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When a relationship ends, the detritus that remains is painful. It’s thrown away. Burned. Donated. Shredded. Except for that one object—the wedding dress in the mason jar, the GPS, the little rubber piggy—that makes its way into boxes during every move. Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic started this little museum when their relationship ended because they wanted to remember. Since then, thousands of people have submitted notes and objects to the museum. This book is a collection of that: A sad recounting of 203 loves lost, but also a bright light, a sign of the ability to carry on.

From 4 Great Books About Relationships at Book Riot.

Michelle Poler’s mission is to encourage people to live outside their comfort zones, and with her book, Hello, Fears, she’s crushing that work. This is a gorgeous, colorful book about reaching your full potential and living a wonderful life with smarts and humor.

★ Note: I work for the publisher, and this review is mine, ALL MINE!

From 10 Funny Self-Help Books to Rock Your World at Book Riot.

In the early days of the virus in the United States, Alice Quinn, former New Yorker poetry editor and former director of the Poetry Society of America, started asking poets what they were writing while sheltering in place. And boy, did they deliver. Together in a Sudden Strangeness offers beautiful poems about every fact of life that’s changed in this pandemic: Grief, fear, hope, loneliness, awe, bravery, and everything in between.

From 6 New Books about COVID-19 at Book Riot.