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The issue with me and this book is that I took being homeless over continuing to deal with my abusive family when I was 20 years old. Alexis refusing to nope out despite being a highly qualified surgeon is just unfathomable to me. Who cares if you'd be ending a 125 year legacy? It's not worth it.

This is the one Abby Jimenez book in this series I haven't re-read. I appreciated what she was trying to do, but just found Alexis impossible to cheer for. Waved to give it another shot to see if I just wasn't ready for it or if I really do just not like it.

Have gotten to the first hellishly awkward bit though and...yeah, I may not be able to do this XD

This book is gaslighting me into wondering if I'm asexual. Y'all. You LIVE together. You have a dog together. You co-signed a loan together. What's all this about "only" or "never more"? You're basically fucking married.

I need to break down and get the entire Part of Your World series in ebook. There are always easter eggs in the rest of the books, but I can't search them because my copies of Part of Your World are hardback.

I would not normally pick this book up because love triangles irritate me, but it's Abby Jimenez and I trust her writing so we'll see. If nothing else, she writes emotionally complex characters better than any other romance writer I've read

I have little interest in either of these characters, but Veda is awesome and I'm really hoping her and Skylar's brother get their own book

I was gonna settle in with a stormy day book today, but despite the dire forecasts of storms it's bright and sunny outside. Blue skies, not a cloud to be found. Do not believe that 100% chance of rain in the next hour.

I vaguely feel like I may have read this in middle school, but by now we're talking 30-ish years so I have basically no recollection of it. Figured I'd give a read since it's relatively short and counts for my massively behind BotM TBR list

The amount of ass kissing going on in this introduction already has me distrusting literally anything this man says. Suspect I'll be doing a deep dive into the citations.

Just realised I've actually read a couple of this author's books before—and they weren't total shit. Yay for potentially liking a contemporary romance again

Another book about a writer lmao but this one at least seems more promising. Also, the writer may have at some point actually looked at a picture of Ireland on Instagram

I'm supposed to be empathising with this girl's anxiety, but instead all I'm seeing is someone who insists on taking every single thing everyone says in the most negative possible way. At a certain point, you have to acknowledge that YOU are the common denominator and learn to deal with your shit

This is a dumb premise. For every bitchy fan there are four more who'd pick up this woman's book just because she's linked to their favourite celebrity, plus a bunch of others who will vaguely remember that they wanted to add it to their TBR but not really remember why

Do these women ever stop drinking? They've had like four bottles of wine and three of champagne in two days

I could never be allowed access to my own social media if I were even a little famous. I'd get into too many fights with stupid people

Wonder what it'd be like to read a romance that's not about a writer. Or a lit professor. Or someone who wants to be a writer or a lit professor.

This may have too much secondhand embarrassment for my socially anxious self to handle

Have set up a schedule to read this over the next couple of weeks because I realised FAR less of it is footnotes and citations than I thought XD If I don't make a schedule, I'll probably never finish it

So. Turns out I like this better when I read one letter at a time. Meaning I may finish it in five or so years.

He's out of the White House! Soon he will be dead!

I get that, yes, from a broader perspective GW's presidency is obviously important but, dear god, that was boring af. We get it, Jeffferson was a prick. Jefferson was always a prick. Let's assume it's known and move on.

I am trying to force myself to finish this, but I'm not sure I'm going to make it.

I want to finish this, but I do not want to go through the effort it would take to do so. I may have to grab a paperback edition to see just how much is annotations.

We're to the second half of the second term so this should theoretically be over soon, but man has it been a slog. Even with Flexner being a far better writer than Chernow.

This is already more interesting than the Washington biography so I may end up ditching out of that.

Yeah, no, this is not nearly enough to excuse the older sister. She is a lawyer. She is just as skilled at close reading at her English PhD sister, arguably more. There is no way she didn't see the way her words could be interpreted, and there's still no excuse for disappearing for actual months.

I want to murder the sister in this book. I do not give a fuck what you fight about, you do not ghost the younger siblings you basically raised. Not unless it rises to the level of abuse or discrimination. Basically throwing a temper tantrum about being an adult is not abuse or discrimination.

Omg there are footnotes 😍😍😍😍

I really need to remember to reread this for the country house scenes. It's one of the rare Balogh books that strikes a good balance between atmospheric immersion and plot pacing

Gah no gonna have to dnf this one because penis piercings just make me cringe way too much. PA is one thing, but this guy's got barbells down the underside of his shaft 😬🙅😬

See, the reverse harem thing works better when all the guys are in agreement about what's happening. This dynamic is going to end up just being annoying