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Favorite Reads of 2023 (so far)

If anyone out there is paying attention, I did a post on my favorite books of 2022 for the first half of that year, but I never did a follow-up. I’m sure I read some good books the second half of the year, but somehow, I just couldn’t come up with them. Since I rated 4 books 5 stars in May, I thought I should write down my thoughts about them now. As come December, I surely won’t remember. In…

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Ella Laytham's illustrated book cover for Amy Poeppel's The Sweet Spot.

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Title: The Sweet Spot | Author: Amy Poeppel | Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books (2023)

[wellesleybooks]

Ria, our part time bookseller and full time student at Wellesley College made a book display. She calls it “Anything You Can Write We Can Write Better- Works by alumnae of historically women’s colleges.” It’s full of some fantastic books.

Ria's List

Wellesley College Madam Secretary - Madeleine Albright Mr. Churchill's Secretary - Susan Elia MacNeal Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo The Sweet Spot - Amy Poeppel Heartburn- Nora Ephron Dear Wendy- Ann Zhao Pieces of Blue- Holly Goldberg Sloan Barbara the Slut- Lauren Holmes Good Grief - E.B. Bartels We Have Always Been Who We Are- Sofia Romero Nancy Drew- Carolyn Keene (aka Harriet Stratemeyer)

Barnard College Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh The Vulnerables - Sigrid Nunez The Death of a Jaybird- Jodi M. Savage Making It in America- Rachel Slade

Smith College The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan The Cliffs- J. Courtney Sullivan A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Ariel- Sylvia Plath Mastering the Art of French Cooking- Julia Child The Starless Sea-Erin Morgenstern The Babysitters Club- Ann M. Martin

Bryn Mawr Crying in H Mart- Michelle Zauner The Trouble with You- Ellen Feldman The Brightwood Code- Monica Hesse Necessary Trouble- Drew Gilpin Faust

[sadiejulius]

thank you @midnight-sun16 for tagging me! ❤️

tag 9 people you want to get to know better!

Three ships: spoiler alert!!

huang yu xuan x li zi wei (someday or one day)

sung deok sun x choi taek (reply 1988)

vincenzo cassano x hong cha young (vincenzo)

First ever ship:

sorry this is basic lmao but troy bolton x gabriella montez (hsm)

Last song:

Last movie:

someday or one day: the movie. watching this in the cinemas hit different 🥺

Currently reading:

i just finished the sweet spot by amy poeppel

i plan to read the one we fell in love with by paige toon

Currently watching:

crash course in romance. it’s ending tomorrow, and i admit the shift in genres gave me whiplash, especially during the final stretch. but overall, it was a solid watch

if youtube counts, then any content from the channel watcher

Currently consuming:

milk tea with boba and egg pudding 🧋

Currently craving:

steak

Tagging anyone who sees this! Consider yourselves tagged if you would like to do this as well 🥰

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 80 of 2024: The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel

This was utterly charming and I loved it, but the setup is a little complicated to explain. Lauren is an artist who's just gotten a big commission from a lifestyle brand. Felicity, the CEO/influencer behind the brand, has just fallen for a married man, and Lauren makes a comment that encourages Felicity to tell her lover to leave his wife. Some time later, Felicity and her new husband have a baby, then Felicity goes off to shoot her reality show, and THEN the father has some kind of breakdown and leaves the baby with his ex-wife. For plot reasons, Lauren and her new babysitter, Olivia (who has her own connection to Felicity) end up caring for the baby, with help from the ex-wife, Lauren's mom, Lauren's father-in-law, and Olivia's dad. It's all very ramshackle and charming and funny and warm and just a delight.

What to read next: Mika in Real Life, by Emiko Jean, for another delightful novel about people badly screwing up and being loved anyway.

[jxrm]

book log - 2021

party of two by jasmine guillory

the ballad of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins

one to watch by kate stayman-london

the boy at the door by alex dahl

little cruelties by liz nugent

followers by megan angelo

the three mrs. wrights by linda keir

those other women by nicola moriarty

the affair by sheryl browne

influence by sara shepard

this won't end well by camille pagan

slay by brittney morris

the midnight library by matt haig

pretty little wife by darby kane

love & gelato by jenna evans welch

the prenup by lauren layne

firefly lane by kristin hannah

when you disappeared by john marrs

one year of ugly by caroline mackenzie

when no one is watching by alyssa cole

providence by caroline kepnes

the other couple by cathryn grant

musical chairs by amy poeppel

by the book by amanda sellet

all the good parts by loretta nyhan

the end of her by shari lapena

simmer down by sarah smith

there's something about sweetie by sandhya menon

over my dead husband's body by etta faire

what if? by shari low

the accidental beauty queen by teri wilson

searching for coach taylor by mindy kaling

bridal boot camp by meg cabot

the tenant by katrine engberg

meddling kids by edgar cantero

kind of hindu by mindy kaling

the last time i saw you by elizabeth berg

unscripted by nicole kronzer

dial a for aunties by jesse q. sutanto

lila by naima coster

big shot by mindy kaling

single asiactic male seeks ride or die chick by eddie huang

within these wicked walls by lauren blackwood

five total strangers by natalie d. richards

help is on the way by mindy kaling

love & estrogen by samantha allen

a touch of jen by beth morgan

instamom by cahntel guertin

second first impressions by sally thorne

the minders by john marrs

where the grass is green and the girls are pretty by lauren weisberger

undercover bromance by lyssa kay adams

the last mrs. parrishby liv constantine

if the fates allow by rainbow rowell

sweet virgina by caroline kepnes

less by andrew sean greer

the soulmate equation by christina lauren

crazy stupid bromance by lyssa kay adams

watermelon by marian keyes

graceful burdens by roxane gay

the last flight by julie clark

fly away by kristin hannah

isn't it bromantic? by lyssa kay adams

the rest of the story by sarah dessen

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I was tagged by @skitskatdacat63 ty!

Rules: tag 9 people you want to know more

Last song: "the giver" by sarah kinsley

Last show: ted lasso

Currently watching: ted lasso + succession

Currently reading: "the sweet spot" by amy poeppel I bought it at free meyer yesterday and its actually rlly good. the characterization is amazing and it kinda feels like it would be the modern-day version of a jane austen novel (don't quote me on that tho the last time I read pride and prejudice was actually years ago)

Current obsession: f1 </3 unfortunately LMAO its consumed my every waking thought, and ted lasso too

i dunno who to tag </3 if u want to go for it and say i tagged u idk

[stacyalesi]

THE SWEET SPOT by Amy Poeppel

Spotlight #BookReview: THE SWEET SPOT by Amy Poeppel, a lighthearted family farce with quirky characters & lots of laughs! @amypoeppel @AtriaBooks @EmilyBestler @simonschuster #BookTwitter #womensfiction #familyfiction #NYC #mustread #TheSweetSpot

Click to Purchase From the publisher: Amy Poeppel brings her signature “big-hearted, charming” (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby—belonging to exactly none of them—lands on their collective doorstep. Lauren and…

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Linda's Book Obsession Reviews "The Sweet Spot" by Amy Poeppel, Atria, Emily Bestler Books, 1/31/23

OMG ! Kudos to Amy Poeppel, the author of “The Sweet Spot,” for writing a unique, creative, captivating, witty, and spectacular novel. What started to be one of those days where everything was going wrong suddenly changed when I started reading Amy Poeppel’s book! This is such a laugh-out-loud book that I needed my inhalers because I was laughing so much. ( I have asthmatic bronchitis and cold,…

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"It's a strange thing ... how rare, how impossible, it is to have everyone you care about thriving at the same time. For a short spell, life seems certain and stable, until something shifts and redistributes, randomly, unpredictably, and when you look around at the new landscape, you see that it's someone else's turn now. You redirect your attention to focus on the friend in need. You hope -- you know -- they will do the same for you, when your turn comes."

Chloe, Amy Poeppel, “Small Admissions”

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Limelight

Limelight

Amy Poeppel

404 pages

Emily Bestler Books, 2018

Allison Brinkley is thrilled to move her family from Dallas to Manhattan. She has a glamorous and romantic view of New York, and she’s sure the whole family will love it. But fitting two adults and three kids in a New York apartment is harder than she thought, as is finding a job and affording decent schools. Suddenly she’s not so sure she’s cut out to be a New Yorker. When Allison sideswipes a BMW, she is inadvertently introduced to 18 year old Carter Reid, former teen heart throb singer and current famous bad boy who’s supposed to be making his Broadway debut - if he can ever sober up. Allison recognizes him as an orphaned teenager who just needs a little parenting. And so her New York life becomes intertwined with Carter’s as she winds up working as his PA, and trying to get him to take his Broadway stint seriously. 

Limelight is funny and charming. It’s so easy to relate to Allison’s optimism, having grown up in a small town, I’d always assumed New York was the ONLY place to truly live and be happy. Where the book really shines is in Allison’s dealings with Carter and his bad boy shenanigans, especially once she allows her oldest teenage daughter to become a part of Carter’s life. Though the book was long and some of it was unnecessary (the part about her husband’s attractive co-worker could have been left out entirely, considering that nothing actually ever happened with it) it was still a fun and lighthearted read. 

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Happiness is not a zero-sum game. It’s the only case in which the resources are limitless, and in which the rich can get richer at no expense to anyone else.

- Amy Poeppel, Small Admissions

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books recs! all time favorites or recent reads :)

oooooh okay so i've admittedly been slacking with reading lately but here are a couple of my all time faves!!

the mothers by brit bennett (i read this in like 24 hours - so good!)

the immortalists by chloe benjamin (another one i read in like a day)

the great alone by kristin hannah

the kiss quotient by helen hoang

small admissions by amy poeppel

the light we lost by jill santopolo

attachments by rainbow rowell

let me know if you have any recs! i need to get back into the swing of reading actual books!

Sleepover Saturday! Ask me literally anything!!!

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9 Books So Good, You’ll Forget about COVID for a While 

[via Get Literary]

There’s never been a better time to be a book lover. When you’re tired out from Zoom happy hours and sick of seeing Netflix’s “Are you still watching?” button resurface repeatedly, reading can whisk you away to exciting new worlds. Here are eight books so entrancing, you’ll forget about everything else.

Behind the Red Door by Megan Collins

Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

Majesty by Katharine McGee

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand

Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory

Self Care by Leigh Stein

Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein