Welcome back! I’ll be on vacation in about a week and it doesn’t feel real. Like I know it’s on the calendar, but I have so many things to get down between now and then that it hasn’t hit me yet. You know what I mean? What are your holiday plans looking like? Content warning for the discussion of cancer and death below. … Author Sophie Kinsella has died at age 55. In 2022, she was diagnosed … Continue reading Links: Excel, Sophie Kinsella, & More
Happy Wednesday! Thank you to everyone who shared their summer recipes. I’ve put a few of them in the grocery queue. In a personal news, we adopted a third cat! We got her from the same shelter where I adopted old man Linus seven years ago. They even showed me Linus’s old intake photo. He was definitely much plumper then. There were so many wonderful cats, including a beefy black cat named Alcott who had … Continue reading Links: Monster Romance, Crochet, & More
40-Love is part of the Marysburg series by Olivia Dade. Shana and I both enjoyed this romance between a tennis player in his twenties and a forty-year-old high school assistant principal on vacation. The book glories in having a fat heroine and addresses issues including chronic pain, the challenge of reinventing oneself, inequities in the American school system, and navigating romance across an age gap. Despite all these topics, however, the book remains light and … Continue reading 40-Love by Olivia Dade
I read Keeping it Hot with the expectation that I would get a friends-to-lovers romance set somewhere warm and beachy. Instead what I got was a whole lot of “what the fuck did I just read?” Here’s what you need to know: Zoe Hart runs a coffee shop inside the Oceanix resort in Florida. The resort is owned and run by her best friend (and secret crush) Dylan Jackson. Zoe has just turned twenty-nine and … Continue reading Keeping it Hot by Sydney Landon
