Friday, April 30, 2021
Review - The 5 Love Languages
AUTHOR: Gary Chapman
RATING: ★★★★
Summary (from Goodreads): Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?
In the #1 New York Times international bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.
The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.
Includes the Love Language assessment so you can discover your love language and that of your loved one.
REVIEW: This is a great book for married couples. I've been married almost 30 years, and I thought I knew everything there was to know about my husband, but this book helped open my eyes to a couple of different aspects of our relationship. Dr. Chapman offers very good advice. The only thing that made me cringe were some of the stories he shared about his clients, but this had nothing whatsoever to do with Dr. Chapman himself. (There were a couple of his male clients who I wanted to reach through the book and smack upside the head!) I would recommend this book to all married couples...and singles too! Honestly, I believe everyone can benefit from reading it, no where what stage of life you're in.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Review - Big Summer
AUTHOR: Jennifer Weiner
RATING: ★★★★
Summary (from Goodreads): Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn’t spoken one word to Drue in all this time—she doesn’t even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media—so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless.
Drue was always the one who had everything—except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne’s no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She’s built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend’s siren song.
A sparkling novel about the complexities of female friendship, the pitfalls of living out loud and online, and the resilience of the human heart, Big Summer is a witty, moving story about family, friendship, and figuring out what matters most.
REVIEW: First of all, to say I saw myself in the heroine, Daphne Berg, would be an understatement. Her self-consciousness because of her plus-sized body. Her self-deprecating manner when it came to her skinny, beautiful friends. Feeling “less than” in certain areas of her life because of her size. Yeah...I felt that. This was my first time reading Mrs. Weiner’s work, and I really enjoyed it. I was kind of surprised when the plot thickened into a whodunit murder mystery, but I liked how it all came together, and the happy, feel-good ending brought a huge smile to my face. I would recommend it to everyone, and I look forward to reading more of this author’s work in the future.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
One Step Closer to the Sullivan Book Nook
SO HAPPY! I finally have my official charter number and plaque for my Little Free Library! One step closer to completing it and making this long awaited dream come true!
Monday, April 12, 2021
Review - Me Before You
AUTHOR: Jojo Moyes
RATING: ★★★★
Summary (from Goodreads): They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.
Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.
A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
REVIEW: Such a great story! I knew what I was in for before I started reading this book because I had overheard through the grapevine what it was about. But...WOW...talk about an emotional roller coaster! What I wasn’t prepared for was the actual amount of crying I went through while reading the last couple of chapters. Don’t get me wrong...it was a beautiful story throughout, but those last two chapters just kind of sneak up on you and hit you in the feels when you least expect it. I look forward to reading the other books in this series, and I would highly recommend it to everyone.
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