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Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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kathytrithardt completed their yearly reading goal of 100 books!
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I still think about this book from time to time because it impacted me so much. Wishing Jennette nothing but happiness.
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I don’t even know how to put into words how much I enjoyed this collection. I laughed out loud, I yelled at the book like it could hear me, and I definitely teared up more than once. Bob-Waksberg has this incredible ability to make the absurd feel deeply human and the painfully real feel almost surreal. Every story dives into the messy, beautiful risk that is love—what we sacrifice for it, what we cling to, and why we keep choosing it, even when it hurts. I loved so, so many of the stories, from “short stories”, a compilation of 10 stories about love all told in a few sentences to the beautiful, symbolic, allegorical “Missed Connection—m4w,” “Rules for Taboo”, which perfectly encapsulates the double-edged sword of playing this game with someone you love/know really well, “Rufus,” the cute and endearing story about love between man and his beat friend, and “Move across the country,” which focuses on our desire and habit to run from hard situations forgetting that we will still be in the next place and the belief that we will never escape the sadness and that feeling we're running from in the first place, which impacts new relationships. It’s one of my favorite reads of the year, hands down. A wonderfully weird, honest exploration of love in all its ridiculous and heartbreaking forms. Whether it’s romantic, platonic, fleeting, or forever, each story hits in its own unexpected way. Funny, tender, strange, and full of heart, this one will stick with me.
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"Finally, I would like to thank my wife. About half of these stories are from before I met her and half since, and I'm convinced if you lined them all up in the order they were written, you could pinpoint the moment where my heart became whole." I love reading the acknowledgments section and quotes/thanks/moments like this are why.
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Do you guys own many books? I never did growing up because I went to the library. Even now,I only buy books that I have read and loved. But seeing people on social media's own walls full of books has made me curious about other people's habits. So, I would love to hear about your habits. Do you buy books right away? Do you read all of the ones you buy? How many do you own/do you get rid of many?
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Celeste Ng
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I didn't hear of Octavia Butler until I was an adult (in the last few years really) but feel like she should've been introduced in high school English class! Curious how everyone else was first introduced to her work?