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Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
3.5
The chemistry was hot. But I find it incredibly hard to believe that private equity bros turn out to be the heros and a woman in STEM is the villain. Just deeply, ridiculously unlikely.
Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur
4.0
Absorbing novel of a WASPy Cape Cod family simultaneously falling apart and piecing itself back together. It’s not a huge page turner—it’s more literary than that—but I read it in a lazy summer day nonetheless.
Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
5.0
Just a perfect romance. I love the way Jasmine Guillory writes sex scene — no dumb euphemisms or tortured metaphors.
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
4.5
This is not my usual genre, but CROOK MANIFESTO is an entertaining look at crime, race, politics and business in 1970s New York. A good vacation read.
Funny Story by Emily Henry
4.0
Delightful vacation read. I did not always follow the overwrought descriptions of which minor childhood trauma affected each character in certain ways, and it didn’t spoil my lakeside enjoyment of this novel at all.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
Just could not do semi-experimental fiction inside the meanderings of a middle aged white guy’s head. Really bummed to not like this one.
Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III
4.0
Page-turner of a novel about a middle-aged man reeling from the after effects of opioid abuse. While I found the MC’s wholesale change of character to be relatively implausible, I still really enjoyed reading this book (in 2 days while laid up with an awful stomach bug).
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
4.5
Gorgeous writing with effortlessly shifting POVs. The first Thurs was exceedingly slow, but things picked up as the narrative reached the present day. This is a dark novel, shot through with humor and glints of light.
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
4.0
Light read with a resolution that was plain as day from the first 50 pages. But it’s a delight to read Ruth Reichl on food and Paris, fairytale endings notwithstanding.