I HAVE UPDATED ALL MY REVIEWS OF TJR’S BOOKS TO 1 STAR BECAUSE I HAVE SINCE LEARNED SHE IS RACIST. She consistently tells stories about POC that are not her stories to tell and she has blocked multiple POC on twitter, specifically Latinx people for asking her to address this.

Sometimes your life is in the hands of yourself and the choices you make and other times you have absolutely no control over how life unfolds. Small moments turn into big events. TJR creates two parallel lives for Hannah Martin and as she navigates the beauty and difficulties in both, fate is revealed to be a complex thing, if it exists at all.

I HAVE UPDATED ALL MY REVIEWS OF TJR’S BOOKS TO 1 STAR BECAUSE I HAVE SINCE LEARNED SHE IS RACIST. She consistently tells stories about POC that are not her stories to tell and she has blocked multiple POC on twitter, specifically Latinx people for asking her to address this.

"Ryan and I are two people who used to be in love. What a beautiful thing to have been. What a sad thing to be." Of all of TJR's books, this was probably my least favorite but that isn't to say I didn't love it. Love is complicated and Lauren and Ryan's solution, while unique, is quite simple. Simple and hard are not mutually exclusive. A TJR's books always are, the book is warm and heartfelt, and the writing is incredible.

I HAVE UPDATED ALL MY REVIEWS OF TJR’S BOOKS TO 1 STAR BECAUSE I HAVE SINCE LEARNED SHE IS RACIST. She consistently tells stories about POC that are not her stories to tell and she has blocked multiple POC on twitter, specifically Latinx people for asking her to address this.

"You won’t realize just how young you are until you aren’t that young anymore." TJR's ability to make you fall in love with a character within the first 300 words of her books is unmatched. The book moves between Elsie and Ben's life together and Elsie's life after Ben. Their love for each other is infectious, but the real love story lies between Elsie and Susan.

I HAVE UPDATED ALL MY REVIEWS OF TJR’S BOOKS TO 1 STAR BECAUSE I HAVE SINCE LEARNED SHE IS RACIST. She consistently tells stories about POC that are not her stories to tell and she has blocked multiple POC on twitter, specifically Latinx people for asking her to address this.

So!! Good!! I read the first chapter weeks ago and then had to step away for a bit because of other commitments but from that chapter, I was hooked. I spent weeks waiting to finish everything else I had going on excited to revisit Maddie and her complex family story! About A 25 year old Ghanian English woman who loses her father and finds courage and identity, George is insightful and vulnerable in Maame. Relationships- familial , platonic, romantic, professional are HARD and Maddie really struggles managing them all while standing up for herself, but that’s why this book is so relatable. It’s devastating and hopeful, raw and original. I loved it!

This book was fine. I didn’t much like any of the characters. The mundaneness of Victoria’s life, leading her to insanity, was quite boring. I know we weren’t supposed to like her husband, but I couldn’t get passed how much I hated him. The title suggested one thing in my opinion, but the story was another. I love books about books, but this was a book about an unhappy woman who happens to read books.

I was really looking forward to Untamed because I heard such amazing things about it, and about Glennon Doyle, but I was a bit disappointed. It was refreshing to hear a story about a gay woman from a generation before me and her journey finding herself and it definitely succeeded in sharing the trials and tribulations of life. However, I think I was put off by just how religious it/she is. I obviously know faith is a huge part of Glennon's story and self exploration, but religion often makes me deeply uncomfortable and I couldn't put it aside. Also, at the risk of belittling her experiences, I'm also a bit over gay, but otherwise extremely privileged white women sharing their stories in a way that suggests they think their life is so incredibly hard.