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The Neighbor Favor (The Greene Sisters)

Kristina Forest

In this heart-fluttering romance by Kristina Forest, a shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he's the obscure author she's been corresponding with. Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has always felt inadequate compared to the rest of her accomplished family, who strive for Black excellence. She dreams of becoming an editor of children's books but has been frustratingly stuck in the nonfiction division for years without a promotion in sight. Lily finds escapism in her correspondences with her favorite fantasy author, and what begins as two lonely people connecting over e-mail turns into a tentative friendship and possibly something else Lily won't let herself entertain--until he ghosts her. Months later, still crushed but determined to take charge of her life, Lily seeks a date to her sister's wedding. And the perfect person to help her is Nick Brown, her charming, attractive new neighbor, whom she feels drawn to for unexplainable reasons. Little does she know that Nick is an author--her favorite fantasy author. Nick, who has his reasons for using a pen name and for pushing people away, soon realizes that the beautiful, quiet woman from down the hall is the same Lily he fell in love with over e-mail months ago. Unwilling to complicate things even more between them, he agrees to set her up with someone else, though this simple favor between two neighbors is anything but--not when he can't get her off his mind.

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So excited!! All of her historical fiction books have made me somehwat cry so hoping this will too

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Tell me your favourite song and I'll give you a book recommendation

Last time I made a post asking for a random fact about you to match with a book recommendation. It's been so fun and I'm so happy so many people commented, and a few still are. It's been fun trying to match everybody, so I want to try again.

Give me your favourite song or the one that you're listening to the most at the moment or the first one you instinctively think about when you read this post.

You can request a specific genre.

I'll start: Surely not my favourite, but these weeks I'm always listening to dumb dumb by mazie.

Edit: I know I'm really late with the replies this time. I have some deadlines till the end of next week that I didn't expect to come up this soon. As soon as I'm avaliable I'll answer to everybody.

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Books That Made You Cry Uncontrollably

Okay so I’m in the mood for a book that will make me cry. And I mean like completely sob. 🥺😭😭 Preferably something short (under 350 pages) so that I can finish it before my moos shifts but I’ll take anything. Any recs?

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Small Worlds

Caleb Azumah Nelson

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open WaterThe one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing at Church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise; he might have lost his faith, but he does believe in rhythm. Dancing with his friends, somewhere in a basement with the drums about to drop, while the DJ spins garage cuts. Dancing with his band, making music which speaks not just to the hardships of their lives, but the joys too. Dancing with his best friend Adeline, two-stepping around the living room, crooning and grooving, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone, at home, to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known.Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But what becomes of him when the music fades? When his father begins to speak of shame and sacrifice, when his home is no longer his own? How will he find space for himself: a place where he can feel beautiful, a place he might feel free?Set over the course of three summers in Stephen's life, from London to Ghana and back again, Small Worlds is an exhilarating and expansive novel about the worlds we build for ourselves, the worlds we live, dance and love within.

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Sula

Toni Morrison

Sula and Nel are two young black girls: clever and poor. They grow up together sharing their secrets, dreams and happiness. Then Sula breaks free from their small-town community in the uplands of Ohio to roam the cities of America. When she returns ten years later much has changed. Including Nel, who now has a husband and three children. The friendship between the two women becomes strained and the whole town grows wary as Sula continues in her wayward, vagabond and uncompromising ways.

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i think this is my new favorite book of all time…!!!

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Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists -- he a photographer, she a dancer -- trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence. At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.

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this BOOOKKKKKK. man. i’m reading a library copy but i want to highlight literally every word. his writing style is similar to how i think & write in my journal at times. it’s like someone peered into my brain. it’s so intimate & beautiful. there’s so many quotes i wanna post on here but i would end up posting the entire book! this book is a love letter, an ode, a song, a prayer, it’s everything!!!!!!

and i haven’t even finished it y’all. 😭 (i’m only halfway help)

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What was the last read that made you cry tears of happiness?

This question popped up in my mind while reading a book I recently finished, 'Your Letter' by Hyeon A. Cho (Go check it out it's amazing!!). It was the first time I cried of happiness while reading something.

Feel free to drop similar recs in the comments because we all need a good cry sometimes 🙂‍↕️

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happy/fluffy books

hi everyone! i want some recs for fluffy books/books with happy endings! a book that gave u hope or left u feeling really happy. it doesn’t necessarily have to be all romance :)

some preferences for:

woman of color or black mc
at least some romance present
found family!!
adult fiction

don’t care for:

spice
cozy fantasy (it can be a hit or miss for me mostly)

thank you beautiful people on PB 💘💘

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happy/fluffy books

hi everyone! i want some recs for fluffy books/books with happy endings! a book that gave u hope or left u feeling really happy. it doesn’t necessarily have to be all romance :)

some preferences for:

woman of color or black mc
at least some romance present
found family!!
adult fiction

don’t care for:

spice
cozy fantasy (it can be a hit or miss for me mostly)

thank you beautiful people on PB 💘💘

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Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong's poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.

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