#emma lord

[orionhong]

— the love was there. (it didn't change everything, but it changed me)

x. // erin slaughter // state of grace - taylor swift // x. // architecture - maisie peters // white ferrari - frank ocean // begin again - emma lord // x. // lunar years - maisie peters // king lear // hope ur ok - olivia rodrigo // cheryl strayed // 19 - xana // begin again - emma lord // the only exception - paramore // anne sexton // there it goes - maisie peters // road to hell (reprise) - hadestown // the things they carried - tim o'brien // in case you don't live forever - ben platt // molly templeton // for good - wicked // jeanette winterson

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

It has been a HELL of a few days. Thank god for books 🖤

[redlanterns]

I'LL BE YOUR OPERATOR, BABY, I'M IN CONTROL

[delilahsbard]

@fictionnet event 08 - favourite book.

“You can’t just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like that’s a normal thing.”

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

[backndforthfromnewyork]

begin again, emma lord

[brightbeautifulthings]

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell & Begin Again by Emma Lord

WHY:

First-year college experiences

Complex family & friendships

Friends to lovers romance

[reading-backstage]

you’re telling me ai chatbot has been around long enough to be mentioned in a published book???

[biilyadasadece]

"Mesele benim ne olmak istediğim değil, içinde herkesi incitmeden ne olup olmayacağımdı."

-Tweet Savaşları, Sayfa 68.

[animezinglife]

This is the lamest college campus in human history.

[livvelaris]

" - Z tej deski skaczą pięciolatki, Pep.

- Pięciolatki nie wiedzą, że człowiek to istota śmiertelna."

~ "Tweet cute" Emma Lord.

[mydarlinginej]

read my full review of begin again by emma lord here.

As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and maintain her lifelong goal of becoming an iconic self-help figure despite the nerves that have recently thrown her for a loop. All it will take is ruthless organization, hard work, and her trademark unrelenting enthusiasm to pull it all together.

But the moment Andie arrives, the rest of her plans go off the rails. Her rocky relationship with her boyfriend Connor only gets more complicated when she discovers he transferred out of Blue Ridge to her community college. Her roommate Shay needs a major, and despite Andie’s impressive track record of being The Fixer, she’s stumped on how to help. And Milo, her coffee-guzzling grump of an R.A. with seafoam green eyes, is somehow disrupting all her ideas about love and relationships one sleep-deprived wisecrack at a time.

But sometimes, when all your plans are in rubble at your feet, you find out what you’re made of. And when Andie starts to find the power of her voice as the anonymous Squire on the school’s legendary pirate radio station–the same one her mom founded, years before she passed away–Andie learns that not all the best laid plans are necessarily the right ones.

Filled with a friend group that feels like family, an empowering journey of finding your own way, and a Just Kiss Already! romance, Begin Again is an unforgettable novel of love and starting again.

my review:

As per usual, I’m always excited for a new Emma Lord book! While this wasn’t quite the story I was expecting, I still really enjoyed it. Heartfelt and profound, Begin Again shows us all the ways that a new day can be a new beginning.

Andie Rose has everything figured out: she’s just transferred to Blue Ridge State, where her parents attended, to major in psychology and plans to surprise her boyfriend. Her plans go awry almost immediately when she finds out that he transferred to her previous college and her first day of class goes horribly. All of her ideas to help her new roommate Shay figure out her major don’t work, and her R.A. Milo keeps pointing out flaws in her ironclad plans. Over time, however, she has to realize that life doesn’t always go the way you expect it to, but sometimes that works out for the better.

I really liked the characters! Andie is a fixer, which ultimately stems from her desire to fit into people’s lives. She’s always scared of people leaving her, so she thinks that people will like her more if she can help them in any way. I like that she gradually realizes that she can’t help everyone though; at some point, she has to put herself first. Milo tells her this often, and in turn, she helps him with some family issues that he refuses to face.

read my full review here.

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Chapter one ✨🤍

[redlanterns]

emma lord goes to 100 gecs

[mistwraiths]

4 stars

Tweet Cute was something I definitely needed. Light and cute, with some genuine good moments and depth. I enjoyed Pepper and Jack individually as characters, as their relationship went from acquaintances, to friends, to a relationship. I found the snark and the memes to be good and not the overly mean or eyerolling type!

I actually really liked that by the end of the novel they just were actually deciding to be together. Not only did it feel fresh for a teenager rom-com but it felt realistic. Also PepperJack is a great ship name for two who warred together on opposite sides of the #GreatCheeseWar.

The dynamics between their families and other friends were refreshing and different, and I did sympathize with both struggles of the characters. I loved that any misunderstanding between the two was clearly up extremely quickly because they TALKED to each other and trusted each other. Also, when Pepper was mad and Jack said his grandma was in the hospital so that tweet her mom sent hit home hard and he didn't erase Ethan's tweet, the first thing she did was asked about his grandmother!!! My heart!!

Overall, I really enjoyed it all. It wasn't genre breaking or anything, and it sometimes did feel a little too introspective at times. But I had a good time with it.

[brightbeautifulthings]

Begin Again by Emma Lord

"'My life may have just flashed before my eyes,' I say after we're in the clear. 'Was it pretty?' asks Shay. 'Honestly, there was a lot of scrolling through Instagram.'"

Year Read: 2022

Rating: 4/5

About: Andie Rose is always the girl with a plan to fix things, and right now her goal is to repair her relationship with her longtime boyfriend, Connor. His semester at Blue Ridge State while Andie stayed at their hometown community college strained their relationship almost to the point of breaking, but Andie has a surprise: she's transferring to Blue Ridge second semester after pulling up her grades. The one problem? Connor transferred to her community college to be closer to her. With all her plans wrecked, Andie is determined to make the best of it and get her boyfriend back to Blue Ridge, but in the meantime, she discovers her own place there. I received a free ARC from Wednesday Books. Trigger warnings: parent death, cheating, mild underage alcohol use, mouth-watering descriptions of bagels and cream cheese flavors with no recipes included.

Thoughts: After my lukewarm feelings about You Have a Match, I wasn't sure I wanted to give Lord's writing another try, but this showed up in my mail. I couldn't very well abandon it, and I'm glad I gave her books a second go. Begin Again is much more my speed. It could probably be classified as New Adult, given all the characters are college-aged, and it's an excellent book for that sort of atmosphere. We're right there with Andie as she adjusts to her first semester, from dorm living and work study to the intellectual demand of her classes and finding her place in the campus activities. It's a little Extra like most fiction (I was never that involved with campus, and certainly not in my first semester), but overall it paints a fun picture of American colleges.

I stand by what I said in my previous review that Lord's writing is a bit dense, especially for the genre, but in this case I really enjoyed being immersed in Andie's perspective and all the different aspects of her life. I was expecting her long-distance issues with her boyfriend to play more of a role (contemporary romance, after all), but what the story is really about is Andie finding her place on campus and figuring out who she is, which is one of the things college is ultimately about. Her friendships with her roommate, Shay (a lesbian Bookstagrammer with an undeclared major), her RA Milo (a caffeine-addicted sophomore who doesn't believe in love), and her tutor Valeria (a bisexual math major who writes romance in her spare time) all play a large role in the novel, and I came to love them and their interactions. Connor is a bland love interest at best, but it's cool since he's hardly ever on the page.

In addition to Andie's friends, her family relationships also get a lot of attention. She was raised by her adorable grandmas, and her relationship with her dad has been strained since her mom died. I laughed and cried in the same chapter when Andie finally got a heart to heart with him, and I found that whole arc really moving. There's also a strong thread in Andie's relationship with her mom, who may be gone but is everywhere in the book and on the Blue Ridge campus, her own alma mater, as Andie figures out how to live up to her mother's legacy and create one of her own. There's a lot of excellent character development for her overall, and I very much enjoyed being along for the ride.

[spiralcass]

Emma Grace Forst may be who I named myself after, but DC does have their own former supervillain telepath named Emma who was also abused by her asshole billionaire father, and who's also killed members of her family.

Stan Emma Deropalis AKA Emma Lord AKA Liar Liar