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general fiction review 

2021: #60 – Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)

June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 0 Comment
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is. A person, at the end of their rope, decides that the way they are going to move forward is to rob a bank.

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general fiction review 

2021: #36 – Beartown (Fredrik Backman)

September 22, 2021September 17, 2021 0 Comment

Beartown is a small town in Sweden that is on the way out. One thing is keeping it alive — a ice hockey team of teenage boys on their way to win the national championship. A win like that, used to entice a popular hockey organization to relocate there, could mean everything. But teenagers are messy, and their parents are messy, and people don’t always

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nf - memoir non-fiction review 

2019: #25 – My Life As a Goddess (Guy Branum)

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 0 Comment
My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum

Guy Branum is a comedian/writer who is possibly best known for being a writer for Chelsea Handler and the Mindy Project, and the host of Talk Show the Game Show and the Pop Rocket podcast, which is how I was introduced to him and became a fan. Being familiar with Guy and his style/delivery, this book was even more than I expected. Guy uses pop

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new adult review 

2017: #4 – It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover)

October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 0 Comment

This book fell solidly into the “eh, it was okay” category for me. I’m not familiar with Colleen Hoover, but she appears to have quite a following. If you look around, you’ll see a LOT of 5 star reviews for this book. But it just didn’t do it for me. First, the male lead’s name kept pulling me out of the story. Ryle. Is it

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Hi, I’m Jaime…

That’s I before M, 5 letters, no Ys. Obsessed with books. A lot.

   

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Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
contemporary romance review romance 

2021: #81 – Spoiler Alert (Olivia Dade)

November 1, 2022October 31, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments

I really liked the heart of this book. I loved April and her unapologetic geekiness, and I liked what Dade has to say about body positivity, and that she wrote a male protagonist that walks the talk. What I wasn’t expecting was just how detailed into the fanfiction subculture this was going to go. It’s one of the few times I’ve started a book and

Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton
review romance romantic suspense 

2021: #80 – Cover Your Eyes (Mary Burton)

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
hf - multi-period saga historical fiction 

2021: #79 – Fall of Giants (Ken Follett)

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
fantasy high/epic fantasy review 

2021: #78 – The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)

July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments

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