"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."
pgs: 291
read: July 3, 2022
book: 19 in 2022
THOUGHTS
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.
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?
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!
I LOVED THIS BOOOOOOOK!!!!!
its exactly what my little Halloween loving heart needed at the moment.
its not at all scary but because im a huge chicken shit this was good enough for me 😂.
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sorry dudes.
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.
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.
this is a cute one.
read it!
get ready for the best season!
love ya!
SPOILERS
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.
longer-ish version.
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.
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).
i love this book.
"All rumors have at least a kernel of truth. But I won’t tell you which kernel.”
pub: 2021
pages: 219
read: june 15-19, 2022
book: 18 in 2022
SYNOPSIS
THOUGHTS
THOUGHTS
ooooh! i liked this one!
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 !
maybe im all about timing right now.
anywho!
i like this story!
I wish I would have have taken better notes (why lol) but alas, I am who I yams.
I liked the adventures these 3 got into because LOL!
also, before I forget, ladies and gentlemen should this ever be a movie or something, please let me introduce to you TROY!!!!! (If cast otherwise, I'd still watch. but begrudgingly 😂)
okay but back to the point.
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.
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. THE RELIEF! let me tell you, cutting someone off who no longer never respected you is *chef's kiss*
ANYWAY!
they get into everything!
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.
this one hit the perfect spot for me. ❤️ ...and i also did spoilers ahead of time so let's go!
SPOILERS
KATE
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!)
KATE
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!)
GENIE
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?
he never let her have anything.
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.
in the end she ends up with Troy (FUCK YES!!!!!) and she moves with him to flagstaff if i remember him living there correctly.
CICI
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.
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!!!!!
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Laurie, the 4th friend of the group passes away at a time when all the women are kinda falling apart.
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.
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.
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*
a lot of things happen here and there that im leaving out but the breakdown of the women is the gist of the story!
Loved this one!
"sometimes, even when you start with the last page and think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you."
pub: 2022
pgs:377
heard: may 15 - 20, 2022
book: 17 in 2022
THOUGHTS
I dont have the energy so lets just say that i liked this one more than her other two.
like a lot more.
like this one makes sense and i dont understand how everyone loves all others more than this one.
this one has a decent guy in the story.
CHARLIE!!!!
omg! he was, well, he was Charlie but it was refreshing to have a main dude not be such a turd.
anyway.
also - LOL 😆 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.
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.
im not sure when buuuut maybe in a few years.
so uh yeah.
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 can get behind this one. and 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.
okay next.
SPOILERS
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.
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.
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.
AND he also happens to be there at the same time.
She's dealing with her mommy issues
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.
obvs theres a lot more but meh.
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. 💙
"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."
pub: 2020
pgs: we move on without pgs or we never move forward
heard: 1/22-26/2021
book: 5 in 2021
THOUGHTS
I liked it in the end overall but I didn't love it?
(might be a bit spoilery from here on our but not really. just warning y'all.)
January irked me.
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. (Liana, anyone?)
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....
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!)
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 😬 for the strength this role requires.
It's as if someone wrote the beauty that is Evelyn Hugo but replaced it with the 😶 story that is the unraveling of Cassidy Holmes. Knowing what Evelyn entails and requires, anything less than that just doen't work.
this version of January didn't not work but it just wasnt right.
[***(which by the way, should this ever be made into anything and they need a Jaques, please hire Julien. omg!!!! (watch him on holidate and you'll see what I mean. 🤤)]
And gus!, his little quiet side was cool but duuuuudeeeee!!!!!
like the whole disappearing thing and not saying anything to Jan was 🤯. 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.*
He'd just disappear to process and then reappear and expect it to be okay without explanation just because.
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.
And also, that scene in the tent (you know, the one) really? Like really? That was kinda 😬. Yall were a few yards away from....and y'all were hooking up!?
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?
For a lot of this book I was like 🙄 and then that shit with her dad pops up on page 316 and on and I was like fuck yea!
It finally picked up a bit for me there.
and if im being honest, the only character I'm sympathizing with is Sonya.
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."
she respected her space and left when they ran across each other but that last interaction they had!,
*chef's kiss*
Sonya might be the other woman but she's my #1.
not even Jan's mom was upfront about shit (which I get because she was the one being cheated on but still ya know)
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.
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!
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 magical realism books (minus hello girls).
Anyway, yea. It was cool but not wow.
everyone in this town needs to grow balls.
Thanks for reading! 😄
Jump over for spoilers.
S P O I L E R S
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.
But of course, right next door her arch nemesis, Augustus Everett, lives.
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.
Blah blah blah.
They agree to each write about about what the other writes and whoever pubs it first, the other will endorse it left and right.
They end up hooking up even though she knows gus is a one time dude.
But it turns out that he's not, he's just used to people being dicks to him so he acts accordingly.
And it actually turns out he's married (going thru a divorce).
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!!!!
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.
The dad might have cheated but can we talk about the emotional abuse he put Sonja through!???
UGH! 💔
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?)
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.
Blah blah blah.
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. 🙄😒😑). He tells her he wants to be with her norther if they don't get a happily ever after.
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.
(When they were writing they would write notes to each other about sorts of dumb shit so....ya know)
And yea, das it.
The mom still never said shit.
They do have a call one night but nothing is talked about in the book.
Oh well.
🦀
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