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The Worst People You’ll Ever Meet – A The Secret History Reread
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” I read The Secret History by Donna Tartt in 2019. I’d read The Goldfinch in college and made it half of my personality. I started working for the studio releasing the film (I have other thoughts about that), and wondered why on earth I hadn’t read Tartt’s other work yet. So I did, and I once again became a changed person. I felt like I had soaked up The Secret History like a sponge. I thought I remembered all the important details. I assumed I…
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Book Review: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
I’m not one to get caught up in too many book trends. I tried it once with The Fault in Our Stars, and I let the hype cloud my judgment about the book. Yes, I cried and I loved Gus and Hazel, but I burned out so quickly I didn’t even see the movie when it came out. To this day, I still haven’t seen it. Disclaimer, I do still like John Green’s storytelling and Turtles All the Way Down is top of my reading list. Anyway, I decided then that I wasn’t going to get sucked into big reading trends. That is, until Big Little Lies. There was something…
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Hello, World! – October Recap
October was a big month for my reading world. At the end of September, I started a book Instagram, which is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. I’m one of those people who either makes the snap decision to do something or I’ll sit on the idea for months (or even years) and never see it come to fruition. But there I was, sitting at my favorite coffee shop on a beautiful day, and I decided: today was the day. I mean, I texted two of my closest confidantes frantically to confirm that it was, in fact, a good idea. I wanted to have a blog ready…