The Roommate (The Shameless Series, #1)by Rosie Danan 325 pages, Paperback Publisher: BerkleyRelease Date: September 15, 2020My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary House Rules:Do your own dishes.Knock before entering the bathroom.Never look up your roommate online. The Wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter Clara. She’s

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Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)by Alexis Hall 425 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaRelease Date: July 7, 2020My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary Wanted:One (fake) boyfriendPractically perfect in every way Luc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and

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Eleanor & Parkby Rainbow Rowell 328 pages, HardcoverPublisher: St. Martin’s PressRelease Date: February 26, 2013My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary “Bono met his wife in high school,” Park says.“So did Jerry Lee Lewis,” Eleanor answers.“I’m not kidding,” he says.“You should be,” she says, “we’re 16.”“What about Romeo and Juliet?”“Shallow, confused, then dead.”“I love you,” Park says.“Wherefore

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“Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?” – “The Sky is Everywhere” by Jandy Nelson. Spotlight on: LOVE What is it about love? As soon

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Olive Kitteridgeby Elizabeth Strout 270 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Random HouseRelease Date: March 25, 2008My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other

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The Girl on the Trainby Paula Hawkins 336 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Riverhead BooksRelease Date: January 6, 2015My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people

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