgba0lHBGZaWaC5MQf99g0o6zVGuTmGZ8Hy76Npd4swWD1MuCWnNpG6Feej8dQ_q39ZCXFqsVZNz1HIMjn7254qp82XeVHlQzNW6cldoN7_aqVmbP2jVb2U4Kw/w400-h109/20220116_134125.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strike>no spoilers because i took forever. </strike></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">but i will say that go MEG! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i thought she was being the bad guy to be the bad guy because she could but homegirl was taking names, kicking ass and giving back like she was oprah with dem cars! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ahh!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i fucking loved this book. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">read the last few pages. maybe the last few chapters and itll walk ya thru it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">or ask! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ill try and remember! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ugh - okay. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">meg lived in her home with her mother that was passed down to her by her parents (passed down to megs mom). mom dates Ron (the politician dude) and he manages to swipe the house out from underneath her and then proceeds to kick them out. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in school Kate, a popular girl, is the only one that ever defends Meg when others tease because girls gotta stick together. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">later on it emerges that Kate had been sleeping with Cory. meg had seen Kate getting out of places after being with Cory but she never said anything. then Kate stops showing up and Cory is no longer a teacher. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">now its been years and megs been doing the living in your car life when she acknowledges that she needs to start dating someone who can give her more so she changes the age settings in her dating profile (she'd use this to get free meals) to older so she can find a dude with a home. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">BOOM!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cory. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she creates a fake profile pretending to be this Amelia chick and feeds Cory everything he wants to hear to win him over, sets up a date to meet up and then stands him up. she shows up pretending to also have been stood up and then boom! she cons him into a relationship and much more; she ends up living with him. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, one day, she's looking for a bulb when she finds pictures of Kate (her name is actually Kristen now that i think about it but were too far in) in sexual positions that Cory had saved from their time. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she is disgusted and wants to leave (she had no idea about any of this prior to this moment and what she had known before so when she roped him, she was just tryina survive for reals) but decides to stay and get revenge for homegirl because girls stick together. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">yada, yada, yada, a lot happens, she ends up clearing Corys bank account, ruining his friendship with Nate (was that his name? idk but it is now) and releasing all the information about his relation with Kate. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this is where Kat comes in. she's in journalism and long story short, when Meg was conning Cory, Meg called idk where and said that if they wanted more insight into the cory/student story to go to this place and meet with Nate. after a few drinks, he'd be loose. so Kat goes, talks to homie, gets a call in the middle of the conversation and leaves her drink behind only to come back to Nates apartment the next day i wanna say? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">he date raped her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so now Kat is out to get Meg because she thinks that she intentionally sent her out to Nates KNOWING he would rape her because she (meg) had previously claimed attempted rape by nate (she did but he had not tried. he was just calling her out because he knew she was up to something in regards to Cory....which she completely was by the time he started accusing her. she needed to buy time....) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so kat becomes homies with meg under the impression that she was interested in buying a house but meg sees right thru her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, the entire time, Meg is focused on Ron, the dude who stole her house and screwing him over. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">which she does. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she manages to sell him on the idea that because he is running for politics he needs to buy a bigger and better home and now with the elections, its the perfect time. she finally sells him on a house and theyre all set to go but in reality she showed him an empty home and stole all of his money. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she got him to sell his (her) home to a nice elderly couple. she didnt want it for herself, she wanted it out of his hands in the same manner that he took it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">as for the money for the mansion that he thought he bought, she kept a chunk and another portion was donated to a Homeless Organization which looked very bad on Ron because what rich people want to donate money to help the less fortunate? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end, she tells Kat to meet her at her house and when Kat shows up all she finds is a note and some notebooks that meg left for her. (the notebooks part is the hardest part for me to believe because why would you continuously carry a paper trail? i understand that she might not keep them on her at all times but iduno.....anyway....) in the notebooks she details everything about Cory and all of the other people that she has conned and why. everyone that she conned was conned because they deserved it and she, i believe, always did good with what she took. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, Kat was trying to be a journalist to appease her mother when in reality she wants to be an author. with meg's permission, she can turn the notebooks into her first book. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">theres obviously a lot more, like Scott! LOVED that shady son of a bitch! that i left out but thats mostly the gist of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">....or how i remember it week's later. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">thx!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">lv u!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">byee!</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-37266866049728015222022-10-12T16:58:00.000-07:002022-10-12T16:58:22.789-07:00'22: thank you for listening // Julia Whelan<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2A7qiMaPLBq5qiEvgg6G7gZRcdy_t0MU23d9LxVR_UxJAM1Y538wXaQJaCLjw2yYzd2uTXx8U4yfN4CZADqDgeaXlEogf4I2mdCmgojK-hDt32GrPBSJrqvnMT-nGB-HHxpzMQaqdTZQu1_3WOEdET3Pi1C6Z957M8BpwhFYsNDD-Rjkiqn0v6qfi3g/s1113/20221003_150159.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="1080" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2A7qiMaPLBq5qiEvgg6G7gZRcdy_t0MU23d9LxVR_UxJAM1Y538wXaQJaCLjw2yYzd2uTXx8U4yfN4CZADqDgeaXlEogf4I2mdCmgojK-hDt32GrPBSJrqvnMT-nGB-HHxpzMQaqdTZQu1_3WOEdET3Pi1C6Z957M8BpwhFYsNDD-Rjkiqn0v6qfi3g/w441-h454/20221003_150159.jpg" width="441" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"cover up whatever you please for the world, but in intimacy? hide nothing. in intimacy, everything is beautiful."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 399</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: september 1-15, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 21 in 2022</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59314703-thank-you-for-listening" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">the banter is definitely better than Henry's but I think that just in general this kinda romance isn't for me. And it's not that it's not for me because Nina Hill! Half her story felt like ๐๐คจ but I still loved it. with this one, idk. I don't hate it I'm just indifferent to it. Like I could've been okay without it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yes stories can be farfetched but I think we decide internally just how much shit we can believe and my threshold for this one was broken pretty early on. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think my beef with this book is that Sawanee is super anti love (who can blame her?) But then outa well, not nowhere but, ya know,....., she has 2 dicks to chose from (not really) and for someone who doesn't believe, she's like super into both of them never questioning how anti all of it she was 2 seconds prior. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Idk idk idk. I feel like she gave in too easy for someone who was so against romance (audio but anyway....)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Idk. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It wasn't a bad listen to (audio route) but meh. maybe im still in a funk and no book is safe. idk. for me Nick was perfect and then they got in a fight and i was like okay spicy and then it gets resolved quicker than over night oats and idk. it wasn't that bad but i did zone out thru a lot of this book because i was kinda over it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i honestly dont know?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtfVNSefuIyzD2IWbZJWeoAyAeeia6_JSayPykq8tr3ZtrPzKtZ6oVIe9F3LdhJgWf-Nu_Y40gFBZfRlWDTqsSEqV8kyr2zyK4Y3PPb22Ough5hPHieKsZTyaXpPZqgzZZ9j3yUZ62J_ECwQ7vwwAHJUL81kaxY2VIYfiz1lKDiWW57P_2dCYxqn96Q/s500/20220116_134125.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtfVNSefuIyzD2IWbZJWeoAyAeeia6_JSayPykq8tr3ZtrPzKtZ6oVIe9F3LdhJgWf-Nu_Y40gFBZfRlWDTqsSEqV8kyr2zyK4Y3PPb22Ough5hPHieKsZTyaXpPZqgzZZ9j3yUZ62J_ECwQ7vwwAHJUL81kaxY2VIYfiz1lKDiWW57P_2dCYxqn96Q/w456-h123/20220116_134125.png" width="456" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SPOILERS</span></b> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">sawanee was on track to become a huge movie star but while on set she decided to go celebrate with her best friend A by jumping out a plane. originally her chute wasn't working but last minute it did and to celebrate that idk wtf she did but she ended up getting her eye taken out. Now it's been years and she's always rocking an eye patch. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">because of her actions, there went her movie career and instead A is the huge movie star. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sawanee is an audio narrator who goes by Sarah some shit who would read Audiobooks for a Jane something. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ever since the accident she doesn't do romantic audio anymore. Jane has now passed and her last request is for Sarah and Brock McStorm or someshit to do the audio of her last book. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Long story short Sawanee is in Vegas to celebrate A for her success in idk what. They're at a club when A gets called to go back to LA for an audition so she goes leaving S alone and boom. Here comes Nick. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">They have one of those nights, connections, that's just once in a blue moon. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">They go their separate ways and that's it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Later, S gets the email about the audiobook request Jane left. She's still missing nick but now had moved on to chit chats with Brock McMuffin. (by this point they chat all the time about the project) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">They decided to finally meet (as sarah & mcmuffin) and of course it's on the night they both unbeknownst to each other, are both presenting and receiving an award for Jane (nick is Jane's nephew).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Except that Sawanee had no idea that, yes. NICK IS BROCK MCMUFFIN!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the end Sawanee learns that she needs to accept her shit so that other people can hurry up and accept her and her and mcmuffin end up together. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">That's the generality of it. I don't remember exactly how it ends. </span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-34415647395909673352022-10-03T14:58:00.001-07:002022-10-03T14:58:32.224-07:0022': something wilder // christina lauren <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYRkMASbgTgHyCo4t5y5Wd8m7j4g1lNOSJZZhFkUMI9RCLqLkAY1M0OEpmH5JFupPTndXal-MRK9P2B4cgGvfpYtYa1q8V9L9j-GPPGa30PDiJ8igSTWT2vEXX0WT4PHPAWAcmqY99vFw4upQA4Cs1UPjFxA8zFeZVpsCAO2QF0p4nauoMmtkOK8fJw/s1080/20220901_131104.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1080" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYRkMASbgTgHyCo4t5y5Wd8m7j4g1lNOSJZZhFkUMI9RCLqLkAY1M0OEpmH5JFupPTndXal-MRK9P2B4cgGvfpYtYa1q8V9L9j-GPPGa30PDiJ8igSTWT2vEXX0WT4PHPAWAcmqY99vFw4upQA4Cs1UPjFxA8zFeZVpsCAO2QF0p4nauoMmtkOK8fJw/w400-h385/20220901_131104.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"I'm not sure which is worse, losing someone suddenly, or after a prolonged illness." </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: 366</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: june 30 to july 5, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 20 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59345253-something-wilder" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></a></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THOUGHTS</span><br /></b>well, well, well. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">isnt life funny. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i cant say that this is my fave CL story BUT what i can say is that this story might just be cemented into me for life. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">here is Lily dealing with her dad's shit after his passing. (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">LOL! )</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">and of course there is more but well, its cemented into me for a reason. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i would have finished this sooner but i was saving this to listen to it as i worked at work and then shit hit the fan and then well, you gota handle your shit you know. (sorry dad)!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">.....i think the best way that i can describe this to you would be to tell you to watch <b><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13320622/" target="_blank">The Lost City</a></b> movie. these two (both in the book and the movie) get into some unbelievable shit but its lol and you get into it if you don't pay too close attention. (i appreciate the way the authors acknowledged this at the beginning - somethings are out there. it helped me a lot to know that even the authors knew they were pushing it a little. lol.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i appreciated that homie was chill and calm, the way everything was connected was - lol i guess. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i couldnt with brad? what was his name? lol you know who im talking about. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. i currently dont have the mental capability to be more detailed so ill leave it at this but yeah, i guess this one was cool. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">but honestly, if you dont want to read this but wanna experience it, just watch the movie. i love the movie. lol </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7CPaa3E80xLaUAaGHUzkGnsQKnXo7ndUuJiYMTD7WvvrWm-8DJsKyEUJ9bskncDDr6TemiLD9J58c_6xtewGZxEjtX4P85eVp7eQYAqEearA5D73r-71iZSkNw1RH8I4nqZqdsMz0bt1GuqETDGcKSWh76aq-xLg1f3YQDZ3ms0RtjO0qxhAbSjD0g/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7CPaa3E80xLaUAaGHUzkGnsQKnXo7ndUuJiYMTD7WvvrWm-8DJsKyEUJ9bskncDDr6TemiLD9J58c_6xtewGZxEjtX4P85eVp7eQYAqEearA5D73r-71iZSkNw1RH8I4nqZqdsMz0bt1GuqETDGcKSWh76aq-xLg1f3YQDZ3ms0RtjO0qxhAbSjD0g/w400-h108/leeee.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SPOILERS</b><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lily and Leo date when they were teens and he was working at her ranch. they were going to end up together but there was an accident and leo had to leave. originally he was going to help his mom but she ended up passing away so he needed to stay to take care of his sister. he did call her back but her dad answered and he never passed the message down. so they lose contact. (thats why Leo never came back but she doesnt learn this until after they reconnect.) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">fast forward to today. ...and because i wana be quick about it...</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">leo's roomate B (i forgot his name ) was in cahoots with the motherfucker that went over the cliff (i think his name is John) and the whole point of the set up was to I guess trap Lily into somehow getting them to Dukes massive fortune that was hidden but never found.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the end, Lili and Leo find it on their own and the horrible homie gets caught. Idk. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's been a while. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Let's move on. </span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-11512766675053675872022-09-15T16:44:00.002-07:002022-10-01T10:24:11.458-07:00'22: cackle // rachel harrison<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhk3V_QSZzoVTMlZ8UkRr1HOnseaJWVR0wzj_zxQAPTCCQxKndDhsR90md-Ehg3iW-iZHMZyBIsCt6VcJtk7iHFAweSMX5x4uRlixQuv3vS5nCCZPkHE5FB-VMyCinQF-fhMD2BLRfRck8Vcq7X_zEYQZ9uI30H6loO6s6gHz6kjy9urjbVH8hq4QTJw/s2010/20220901_131145.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2010" data-original-width="1809" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhk3V_QSZzoVTMlZ8UkRr1HOnseaJWVR0wzj_zxQAPTCCQxKndDhsR90md-Ehg3iW-iZHMZyBIsCt6VcJtk7iHFAweSMX5x4uRlixQuv3vS5nCCZPkHE5FB-VMyCinQF-fhMD2BLRfRck8Vcq7X_zEYQZ9uI30H6loO6s6gHz6kjy9urjbVH8hq4QTJw/w360-h400/20220901_131145.jpg" width="360" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"but you'll discover for yourself soon enough the things that devastate us most in the moment are always the things we look back on with such gratitude." </b></span></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2021</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: 291</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: July 3, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 19 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56637938-cackle" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSYS</span></a></b> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THOUGHTS</span></b> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">summer 2022 is doing nothing but giving me Halloween vibes and I am here for it. the world's going to shit, im putting up my Halloween stuff soon. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, I walked into the library to pick up one book, I scour the new section and pick this one up based solely on the cover....and because the synopsis gave me major Halloween vibes and everyone on goodreads loves this one but i haven't seen it around?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I genuinely thought I was going to check this book out and return it without opening it up. I thought I was guna renew it so much that i miiiight just make it to the 26 week audio hold because I'm not in a reading mood. But I got my book, I went to the grams (my gramas house) and given the circumstances, I was not expecting to make it all the way thru. but i diiiiid!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I LOVED THIS BOOOOOOOK!!!!! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">its exactly what my little Halloween loving heart needed at the moment.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">its not at all scary but because im a huge chicken shit this was good enough for me ๐.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">---------</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">sorry dudes. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this was the last book i read before shit hit the fan in my life and so this is all i got. seeing the date i read this book makes me laugh now because of everything that has followed since. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i feel like this looks so bad on the book but trust me; the book, i loved. im just pooped and wanna move on. its not you, it really is me. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this is a cute one. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">read it! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">get ready for the best season! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">love ya!</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglLVkMy3p_nB-1utrlJBRKkv-fc8tQvctOTJ0sX8wc5vRS7qHxFElVQKPHl9LGXO2DGvY2yRVH-JcXUZyHBV8f17BDvhPXj_wy5pbmLGG8p269UWGklR-ACRZ-JSkJwYL8MpuWr3dPfAELrAoQmtChtCsC-qN_RW7ZIvUUzKhoPt4GsT-ieK_PeP0hnQ/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglLVkMy3p_nB-1utrlJBRKkv-fc8tQvctOTJ0sX8wc5vRS7qHxFElVQKPHl9LGXO2DGvY2yRVH-JcXUZyHBV8f17BDvhPXj_wy5pbmLGG8p269UWGklR-ACRZ-JSkJwYL8MpuWr3dPfAELrAoQmtChtCsC-qN_RW7ZIvUUzKhoPt4GsT-ieK_PeP0hnQ/w400-h108/leeee.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">uhm she moves to this tiny town after her break up and she ends up meeting other homegirl and it turns out that its witch vibes and im here for it. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>longer-ish version.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">she moves because she was getting over a breakup with her ex and a position and better living arrangements came up so she leaves and she meets Sophie and then it turns out to be this whole witch vibes and all this and so then in the end, Annie lets her ex Sam convince her into letting him go over to her place and they start making out but she realizes shes not about it anymore. and it turns out that he was still with his already months old, annie knew about, girlfriend. so she does some bitch vibes moves on him (lol *nervous laugh*) and he's like wtf and then he leaves.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">many, years later she runs into Maddison. who is now an adult and basically you get the vibes that the coven grows. (mads was one of her students when she first moved into town. she a whole as hot mess of an adult now).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i love this book.</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-21414284608800342992022-09-13T22:29:00.000-07:002022-09-13T22:29:37.754-07:00'22: maps for the getaway // annie england noblin<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxi_QKa5XeGZhy_TvZkr99yiz6OXSJ45XXBIg4_UAKeDtexco10RSt_x5RVslh8vrFvWaUD69WMnnRFkjy1kJA94o022THUbhBWuDNm1x7BN5haoYZATc8a0qSWcRSu1EqJYkWWj_3FVgf5ECNFFcwqnLUIFdZnYKAheAx7rgBSwlHFeq_CiMQPcjjrg/s1179/20220913_221907.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="1080" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxi_QKa5XeGZhy_TvZkr99yiz6OXSJ45XXBIg4_UAKeDtexco10RSt_x5RVslh8vrFvWaUD69WMnnRFkjy1kJA94o022THUbhBWuDNm1x7BN5haoYZATc8a0qSWcRSu1EqJYkWWj_3FVgf5ECNFFcwqnLUIFdZnYKAheAx7rgBSwlHFeq_CiMQPcjjrg/w396-h432/20220913_221907.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><div>"All rumors have at least a kernel of truth. But I wonโt tell you which kernel.โ</div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 219</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: june 15-19, 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 18 in 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55338943-maps-for-the-getaway" target="_blank"><span><b>SYNOPSIS</b></span></a><br /><br /><b>THOUGHTS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ooooh! i liked this one!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i dont want to say that im in a reading funk but i guess i will say that im being a bit picky about what im reading? i have not had any interest in picking anything up and then this one pops up and ! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">maybe im all about timing right now. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anywho!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i like this story! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wish I would have have taken better notes (why lol) but alas, I am who I yams.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I liked the adventures these 3 got into because LOL!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">also, before I forget, ladies and gentlemen should this ever be a movie or something, please let me introduce to you <a href="https://images.app.goo.gl/4tAHgsR79HG7HuYe9" target="_blank">TROY</a>!!!!! (If cast otherwise, I'd still watch. but begrudgingly ๐)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">okay but back to the point. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I truly enjoyed this story about 3 women celebrating the life of their very good friend especially given that you know, life happens and they grew apart. coming home must feel amazing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">each woman is going thru something in her life and while I don't remember the story 100% and I can't relate to them 100% myself (I'm not married (never even been proposed to) nor do I have kids) I feel like I saw myself in little bits of each woman's story. from G dealing with her father and his illness to Kate and her passion for work (im not tryina get fired so I'll keep it pg about my job but let's just say I'm not passionate about working like she is) and C! I'm happy she finally grew a pair. deciding to leave someone who is utter trash is such an amazing relief. <b>THE RELIEF!</b> let me tell you, cutting someone off who <strike>no longer</strike> never respected you is *chef's kiss* </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ANYWAY!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">they get into everything! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved this story. I wish I had better memory but I know I'm going to love rereading this one a couple of years from now.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one hit the perfect spot for me. โค๏ธ ...and i also did spoilers ahead of time so let's go! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOTciN-36SbkIqatsPGALVfYwYMbVMToErBkH1V9PkUaTrd_7CWRYDZ2JQSsCLcKelN_9FKr8kFRQwFGTnL0ZR1JBoKJonJiofyRYtQe5n_ILIQilWDyuSB1hU0z6xc2PQuWcMm2vT5r4vr9dhaB3_1WHIAGZS7TJPibpNS-1bjdn8B4tDqaDZXB_Tvg/s500/20220116_134125.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOTciN-36SbkIqatsPGALVfYwYMbVMToErBkH1V9PkUaTrd_7CWRYDZ2JQSsCLcKelN_9FKr8kFRQwFGTnL0ZR1JBoKJonJiofyRYtQe5n_ILIQilWDyuSB1hU0z6xc2PQuWcMm2vT5r4vr9dhaB3_1WHIAGZS7TJPibpNS-1bjdn8B4tDqaDZXB_Tvg/w441-h119/20220116_134125.png" width="441" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SPOILERS</span></b><br />KATE<br />her and her husband separate because she wants to do her work more. well its not that she wants that more its just that no shame its what matters to her. her and her husband dont share the same views about family. in the end she ends up dating that vet dude that she met in new mexico (cool cool cool!) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">GENIE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">her dad was a major dick and high key hated her. she lived her life by his rules and did nothing that he would not approve of even though the things he did approve of, he still did not. he has dementia so he's in a home and she does visit but if he rarely cared then you think he does now? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">he never let her have anything. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so much so that for 40 years shes done everything by him and the one time she finally decides to take a trip, he up and RIP's on her while she's far away from him. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end she ends up with Troy (FUCK YES!!!!!) and she moves with him to flagstaff if i remember him living there correctly. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">CICI</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">shes been with brent since high school and everyone in town knows that hes been cheating on her since forever. even she knew but denial denial, denial. she ends up setting his shit on fire and finally leaving him. in the end she ends up dating Wade (FUCK YES!) and yea.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oh yeah! when they were kids the girls (minus laurie) found out that Cici's parents and half of the parents where ever they live all slept together. Swingers parrrrtiesss!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">-------</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Laurie, the 4th friend of the group passes away at a time when all the women are kinda falling apart. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">they all get together and decide to go on a road trip to vegas in Gennies dads car (that they later purposefully decide to vandalize) and get into all sorts of shit. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The purpose of the trip is to go see the reunion show of their fave back in the days boy band in honor of L. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">kate adopts a little unwanted pup, they almost get their ass kicked for "stealing" a bathroom key, Troy comes into the picture!!!!, they get a flat and troy rescues them and stands up for Gennie and it was hot as fuck! and the stripper show! and when they get to vegas and Cici gets arrested with the man from the boy band they were there to see that kate bails out. *catches breath* </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">a lot of things happen here and there that im leaving out but the breakdown of the women is the gist of the story! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Loved this one! </span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-46168268814194402392022-09-01T14:40:00.001-07:002022-09-01T14:40:32.161-07:00'22: book lovers // emily henry<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs2yoxfWdb1SdGPjLHTz8kTBiWG9AMC2SVwfBDJEW2eVQ3zg75-p3uxfMEJLOtiAofKSH3nszw-hmQUcK_w-tw76RFYv-_1IPMRcIX_zNjtbUGB_cCshp7e_HS5QaJsGWmq8Sqa-s-ZqxH7X-foJqPfiJKfsQ-pnWiwVKY7mIW0Yx_repX25dAljpBzg/s1123/20220901_131032.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="1080" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs2yoxfWdb1SdGPjLHTz8kTBiWG9AMC2SVwfBDJEW2eVQ3zg75-p3uxfMEJLOtiAofKSH3nszw-hmQUcK_w-tw76RFYv-_1IPMRcIX_zNjtbUGB_cCshp7e_HS5QaJsGWmq8Sqa-s-ZqxH7X-foJqPfiJKfsQ-pnWiwVKY7mIW0Yx_repX25dAljpBzg/w440-h457/20220901_131032.jpg" width="440" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"sometimes, even when you start with the last page and think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you." </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>:377</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: may 15 - 20, 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 17 in 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58690308-book-lovers" target="_blank">SYNOPIS</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I dont have the energy so lets just say that i liked this one more than her other two. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">like a lot more. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">like this one makes sense and i dont understand how everyone loves all others more than this one. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one has a decent guy in the story. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">CHARLIE!!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">omg! he was, well, he was Charlie but it was refreshing to have a main dude not be such a turd. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">also - LOL ๐ the way Henry beat it into us that Nora's mom REPEATEDLY told her that her "unmentionables" should always be cute and matching because you never know, so that when Charlie finally gets to take em off we know why she's in exotic undies while they're in the middle of pic'n save getting it on in the middle of nowhere. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">theres a lot more to this story (like the sister plot) that completely went over my head (well it didnt but because i still live with my sister, meh - ya know? lol. i love her but i see her every day) because thats not where my focus was if that makes sense, so i would like to listen to this one again and see it from that point of view.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">im not sure when <i>buuuut</i> maybe in a few years. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so uh yeah. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">liked this one. i had to do it audio cause i dont have the mentality to deal with reading but it was a nice switch for me from Henry. i</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> can get behind this one. a</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">nd it irks me to no end that everyone is like "I don't like this one because Charlie was bland." Okay fucking liking your toxic ass men. ....anyway, I'll behave. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">okay next. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMG70-KMqyqOJRwefR1xjLy9nhiB3NIaFRLJzLqWJAiR55A8AxQYg0or2Td7Kg3B2nVcuuluBpoEEs0QW1rIlyvetVUl8fXRCHjLUofiwhvrHGE-sCoGVWtYSCcOxB8nq49DE1njo6sJhCNOqa_vG4nHciDOmrODOalku0ZumNBoCQide-FYbN-xc7kg/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMG70-KMqyqOJRwefR1xjLy9nhiB3NIaFRLJzLqWJAiR55A8AxQYg0or2Td7Kg3B2nVcuuluBpoEEs0QW1rIlyvetVUl8fXRCHjLUofiwhvrHGE-sCoGVWtYSCcOxB8nq49DE1njo6sJhCNOqa_vG4nHciDOmrODOalku0ZumNBoCQide-FYbN-xc7kg/w400-h108/leeee.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SPOILERS<br /></span></b>Nora can't let anyone in because she's been in charge since her mom RIP'd and it's been basically survive ever since. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she's tryina promote or publish or get her writer to do some shit and she somehow lands in the town where the story takes place. (Her sister pushed her into it). This happens after she fails at selling Charlie the book she's dealing with. It just so happens that Charlie is also from that same town.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AND he also happens to be there at the same time. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She's dealing with her mommy issues</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Charles has his shit but he's still the fucking fluffiest pancake you eva had (or whatever you like to eat). And in the end they end up together.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">obvs theres a lot more but meh. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'll probably do another listen since I own the audio and do a better post then but until then good'ay ladybugs and gentle germs, this is all I gots to give right now. ๐</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-87314876389083134802022-09-01T14:25:00.000-07:002022-09-01T14:25:53.123-07:00'21: beach read // emily henry<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YwlXDIDkJ9u9M7VIhElXRUlTbsI5drKetqmd12ou6ZsbCHsB8WhzjnN6fKs4aZIvnoMtmKPO8H1SJZ176Pv2G0f7l5qlEpTpF-bSahHAv__cd1Of_yq3lzWkvA7u1fXlATr1Y3cXJfnw06HmRl2S0oOzeIKVWpMu3ifNLjezzr2pH-wbFNNg964Q2w/s1838/20220622_132504.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="1800" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YwlXDIDkJ9u9M7VIhElXRUlTbsI5drKetqmd12ou6ZsbCHsB8WhzjnN6fKs4aZIvnoMtmKPO8H1SJZ176Pv2G0f7l5qlEpTpF-bSahHAv__cd1Of_yq3lzWkvA7u1fXlATr1Y3cXJfnw06HmRl2S0oOzeIKVWpMu3ifNLjezzr2pH-wbFNNg964Q2w/w435-h445/20220622_132504.jpg" width="435" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"again and again he told me that i wasnt myself. but he was wrong. i was the same me i'd always been. i'd just stop trying to glow in the dark for him or anyone else."</span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2020</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: we move on without pgs or we never move forward</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: 1/22-26/2021 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 5 in 2021 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52867387-beach-read?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=yrmZL7twEE&rank=1" target="_blank"><b>SYNOPSIS</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I liked it in the end overall but I didn't love it?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(might be a bit spoilery from here on our but not really. just warning y'all.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />January irked me. <br />I feel like she felt like she was entitled to everything upfront even when she herself wasn't being 100% open from the get go. (<a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2019/11/permanent-record-mary-hk-choi.html?m=1" target="_blank">Liana</a>, anyone?)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I felt she was very whiny about life and I get it, her dad had just passed a year ealier and there's a lot of other shit involved but.....to me she was too whiny....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">like she clearly didn't hurt that hard over the end of her relationship with Jaque*** but she kept bringing him up. and I get it; you're still allowed to feel hurt when something ends even if you knew deep down in your core that it was never going to be for you in the first place but I just felt like she didn't even bother to feel that. she was just detached when it came to them. maybe because she was drowning under everything else that this being the least of her worries was obviously the easiest to go? Idk. (but if that's what Henry wanted us to feel then FUCK ME!)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">but anyway, this would have been better had she been made to be strong, not because women are only always strong and have no other emotions or choice but because she understands the complexities of all of the emotions so she knows how to cope and speak her emotions, all of them, properly....when she's upset, she speaks on that instead of getting drunk and waiting for the liquid courage to kick in. I feel like at the end of it all she was too ๐ฌ for the strength this role requires.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's as if someone wrote the beauty that is <a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo.html?m=1" target="_blank">Evelyn Hugo</a> but replaced it with the ๐ถ story that is <b><a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2022/06/20-unraveling-of-cassidy-holmes-elissa.html" target="_blank">the unraveling of Cassidy Holmes</a>.</b> Knowing what Evelyn entails and requires, anything less than that just doen't work.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this version of January didn't not work but it just wasnt right. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">[***(which by the way, should this ever be made into anything and they need a Jaques, please hire <a href="https://instagram.com/julien?igshid=1mv2963bq2bws" target="_blank">Julien</a>. omg!!!! (watch him on holidate and you'll see what I mean. ๐คค)]</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And gus!, his little quiet side was cool but duuuuudeeeee!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">like the whole disappearing thing and not saying anything to Jan was ๐คฏ. not just once but every single time. and the biggest one is at the end where Jan ends up home solo and he doesn't even bother to give a fuck to contact her and see if she's any type of okay. just, *cricket noise.*</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He'd just disappear to process and then reappear and expect it to be okay without explanation just because. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and just because he wasn't crying every 3 seconds like January was doesn't make him any less problematic. he's been dealt a shitty hand but he was not without love, he wasn't alone, he had a team, just not the one he wanted. he was afraid and scared to trust and it's understandable. But the whole disappearing act was just.......thats just another way that emotions and speaking words/time/space is wasted. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />And also, that scene in the tent (you know, the one) really? Like really? That was kinda ๐ฌ. Yall were a few yards away from....and y'all were hooking up!?<br />They both did a lot of talking without doing a lot of taking but at the same time they weren't saying shit.....does that make sense?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />For a lot of this book I was like ๐ and then that shit with her dad pops up on page 316 and on and I was like fuck yea! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It finally picked up a bit for me there. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and if im being honest, the only character I'm sympathizing with is Sonya. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she was the only one who had her head on straight I think. I love the way she snapped at January to get her shit together about her dad. "You have pieces of him. You're the last person on earth with pieces of him, and if you don't want to look at them, that's your call. But don't pretend he left you with nothing." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she respected her space and left when they ran across each other but that last interaction they had!, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*chef's kiss*</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sonya might be the other woman but she's my #1. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">not even Jan's mom was upfront about shit (which I get because she was the one being cheated on but still ya know)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Its a good story I just personally wasn't enamored with it. But I can definitely see why lots of people like it and maybe if I reread it another time I might vibe with it more but for now, its an okay read. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">If both characters had just been upfront with each other and spoken with their chest instead of waiting for shit to fall over like a jenga tower so that they could then say what they were thinking then I think I wouldve loved it more because I loooove when people are upfront and honest about feelings, truths, everything!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />I love Henry & will forever read whatever she writes because despite this not being a fave of mine she still has a way with words and she truly does have talent but my heart lies in her <a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/search?q=Emily+henry&m=1" target="_blank">magical realism books</a> (minus hello girls).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, yea. It was cool but not wow. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">everyone in this town needs to grow balls. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks for reading! ๐</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jump over for spoilers.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsKxMUkJ3G9CAdVcXSvxRLnqojTrNAWwp-qOvSTzpCS3KUMwazvqGUB4_WoYhrISHcVuIdfMVymqRyk5zf6q4RgjDPdO684AUYUnYaI4gbmMp63Z3VeRVOje9llno8ViFrOkS9HU0Vlm9Y1Iyybl3RY2QP2FWSkoVDF3A994nIvY09FDBAN_Zr28nSgw/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsKxMUkJ3G9CAdVcXSvxRLnqojTrNAWwp-qOvSTzpCS3KUMwazvqGUB4_WoYhrISHcVuIdfMVymqRyk5zf6q4RgjDPdO684AUYUnYaI4gbmMp63Z3VeRVOje9llno8ViFrOkS9HU0Vlm9Y1Iyybl3RY2QP2FWSkoVDF3A994nIvY09FDBAN_Zr28nSgw/w481-h130/leeee.png" width="481" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>S P O I L E R S</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">January gets the house in Michigan and she can do with it as she pleases but she decides to sell it because who wants to keep their dad's fuck house. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But of course, right next door her arch nemesis, Augustus Everett, lives. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She thinks he's a dick but he's been in love with her since day -71627 he just didn't know how to tell her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blah blah blah.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They agree to each write about about what the other writes and whoever pubs it first, the other will endorse it left and right. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They end up hooking up even though she knows gus is a one time dude. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But it turns out that he's not, he's just used to people being dicks to him so he acts accordingly. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And it actually turns out he's married (going thru a divorce).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, Jan's parents split up and when they did her dad went back to Michigan and ran into an old love of his life and they hook up but then mom gets cancer so he goes back but still kept hooking up with Sonja I guess (their affair is never really fully discussed) and then the dad passes away and Sonja shows up at the funeral to give Jan a letter and the key to the house. And the only reason Sonja did that was because SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE IN THIS ENTIRE STORY WHO HAD A BIG ENOUGH BACKBONE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the dad had told his lawyer to leave that stuff to Sonja so that she could then deliver it to Jan because he knew that her mom would never be able to do that. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The dad might have cheated but can we talk about the emotional abuse he put Sonja through!???</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">UGH! ๐</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So yeah....she's had the letter for a year, doesn't ever open it and it's not until one night that Gus' soon to be ex wife comes to one of their book reading things and she runs away and gus never follows up with her that she gets cornered by Sonja that she decides to read the letter and it turns out there's one for every birthday but there's also a boat in the marina with her name on it waiting for her (which by the way, who the fuck took care of it all this time?)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dad explains the story but never mentions even being in love with Sonja,it was more like he wanted to see what his life could have been like (ugh, Sonja!) and so yea. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blah blah blah.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shadi finally comes over they clean, eat and breakdown and the next day gus blasts her with music and they dance in the rain. (Turns out his ex wife, Naomi wanted him back. ....this was after she left him for his best friend. ๐๐๐). He tells her he wants to be with her norther if they don't get a happily ever after. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jan sells the house, a year passes and gus ends up proposing to her infront of fam by giving her a piece of paper that said Marry Me. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(When they were writing they would write notes to each other about sorts of dumb shit so....ya know) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And yea, das it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The mom still never said shit.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They do have a call one night but nothing is talked about in the book. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh well.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">๐ฆ</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-15592140181025177842022-07-06T00:08:00.000-07:002022-07-06T00:08:39.894-07:00'22: you deserve each other // sarah hogle <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjStykbrx8ABEyYgrrMDdNZo9FszKJDyagjvCuRs6QkbEAY-TwU_wBVDkPntZeicDWn6oQqu_ejdAK5sozCT2HcLSORZZ-PVWsdbUKs6Q44iGTO7U5ixkYJ9pXNp--64ZbN1EysecbOH2X7HX9KhR0knyZ6PwMue75LP_1CLFe_ZaDIf-A05HrZT4xFYw/s1222/20220705_234831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="1065" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjStykbrx8ABEyYgrrMDdNZo9FszKJDyagjvCuRs6QkbEAY-TwU_wBVDkPntZeicDWn6oQqu_ejdAK5sozCT2HcLSORZZ-PVWsdbUKs6Q44iGTO7U5ixkYJ9pXNp--64ZbN1EysecbOH2X7HX9KhR0knyZ6PwMue75LP_1CLFe_ZaDIf-A05HrZT4xFYw/w349-h400/20220705_234831.jpg" width="349" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"Iโm a miserable cynic (a newer development) and a dreamy romantic (always have been), a</b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">nd itโs such a terrible combination that I donโt know how to tolerate myself."</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2020</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: 285</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: april 21 to may 11, 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 16 in 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50027029-you-deserve-each-other" target="_blank">SYNOPSIS</a></b><br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THOUGHTS</span></b><br />i forgot i read this book. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i was dreading writing the next review but i gotta do it so i log into goodreads and boom.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway. uh - i liked this book. it was just maybe uhm read at the wrong time. it wasn't a fave of mine but it wasn't bad. It's actually pretty funny in lots of places.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i appreciate that Nick stuck around with Naomi throughout everything even though she was annoying as fuck. its explained and understandable. i think i was just over it because it was made bigger than it should have been? idk. is this book like about borderline depression or something? did i read this wrong? im not saying that her feelings werent valid...i think i would have just liked to have known where how or why they started falling apart? Did I miss the how and when of when it happened? I can't really remember. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(<b>In no way am I saying that depression is not a serious thing! </b>what I'm doing a horrible job at trying to say is that I don't understand how they got to where they got and so she was kinda grinding my gears because she would never speak up. But honestly maybe we were never sposed to read that part? - the how they got there part.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i know she was feeling like shit because of work and school and stuff which valid because hello am I there in this point of my life.... but her and nick were always golden right? so why did they stop? where? how?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">why was nick all "why arent you on my side about my mom!" once we're in the book but what about before? i think he mentions it but idk? Bro like if you needed help tag teaming your mom why didn't you let Naomi in? (bahahaha)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i didn't hate it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i think having Nicks POV would have been icing on the cake tho. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">overall, this one is a thinker (it was for me) and maybe it goes deep in different levels for different people. Honestly, maybe I read this wrong? or read it at the wrong time? Idk. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">life right now is a mess. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I know I always say ill re-read a book and then never do but if the audio exists i would like to. I think maybe I'd grab more the second time around? Idk.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">File this one under idk. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpebE19e8HZd-YUUOndfO66-tW1GsafUCqzCm7T5GlFpBX5KOrMJdHkVhpznuhnDIUDp4CZZxGNrgUsHclnNlspJFylM2H95MnO8pnKWqgJntBx_jS1aD_btLdvLKn4LFI-IrL-24My15f_kXdkL--vkkMpjg5qu_RDBUBA3XybyOewSQxLCX1UiY0MQ/s500/20220116_134125.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpebE19e8HZd-YUUOndfO66-tW1GsafUCqzCm7T5GlFpBX5KOrMJdHkVhpznuhnDIUDp4CZZxGNrgUsHclnNlspJFylM2H95MnO8pnKWqgJntBx_jS1aD_btLdvLKn4LFI-IrL-24My15f_kXdkL--vkkMpjg5qu_RDBUBA3XybyOewSQxLCX1UiY0MQ/w400-h108/20220116_134125.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oof it's been a while so <strike>sorry</strike> thanks for understanding. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Naomi and nick date, get engaged and then realize maybe they're not the one so now she's tryina get him to dump her because she can't afford to be stuck with the wedding bill.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They live in a town so small, Naomi just lost her job and Nick is tethered to a low paying position (I think) bc Naomi refused to let them move to another city. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Idk.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They fight, argue, nick buys Leon's (I think thats his name but in case it ain't he's Naomi's old coworker) old house in the woods, he buys a canoe, an suv type of car, and Naomi gets mad and buys Leon's old clunker of a car even though it's stick shift and she cant drive it only to leave it dumped in the streets on her way to dinner with Nick and his parents. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the end i forget what happens, they make up and eventually tell nicks mom to eat a dick.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But Naomi's thing is that she's I guess you can say freaking/stressing out about life in general like no job, no college degree, the love of your life isn't who you thought he was.....and all in all I think she's kinds lost in herself which in turn led to her not letting nick in. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shitty breakdown but you know they all end the same. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">If I ever reread, I'll update then.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-47981666319336957162022-06-22T18:15:00.001-07:002022-06-22T18:15:30.275-07:00'21: a slow fire burning // paula hawkins<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKiazfusB48rJFBK1v8zxGhaVZ7oh8dcHkIauRDzkX8OUPyNBTWVOAfSGszekB1iHsBuzHlRcTUoQdNXJDIOwae2DnzgiidhAGynaqYoN6VhcOmw3DpIfHoQiuRsvHirHRWpJcOb69LWwVi4lMARw9GWg6h7rGE3GBbrik0Rjxh_S-cB4crMpD_Temg/s1063/20220622_180227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="953" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKiazfusB48rJFBK1v8zxGhaVZ7oh8dcHkIauRDzkX8OUPyNBTWVOAfSGszekB1iHsBuzHlRcTUoQdNXJDIOwae2DnzgiidhAGynaqYoN6VhcOmw3DpIfHoQiuRsvHirHRWpJcOb69LWwVi4lMARw9GWg6h7rGE3GBbrik0Rjxh_S-cB4crMpD_Temg/w383-h427/20220622_180227.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"why must people take what does not belong to them? why must they take what's hers and ruin it?" </span></div><br />pub</b>: 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">306</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read/heard</b>: 11/2-8/2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 31 in 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56213354-a-slow-fire-burning?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=L4pQv72Tub&rank=1" target="_blank">SYNOPSYS</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ooooh this one was a doozy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This one was just like her <b><a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2019/10/into-water-paula-hawkins.html" target="_blank">second book</a></b> only just not as titillating (I just googled what that word means to make sure and lol. I don't mean it in the literal sense but the word just fits. ๐ )</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">....anyway, this one was good. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Until I looked up spoilers and I think it both deflated me but somehow pumped me up to continue reading. I think it deflated me because the spoiler is simple. Who is the killer? But the story packs so. much. more. so I was like okay wtf u mean das it?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">essentially it's the same as her second book: murder, find the killer but every character had issues so there was a lot more and of course they're all connected...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think knowing helped me because I was paying attention to the story and I was trying to see where I could see clues. But I think knowing also wasn't a goo</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">d idea because after finding out the killer I was like eh. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">-----</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this is part of the cleaning house series (me finally posting all my shit no matter what it looks like) so thats all there is but jump over for spoilers! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">thanks for accepting any and all of my typos and knowing what i meant. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i <3 u!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgn-MNVXHTeYgLyhXZgU8fn0yG5ne6HQt7a1jeeqbZpuXddjQjS5qV63E3ltQ5Njm1P8Cixdwz4405_bztFHZk4jwhp4_9YUTwlDxIdjB0TcNtm7aUmrAzbf4R7-jTfGsulZwM7eHj4s848sH64PNOKii1tlKdRGvtgGCpp_2A9PwrQ7xLcyCgGYU2dA/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgn-MNVXHTeYgLyhXZgU8fn0yG5ne6HQt7a1jeeqbZpuXddjQjS5qV63E3ltQ5Njm1P8Cixdwz4405_bztFHZk4jwhp4_9YUTwlDxIdjB0TcNtm7aUmrAzbf4R7-jTfGsulZwM7eHj4s848sH64PNOKii1tlKdRGvtgGCpp_2A9PwrQ7xLcyCgGYU2dA/w438-h118/leeee.png" width="438" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">okay so since every character has some shit going on, ill just do it by names and see if i can connect it somehow. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">the main spoiler of this entire story would be that the young man that was found murdered was <b>Daniel</b>. the murderer was his aunt, <b>Carla</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>DANIEL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">he was killed by carla because she found a notebook in which he had drawn himself killing Ben by placing a little car by the balcony and pushing it just enough that it would fall over causing ben to go after it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">as soon as carla saw that, she saw red. she was just going to talk to him but she killed him instead. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>MIRIAM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">M was abducted along with her friend Lillian when they were teens. she made it out, L did not. supposedly the dude who held her hostage killed himself and they pronounced him dead and that was it. but she knew better. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she wrote down her story, gave it to Theo to read because she respected him. he took her story, stole and turned it into a world wide best seller so of course she has hated him since. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the night that Daniel was killed, she saw both Laura & Carla on his boat. she thought that Laura had done it but she was trying to frame Carla to make Theo pay for what he did. (she found Daniel the morning after he was killed. she called the cops. but not before taking laura's key that she had found on his floor covered in his blood)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">throughout the story we get flashbacks or i guess glimpses into miriam's real life story, i think Theo's version (i dont think it was her version. tbh, i dont remember even paying attention to that detail. yikes!). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she has tried to sue Theo but has gotten nowhere since she has no money. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">after Carla is caught (at the end of the story) Theo comes to Miriam's boat and tells her to leave him alone. she says she has no idea what he's talking about, he shows her the letters, she denies it and it turns out that Henry Carter, the dude writing to Theo, is actually the dude who abducted M & L all those years ago. he was mad at Theo for telling his story and making him look like a bitch. lol. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, M tells Theo to get him down here and to cut the shit, Miriam ends up killing him im sure because the next day, he dead.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">thats it for her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oh yeah. this stupid bitch stole Theo's dog and decided to kill it by slitting its throat. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">fuck her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>LAURA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">L was in a really fucked up car accident as a kid. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">turns out, she was coming home on her bike when her mom's lover ran her over basically fucking her whole life up. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the mom knew it was him and she covered for him. she told him to leave and told the cops she didnt know. he was later caught on tape and interviewed about it and basically outs himself when he asked "how is she doing?". the cops had never told him the sex of the kid in the accident. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the mom ended up leaving laura and her father for the same man that almost killed her daughter and to this day she still idolizes her mom even though she's a p.o.s. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">her dad is another cunt. well, not him but his new wife. she's a mega bitch. hes an asshole for not defending his daugther. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">because of the accident, laura has some developmental issues. she has a limp and is hypersexual (i think that was the word but dont quote me, i could be 100% wrong) she's just fucking down on her luck this entire book. paula was like here is all the shit in the world, lets leave it here with Laura and man. one thing after another. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she's at the bar that night. she meets daniel, they go back to his boat, they hook up and he insults her by telling her that he didn't think "gimp fucking" was his thing. this angers her and they fight, she leaves. she did leave her keys at his place. but honestly, that's just paula being paula because this was all wrong place, wrong time. (lol. i know its a story. let me be in my feels)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, poor girl gets arrested and is almost tried til Theo decides to be Theo. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end, she's obvs not guilty and she ends up finally having a family/situation/deal/combo/home thing going on with Irene; she finally get's a family, a place to belong. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>IRENE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Irene was Angela's neighbor and bff. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she likes to stop eating and shit so she can hallucinate and see her husband (her rip'd 6 years ago). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the night (day?) she met Laura she had locked herself out of her house, Laura came along and knocked on Angela's door thinking that was Irene's house and ended up actually finding Angela's body. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">laura ends up being Irene's errand girl basically.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end, its irene that pieces it together and tells carla to get her shit together and take responsibility for what she did before letting Theo throw his life away for her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the whole entire time we are led to believe that old people are useless and boom. look at her!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ANGELA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A is Carla's sister, Daniel's mom.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she dies a few weeks before her son due to a fall on her staircase. that was just her being an alcoholic. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Daniel has some sort of issues, its never really stated but Angela & Theo both know that he like to draw his aunt (Carla) in all sorts of undress. Carla actually caught him one night sketching her naked while she was passed the fuck out.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, not to sound fucked up but other than being the scapegoat for the death of Theo & Carla's kid, well, thats it really. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CARLA & THEO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Carla had a conference for work that she was really looking forward to going to without Theo or Ben. Theo went anyway and they left Ben with Angela because leaving him with Theo's parents would require too much work. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">they go away. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">they get notified that ben had an accident and of course they blame each other so they divorce. <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">but honestly, what is the meaning of paper because they both still clapping cheeks. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(exhales. im over it!) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, they book Laura but they find a knife that belongs to Theo (that was in fact the weapon) and he decides fuck it i love carla so much ill take the blame and he does but Irene punks carla into speaking the truth and wadayaknow, were at the end! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">finally!</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-75610596279944844042022-06-22T18:00:00.002-07:002022-06-22T18:00:42.624-07:00'21: the road trip // beth o'leary<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6bsv2KSJxVhzzBrOap6O3tAjTCCyYb7L57EJ7KUVMl5wXQ8tqMzqtRrWXfzZ1lPhZOs4SmlY9jv-wkoxh8D6VgdPFAbE4pqeN7uNL56q8Gg4YWVIQvCnNqwr7mUJPYwuBopY1Oa7Ah82ZhKrzUilAWHVvXvVLr8CoxL4H2FcT9eaR8613M3vjPIQViA/s1121/20220622_174838.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="958" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6bsv2KSJxVhzzBrOap6O3tAjTCCyYb7L57EJ7KUVMl5wXQ8tqMzqtRrWXfzZ1lPhZOs4SmlY9jv-wkoxh8D6VgdPFAbE4pqeN7uNL56q8Gg4YWVIQvCnNqwr7mUJPYwuBopY1Oa7Ah82ZhKrzUilAWHVvXvVLr8CoxL4H2FcT9eaR8613M3vjPIQViA/w371-h435/20220622_174838.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"not speaking to you was never about punishing you. it actually wasnt about you at all. i needed the space." </span></b></div><br /><b>pub</b>: 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 381</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: 7/8-12/2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 24 in 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51405046-the-road-trip"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></a></u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">OMG I LOVED THIS BOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and then it happened. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>trigger warnings: </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>-sexual assault</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>-alcohol abuse</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>-drug abuse</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>-probably a lot more that i am missing. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">okay, okay. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so i scored a skip the line ecopy from my library and i started it expecting not to really care for it because <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-flatshare-beth-oleary.html" target="_blank">i liked her first</a></b>, i cant recall her second right now, oh yeah, <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-switch-beth-oleary.html" target="_blank">grandma wanted dick</a></b> and so i just wasnt really expecting much from this one BUT OMG I LOVED IT! as soon as i started reading it i kept making annotations all over the ecopy thinking "well at least goodreads will have my notes." but who i am as a person didnt let myself. i wanted an actual copy then and there not once I was done like I usually do.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so i got my copy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and i love the way it looks now that its over. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(i need to go back and add all the annotations I'd made before i got the book). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway!, this one started so goood!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">it was highlarious!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">we go back and forth between how they all met (Dylan, Marcus & Addie) in the past and how now they're all stuck going to Cherry's wedding (all of them plus Deb (Ads sis) & Rodney (C's coworker). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and it was all very full circle because it starts light and fluffy but then we start going back and we start seeing where it goes wrong and then ๐ฅ! the past collides with the present and the truth comes out and ahh!!! and the story just, to me, so very neatly wrapped itself full circle. we get from A-Z in a woven pattern that I wasnt really paying attention as it was being laid out for me, lol but that I truly in the end did end up appreciating.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">....so it starts light but it ends up being pretty heavy-ish.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AND it plays the usual trope that i fucking hate. The one where, had they juuuuust communicated, maybe a lot of things could've been avoided. of course not, rarely that easy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">BUT! all the other stuff in between was so goood that I can't help but love this entire story. I found myself laughing a lot and thinking how can this entire lot get into this much shit!๐ and OMG! THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE BEST BOOK OF ALL THAT O'LEARY'S EVER WRITTEN! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I guess what bothers me is that it starts so light and we get a tiny hint but I didn't see it. and in the end I feel like all the characters had a lot more depth to them, which great! But I feel like others left a little bit too much of an open window.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">mostly Addie & Marcus.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A because i feel like she was written to go on this amazing transformational discovery/ self journey and then she proceeds to doubt it almost the entire book. is that an effect to what happened? had what happened not happened would her attitude be different? Bc Dylan doubted himself the entire book but I'm not left wondering how his life is going after the book ended. Ya know what I'm saying?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and Marcus.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oooof. After it was all said and done, I believe he got off a bit easy. I hate that it was "justified" that he didn't see it because they'd turned a corner. no. I also don't think it was love. definitely an infatuation. simply over the fact that Dylan had what he never had a chance of getting in the first place; Addie. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think thats what it was. In the end, these 2 have heavy plots in the story and I feel like they weren't adequately resolved in the end. the ending would have been fine if the journey wouldn't have been so heavy. vice versa. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I still really do like this story and I'm so glad that I read it. I'm even more glad that I bought my own copy. And I reaaaaallllly do hope I get to re read this one sometime in the near future because I did have a good time. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I guess what I'm tryina say is that my own personal views ain't stopping me from loving this one at all so I guess that's a good thing, no?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ahh!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJ1jXMP1hxlxlCaTsnbD-kbLNaK8jGKenI7exjKlLxmhl5n88aYfaYBLBU5sNQUCz2VVvDQAXndjMwbYTT-QkcH9W0E6BFQOh2NGjvNlii6C0m0uQ9j9PnYAgfknPsFDWAET3Q01IM2e-WcnLAHuCWy8qQovHILyF2C4CaQG0vlsF0TjyA_FUi2BCiA/s500/leeee.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJ1jXMP1hxlxlCaTsnbD-kbLNaK8jGKenI7exjKlLxmhl5n88aYfaYBLBU5sNQUCz2VVvDQAXndjMwbYTT-QkcH9W0E6BFQOh2NGjvNlii6C0m0uQ9j9PnYAgfknPsFDWAET3Q01IM2e-WcnLAHuCWy8qQovHILyF2C4CaQG0vlsF0TjyA_FUi2BCiA/w438-h118/leeee.png" width="438" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>S P O I L E R S </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">lmao. i didnt do them on time so there are none because i kinda remember but not enough to attempt to try. however i did like this book so i might reread and do a proper one there. sorry! but if ya got questions, ask. i might now. (i wont. but maybe if you jog my memory a bit?) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><3</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-14625407839340131962022-06-22T17:47:00.003-07:002022-06-22T17:47:52.671-07:00'20: a very punchable face // colin jost<div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjb2Z8pqZgnlzZyIgw-7Zukq8l_tZXgykKVF_N_x0m86apIpLH5Y-SEpV0jrQp8r4ZtUB6dRX5scJeakp5gbWin6qdRGlONVHpZ44EuZsWzGskE1DNU9UNIid0kL-2JgUf53G11Xu2XwG1v21FMfMqGgsP4Pqps64Xb1eY9munxy6PyShnuy4DCsXkTw/s2002/20220622_171958.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2002" data-original-width="1816" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjb2Z8pqZgnlzZyIgw-7Zukq8l_tZXgykKVF_N_x0m86apIpLH5Y-SEpV0jrQp8r4ZtUB6dRX5scJeakp5gbWin6qdRGlONVHpZ44EuZsWzGskE1DNU9UNIid0kL-2JgUf53G11Xu2XwG1v21FMfMqGgsP4Pqps64Xb1eY9munxy6PyShnuy4DCsXkTw/w395-h458/20220622_171958.jpg" width="395" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"as someone who was bullied growing up, I realized that it's way easier to play into the bullying rather than fight it. If you're better at making fun of yourself than a bully is, then a bully has no room to operate."</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>published</b>: 2020</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 317</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read/heard</b>: </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">11/22-25/2020</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 93 in 2020 (WTF!!!!!)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"You need to say what you're thinking a lot more and not be afraid of being judged or being inarticulate or offensive or even boring."</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48989372-a-very-punchable-face?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=qF54TCTKGY&rank=1" target="_blank">SYNOPSIS</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I LOVE audiobooks but hate the idea of owning them. because realistically, I know who I am and I know im not going to listen to them ever again (example: <a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2020/12/anxious-people-fredrik-backman.html" target="_blank">anxious people</a>. liked it, doubt I'll reread/relisten to it.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">which is odd because when it comes to TV, I am in a season in my life where I like what I like and its SUPER rare that I watch something new. so if I like something, I watch it once and then listen to it several times.....which is why I can kinda quote you Friday After Next pretty fucking good. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">why is it that the idea of owning the audio of a book รP but the idea of owning a copy of a movie that i can listen to over and over and over is รท> ?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm not sure. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">maybe I just haven't found THEE audiobook that makes me ๐๐๐.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, ladies and germs, I think i just found <b>THE ONE</b>!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I want to own this audiobook and listen to it over and over again so much that I can give you counts about this book in regards to the many times he shits his pants to the many girlfriends whose names he actually uses (im using this as an example cus he says he has no game but I mean, look who he's married to!!!!) to just about A N Y T H I N G. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I want to listen to it so much t</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">hat I can recite or reference you any chapter with ease, without thinking about it. just like if I was giving you directions to the local *insert your store here*.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I LOVED THIS (AUDIO) BOOK!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm hoping to buy an actual copy AND the audio version. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">and just listen along over and over until I can't no more. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">(my brother kindly gifted me a copy and im working my way up to the audio lol) </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">....which is weird because I don't really care about SNL. like I used to watch it but it wasn't anything that I'd stay up for or make sure i was seated to see. but the reason I picked it up was because <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/brees.reads/" target="_blank">Bree</a></b> kept talking about how good it was so I put both audio and ebook on hold and on and behold they both kicked in at the same time. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I decided to jump in expecting nothing, was pleasantly surprised and ended up loving it. Im so glad I read/heard this!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I thought this book was pretty funny. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved the chapters: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">-why I love my mom. spoiler: it involves 911 and I cried.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">-oops, I fell asleep in a graveyard: because it involves sleep and....of course. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">-okay, so maybe i've shit my pants a couple of times: besides the fact that it was funny, ill never tell you why. Lol</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">-the chapter about alcohol and drugs: lmaoooo. especially the story about edibles towards the end. GO PARENTS. Lmaooooo</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">-the time I fought in WrestleMania: just the adrenaline he was going thru made me happy for him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">-eggs in my leg: I didn't necessarily <i>love</i> it but it was kinda lol and if nothing else, pretty informative.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway. I could keep going on forever on why I really liked this read but I didn't really annotate anything and well, I dont wana bore ya, so ill leave ya here. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">no spoilers cus what would I spoil? ....but maybe when I reread it ill do a spoiler of each chapter where I just talk about what they're about and then yea. Lol.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">go pick it up!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Scarlett Johansson, you are a lucky woman!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSiCOzNIFmP39n3-8bQeuIh-Co7_DP2963WlCGmI0VUpsWxWKpOF8lAgfNh7RznI6qsA1zMpx0Asve7MgzyR0VIJbNyc9nVaKJWr9fscCi_FvHQ6JJ99fSY-G7y5wDV32nzF09lAPgC9bU6vXwKkk8uNgwiLZlmy5xR3GScKmxkdgHH6BrpQbuD3iYIA/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSiCOzNIFmP39n3-8bQeuIh-Co7_DP2963WlCGmI0VUpsWxWKpOF8lAgfNh7RznI6qsA1zMpx0Asve7MgzyR0VIJbNyc9nVaKJWr9fscCi_FvHQ6JJ99fSY-G7y5wDV32nzF09lAPgC9bU6vXwKkk8uNgwiLZlmy5xR3GScKmxkdgHH6BrpQbuD3iYIA/w460-h124/leeee.png" width="460" /></a></div></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-33820339668407425902022-06-22T17:41:00.002-07:002022-06-22T17:41:59.026-07:00*21: not a happy family // shari lapena<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzo8Mj_P-IeWBfKTjM_hpNjGWVPi4Fz4k9YDKtYCA8jS6ZxIQ6jurG5ndgyZoD3A_gVAC1y5JDgiXEbKTuGfzOOBulfsokJlV0nhjRjg4QyFiowcpE8GUO-WIE23X_Ov5s63pYfsGaseNF9r3XEDWBvi0k9b31PQj95ZP7PNovqgvDJfIO4sdSiKvNQ/s1101/20220622_172342.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="950" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzo8Mj_P-IeWBfKTjM_hpNjGWVPi4Fz4k9YDKtYCA8jS6ZxIQ6jurG5ndgyZoD3A_gVAC1y5JDgiXEbKTuGfzOOBulfsokJlV0nhjRjg4QyFiowcpE8GUO-WIE23X_Ov5s63pYfsGaseNF9r3XEDWBvi0k9b31PQj95ZP7PNovqgvDJfIO4sdSiKvNQ/w381-h442/20220622_172342.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"they pretend they tell each other everything. but its not true. nobody tells anybody everything."</span></b></div><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 349</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: 8/7-14/2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 27 in 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/479487ea-f5c8-4fb0-8535-9050ab96d8bb" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSYS</span></a></u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ahhh!<br />shari KNOWS how to take you on a ride doesn't she?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">at the rate im going, this probably wont see the light of say until the end of the year if im lucky? next, if im honest? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, ill make this quick.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">yes this one fucked me up. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the ride was !!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i GENUINELY had no idea who the killer was. i had SO MANY theories and NONE revolved around the killer. well, 1 did but it was...not anywhere near what i was thinking lol. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">overall, i did like the story but in the end, not even that epilogue could make me love this story as much as i have loved all <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/search?q=shari+lapena" target="_blank">her others</a></b>. Shari is THE QUEEN, at least i think, at epilogues. no matter which way your mind wanders after she's done with the story, you still get your own good conclusion. i feel like the epilogue here is a final one. like <i>IF </i>it happens, you know whats gon' happen. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">not only that but, and this maybe a bit spoilery, i have seen this ending already once before. and for me personally, <b><a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-kind-worth-killing-peter-swanson.html" target="_blank">that one was done better</a></b>. idunno. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">also, i feel like for as hard as Reyes was like tryina ride this cases' ass, when he finally hits the jackpot, he just says fuck it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one feels a little lazy? i love Shari but this is probably my 2nd least fave books of hers. its not bad, it just isn't a fave of mine like others have been. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">------</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">im cleaning house so thats where the goodies end. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">it has been almost a year since i read this book but i still stand by it being my second least favorite. it just felt idk. this one wasnt for me but its not at all bad ive just seen it already before. if i remove that from the equation i still dont know how i would feel? eh, anyway.... </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, i didnt do spoilers because im me but i did attach some notes so ill include those after. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">thanks for sticking around!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">uhm - yeah. lol. useful-ish.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">but the gist is that the killer is uhm Jenna. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and she does get away with it BUT the reason that she will get caught is because the land where she buried the evidence has just gone up for sale and its being bought by the woman or man or idk that was trying to catch her in the first place. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">that or they live next door to the land being sold where the evidence is in or idk but its something like that and therefore....... but if the sale goes thru, she gets caught. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">obvs there were other things but this is all i remember. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">im a mess. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">love you</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">xo!<br />-les</span></div></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-45138679164139295972022-06-22T17:05:00.001-07:002022-06-22T17:05:27.799-07:00'18: the wedding date // Jasmine Guillory <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">cute, quick-ish read. definitely for those who LOVE love stories! </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">they shut down because idk why and while i was only able to use them once (because i refuse to read the book i got from them) it still sucks cause i was hoping to eventually get to it and in turn get more free books.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, they introduced me to another site that i wont bother mentioning because YOU HAVE TO JUMP ON 1 LEG FOR 3 HOURS WHILE YOU STAND ON YOUR HAND to download a freaking book! (U G H !!!!) and basically its a mess BUT i did read an excerpt of this book there and i was HOOKED RIGHT AWAY!!!!</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">so i checked this book out at the library, considered buying it for my nook (glad i didn't) and then i just sucked it up and waited. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">and then i get it and i was like OMG I LOVE THIS!!!!!....and then i was over it. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">but let me tell you why...</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">I LOVED this story. it was super cute and i loved it because I'm a sucker for love stories. especially those that end good but for a good portion of this, all it is or was, was the miscommunication. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">like they both wanted the same thing but they wouldn't talk about it. they just decided that they knew better and messed it up for each other. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">and while, that's real life, its not (to me) worth a 300 page fight. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">and the thing with her sister: i think it was obviously all on her because her sister didn't really seemed bothered by it. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">and the Drew break up story: its blown way out of proportion. maybe the day he chose was messed up but other than that, kudos to him in my opinion. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, if you come across this and want something cheesy with lots of lovey feelings, i definitely recommend this book!</span></div>
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(i felt myself jinxing myself). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">anyway its 6/22/2022 (WTF! 4 years ago lol *laugh nervously*), <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/search?q=jasmine+guillory" target="_blank">ive read several other Guillory books</a></b>, as a matter of fact all but the last of this series and i refuse to read any others by her. simply bc i cannot stand fucking series books. i hate the waiting. maybe in the future iduno, but i wasnt a fan of the rest of this series because really .... so idk. but yeah. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i gave this a quick once over. im just out here tryina clean house so sorry for any and all typos. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">thx 4 rdn. </div>luv yaH!<br />-les</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 15.4px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(its even got my old signature! *tear*) </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 15.4px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 15.4px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alexa is in town meeting with her sister because she got promoted at work (and was she across town? because Alexa lives around the area, so why didn't she stay at her house?) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">once they get the elevator back up and running, just as she's beating herself up for not making a move, he turns around and asks her to be his date for the wedding. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">after the wedding they go back and forth visiting each other (he is a doctor in Santa Monica) even after they had agreed that it was just a "i need you for the wedding thing". </span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">___________</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px; 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font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">its 2022. </span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">please do not expect me to know anything past whatever i wrote above. </span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">sorry!</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">but if ya want a quickie, all stories are basically the same. </span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">they all meet, deny it, fall, fuck, fuck it up and then end up together. </span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">except i still think that <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-wedding-party-jasmine-guillory.html">Maddie & Theo's relationship was borderline abusive</a></b>. and <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2020/02/royal-holiday-jasmine-guillory.html" target="_blank">the plot with the mom was annoying</a></b>. </span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">anyway, yeah. </span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">have a(n) (insert your own adjective here) day!</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">love yah!</span></span></div></div></div>
Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-73540414494573931972022-06-22T13:36:00.003-07:002022-06-22T13:36:33.142-07:00'20: the unraveling of cassidy holmes // elissa r. sloan<div style="text-align: left;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ai2-rktv4NGUAdYDvaySPjyrRCABgdIE-l47KsFosDIcgI0eU9B5-p55A2GMzsUIGFRJC0HEMlStM_nzSjh0CebYVMrGApB9n6EZGfcpo8WefoMW9Z_DhoKP3Y0V5sP5anzxzi4Ryp7VP7ftEws3Q0jCG7caVTtiN9oa-vDzW0r5FFxfoQWNEtmxyQ/s1816/20220622_132359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1784" data-original-width="1816" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ai2-rktv4NGUAdYDvaySPjyrRCABgdIE-l47KsFosDIcgI0eU9B5-p55A2GMzsUIGFRJC0HEMlStM_nzSjh0CebYVMrGApB9n6EZGfcpo8WefoMW9Z_DhoKP3Y0V5sP5anzxzi4Ryp7VP7ftEws3Q0jCG7caVTtiN9oa-vDzW0r5FFxfoQWNEtmxyQ/w400-h393/20220622_132359.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"i dont think i can be your friend anymore.... i cant fight for a part of your life when there are so many other things going on, vying for your attention. it hurts me too much knowing that i am not a priority to you."</span> </b></div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>published</b>: 2020</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 419</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: 12/9-11/2020</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 97 in 2020</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52163643-the-unraveling-of-cassidy-holmes" target="_blank">SYNOPSIS</a></b> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>*i wrote this post back in 2020? i think? idk. still don't care for the book so much so that im too lazy to reread the spoilers so sorry for all of the typos that you might find from here on out.*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">first of all! the disrespect to compare this or say this is the other side of Daisy Jones. ugh. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I thought I had written the post already but I guess not so ill just be quick about it I guess. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At first, id say that I was like AHHHHH!!! who gives a fuck about this book but I guess now I can say meh, who gives a fuck about this book.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Idk. It was a lot. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like toooooo much going on. Literally everyone has drama going on in this story. There's not a single person mentioned who like had a nice dinner and then lived happily ever after. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rose was a bitch, Cassidy had underlying issues that were never addressed, poor Alex , Merry, well, ay Merry!...and also can we talk about Merrys daughter! That little bitch! I wanted to smack her. And Merry for allowing her to be such a little twat. And Yumi!, well, idk, I don't really have shit to say about Yumi. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Idk. I need to stop getting all these kinds of books from BOTM. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This one for sure is going into a little free library. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ima leave it here cus I just don't care. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hIGiKWu-_BeKtFScJmCQ3mywudSxumfcEmj33eU9-Q8JirIXISJkfUih82xSdtatZRWZIi-sCWxzwQicuirS9FfGiqOFyeCSdTd-ioo7rdkcAwTFALBUvG5Fms7j2JOmCwK9hqztBjOG3CI1e1ah7j3fXcFBCxIkQtEviNXgHjQSuB3iU_XhcB33qw/s500/leeee.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hIGiKWu-_BeKtFScJmCQ3mywudSxumfcEmj33eU9-Q8JirIXISJkfUih82xSdtatZRWZIi-sCWxzwQicuirS9FfGiqOFyeCSdTd-ioo7rdkcAwTFALBUvG5Fms7j2JOmCwK9hqztBjOG3CI1e1ah7j3fXcFBCxIkQtEviNXgHjQSuB3iU_XhcB33qw/w445-h120/leeee.png" width="445" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>S P O I L E R </b></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>S P O I L E R </b></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>S P O I L E R </b></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>S P O I L E R </b></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>S P O I L E R </b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>S P O I L E R </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oooh this one is a doozy! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">yes Cassidy does end up committing suicide. while there are a myriad of reasons its not really clear but ultimately, it was depression. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ill try to do this the best that I can. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>short version: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Alex gets in a car accident and can no longer walk due to the accident caused by the paps because of the rumor that he supposedly broke Cassidy's arm. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">it was Rose that sold that story to the paps about Alex breaking Cassi's arm even though it was Steven St James. i dont think she knew the real truth but the bitch did it for exposure and money. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Merry was raped by the director that directed their video for Prime which resulted in a pregnancy. she kept the child and never told the dude nor the public. she was free with her love so she was worried that people were going to tell her that she deserved it for being a "slut".</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she also was the one who burned the house down of the dude she was dating. it was an accident but because of the nature of the relationship with the dude and the fact that she had helped break up a marriage, they thought it was the ex wife looking to get revenge. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cass joins sing it and makes it to the top 3 when she was 17 but ultimately got second place to Steven St. James. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she goes back home, is bummed the fuck out, talks to a friend and that friends tells her to stop being stupid and make connections. so she calls the sing it agent but she tells her that at the moment, she cannot help her because how would it look to people if she lost but is still being rewarded and then other non winners will expecting the same thing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">fast forward i forget how long but she ends up getting a call to meet with the gloss girls; they are looking for a fourth since their fourth has fallen sick. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she meets with them, Yumi & Merry are okay with her and Rose is a total bitch. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">from here on out ill do it per person because its quicker and im over this book. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CASSI/ STEVEN ST. JAMES / ALEX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she 's friends with Alex and 2 other girls but you only really see her bonding with Alex. its when he surprises her in new york after a show that she realizes <i>juuuust</i>how crazy fans can be that she learns that Alex is moving to Pomona to go to school to be near her. and with that he ends up being her part time security guard until he has back to school. somewhere in there they end up dating and end up being boyfriend and girlfriend. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">all in all Cassi ends up being a bitch to him the whole way through. ever since sing it she's had a crush on Steven St. James, he made a move on her on an award show so of course Alex has every right to be upset. not only that but she had a camera that in it had pictures of her dancing all over St James that she then gives to Alex so he can develop and thats how he learns of the after party. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oscar season comes around and St James asks her to go with him to the show because he considers him her lucky charm and she talks to alex about it but since he is upset she overreacts and tells St James yes. Alex hangs up on her and doesnt see her until the day of. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">he shows up to her house and talks to her and he tells her that he feels like he is not important to her and that she doesnt make any time for him and she tells him that she is trying to protect him and ultimately tells him that she might not have feelings for him. (OH! before this, those pictures of cassi with st james were sold to the paps. she thinks that it was alex and he swears up and down that it wasnt him but she doesnt believe him. ....it ended up being his roommate who sold the pics.) anyway, so she does that and then boom, St. James shows up. alex, deflated, ends up leaving and lets her know that he is walking away from her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the fucked up thing is that after he told her that he feels like she doesnt make time for him, she tells him that the timing is bad and that she needs to leave because someone else is waiting on her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so anyway, alex leaves, st james goes up to her and they end up kissing she tells him she needs a bit of time given everything and they get in the limo. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">at the awards, while waiting in the limo to get off, i forget what sets him off but St. James hits her and ends up breaking her arm. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she's all wtf, he tells the driver to take her to get patched up, she's all wtf and the driver straight up tells her that if she bad mouths st james she's fucked for life. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she goes to the hospital, gets fixed up, doesnt say shit, blah blah, she avoids him, everything is as good as can be and then alex is in an accident. a tabloid comes out that it was him that broke her arm and so now hes hated and he was at a store with his roommate when they are being chased by paparazzi that they get in a bad accident that ultimately costs alex his ability to ever walk again. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">rumor mills are all happy that it happened to him and cassi <b>never </b>disputed that it wasnt him. it wasnt until after his accident that she did anything but of course by then its too late. it was a close friend that released that information to the paps. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">at first, she thinks that it was whats her face...Lucy and then she thinks that it was Yumi. but then you learn that it was.....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the reason that Cassi ends up leaving the band is because she falls in love with Rose. yea bitchass Rose. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and Rose reciprocates. Rose was actually in a relationship with Viv, the 4th member who had to drop out, but they called it quits because she got leukemia and told Rose to go do her own thing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">BUT the thing is Rose doesnt want to take it further. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">after some other award show, they end up going home together and theyre about to hook up and cassi tries to push a relationship but rose tells her ultimately that no. she wont do that with her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">but what breaks the camels back is that Cassi learns that it was actually Rose that sold the story about Alex to the press. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she did it for more money and fame. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she is the reason Alex was so hated and why he now can no longer walk. </span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-5241594885067784772022-06-08T16:22:00.000-07:002022-06-08T16:22:31.293-07:00'22: ill be you // janelle brown<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3NKJiiwQyjT16qE-VNkbgfK9XZHH8kPY-WKQrBogk4Su9zhimo5iJAF2FULCoqznOIy1UHIuL-8ViSgEa6uxMDtbCRLxVF4QO_pvyfwSq-_p_QK9H6Z2eveay5ji-OtLuFxHMzX-nXrosqm8DEV-o3-UJ-9YmpoLUJc0aRHj8_ozPSe7hgJzNlSacFw/s992/20220607_164038.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="920" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3NKJiiwQyjT16qE-VNkbgfK9XZHH8kPY-WKQrBogk4Su9zhimo5iJAF2FULCoqznOIy1UHIuL-8ViSgEa6uxMDtbCRLxVF4QO_pvyfwSq-_p_QK9H6Z2eveay5ji-OtLuFxHMzX-nXrosqm8DEV-o3-UJ-9YmpoLUJc0aRHj8_ozPSe7hgJzNlSacFw/w410-h442/20220607_164038.jpg" width="410" /></a></div></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>:346</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: may 2-9, 2011</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 15 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58678420-i-ll-be-you" target="_blank">SYNOPSIS</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">well it ends stupid because how else could it. but theres something in between the words for me. i love the way you get to see the OTHER side of the story. here we are being like "damn sam." and elli is like "lol. hold my beer." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">bitch don't even drink beer. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">loolololololol</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i think what i loved the most was the 2 sides to this story; first sam then elli then part 3. i loooooove, love, looooved seeing the other side of the glass. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">it was fascinating to me to see how sam felt like her actions affected elli and then we see how elli feels like her actions affected sam. <i>and</i> how sam was all "sam i am and my mom sucks!" and then her mom in the end is all "bitch. i knew" or idk. idk. whatever that was. </span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">listen im not saying that its the greatest thing ever because these two tricks do some of the dumbest shit ever and get away with it smoother than butta on pancakes but if you ignore the ending, i kinda dig the story. i would have loved like a horror version of this? okay not horror but like if stephen king would pick this book up and stephen king-afy it without giving me lifelong nightmares then id read it. in another universe i feel like this had the potential to be a little bit darker and it could've been amazing! </span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, LOL! i had been doing so good with previous reads and like getting the big thing before it was revealed and this one was laid out soooo cleanly and boom. i missed it. bahhahaha. did you see the thing? with the 3 addresses?! (oooh i love how both spoilery and non spoilery that is!). and then what happens with the second address! ahh! it makes sense now!!! and well, the third...lol</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">THIS WAS AN AWESOME READ!!!!!! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">er, listen to!</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one was definitely all about the journey even though i did want to quit half way because once it ends you're like really? but overall, im glad i stuck this one out. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2019/03/watch-me-disappear-janelle-brown.html" target="_blank">i think i might have new appreciation for Brown.</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i wish i would have taken more detailed notes. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this story ends a mess but it has lots of good in there. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">fuck it, this book is brought to you by the word juxtaposition.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">ahhh!!!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibElhkrCiNFpkY_MVfcID0d0BAXZt4Lfe3fbI9vpmcMNVbBBRpGqQB5S5UJb3rNorRLubNxiw9vkV8gU599kzcKXyxSFblu10fosBggyWVlC8BSuyU0px-fdoghWyuS7P-PJFktkyG5gA2x_vCGKBU0QfDgGW582c_O5AVOscsAsSYTzsygZZTiavfg/s1113/20220608_105244.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="1080" height="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibElhkrCiNFpkY_MVfcID0d0BAXZt4Lfe3fbI9vpmcMNVbBBRpGqQB5S5UJb3rNorRLubNxiw9vkV8gU599kzcKXyxSFblu10fosBggyWVlC8BSuyU0px-fdoghWyuS7P-PJFktkyG5gA2x_vCGKBU0QfDgGW582c_O5AVOscsAsSYTzsygZZTiavfg/w520-h535/20220608_105244.jpg" width="520" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84MvfRiX0nhDydW95i4JSJZT6HPFhnFvPpbW4iOd53BYyRLbg-awMxc5R7va9CXYlQU-6hwC-1fp0FLJAmewwExNylbW1RT6k3p_1zi6Na9H6diMqIvvmWIOgsKy6fKDpnHV6PinpZzh13IzuWD0JAM8Df3vwh7BH3nOg02W5Zzqioq_6_K6dFjxgIA/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84MvfRiX0nhDydW95i4JSJZT6HPFhnFvPpbW4iOd53BYyRLbg-awMxc5R7va9CXYlQU-6hwC-1fp0FLJAmewwExNylbW1RT6k3p_1zi6Na9H6diMqIvvmWIOgsKy6fKDpnHV6PinpZzh13IzuWD0JAM8Df3vwh7BH3nOg02W5Zzqioq_6_K6dFjxgIA/w374-h101/leeee.png" width="374" /></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sam and elli, twins, were nickelodeon stars and even tho Sam loved it elli hated every second of it. she wished to live more of a normal life. Sam became a party girl.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Part 1 is told thru Sam and she talks about how they blew up and how her life went to shit. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's been a year and she hasn't talked to Elli</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">part 2 is told thru elli and then we learn about the rest of the puzzle pieces and how they fit together. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">in pt 1 Sam goes back home to help their mother with ellis kid since she's been gone at a women's retreat for a while. Sam starts asking, she finds out that Elli is in </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">GenFem</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">em and so she starts to look for her. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blah blah blah</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sam finds 3 addresses at ellis house and decides to go loook for her sister at all 3 of the addresses (2 in CA and 1 in AZ) but it turns out they were just "regular" addresses. Sam leaves a note at house 2 but they call her back hysterical asking her to leave them alone. (once elli's part comes around it makes sense why they called her hysterically telling sam to leave them alone - it was supposed to be a closed adoption).</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway -</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It turns out elli had wanted to get pregnant but couldn't, she told Sam and Sam instead of being like oh shit me too then, sam decides to tell her sister that she's actually sold her eggs on the shady market where they looked past her addiction. Elli gets mad, sam ends up at a bar, goes back home drunk af and tries to sleep with Ellis husband thinking "this is how ill give my sister a baby!"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">elli kicks her out and they don't talk. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">GenFem</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">is like a women's "power movement". They're a cult. They brainwash Elli into thinking they're there for her and they basically convince her to tell Chuck, her husband, that's its her way or the highway; that foo is in Japan. ๐</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, GenFem basically pushes elli to "invest" all of her money in to GenFem, throw her life away and kidnap a kid. Yep, ellis daughter isn't hers. Charlotte is actually Sam's "daughter".</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">*REWIND* </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">the list with 3 addresses that Sam found were the addresses of the donor recipients. some crazy bitch at </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">GenFem </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">convinces elli that in order for her to get over the baby drama sense in a way she needs to go have a look see at all the kids herself. no luck house 1, house 2 they get caught by a teen and in house 3 they see Emma Gonzalez which they then kidnap when grama gets the shits (im not kidding!) and goes to the bathroom leaving her in the yard alone. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">the whole point of </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">GenFem</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is to get women to commit crimes and then write out confessions of these crimes under the guise that they will feel better once they express their feelings about taking back what's theirs. Dr. Cindy, the one that runs the whole thing, tells them that they need to write their feels to feel better and that they will then have a burning ceremony once they turn in the cards (they also need to do this in order to move to level 8 so everyone in this facility where Sam breaks in to save Elli has committed a crime) except they never ever burn the cards. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, in the end elli is aware that she is in a cult and we are made to think that sam was the one "manipulating" everything but elli actually had lots of game too. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">they manage to leave the cult facility simply by walking out (because Dr. Cindy was so sure she had her in the palm of her hands). while sam was pretending to be elli, elli went to pack and steal Dr. Cindys laptop along with all of the folders of the women who were there. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">they end up driving to Arizona to return Emma (who went by Charlotte) which sam does by sneaking thru the back, knocking on the door, running away and never getting caught. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">and then yeah </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">they end up living together and for the most part sam is now basically taking over elli's flower shop....</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">.....and das sorta it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">of course i left a lot out but thats the gist of it!</span></div><div><br /></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-74946100937089080442022-06-04T10:07:00.004-07:002022-06-07T16:38:35.335-07:00'22: the summer seekers // sarah morgan<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMyuUH-nz1a26ux_usuNhBXomZlro1BmlhYua9ELSczC533JZvM1n7R-fQ-tkTkGi8ekhoiAeUyKmJPAp5yfLQIXjJyuCsLXpxo5qYCf-pVWR4xkelN1fNwn-KTJuZO31wExBOo3OVJ2vup8z1-PxnmXIDjbqr606YHctvNu0HVYRSSuTNhtPoIHk8pw/s1080/20220601_155747.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1080" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMyuUH-nz1a26ux_usuNhBXomZlro1BmlhYua9ELSczC533JZvM1n7R-fQ-tkTkGi8ekhoiAeUyKmJPAp5yfLQIXjJyuCsLXpxo5qYCf-pVWR4xkelN1fNwn-KTJuZO31wExBOo3OVJ2vup8z1-PxnmXIDjbqr606YHctvNu0HVYRSSuTNhtPoIHk8pw/w476-h474/20220601_155747.jpg" width="476" /></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"it had taken decades for her to understand that loneliness wasnt a lack of people in your life, but a lack of people who knew and understood you."</span></b> </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>pub</b>: 2021</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: 361</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: april 26-30, 2022 </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 14 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54620162-the-summer-seekers?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=FbIS9d3B0t&rank=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></a><br /></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THOUGHTS</span><br /></b>uh. i think i saw this one on IG. idk. but i put the audio on hold, it came in so i dove in. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i think im laggin on writing these because well, lazy but also, cus idk what to say. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i mean, i highlighted the shit out of this book (theoretically because this was a library book) but it wasn't like anything moving for me. especially now that a month has passed by since I heard it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">i can understand why homegirl wasnt close to her daughter. i can imagine that its hard to bond when its not something you wanted and then its harder because life. but i think the meh for me lies in the fact that homegirl made it suuuuuuuch a big deal that she left so that she could give xx and xx a chance to (removed bc could be spoilery).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">once you get to the end its like okay i get it. makes sense but you want TOO much credit for like doing the bare minimum. or not even that. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">its more so that it felt like, to me, that she wanted to be acknowledged up the butt, to her death, for what she did when she did what she did. well, i mean, you either put up with it or you walk away. especially when nothing else is tethering yall together (kinda hard to get detailed cus spoilers). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, and then the marriage. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">im not married so i can't comment but i guess, communicate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">and kids are shitheads sometimes. Idk. teens, ya know. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">and martha. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">that was cute i guess. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">why can't we have leads who just go on their journey without finding life changing dick after they were hurt by a bad one. and then homeboy and his life story! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">basically everyone in this book has a sad girl story so if that's not what you're looking for then maybe come back to it later. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">guys - nothing is wrong with this book. nothing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I just didn't vibe with it. it had a lot of little nuggets and pearls but for me all together at the end: meh.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">im okay having heard this but i know i would have been okay never having heard this one. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22P-9Edms1hDS3pMYeauYuRKrOjei5RaCLL55_4iyyoJ8ywLE8X0pLZDw2T0y42CDEjti9maWuTpRyLR3cUMfdibcTWa5zX5UAa4OuuA1wWaE_1tz9MPas5ifdkbFHXCMxiG2kbfiB3IvpQxqDn9jmfIka_tK-EshPGCn_R813_wQNS900ZNrdlQOPw/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22P-9Edms1hDS3pMYeauYuRKrOjei5RaCLL55_4iyyoJ8ywLE8X0pLZDw2T0y42CDEjti9maWuTpRyLR3cUMfdibcTWa5zX5UAa4OuuA1wWaE_1tz9MPas5ifdkbFHXCMxiG2kbfiB3IvpQxqDn9jmfIka_tK-EshPGCn_R813_wQNS900ZNrdlQOPw/w368-h99/leeee.png" width="368" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">uhm so kathleen was best friends with her homegirl. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">kat starts dating this dude. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">turns out best friend also likes him. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the best friend and boyfriend sleep together and end up getting pregnant. Kat leaves to give them a chance to either make it or flop on their own without her being in the picture. (in the long run, they do stay together and live a good life til he passes away). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">kat decides to roadtrip route 66 (after her home invasion life changing awakening) and hires martha to drive her even though martha is afraid of driving (of course martha doesn't let that be known til they're in the US. which makes no sense bc wouldn't u wanna like test drive the driver? Anyway....)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">marthas beef is that her parents (her mom for sure) are total turds, her ex mans is a total turd and she cant get a good job to save her life. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she goes with kat and along the road they pick up Josh? idk. his name starts with a J. his beef is that he's hiking 66 in honor of his brother who committed suicide i believe. he was also kind of a jerk boss who needed to take time off.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">of course the girls pick him up and of course him and martha end up well, hooking up but im also going to assume dating. idk bc she is from the UK but hes from US. idk. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the daughter. Leah? Liza! her and her husband are in a dry spell. shes become someone who does everything for everyone without everyone thinking about how such things get done. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she never talks to her husband so she goes to stay at her moms while shes on the road trip with martha. because she took a cosmo test that said her relationship is doomed and so she needs time to process but also give everyone the chance to see that she's the HBIC but they need to help out. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end her and her husband end up okay and her kids learn to stop being such twats. she also makes out with that nice rocker dude that lives on or near Kats property. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end, the road trip ends up with Kat meeting her ex best friend in her home in santa monica with each of their perspective daughters (by this point liza and kat are closer and liza flew down to be there with her mother at this moment.) and then its up to them to play catch up. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">as always, there's more but thats all i got.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">thanks for reading! </span></div></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-16631592384253743672022-05-12T14:39:00.000-07:002022-05-12T14:39:19.704-07:00'22: a little something different // sandy hall<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7cSlA23OsxYyRzPxOBU8RE71XHg7lBFmxh8pyhwiFmCTWNLBu6Ekmg1wj4zPgh8cnRV_dG0oXhpHcT41GYtZMC8_RoQovcQVB7A8BkFYEOSzt4QFJ1DWeVjrLdEdcoH2uW0xCoDXJsjEkN3W_bbGPgpKsyM9fDQzgQJXMuuWHE7SqtnIbxD8kvftag/s1053/20220511_185959.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="975" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7cSlA23OsxYyRzPxOBU8RE71XHg7lBFmxh8pyhwiFmCTWNLBu6Ekmg1wj4zPgh8cnRV_dG0oXhpHcT41GYtZMC8_RoQovcQVB7A8BkFYEOSzt4QFJ1DWeVjrLdEdcoH2uW0xCoDXJsjEkN3W_bbGPgpKsyM9fDQzgQJXMuuWHE7SqtnIbxD8kvftag/w407-h440/20220511_185959.jpg" width="407" /></a></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"a boy you like should never make you that confused</span>.<span style="font-size: large;">"</span> </b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div>pub</b>: 2014</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: 243</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: april 21-22, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 13 in 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20801166-a-little-something-different" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">THOUGHTS</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one was cute. well, yea it was cute. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">it's just a simple (well not simple like, whatever) story about two college kids who totally like each other but don't know how to make it work until the end when they finally do. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I liked that there was a 14 point view of their love story from friends to a bench and a squirrel. it didnt feel idk like it deviated from the main point of the story to have so many people. mostly cus everyone sort of knows each other so its easy to follow. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">the teacher kinda pissed me off cus she was hella anti Hilary and while she could be annoying at times i in no way feel like her anger was ever justified towards Hil. tooo much for the little couples game you play. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">there is reason to why Gabe is shy girl with homegirl but i mean, everything takes its time. i was just happy that there was an explanation for it. even if it does take til the end of the book. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">this is a quick cute listen too. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">super quick spoilers below because there really isnt anything to spoil other than as to why Gabe was shy girl. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">gabe was in a car accident that caused him to lose his hearing. he didnt have the courage to tell Leah specially because he was in denial himself. so every time that she would talk to him, she'd basically place herself on his bad side so he couldn't reply to her because he couldn't hear her. in the end he finally realizes that he needs to get his shit together and he tells her and the ending is them beginning basically <3</span></div></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-2075721407275876802022-05-03T16:24:00.002-07:002022-05-03T16:24:46.174-07:002022: the paris apartment // lucy foley<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNHFgyiLY4hMVEJgN2KRkYDJWmw9V1Jz_OsrEGjcYrKskDyNHBzSePrfbInSVHMAYhr3ZTq9a6eVJku5H5Mo3XUt1bI9jN_kM5kCQ6o7GDoS9VJog8D7Tnhm8UUbowTggaDSCSgtgOrI0AQfq75mdCQkEiYcd8h2Z1bmeuwrYNN-UkNYXUyZEIymFww/s1080/20220503_155719.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1080" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNHFgyiLY4hMVEJgN2KRkYDJWmw9V1Jz_OsrEGjcYrKskDyNHBzSePrfbInSVHMAYhr3ZTq9a6eVJku5H5Mo3XUt1bI9jN_kM5kCQ6o7GDoS9VJog8D7Tnhm8UUbowTggaDSCSgtgOrI0AQfq75mdCQkEiYcd8h2Z1bmeuwrYNN-UkNYXUyZEIymFww/w464-h457/20220503_155719.jpg" width="464" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"confrontation is not my style, i have learned that watching is the most powerful weapon." </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>- Concierge </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: 360</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard</b>: april 8-11, 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 12 in 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Clueless is dangerous. its makes you vulnerable." </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>-Jess</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58468990-the-paris-apartment" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></a></b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oooooh this one was a dooozy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i was over it but i couldnt get enough! and then when it was all revealed i was like woah! i wish it would have been over literally probably anything else but lucy makes it work and well if you arent a fan of what its all about, well at least the twists get you....i think.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">its like woah! unfortunately, i cannot say much because even a little would be to spoil the book. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">before you get to this book, DO THE AUDIO!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i put it on hold at the library expecting to wait mooonths but it came in soon and i dove right in and im glad i went this route because there is a lot of french and it was pretty nice to have it read to me properly. unless im telling you my name, that i'm american and that i want a sandwich please, im doomed. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">did you see it? how its all - how they're - gah! see, spoilery! i mean, i didnt see it but i was not surprised when it was revealed. it makes sense. people with money aren't that good at sharing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"those who have the most money are often the most close fisted about handing it over." </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>- Sophie </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">everything starts kinda unfolding like 80% in but it makes you appreciate some of the work put in before. i just wasnt a fan of like how easy it all was for Jess. shes in another city, doesnt speak the language, has nowhere to stay (as in like she was supposed to be fucked but still gets in) but saves the day like nothing. and Ben, what an asshole. here he is pushing Jess away every chance possible and here she is chasing after him. all the time. i get it, its family, you dont just leave them behind but Ben made little effort to like make sure Jess was even alive and she continues to idolize him no matter how bad he treats her. yikes. it felt kinda like "keep trying no matter how hard people push you away." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">also, jess! dude. why was she written to basically want to sleep with EVERY DUDE THAT HELPS HER IN THE STORY! lol. did you notice that? Theo. Nick. some random dude walking by.....all of the people! and BEN! well, lets not get started there. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">it was cool, I liked it, I appreciate the groundwork lucy laid down on this one even if for as serious as the overall story is, jess was written to just get all the bingo cards that were called out with not one ounce of trouble. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">but please note that as i "finish this up" on the 3rd of may, my appreciation of this book just keeps growing more and more the more i think about the work put in. definitely liked this one. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">on to the next book!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik9lnYE6qeQF9mC5zxQIdSVDZEWxbJhkavDUuT4ITFmeHDkn71xbx8y6Be1kCdchyNVEmJm-fC-03z5Pnhq29KWjaTL5JSj08oKgSHac_9DUUsPrByaV9CWd8OXD3H5Bq4X-IiXfLT4JNDZBXUGhetHEyBXl2uU_oqnRYxJYYbxZNACeCllO7cBFGQtA/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik9lnYE6qeQF9mC5zxQIdSVDZEWxbJhkavDUuT4ITFmeHDkn71xbx8y6Be1kCdchyNVEmJm-fC-03z5Pnhq29KWjaTL5JSj08oKgSHac_9DUUsPrByaV9CWd8OXD3H5Bq4X-IiXfLT4JNDZBXUGhetHEyBXl2uU_oqnRYxJYYbxZNACeCllO7cBFGQtA/w400-h108/leeee.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>so i wrote the spoilers then i went back to look at my notes and LOL! i forgot a lot and i messed some stuff up (for example who "killed" ben). im still leaving what i wrote but i am adding an upload of the last notes pg that i took. towards the end i summarize (i took 8 pgs worth of notes) the entire thing. i am leaving what i wrote wrong up because its fascinating to me how the mind works/remembers.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJN4W8NPm8DCvOJrL4toqHgLRH4QPFhTrAj8N_PSpYKCYWcLIsExCFjD4FWFAeMyNu3QcOI3Xgao_X4r4xfkQH2PSh-fgrChrQ31VWk5CD_RxJCc9NhohKfng1GwdewzBe7oG5g9-liy5iqK7LnDjzb3aK6RnUSD4tLtT_q7O41RRlZE0PSzukd7OMQ/s738/TPA8F.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="643" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJN4W8NPm8DCvOJrL4toqHgLRH4QPFhTrAj8N_PSpYKCYWcLIsExCFjD4FWFAeMyNu3QcOI3Xgao_X4r4xfkQH2PSh-fgrChrQ31VWk5CD_RxJCc9NhohKfng1GwdewzBe7oG5g9-liy5iqK7LnDjzb3aK6RnUSD4tLtT_q7O41RRlZE0PSzukd7OMQ/w558-h640/TPA8F.jpg" width="558" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>let me make some things up above a little more clear now that i had a refresher. (LOL IM A MESSS!!!!!)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">when they were in college or idk Ben met Nick, Nick spilled the beans about his family and then went down on Ben. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">years later Ben hits nick up and this foo thinks its love. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">blah blah blah, Nick realizes what ben is up to, so after hesitation he calls his dad, Jack, to let him know that his golden boy ben is just a shit (his dad was basically in love with ben because he was what his own son's would never be.) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">so jack is the one who kills ben (not mimi like i mention below). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">by the time mimi sees jack trying to kill ben she already knows the truth about her family and that ben is actually sleeping with Sofie. (bro, in this book ben sleeps and is wanted by all and jessica wants to fuck all the dudes that help her...) so anyway, mimi attacks and kills jack. sofie lies to nick and antoine and tells them that its bens body but in reality, it was their father they are burrying. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">sofie kept ben barely alive in some idk room that jess had seen the door to but ignored (this happens 17% into the audiobook and i even made a note of it. i had knowns all along!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and uh yeah. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">bens alive and the winery was a cover up for a brothel situation that was staffed with women basically being held hostage. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">jess and ben manage to save all the ladies and give them monies to make it out alive but of course they pimp out their freedom for a little fee. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>now below is how my mind remembers it. </b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NAME KEY</b> (I left my notes at home and I'm too lazy to goback and change things so they will be named as follows):</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>sofie</b> - sofie (didn't forget her name). It's Sophie. Lmao. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>dude 1</b> (divorced dude) - Antoine</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>dude 2</b> (lame dude) - Nick </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>nervous girl</b> - Mimi</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>roommate</b> - Camille </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>wife </b>- idr her name but shes dude 1's now ex wife </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>dad </b>- Jack</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Theo </b>- he was Ben's "boss". Jess calls him to see if he knows where Ben is at and somehow these 2 turn into Scooby-Doo and shaggy even tho they only talk once and he of course ends up being a p.o.s. he's in and out the story but I'm not mentioning him below so I'm getting him outta the way here. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">basically....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">everyone who lived in the apts is related. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">sofie marries jack.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The two dudes are brothers (dude 1 is divorced dude, dude 2 is lame dude). nervous girl with the roommate is their step sister.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">except they all play like they don't know each other. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the reason that Ben went back after 1000 years is because he remembered the story dude #2 told him about his father (and tbh, I should have seen it then because โ๏ธ) & he had started piecing things together (<span style="color: red;">i was wrong here. he already knew</span>), he had also promised to help some other homegirl out. anyway so he starts piecing things together and just as his bad sister Jess shows up he goes missing. (the reason jess is on the run from her job is because her boos flashed her his penis so she stole all the money from the register while he was in the shitter. lucy made it seem like it was worse but i mean, her reaction, meh, not that bad! anyway...)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She lets herself in after she sees dude #1 fighting with his wife and sees him punch in his code. everyone tells her to leave but she gives no fucks. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All this drama. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">it turns out that dad who claims to have a very profitable wine company is actually running a prostitution ring. every girl is labeled after a wine so clients can order as is and then they can do to them as they please. that's what Jess had seen in those weird ass invoices. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sofie. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sofie was dad's bottom bitch, dude!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">homegirl started from the bottom now she here. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ben was back in dude # 2s life because he wanted to expose his family. And he was writing an article about it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ben flirts with nervous girl, she blows it out of proportion, swears they are in love even though they have never spoken more than two words. so after forever she's planning sexy night and sneaks in to his place. She finds his journal where she finally realizes the truth about her family. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">not only that but she's not sofies actual daughter. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">nervous girl is the daughter of one of the women who worked, well was kept against her will at the uhm place. I think her mother was killed or she died during child birth. I don't remember. any way, I think she like blacks out and she's the one that "kills" Ben. (<span style="color: red;">once again i was wrong. she does not black out. she sees her "father" jack try to kill him so she kills jack defending ben</span>).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In reality, Ben wasn't killed. He was being held hostage in some attic or some shit barely alive. and the reason he was being kept alive is because he was hooking up with sooooofiiie!!!!!!!!!!! and she was down for him. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">uhm and uh, the person that the 2 dudes buried was actually their dad. I forgot how sofie caught him (<span style="color: #ff00fe;">i forgot how sofie catches mimi and all that mah bad</span>) but his own damn kids burry him. Cold blooded </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Uhm and yea.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shit gets exposed and yea.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh and the Concierge was actually nervous girls grandma. I know she gets knocked the fuck out but I think she gets killed? Idk. I gotta check my notes. (<span style="color: red;">i was wrong again, she runs away</span>) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But basically that's the gist of it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">OH!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">remember divorce dude. Lol his wife left him for nervous girls roommate. ๐</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-16492350270758880392022-05-01T02:16:00.000-07:002022-05-01T02:16:00.495-07:00'21: every vow you break // peter swanson <div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih9Jz4yWSByJ0E7FjvLqmcizc8HH6Nu80KMORQj598472_Xiiuw0ApJyNWVkxJCuxzvTPEJHkTWeUuu0vhtn6LyqGmnb7xvDGqMDhQrRDeoVxOkwcV3aitjM-WN429F_umRMsTj1Cj591KjII_AWx28ZCUxJiQBqPE3qHlLmD5YrvAc0WGIAAjl1RG2Q/s1136/20220430_153600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1080" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih9Jz4yWSByJ0E7FjvLqmcizc8HH6Nu80KMORQj598472_Xiiuw0ApJyNWVkxJCuxzvTPEJHkTWeUuu0vhtn6LyqGmnb7xvDGqMDhQrRDeoVxOkwcV3aitjM-WN429F_umRMsTj1Cj591KjII_AWx28ZCUxJiQBqPE3qHlLmD5YrvAc0WGIAAjl1RG2Q/w431-h454/20220430_153600.jpg" width="431" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"just because something ends doesn't mean it didn't have value."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub: </b>2020</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages: </b>308</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>heard: </b>8/23-24/2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book: </b>28 in 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54236119-every-vow-you-break?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=YFdM0VLv51&rank=1" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THOUGHTS</span></b><br />well i went into this one not having read the synopsis so i genuinely had no idea what to expect but i figured it was something along the lines of "he's guna try to fuck her over but she's guna end up on top in the end" and whadaya know? i was right? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">-----</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">its now 5/1/2022 and i probably wrote that around the time that i had finished the book; </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">here we are now months later. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i sort of remember the story but what i do remember the most is that i still feel like this is very "meh" of Swanson. i had to go back to my post about this and apparently i liked it but the end left me very over it. like it fucked with me (maybe because i went into this one blind) but it ended bland. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">his last few books have just not been it for me. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this one wasnt bad. its just all that just to end like that?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">over it. just tryina get all my posts out. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i still love swanson tho! (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">luckily i got all the spoilers out! good job, me!)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkMnSWBgmEkLgxnWJAk7Uu1oL5VOc2VpgAw_uI-_aPOXA9NSdE-xyb_PNpUXLxYE92QYDUWcCRhZp-2-SLwZbVbOFCKdU5d5NqJhHEsMdiJmNg1M5CDWJlK2FusrCNtORnB-W2UHGt_T5a7g2ClsC1C77TDRlrG5Qzvje5OWyAW7Yl2nEQV4TDe7HSw/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkMnSWBgmEkLgxnWJAk7Uu1oL5VOc2VpgAw_uI-_aPOXA9NSdE-xyb_PNpUXLxYE92QYDUWcCRhZp-2-SLwZbVbOFCKdU5d5NqJhHEsMdiJmNg1M5CDWJlK2FusrCNtORnB-W2UHGt_T5a7g2ClsC1C77TDRlrG5Qzvje5OWyAW7Yl2nEQV4TDe7HSw/w552-h149/leeee.png" width="552" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">well i guess the biggest thing would be that Bruce is the bad guy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">essentially he is part of this club of a bunch of sad whiny bitchy men who bonded over torturing women that have done them wrong. (bruce's mom left them when he was a kid and apparently it fucked him up a whole lots).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the fucked up part is that they're the ones that set them up for failure in the first place. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">like Abigail. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she randomly met this dude (the dude being Bruce) who asked her out to dinner and on the 3rd date told her "hey ya know what kid, you're the one for me even though i've never even heard you fart." and they get engaged and he's all "yo, have a bachelorette party....why noooottt.... ill set it up! and pay for everything." and of course he did. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and of course she goes. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">but he also had "Scotty" (really Eric Newman) there to test her loyalty which of course she fails cause scotty beams her up if you know what i mean. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">scotty "stalks" her telling her they belong together but she's all "nah, fool." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she marries bruce. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">they go on their honeymoon to an island with -0 service and -0 isnt a thing so do the math. and on the first night there, homeboy doesn't even try to sleep with her. she's all whatever. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, guess who is also there? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">yep. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">scotty. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and this dumb bitch still thinks its a coincidence. like bro. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">turns out they were aaaaaaallllll in on it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">while on their honeymoon they run into the only other couple there, Alec & Jill and because im over this shit already, jill is there because Alec lured her there because she lied about being a virgin but he was also linked up with Porter who was at some point in his life engaged to jill herself but she was also set up by him with a bartender. (damn. poor girl got set up twice! by two different dudes in the same club. what are the odds?)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, theres one night where ab & bruce are asleep when she hears something by the window. she goes to check and notices it was jill and she was bleeding badly. ab goes out after her but she loses her in the woods. ab goes back and tells bruce, they go to the lobby and the dude in charge of the place, Chip (i should note that of course bruce has monies in on this too) tells them that its impossible because he himself took them to the airport so they could leave home. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">they bullshit her so bad. like they didnt even try. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end, she ends up telling bruce that she knows something is off, they fight, they pretend theyre on their way to the airport thing when Scotty (by this point in the book he's known by his real name) is all no, you and me only, im not letting Bruce take you, blah, blah, blah, all the men are in on it, they drug her, she ends up in a room with Jill, they tell each other their stories more in depth or whatever. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end, they come around to like a bonfire and there's men wearing masks and theyre taunting both women stating that they are whores and theres a part where bruce & alec are asked if they are ready and bruce pretends to stab Ab. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">alec was supposed to pretend too but he ends up beating Jill with a rock or something. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ab manages to get away and hides in the closet in their own bunk. her thought process was that no one would suspect that she'd go back there. but in the closet bruce had there was a hidewaway that gave her enough space to not get caught. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she debates killing him, decides not to because she wants to get away, ends up killing him, shooting scotty, killing some other dude and getting away in a kayak (and ive just learned that we have all been saying that word wrong!). when she finally crosses the ocean, water, lake, whatever the fuck (which now that i think about it, im surprised someone didnt go after her in the water?) runs into an old dude and calls the cops. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she manages to tell her story and bruce's messy ass story comes to light. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">assuming they didn't seize all his money, she just made a pretty penny because he didn't make her sign a prenup. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">oh, and it turns out that sposably eric, scotty, whatever killed his wife. which given that he belongs to this group, its believable. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and thats it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the end she notices that eric was in fact at her wedding.</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-91258362845829082662022-04-27T11:53:00.002-07:002022-04-27T11:53:57.366-07:00'22: nine lives / peter swanson <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglW8qhCI-b6ZBV6HR1WbD95m2yVz2uYDsDwiWp7562Y3eqdghOO9uIMTKfvx9PyXgOgbZj9sT09rwjA67kKdoR_iHwcPsDhsOaoCBT9ECU6Rfn2-o3OOUbXtLRx0oAGNoihpeQxIuwE0hE1LLOAEbGA_xr3osnnKy-yS8FoKTUz-a6s5InEv3k5Wfn6w/s1184/20220425_173840.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="1080" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglW8qhCI-b6ZBV6HR1WbD95m2yVz2uYDsDwiWp7562Y3eqdghOO9uIMTKfvx9PyXgOgbZj9sT09rwjA67kKdoR_iHwcPsDhsOaoCBT9ECU6Rfn2-o3OOUbXtLRx0oAGNoihpeQxIuwE0hE1LLOAEbGA_xr3osnnKy-yS8FoKTUz-a6s5InEv3k5Wfn6w/w435-h477/20220425_173840.jpg" width="435" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"Trust me, things that matter to you don't matter to anybody else. you haven't learned that yet." </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>pub</b>:2022<br /><b>pgs</b>: 320<br /><b>read</b>: 3/10-27/2022<br /><b>book</b>: 11 in 2022</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"If someone wants to take a shot at me, what do i care?"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">LOL!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58385688-nine-lives" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSIS</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THOUGHTS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">๐ฅฑ</div><div style="text-align: left;">why is homie basing his stories off Agatha? first 8 perfect murders and now this? (and who knows about the backlog! too lazy to research)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">not the worst but been there done that you know. or not even that but this just wasnt it for me. i could have been fine never having read this. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">and look. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">of course the killer is the killer. i mean, i wasn't shocked because it had to be someone but it makes so much sense that it plays out the way it plays out because DUH!, <i>and then</i> the way it ends, (i cant say much because spoiler).</div><div style="text-align: left;">like of course. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>that </b>also makes sense because it makes sense. </div><div style="text-align: left;">so it ALLLLLLLL makes sense. and it plays out but i feel like i've seen Peter be great that this is just like "meh, im trying to meet a quota" or some shit. </div><div style="text-align: left;">AGAIN! (lol i was going to link every vow you break but i haven't posted that yet) </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">and that storyline with the homie who is for hire? why the heck did he get such detail when it goes nowhere after his part is over? </div><div style="text-align: left;">if this is set up for book #2....well all i can hope for is that i dont remember much then and that the set up is better than this. not better. spicier.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">on that note, i will say that if this book taught me anything, it was really to reinforce the power of paying attention to the words that you are reading. because nowhere did Peter say that _______ was _____. but here i was thinking that _______ was ______ because of that little play he pulls towards the end. but in reality he had never ever said it. (i didnt assume because it was never said and i was very proud of catching that one even if towards the end i thought that maybe i was wrong after all.) (LOL these kind of statements of mine are my fave because i will 1000% forget what i meant to say there in a matter of minutes). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">anyway. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">its not bad but its meh. </div><div style="text-align: left;">what is going on with Swan!? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">oh and jessica. worst fucking FBI agent ever. like what the fuck.</div><div style="text-align: left;">i feel like <i>eeeeeeeeeverything </i>she did was everything they taught her NOT TO DO at FBI school or whatever. like she gave no fucks. </div><div style="text-align: left;">she most def should not be an agent. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">i also feel like <i>bad parents? like y'all HAD to have known something right? no? just me? 2 of them knew something and kept shut. i mean they all knew but the 2 that pop up? no? hmmm.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">jump over for spoilers. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IyV3kVywwunOek9_ueG5UUmY3cy7IZ3rIHleZMZ97ZM6nKeRHcVDdPJRsT7dbfKE-NJF2liNf_urot30Te5gy6LN5vsmI3YEmp4WFgtqqv_zLUG6_-4LBQDhrlqRNCDs1uTMvnjQpMfgtLsvz4PVPlIdnOCGzUslQOwaU4DbNT7Lt4Nvs3s2dBmweg/s500/leeee.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IyV3kVywwunOek9_ueG5UUmY3cy7IZ3rIHleZMZ97ZM6nKeRHcVDdPJRsT7dbfKE-NJF2liNf_urot30Te5gy6LN5vsmI3YEmp4WFgtqqv_zLUG6_-4LBQDhrlqRNCDs1uTMvnjQpMfgtLsvz4PVPlIdnOCGzUslQOwaU4DbNT7Lt4Nvs3s2dBmweg/w475-h129/leeee.png" width="475" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SPOILERS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>ITS ALL (<a href="https://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2019/05/bring-me-back-ba-paris.html" target="_blank">a la B.A PARIS</a>,) REVEALED STARTING PAGE 302.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">so the killer was Jack. </div><div style="text-align: left;">he killed everyone because when he was a kid he was part of a cool kids club back when families used to vacation for weeks at a time at resorts. </div><div style="text-align: left;">his sister wanted to join but kids are idiots so they dare her to basically drown herself and no one thinks otherwise until the parents are searching for her. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">so he kills the children of the now adults that he knew as kids. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">all with the exception of Jessica. </div><div style="text-align: left;">she is the 4th one to get killed but the only one to survive. </div><div style="text-align: left;">and of course, she isnt even a "blood" kid. she was adopted so of course. a little plot twist that was a little too late for me. </div><div style="text-align: left;">plus, she was the only one he didn't kill himself. </div><div style="text-align: left;">want something done right, you gotta do it yoself.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">below is a picture of the list of all the nine characters on the list. on the left I have numbered them in the order in which they first appear. on the right is the order in which they are killed plus side notes. (J. Coates was the wrong one? Idk?) anyway, - yes. Jack was the killer...</div><div style="text-align: left;">he kills the others as follows:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Frank</b>: jack drowns him. (I'm assuming in the same place as the sister which means the same place where Jack drowns himself.)</li><li><b>Matthew</b>: Jack shoots him in the back while running.</li><li><b>Arthur</b>: Jack sets off carbon monoxide hidden in Arthur's luggage while Arthur slept after a dope ass museum trip. </li><li><b>Jessica</b>: Jack hires the other homie to kill her. That homie pretends to friend another drunk homie at a bar in the town where he finds stupid ass jessica and lies to him and tells him that his ex "jessica" cheated or stole money or some shit from him so that he could convince him to help him trap her. drunk homie says yea, they trap her, stupid ass Jessica realizes too late and the hired homie shoots Jessica. <b>SIDE NOTE: </b>everyone else I believe (I cant 100% guarantee but i think) was pronounced dead after they were killed. everyone except jessica. Swanson even throws a bit where Jessica's boss' boss tells him (jessicas boss) that "she feels bad for what happend to jessica...." (....and I forget the rest). that move was so good I quickly doubted myself but it's too little too late for me by this point. </li><li><b>Jay</b>: got his ass beat with a baton (i forgot about this foo. this foo was a creep) </li><li>& 7: <b>Ethan & Caroline</b>: e is a musician, c is a teacher, I forget who emails who (i think e emails c), they start emailing, then texting and they basically end up together in a whole ass relationship. They decide "FUCK IT! lets meet up in person" ๐ฃ even tho they know it's the worst idea possible. they make it to the hotel bask in the joy that is their relationship decide to have drinks and i forget what else in bed. Jack drugs them thru the wine and food then killed them by injecting them with benzodiazepine & then lots of morphine. </li><li><b> see above. </b></li><li><b>Alison</b>: uhm. he did it basically just because he could. she was his mistress. the night she met him, she'd had bad feelings about him but said fuck it. </li><li><b>Jack</b>: kills himself. </li></ol><div><br /></div><div>in the end jessica ends up surviving so who knows what the fuck is gunna happen next. </div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">also, ethan was a fucking creep. not in like the in the Jay way but he was very possessive with Caroline given that they only knew each other thru text. like, ew. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">anyway, over it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghf7qLI91yoyCdBqcPp0XhxBYXzzQySzDbsxZdnEVmBXxmyW-nuxWxjOdKvvYDr_KueDzHlBUQxmih1tW8NEKgTn76OZu5FcReLICv9X1tNhH5KgODECeni1ZQg2tI_IKOWPmrFwB-Td0KtD3qbz2IPLSkYjraf16RH2AM5d4bACQlN2LNZEMmLyBMEg/s838/9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="704" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghf7qLI91yoyCdBqcPp0XhxBYXzzQySzDbsxZdnEVmBXxmyW-nuxWxjOdKvvYDr_KueDzHlBUQxmih1tW8NEKgTn76OZu5FcReLICv9X1tNhH5KgODECeni1ZQg2tI_IKOWPmrFwB-Td0KtD3qbz2IPLSkYjraf16RH2AM5d4bACQlN2LNZEMmLyBMEg/w538-h640/9.jpg" width="538" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-82538273166593334242022-04-19T15:03:00.001-07:002022-04-19T15:03:16.448-07:002022: one italian summer // rebecca serle<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjgxi5A9TJUojag6WIdcYTHIRQVySPPvA8xy0osru6jb7PCxsxSU6uE5hS-fCwMHq5V6spOWbJ-ZDyjMRmTpWAmhh_pCU0GRMkPCriClKUJWfJHiacoFv-tjnb_ft7czUH8xLLcgHxbVAHsrt5Wc9G2txGvlnCCuae-mOja7haXmArLCUVCECUhZVE1w/s1080/20220413_122435.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="1080" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjgxi5A9TJUojag6WIdcYTHIRQVySPPvA8xy0osru6jb7PCxsxSU6uE5hS-fCwMHq5V6spOWbJ-ZDyjMRmTpWAmhh_pCU0GRMkPCriClKUJWfJHiacoFv-tjnb_ft7czUH8xLLcgHxbVAHsrt5Wc9G2txGvlnCCuae-mOja7haXmArLCUVCECUhZVE1w/w456-h446/20220413_122435.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"You act like you don't know how you got here, like you just woke up and looked around and thought, Huh - but I have news for you. Even inaction is a choice."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub</b>: 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pages</b>: 259</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: march 2-8, 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>book</b>: 10 in 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58438583-one-italian-summer" target="_blank">SYNOPSYS</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I legit think i have been spelling her last name wrong since day 1. I've been adding an A after the first e. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway,. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the next time homegirl releases a book, whenever i am ready to read it, i am going to book myself into a fancy as fuck hotel, pamper the fuck out of myself and go on the ride of my life! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i mean, why not enjoy a book in all of the luxury yourself!? #treatyoself!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i cant imagine how much more i would have loved this book if i were reading it by the kind of waters that Katy was in in this story herself. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this review probably isnt even about the story itself but more about how the book made me feel. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.hotels.com/go/italy/best-things-to-do-positano" target="_blank">Positano</a></b>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i mean, yea i've seen pictures of this place before but just in general, its not somewhere that if i were on my death bed id be like "man i regret not going." nah, like it would be dope for sure but ya know. a</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">nyway, reading this book! the very next day after i was done, i was missing the views and all of the descriptions that Serle had painted through Katy. it was then that i wanted to visit Positano and see everything that Katy was seeing just like Katy was seeing what her mother once saw. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">LOOK. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i was not a fan of the beginning; like the hella codependency with her mother. but then we move on and for the most part thats the part where most people are like "*swerve* not for me" but i think thats the part where i feel like it redeemed itself for me. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">i dont want to spoil it up here but i was waiting to see how this would be like </span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2020/06/in-five-years-rebecca-serle.html" target="_blank">In 5 Years</a> </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">and when it finally happened well i can 1000% tell you that i did not see that happening! and i think because i did not, it didnt continue to disappoint me like i think it has other people. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">nah man. i loved it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">this is the book version of one of <b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=interstellar&oq=interstellar&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i433i512j46i175i199i512j0i433i512l3j46i433i512l2j0i433i512l2.3880j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">Matthew McConaughey's most recent movies</a></b>, i think, idk, in the last 5 years for sure? (if you click the link it will take you to said movie and well that spoiler is all on you). anyway, so then it like happens and then the next thing happens and then the story is over and its basically making you think about the last time you realized that your parents are still just humans. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and so i liked this book because of the way that it made me feel. maybe not the story in its entirety but i felt cozy reading this, i felt idk, just, i love the way i felt. its weird lol. but yeah. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">spoilers right on over!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and if anyone ever wants to go to Positano, take me with you!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9GoHdL2g_tWnp0kfMg9EogI9t-12ZHq5PHpCjyXdQqjwlO3HQee1iRnwbV7zQmWg1MICUppQ3XFnbfI5rH7qOLm2gbA5md0mOfPpjcwJSMxF4Yc7GVTNWE01GqN_SdLChkOOBb6i4cPTMjuydd7QA0Pj11y0838qmrqj6Lc-yv1igsDQLdzzXnmHm8w/s500/20220116_134125.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9GoHdL2g_tWnp0kfMg9EogI9t-12ZHq5PHpCjyXdQqjwlO3HQee1iRnwbV7zQmWg1MICUppQ3XFnbfI5rH7qOLm2gbA5md0mOfPpjcwJSMxF4Yc7GVTNWE01GqN_SdLChkOOBb6i4cPTMjuydd7QA0Pj11y0838qmrqj6Lc-yv1igsDQLdzzXnmHm8w/w508-h120/20220116_134125.png" width="508" /></a><span><a name='more'></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">basically the reason that Katy was able to chill with her moms was because she traveled back in time to be there in Italy with her mom during the best summer of her (the mom's) life. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the spoiler was that that summer, the summer that was all the rage, took place right after Katy was born. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">her mom actually left her after having given birth to her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and of course homie was from the past too. Adam i believe is his name. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Katys husband ends up showing up on what was supposed to be her last day and they extend it and end up staying together. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">and that's like the gist of it but i obvs left out a lot! </span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776290926407374883.post-40779295144765720192022-03-22T13:33:00.000-07:002022-03-22T13:33:38.504-07:002022: xoxo // axie oh<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzGAmZhk0Nr-8Hl_qY1cvlb2QjcITo-Hd04uB0OoFxNoVf0Jr0dSVZ03iQd0w2q4XPxoWan0_D3vNxrbnJuHdKsFM-ckUC7uOihY3be2J6LrHrQG9jQf2sROl4pU7-M3SVbjYPkjYH_5fkgxn4sOLFJuxWJart9czo87HEK_tpzrakAsIg0TYRq7f9KA=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="777" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzGAmZhk0Nr-8Hl_qY1cvlb2QjcITo-Hd04uB0OoFxNoVf0Jr0dSVZ03iQd0w2q4XPxoWan0_D3vNxrbnJuHdKsFM-ckUC7uOihY3be2J6LrHrQG9jQf2sROl4pU7-M3SVbjYPkjYH_5fkgxn4sOLFJuxWJart9czo87HEK_tpzrakAsIg0TYRq7f9KA=w323-h425" width="323" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"five years isnt a long or short time but it is time."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pub: </b>2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>pgs</b>: 352</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>read</b>: feb 27 tro march 1, 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>(e) book</b>: 9 in 2022</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54618808-xoxo" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">SYNOPSYS</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THOUGHTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ya know, i got this one under my library's skip the line system (the one where you have 7 days to read vs the usual 14 or 21) only because i saw that it started with an X and while i dont ever eeeever read those STL books like i say i will, for some odd reason i did read this one. part of the reason is because i can finally cross X off the abc list because i honestly i cant think of any other. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i myself am not a K-Pop fan so this is already out my zone. im also over that "i think id do anything for you including throwing my life away for you" trope that well of course i wasnt going to click with this one because its all it is. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">maybe im just too old for this?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">my issue with this story lies in the fact that this story should have either been meet-cute as fuck <b>OR </b>it should have been what it is but it should have solved all of the problems that it came with, they should have been deeper or they should have been solved better or made clearer or idk. but i feel like it was trying to be cute as fuck with some depth that just went nowhere for me. between Jennys mother and her grandmother it was made such a big thing and i think it was just idk a little deflated. the way jenny just threw her whole ass life around no fucks given. like she was "driven", someone tells her to live a little then all of a sudden she's willing to throw something SO BIG away over some dude . gah! idk. i just, everything about this book fucking irked me. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">it just wasnt for me. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">there was something about it because i kept going but still by the penultimate chapter i was still like "man, fuck everything about this story." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQCBNA8f7D43AOt5Gy17vekTHZwfpD-daQ60Er0Hc5GNcSlh2Ht36B91AG7LZLZoqdsmyvJkjrLGmHJo6PdHLNRPn6AYpCxINu58pUst5_P9m5cLZYz5-Oj-3j_S07BbTVDkLIgkA_DCqFpsYbLvSsqu8YC0NV65CKeFzrLiGrDpy4dltErOckL1CvRQ=s579" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="579" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQCBNA8f7D43AOt5Gy17vekTHZwfpD-daQ60Er0Hc5GNcSlh2Ht36B91AG7LZLZoqdsmyvJkjrLGmHJo6PdHLNRPn6AYpCxINu58pUst5_P9m5cLZYz5-Oj-3j_S07BbTVDkLIgkA_DCqFpsYbLvSsqu8YC0NV65CKeFzrLiGrDpy4dltErOckL1CvRQ=w484-h141" width="484" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">remember when <u><a href="https://www.spin1038.com/movies-and-tv/whitney-port-spills-fake-paris-internship-storyline-hills-835081" target="_blank">Lauren gave up Paris for whats his face</a></u>? whatever year that was, this is this years version of that. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">it should have just been fucking cheese like nobodies bidness and left all the harder subjects it was trying to tackle to the side cus nah. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">i feel bad. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SabmBB8svvJNeBTGLRu88E_jpUpbW_Zkn2c_5O4U5EJfuVpf-O3ULAJHaEfz_397wen1ZC6ZXBE8JfEg4bRCfNjL3IcuXthm0wUYrGAovH9aseZQZfyiqMo_m3sIWVRsWUhxJiLFJg-i_rYEZpuQYX1y5YTUPZWlKJu4NakhYZzutB22wmgjoTneug=s603" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="603" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SabmBB8svvJNeBTGLRu88E_jpUpbW_Zkn2c_5O4U5EJfuVpf-O3ULAJHaEfz_397wen1ZC6ZXBE8JfEg4bRCfNjL3IcuXthm0wUYrGAovH9aseZQZfyiqMo_m3sIWVRsWUhxJiLFJg-i_rYEZpuQYX1y5YTUPZWlKJu4NakhYZzutB22wmgjoTneug=w493-h202" width="493" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">its not a bad story. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">its just for me like i would have manhandled Jenny. everything about this story to me was just unbelievable. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the first year bitch? fucking expel her bitch ass. UGH. i get it, Jaewoo is too nice or whatever but still! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">what was the point of the bully? to show that like nah, trust them they're human too? idk. just nah. was it like a buildup? probably but by then i was so over it that the "twist" i was like okay cool, next. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sori & Nathaniel! gah!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the entire friendship at SAA reminded me of <b><a href="http://lovewhatyouread14.blogspot.com/2020/05/point-b-drew-magary.html" target="_blank">this book</a></b> and i liked it there better. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUG1zk40wf1REE7zNiUj_5-koGOXoGVhEHU8lfGlKQUwUWgu95izuW7l_nWpOK8zMrKqO55-q3BmrSvU5KluZjov4GUikBEc82CMIy4RYaMhPUMT1JWUR0NMC31z7OPYnt6cYfMXGRBv98rd1NjRr43XGGNkNAV39ZPp5ElIZlYuLb0J9raryjzZnWYw=s577" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="577" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUG1zk40wf1REE7zNiUj_5-koGOXoGVhEHU8lfGlKQUwUWgu95izuW7l_nWpOK8zMrKqO55-q3BmrSvU5KluZjov4GUikBEc82CMIy4RYaMhPUMT1JWUR0NMC31z7OPYnt6cYfMXGRBv98rd1NjRr43XGGNkNAV39ZPp5ElIZlYuLb0J9raryjzZnWYw=w543-h134" width="543" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">idk. im glad i knocked out X but i also would have been okay never having read this book. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">anyway, its not a bad read, its just for me its everywhere and im over that right now...i would have been okay never having read this. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicKkemHe7FRNY-0KwuahMPYm8stqZ984IpwGg6jVFGNGJzg3zHBUU_Uzi30k7utibBAuvkt_1v-BS4k5K0mh8xXUYmeaepJNjrifCW2nbPg2Jsq-XpnFQ_4XBiDlxcEmqel8exkgUoWgRVVCntDnHVbhITkbPLSscCJI307gR0zNPmbBN7ni4FT7azrQ=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="500" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicKkemHe7FRNY-0KwuahMPYm8stqZ984IpwGg6jVFGNGJzg3zHBUU_Uzi30k7utibBAuvkt_1v-BS4k5K0mh8xXUYmeaepJNjrifCW2nbPg2Jsq-XpnFQ_4XBiDlxcEmqel8exkgUoWgRVVCntDnHVbhITkbPLSscCJI307gR0zNPmbBN7ni4FT7azrQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>SPOILERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">jenny got a review that legit said "you good foo, but you have NO emotion when you play. and you need that to place because you're about as flat as a piece of plywood board just laying there doing basically nothing" and she got so hurt that she ends up dating a K-pop Star and getting into the college of her dreams. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">after she happens to land in the same school that her now boyfriend goes to in Seoul. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she lives in california. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">she meets J for all of like 4 hours or something. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">her uncle was like take chances and then all of a sudden her busy ass mom who never has time for her has to go back to Seoul because of grama's imminent surgery which when it finally happens, it turns out it wasnt that urgent bc its not til the end and anyway, of all the schools she lands in the same one that Jaewood goes to. so like even though the whole entire time shes for the relationship and i mean all of the stars aligned for them, she still ends up ruining it in the end only to fix it again. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the whole entire story she just keeps shitting on all of her opportunities for Jaewoo even though he's already at the top and she's <i>barely </i>getting started on her life's journey but in the end she gets it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">im over this one. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">thxbye</span></div>Les G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643495111320099795noreply@blogger.com0