It feels like a cozy-up-in-your-pjs-day with a good book and hot beverage. Romance Reader‘s Guide to Life seems like the perfect book to curl up with.
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The Romance Reader's Guide to Life: A Novel | 
It feels like a cozy-up-in-your-pjs-day with a good book and hot beverage. Romance Reader‘s Guide to Life seems like the perfect book to curl up with.
so-soI was taken in by the title. This is not a romance in ever so many ways, most of all because of the tragic story of Lilly, caught in a cycle of domestic violence (more details under the spoiler). It's an odd book, choppy with its inserts of a romance Neave grows up reading, and switching POVs.
pickI enjoyed it, the foreshadowing with the pirate lover inserts and I also loved being able to identify in the beginning with the young girl who just so wanted to leave the children‘s section at the library.
“Each seemed to me to be engaged in the same struggle- the challenge of abandoning control; the challenge of opening themselves with complete trust to the other. My brother had turned the same pages that I had, but read and entirely different story.” Page 128
so-soThis book wasn't the best, but I don't even care. It was charming and weirdly compelling and reading it made me happy, so I'm choosing to ignore the things that didn't quite work (interleaving stories and POV's being the biggest). It was made to be enjoyed and I enjoyed it.
Edit 8/16/17: while I enjoyed it at the time, the more I sit with it, the less I like it. Just changed my rating to So-So. It just kind of soured.
Not enough reading time today - lots of cleaning, visiting with a friend, swimming, late dinner out. I got peanut butter pie to go and I'm going to enjoy it with this pie-filled book. ❤️
I started this last night (while eating ice cream, so super "romance novel" appropriate!) and am enjoying it so far, except the excerpts from The Pirate Lover, which I'm feeling iffy about. They're not written in the style I'd expect from that type of book. But I'm keeping an open mind and delving further tonight!
Some of my upcoming reads for #riotgrams #summerreading - a bit belated I know. Not summer themed, but what I'm going to be reading in the nice weather!
Starting up a new #bookaboutbooks 😊 #romantsy #lovelife
pickJust finished this one while waiting for our flight back home. This was not what I was expecting and I loved it. #mayreads #homebound
bailed100 pages in and I didn't care. A book about romance readers that still manages to judge romance readers - at least so far. Anyone else loves this, tell me what I'm missing!
Books our friend Maritere is buying @TheBookmarkPR on our recommendation! She wanted entertaining reads. 🤓
I love this cover. Idk if the book is gonna fit my experience with romance the way I thought it would, but should still be an adventure.
