summerbunny99

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8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

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Jul 21, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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This book was beautifully written, and had many moments where as a Latina, I really saw myself (particularly in Raquel's character). Reading this book was like seeing a beautiful tapestry being constructed corner by corner, piece by piece, and then at the end being able to step back and see how everything weaves together to tell one story on being true to yourself, honoring your self and your culture, recognizing self worth, and recognizing the structures that exist that fight against you every day. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

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Thoughts from 100% (page 352)

Xochitl Gonzalez is so talented! This book does such a beautiful job of telling three separate stories but connecting all of them so beautifully not just by having the characters eventually interact with one another (not directly interact event, but creatively interact with one another in a way that maybe they dont meet but we as readers have them meet in our minds), but also by showing similar tropes and patterns but having characters experience it across different time periods/settings/etc. My least favorite chapters were Jack's. Anytime I read his chapters I wanted to skip pages because I found him R E P U L S I V E. I guess that was the point though. Anita and Raquel are BEAUTIFULLY written characters. You root for them the whole time, and if you are like me, you see elements of yourself in them at times. I especially resonated with Raquel and also felt for Raquel. I dont want to give any spoilers, but I just want to say, please try this book out. It may not captivate you at first and I blame the Jack content for that lol, but by the end you step back and realize you have been part of watching a beautiful web be weaved.

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Great Big Beautiful Life

Emily Henry

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room. And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.

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It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)

Jenny Han

Belly finds out what comes after falling in love in this follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture!), Jenny Han.Can summer be truly summer without Cousins Beach?It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come.But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started—at Cousins Beach.

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8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

Jay Shetty

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we’re often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now. Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don’t break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners. By living Jay Shetty’s eight rules, we can all love ourselves, our partner, and the world better than we ever thought possible.

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Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xóchitl González

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name has been all but forgotten—certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by privileged students whose futures are already paved out for them, Raquel feels like an outsider. Students of color, like her, are the minority there, and the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities is no secret. But when Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older art student, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. As she attempts to straddle both worlds, she stumbles upon Anita’s story, raising questions about the dynamics of her own relationship, which eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist. Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.

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Thoughts from page 185

I am really enjoying this book so far. I read Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez a few years ago and it quickly has become one of my favorite books ever, so I was eager to start reading this one. I did not read the blurb so I'm going into it without any info, but 185 pages in and I can't put this book down. The two stories of Raquel and Anita side by side make this such a fun read and I can't wait to see how they connect. Raquel's experience at a PWI is so relatable. Especially the way she interacts with her campus and the opportunities afforded to her vs how she sees her privileged counterparts act. There is one scene that happened already that felt exactly like what happens when you get attacked by ignorance and privilege, and I am grateful Gonzalez included that scene that is so aggravating to read about but so accurate. More to come here!

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Jul 14, 2025

3.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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This brought me right back to my wattpad days!! I wish I would have read this as a middle schooler/early high schooler because I would've been obsessed. Reading it now as an adult, it filled me with a nostalgia for a YA book that I did not know I was missing. The characters are just okay, and the storylines are simple. But for a quick beach read, and in anticipation of the final season...this was PERFECT.

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Jul 14, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 4.0

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This book is so uniquely written. This is yet another incredible book by TJR. I still prefer Malibu Rising and Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (in that order) to this book, but I devoured this book in 2 days. If you love music, 70s culture, romance, plot twists, and really unique writing styles...I would highly recommend. It's seriously such a cool book. That's the best word for it..."cool".

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Jul 14, 2025

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0

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This was my first Emily Henry book and I enjoyed it. Her writing for this book made me feel like I was part of the character's friend group, and the summer vibes were not overbearing they were the perfect amount. I was surprised (in a good way!) by the ending of this book. For a minute there I did not know where things were going. This book has many "big reveal" elements at the very end, so you spend most of the time confused about what is going on (in a good way!) in each character's lives and what the dynamics are and why the dynamic seem different...and then at the end everything makes sense and you share in the relief the characters feel while also feeling it yourself. I would recommend this book.