Current and Recent Reads, December 2024

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     It’s been a busy couple weeks as I’ve been finishing up Christmas presents and getting ready for the holidays, so my apologies for a brief lack of posts. I usually always have a “write night” with friends (my D&D group, actually) every Wednesday night, which is when I usually write posts for here, but that hasn’t happened because of the holidays as well. You know how December goes! Well, I have plenty of post ideas on the backburner, but very little time or energy right now to flesh them out, so let’s do a quick round-up of books I’ve […]

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Review: “On the Plus Side” by Jenny L. Howe

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Title: On the Plus Side Author: Jenny L. Howe Published: December 2023 Genre: Romance Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★   Sometimes, a book comes along that absolutely speaks to my soul, and On the Plus Side is one such book. It could’ve been written specifically for me, aside from the fact that I didn’t meet the author, Jenny L. Howe, until this fall (disclaimer: she co-runs the romance book club that I attend, but I have no bias towards her writing despite that). But never have I felt more seen about who I am and what I’ve experienced, and […]

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The Brilliance of Book Clubs: A Follow-Up to The Merriest Misters

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     Last week, I wrote a review for The Merriest Misters, and I plan on going back to that and amending it after this, but tonight I wanted to write a separate post talking about that book and the wonderful experience that book clubs bring. Namely, different perspectives. On Monday, the romance book club met to discuss The Merriest Misters, and we were joined (via zoom) by the author Timothy Janovsky himself. We had a great conversation and touched on many different things, a lot of them very important, but it especially brought to mind that I read this book […]

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