The Good Part | 
November 19, 2025 Page 120 Folks! I have made more progress and come upon a turning point in the book. Is Lucy the mother of the children she has been with? Or is Sam treating her like somebody else ( presumably another woman )? Lucy wants to just go back to her old life. Not be stuck in a love story that doesn't exist and that she is questionig every minute
November 13, 2025 I have reached page 98. It seems like Lucy is traveling back in time and has two kids that she never knew she had and is a wife to Sam. Her life is very crazy and she is trying to get to "the good part"... where she ends up falling in love with Sam I suppose! We will see
November 10, 2025 It has been almost a month since I last posted... Life is not always about reading, but reading is a part of life. Reading for fun. Reading to learn. Reading for leisure. Reading just cuz! Anyway, I am on page 69 and it feels kind of slow. If you have read this book, let me know your thoughts because I feel like I am in a reading slump
Here we go! April‘s #bookspin and #doublespin picks!
Thank you so much for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks 📚
pickWhat would happen if you skipped from your 20s to your 40s, from all of the hard work starting out at your job to being successful at your career, from dating to find the right person to being married to a wonderful husband with 2 great kids? That's exactly what happened to Lucy after she made a wish on an arcade game, a wish that she could just get to the good part of her life already.
pickSatisfied my craving for a slightly magical time travel-type story 🧡
pickLoved this one! I laughed so much but also had many feels, as some heavy subjects were dealt with. Lucy, 26, does not have her life in order. Broke, a string of horrible dates, and a dead-end career has her wishing to skip to the good part of her life, where she has money, her person, and the career of her dreams. Her wish is granted, and suddenly Lucy is 42, but she starts to wonder if perhaps all of life‘s ups and downs are the good parts.
pickJust finished this and I have all the feels. It‘s a beautiful story that reminds you that life is full of ups and downs, and it‘s important to keep a grateful outlook. Or at least that‘s what I took away from it. It made me think about how thankful I am for my husband and children and how even if I could go back and do it over, I‘d choose this life again.
pickA fun read about wishing to jump ahead in life so you can skip the hard parts. Thought provoking, heart warming, and a fun cast of characters. I thought this was going to end up being a grief manifestation, but it wasn‘t. Book #26 in 2024
pickI wasn‘t sure about this book. Lucy is in her 20s and nothing is going right for her. Then she makes a wish to get to “the good part” of her life, and she wakes up in her 40s. Now she has a family and a high-pressure job and of course high jinks ensue. Will she ever get to go back and does she even want to? It‘s a good question!
pickLucy makes a wish and ends up 16 years in the future, her life drastically changed. Freaky Friday meets 13 Going on 30 in this heartwarming novel about finding the good part of life. Well fleshed out and relatable characters and a satisfying HEA. Loved it! 4.25/5
pickI lied. I said Holiday Romance was my favorite book of 2023 but this one is-I LOVED IT! So many emotions, life questions...fascinating! The MC wishes herself from 26 to 42. And I like how the author didn't pit one version of the main character's life against the other. It was more of her seeing she didn't fully appreciate what she DID have in her 20's. She sees that there's a "good part" to all phases of life. She just needs to look for them.
Two weeks left to determine my final reading bracket results!! #2023ReadingBracket #ReadingBracket2023
Apr and Sept are blank because I didn‘t actually finish a book in those months 😬
Making this was really fun - I‘m so curious what‘ll be the top read of the year!
🧹Nimbus 2001: Set or written after 2001- How Not To Die Alone
🧹Quidditch Gloves: Set in winter - The Last Devil to Die
🧹Beater: Includes a competition - The Good Part
🧹Gryffindor: Related to Gryffindor house/traits- Paper Things
🧹Cho Chang: Written by an Asian or AAPI author - Falling Back in Love…
#quidditchcupreadingchallenge
pickThe Good Part is a beautiful reminded that life may be unfair, challenging, and frustrating at moments but finding the good amongst the bad is what makes it worth living each and every day.
"Surveying the books, I feel like a mother who‘s failed to provide for her children. They deserve a decent bookcase; they deserve to be displayed, spine out, sorted by genre, not heaped in a pile on the floor of my damp room. One day, books, one day." - The Good Part
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pickJust let me wish on a star and fast forward to a point in the future where my life will surely be bliss. It‘s a well understood trope. What made this story unique was how the supporting characters were made aware and reacted to Lucy‘s situation. It was fun to read.
pickWe've been wanting to take this photo for a hot minute, but the clean-up is intimidating 🥵 we'll be putting their dust jackets on until the cows come home 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄
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pickTHIS BOOK!!! I sat down to start and then did not get up until it was finished. Was BAWLING as it got to the end- so masterfully written that not only did I not know how it would end, I didn‘t know how I WANTED it to end! As someone who‘s often wished I could “skip to the good part,” this really hit home. The characters were so real and lovable (Felix!!) and this is now one of my favorite books. I need to read more by Cousens!!
pickThis book was soooo good with reminders of the movies “Big” and “13 Going On 30”. So relatable and really speaks to the question of one‘s life experience, the good, the bad and the ugly, and if we could skip the bad/ugly, should we and what would we be giving up? Lucy Young as a 26-year-old is tired of being overlooked for promotions, she‘s tired of terrible dates and she‘s tired of her living arrangements. So following another disastrous date,🔻
