Abbreviations #126: The Nightingale, Bringing Down the Duke + The Wife Upstairs

I’ve had The Nightingale , an adult historical fiction novel from author Kristin Hannah centered around sisters Vianne and Isabelle and their individual experiences during World War II, on my TBR for years now, but I kept putting off reading it because I was genuinely afraid that it wouldn’t live up…

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March 2021

March was, without a doubt, the hardest month of 2021 so far. The truth is that I was engaged in an internal battle with my own anxieties for nearly the entirety of March. While I tend to be more private about certain aspects of my personal life, I feel like it's important for me to note that I…

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Abbreviations #125: The Dating Plan, Down Comes the Night + Namesake

While it was this adorable cover design that drew my attention initially, I was convinced to read T he Dating Plan because of the premise. A fake dating situation between our heroine (software engineer Daisy Patel, who loves lists, Marvel and her family) and her older brother’s former best friend-sl…

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Friends with ARCs: Float Plan

Having read most of Trish Doller’s body of work, I was eager to get my hands on her adult contemporary debut Float Plan… especially after I found out about its compelling premise. Our heroine Anna is still grieving the loss of her fiancé (spoiler alert, but also content warning: suicide); her life’…

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February 2021

This month just flew by so quick! I'm not too upset about it because it's been so cold and dreary (which usually puts me right into hibernation/sleep mode), so I'm looking forward to the weather getting warmer and the days getting longer. We had two winter storms up here (and a couple o…

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