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Message today from my Paris Adventure Advent Calendar - thanks to @dabbe -

Wishing you peace and joy🎄

I loved exploring Dexter and Emma‘s relationship from graduating university to celebrating milestones together. The snapshots of their lives provided so much detail that could be related to. The writer showed how life can change in the blink of an eye and the characterisation enabled the reader to feel like you were peeking into their lives.
Refreshing to have a woman‘s character told from a male author. I now need to watch the tv series! 4🌟

#whereareyoumonday
I‘m really getting into this now. I‘m loving the twists and turns of Dexter and Emma‘s relationship. Going to definitely watch the series on Netflix after finishing the book. 📖

Starting this tonight as it‘s been on my TBR for a while. I‘m in a routine now of one kindle book followed by one paperback. My TBR seems to be reducing!
Hope everyone is ok x

They see me haulin'

They hatin'

What a beautiful edition 😍 and what makes it even better is that via Waterstones points and gift cards I only ended up paying £2.41 for it!! 📚📖

#Waterstones

It's One Day Day!! 📚📖

#SummerSouls Day 28: #Rollercoaster romance-friends-lovers kind of vibe in our book club pick for June/July with college kid who is home from Seattle. Dexter is definitely not endearing himself to me one third into the novel that our 22 year old and I are reading aloud. We read one chapter a day.

Sometimes, a whole bunch of holds come in on the same day 🤩

If you loved the series adaption of #OneDay by David Nicholls as much as I did, you will definitely recognize these stairs in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! It‘s called The Vennel and is right next to the famous Grassmarket. When you climb up these stairs, you get a wonderful look of the castle 🏰!

Absolutely bloody gorgeous.
I saw so much of myself in Emma. Such a relatable novel, packed with humour, emotion, and spirit. I laughed, cried, and everything in between. This is a really easy read and perfect for people who wanted to enjoy "Normal People" but found the characters unrealistic and pretentious. I loved it. But, yes, I'm still crying.

Squeezed this one in ahead of my other books after watching the Netflix series. I don't often read romance novels, but I loved this one - despite knowing exactly what happens. The series is brilliant but as always the book is even better.
✅ loved the storytelling from both sides
✅ Emma's character is hilarious and so relatable
✅ so many great 90s references and memories
👎 I guarantee you'll cry at some stage

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView 😊💕
Thanks for the tag @The_Penniless_Author 😁

1) Nearly 3 years ago I packed up my life in York and moved back in with my parents. 3 years?!?! What am I still doing here?

2) The tagged is one of my favourite books of all time. Apparently another adaptation has come out recently. I need to watch it because the film was cack.

I keep hearing about this Netflix show and how it‘s based on a book and sounds right up my alley…. Decide I should read the book first and then watch the show only to see on my Goodreads account that I read it and gave it 4 stars in August 2016…. And have no recollection of it! 😂
Debating rereading or reskimming or just going to the show?? I guess I liked it 🤷🏻‍♀️😂 Hate when that happens! Am I the only one?

Happy Valentine's Day!! Valentine's book, nails, coffee 🌹☕ who needs real love when there are romance novels on the world 😉💖

Thanks @thegreensofa for putting this on the #AuldLangSpine list for me! You can‘t help but get so deeply attached to these characters; love them, hate them, want to shake some sense into them. Beautifully written; compassionate and heartbreaking all in one. I couldn‘t help but yell, “WHAT?”, reread the same sentence 5 times and have to take a pause before finishing. Heartbreakingly beautiful and moving this book. ❤️

Waiting for my (hopeful) last appointment EVER with my hand surgeon, starting my first #AuldLangSpine read! Thanks @thegreensofa for the recommendation. 💕

It's the second time that I've read this book but it has been many years. I love being transported back to the culture of the 90s and the bittersweet relationship between the 2 main characters tugs at my heart strings each time.

#manicmonday #letterO @CBee @The_Penniless_Author

📖 One Day (David Nicholls)
✒ Richard Osman
📺 The Office (UK)
🎤 Oasis
🎶 Once in a Lifetime (Gary Moore)

Easy choices when it comes to song, book and TV show...

Never heard of this book or this author before a friend gave it to me. She picked it up at a dollar bookstore. Sometimes you find hidden treasures this way.

1. Don't really celebrate Valentine's Day, but have enjoyed Galentine's Day with @peaknit (books and chocolate swapped of course)!
2. Tagged book was the first one I thought of!
Thanks @Kshakal @TheSpineView #two4Tuesday

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#Beginswith Day

Day 22

I'm rubbish at writing top 10s because I get to number 10 and realise there are about 50 books I've missed out. Weird that my favourite books, largely, aren't written by my favourite authors... 1,2,3 & 5 are unlikely to change. I have a feeling this list is going to change over the next few years... and I'm pretty sure Stuart Turton is going to write his way into my top 10 soon...

Anyone want to share a fave book of all time or 3?

Part of this book crushed me. My work colleague at the time loaned it to me and told me he through the book across the lab when he got to the bad bit.

Happy One Day Day!!!

A wonderful book set over twenty years on this day.

This was included in a list on a booklover's blog containing the titles of all the best romance books. I liked a few on the list, so I figured this was probably a good one to try. It was made into a movie that Anne Hathaway starred in. (❤ her!)
This was really really good.
Emma and Dex meet on their graduation day, July 15 1988. They begin their topsy-turvy friendship from that point on. We get a glimpse into their lives every year on July 15.

#QuotsyFeb21 Day 8: #Tidy

This was a fantastic palette cleanser! I loved the detail and related a lot to the characters! I‘m glad I read this one!

🥺😭🥺😭😭🥺🥺 ahh my heart hurts, but in a good way... so glad I finally got around to reading this. Loved the movie before I realized it was a book . Book of course is better! Need to watch the movie again and bawl my face off some more.

Happy One Day day ❤️📚📖

I was quickly drawn into the story of Emma and Dexter told in snapshots from July 15th every year for 20 years. I enjoyed watching them transition through different stages in their lives and relationship. This was a pretty polarizing book on Goodreads but I loved this book despite the sometimes unlovable actions of its characters. Nicholls really wrote a convincing female character and I loved the dialogue in this book as well.

Very good. Love the characters and the story even though this is a reread it feels like I am reading it for the first time. As the characters and story are just as fresh and timeless. The original 'what if and fated to be together' love story.

#HodderandStoughton
#Hachette

Truly a sentimental journey for these two, Emma and Dex

#sentimental
#boundtogetherjune
@OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

5-11-20: My 36th finished book of 2020! 🌟🌟🌟🌟I really liked this one! #oneday #davidnicholls 👍🏼📖#️⃣3️⃣6️⃣

5-11-20: My new bookmark that I received for Mother‘s Day. It‘s perfect! 💖📖

Maybe it's just the here and now but I'm 65 pages in and avoiding doing any reading as I don't want to pick this up.
So disappointed as it gets so much love but all I'm seeing so far is clichéd unreal depiction of twenty something graduates #bail 😔😔😔

Struggling to focus on reading but going to give this one 50 pages to decide.... So much for staying home meaning loads of reading 🙁 Horrible movie cover but I got it free on an office little library lol 😁

“It used to be Emma who made the conciliatory calls and smoothed things over, but in the eight months since their marriage they seemed to have changed places, and he now found himself incapable of doing anything while he knew she was unhappy.”

🎶I've sailed a thousand ships
But no matter where I go
You're the one for me baby
This I know 'cause it's
True love🎶

#trueblue
#movember
@Cinfhen

#Movember #Cherish
I‘m always a fan of David Nicholls writing... A perfect mix of sentimentality and humor for me....
Lovely words here... “ #cherish your friends” 💕

The two MCs write letters to each other for many years.

#MrDarcysLetter

#SoaringScores @CrowCAH @Cinfhen

7 days. 7 covers you love. No explanation. Tag a new person to participate each day.

#7days7covers #coverlove

@thereadingunicorn - Wanna play??

#adayinthelife
#redroseseptember

Emma and Dexter keep meeting up on the same day, but years apart.... lots of people loved this but I didn‘t particularly like either Emma or Dexter...