❝ I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. ❞
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
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❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️
Happy Not Valentine’s Day
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Ever since my Dad died on Valentine’s, I have always dreaded the day. I don’t like celebrating it. There’s this sadness that I couldn’t shake off. To me, Valentine’s will always be a reminder of my biggest heartbreak. But then the sweetest guy came along and found a way to make me feel loved on Valentine’s and that it is still worth celebrating. We just have different name for it. Thank you love, Happy Not Valentine’s!
I love you. I appreciate all the efforts, always @jtrixxy . Distance doesn’t matter, I feel your love as if you’re here. 🥺🥰😘😍 P.S. I am really loving my new tumbler, keeps my coffee hot, for you know, whenever I need to finish some pleadings hehe! 😘 #valentinesday #flowersformariaclara #starbucks
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley {Thank you @_fullybooked for this ARC}
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Synopsis:
The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love
Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes--in a plain, green journal--the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It's run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves--and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica's Café.
The Authenticity Project's cast of characters--including Hazard, the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice, the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends--is by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It's a story about being brave and putting your real self forward--and finding out that it's not as scary as it seems. In fact, it looks a lot like happiness.
The Authenticity Project is just the tonic for our times that readers are clamoring for--and one they will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure. •••
This book is out in the world already so make sure you secure yourself a copy! Head to @_fullybooked now 🥰 Excited to start this one, heard good thing about it! #TheAuthenticityProject #ClarePooley #FullyBooked
❝ Sorry happens after something bad has happened, after people have let it happen. It had become contemptuous to me, all these I’m-so-sorries. ❞
— Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night
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Emma In The Night by Wendy Walker Book Review
3.5⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
A very layered book about mental disorder and its effect on families. I am conflicted giving this one a review. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it, I did, it’s just that it felt too repetitive for me. Especially the one about Narcissistic Disorder, like, okay we get it already. Please proceed with the story. The middle part felt flat and just dragged on. It’s not only towards the end that everything started to unravel with such intensity and cunningness. I was hooked the first few chapters then it lost me in the middle, then got my attention back towards the end. I had a hunch about the ending, but it still came as a surprise especially how every thing made sense. It fell short giving that whoa factor, and that was my main issue about it. But all things considered it was written beautifully and with such eloquence.
#nerdytalksreview #EmmaInTheNight
❝First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered. ❞
— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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Thank you so much @_fullybooked for the ARC of The Glass Hotel. Synopsis below:
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From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.
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This book is out on March! Be sure to grab a copy at @_fullybooked ⭐️🥰 Have you read any Emily St. John Mandel? I need to start diving into her works! Tell me your fave book by her! 🤍 #TheGlassHotel #FullyBooked #EmilyStJohnMandel
