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How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow. This is the saddest happy ending I’ve ever read. A memoir of marriage and adultery and brokenness and forgiveness and faith and God and rage. It’s darkly funny and I laughed but cried more and I couldn’t put it down or step away.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

adventurous challenging funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Favorite read of the month (best of the first time reads at least…)  This is a creative twist on a time travel book: Each year on her birthday (1/1) Oona wakes up in a different year of her life. She gets a letter from the Oona of the year before, and has to navigate life at various ages and stages and try to figure out how it all peices together. There are a couple twists here that I did NOT see coming, and it really made me think about my lived-in-order life.
A perfect January book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer and Drug abuse

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I really enjoyed this story, which is both a very well done time travel romance and also a story of grief and finding what it takes to make a life you actually want rather than the life everyone tells you to want. 

(This took me so long to read bc my hold lapsed before I finished the audiobook, I read the second half with my eyes.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

4.5 Stars
I was ambivalent about the first book in this series (thought it had a trick ending and like the author maybe used the MC’s neurodivergence only when it was convenient to the plot). So I have no idea why I was so quick to read the sequel but I am glad I did, it was a better book. Loved the mystery, loved the characters, really enjoyed the listening experience.

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab

5.0

Beastly Bones by William Ritter

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I really enjoy this series, a sort of paranormal Sherlock Holmes set in a fictional version of New England in whatever is the American version of the Victorian age. This book (like the first) started slow but about halfway through became nearly un-put-downable.

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

5.0

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this book as much as I did. I have never wanted to write fiction, but this book made me want to write anything. It is like a (sarcastic, funny) love letter to writing.

Bossypants by Tina Fey

4.0

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

5.0