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The One Hour Content Plan: The Solopreneur's Guide to a Year's Worth of Blog Post Ideas in 60 Minutes and Creating Content That Hooks and Sells by Meera Kothand

informative fast-paced

4.0

I learned about Meera from a blogging podcast, and I immediately went to check out her books! She has about a dozen books, all relating to different aspects of content creation and blogging. This book is a relatively quick read, but I spent time taking notes so it took me longer to get through it. (There’s also a lot of bonus content available on her website.) This is a great book to read if you’re just getting started as a blogger. It’ll help you build a solid foundation so you can start your blog on an immediate path to success rather than the winding road I (and many other bloggers that started years ago) took.

 

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The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

lighthearted medium-paced

3.5

This is the sequel to The Wedding Date. It’s not a true series in that you don’t follow the same main characters in every book, but the characters do intertwine, so if you don’t want to be spoiled then read them in order. I didn't like this book quite as much as I did the first book, but I'm going to continue with the series!

This one follows Carlos and Nik; Nik is unexpectedly proposed to at a pro baseball game, which she promptly declines, all while Carlos watches from a distance. He and his sister save Nik from the media…and then they become inseparable, but not without some bumps in the road and surprise feelings along the way. 

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Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

I started this book on Kindle (borrowed via my public library) and then purchased a physical copy when my loan was up because I’m a sucker for books that have to do with weather (even adjacently haha). This is a super cute novel about a broadcast meteorologist named Ari who got her dream job working for her childhood idol at a news station in Seattle. (I love the mentions of weather throughout the story!) But, things are not going so well: Ari’s engagement recently ended, and there’s tension between her boss and her boss’s ex-husband in the studio. She conspires with a colleague to try to get their bosses back together, and in the meantime, they fall for each other! It’s a super sweet and somewhat predictable story that I loved.
 

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When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed this book; it’s one of those books where you just want to keep reading because you want to know what happens next. If you love the separated-sisters-live-different-lives trope in The Vanishing Half, you’ll enjoy this book. Kit’s sister Josie died over a decade ago in a horrific train accident while abroad. Or not? While working as a doctor, Kit sees Josie on TV in footage from a club fire in New Zealand, and with the nudge of her mom, sets off to find her. The chapters alternate between each sister’s perspective and backstory, which is often tragic (trigger warnings for sexual assault, rape, drug use, alcoholism, suicide, child abuse, parental death). There’s also a secondary, steamy story between Kit and a Spanish man she meets while in New Zealand. Highly recommend!

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Built to Belong: Discovering the Power of Community Over Competition by Natalie Franke

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

I enjoyed this book, but man it was difficult for me to get through. I dunno why! It just felt really slow for me (sometimes I can get through nonfiction quickly, and sometimes it’s a struggle even if I’m enjoying the content). It’s definitely a book I would recommend if you struggle with feeling like you don’t belong, especially if you’re also in the weird entrepreneur, blogger, influencer, or online space in general. I related to so many of the messages Natalie shared, and it was a really important reminder for me to stay focused on my community and creating content with my readers in mind.

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The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

Even though this isn’t your typical series, I wanted to start from the beginning, and boy did I love this book! It was so sweet and very romantic. I will say that I like it when stories wrap up in neat, happy little bows, even if they are predictable. Sometimes you need a feel good story in light of all the other heavy things happening in the world. Drew is without a date to his ex girlfriend’s wedding, until he ends up stranded in the elevator with Alexa—the perfect fake girlfriend…until she’s not!

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The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion

funny lighthearted medium-paced

3.5

This is the third and final book in The Rosie Project series! I enjoyed it overall. (Note that the short synopsis I wrote is a spoiler if you haven’t read the first two books. You’ve been warned!)

Don and Rosie move back to Australia with their son, Hudson. There are new problems for Don to solve when Hudson starts having troubles at school, and he works to solve them in ways only he knows how (and comes to an important realization about himself by the end)!

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Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

For some reason, this was a book I was saving…for what, I don’t know. The right moment, I guess? Whatever that means. This book made me think about creativity in ways I never have before. I will say that it was not what I was expecting, so for that reason it didn’t totally blow me away, but it was still a good read on living a creative life and how to do that on your own terms. This book is for everyone that aspires to live creatively in whatever that means for you and not just for people that already have creative endeavors!

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book follows the lives of twin light-skinned Black women, one of which lives as a Black woman and the other who decides to pass as white, and their respective families. I found it super fascinating and could not put it down in spots! I will say that it could get confusing with the third-person perspectives changing fairly often, so I don’t think I could have followed this in audiobook form (and others told me they DNFed the audiobook) but reading it was fine! I thought it was fabulous.

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Beach Read by Emily Henry

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

An author inherits her father’s beach house after his death and finds herself next door to her attractive college enemy (frenemy?). You can probably guess where the story goes from there! 😉 It’s a fun rom-com, and yes, definitely a fun read for the beach!

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