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8 TV Shows I Would Read as Books

Posted on by Sara B.
(Image: Young Royals)

There are so many books being adapted into TV shows these days, I can’t keep up. But I try, as I love the experience of seeing a story and its characters brought to life. Or, the opposite, seeing the live action and then wanting the source material. Just recently, I got sucked into the Bridgerton hype (usually not my thing, but they got me with Season 3’s friends-to-lovers trope 😅), and after that carriage scene, reading the book was an absolute must.

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Mini Review: Attached at the Hip

Posted on by Sara B.

Attached at the Hip is marketed as Survivor meets The Bachelor, which, okay — sign me up. I’ve never watched Survivor, but I am an unabashed fan of Bachelor Nation and other trashy reality TV shows. Sure, they can be overly dramatic, bordering on freaking nuts, but that’s the fun of it. I can tell that Christine Riccio had a lot of fun bringing that craziness into Attached, which made it entertaining for me as a reader.

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Mini Review: I Wish You Would

Posted on by Sara B.

This checks all the boxes for me. ✅Stubborn AF friends-to-lovers. ✅Forced proximity in a cozy beach setting. ✅And angst. Lots and lots of delicious angst. Eva Des Lauriers’ debut YA novel I Wish You Would is as addicting as the Taylor Swift song it’s named after. It follows best friends Natalia and Ethan, who are so in love but oh-so terrified to rock the friendship boat. After a disastrous prom night and a summer of ghosting each other, they reunite for their Senior Sunrise school trip. Giving them 24 hours to fix things.

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5 Audiobooks that Convinced Me to Love Audiobooks

Posted on by Sara B.
(Image: Run On)

If possible, all my books would be in hardcopy. I love the book feel, the book smell, and of course, creating all the voices and visuals in my head. But physical books take up A LOT of space and, naturally, A LOT of time. Enter audiobooks. A medium that took me a few years to accept, after just getting used to eBooks.

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Mini Review: The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist

Posted on by Sara B.

The perfect YA book concept doesn’t exi–

Okay, that doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but you get my point. The premise for The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist sounded so wild and fun, I had to check it out. Protagonist Ivy finds that her favorite fictional hero Weston Razorbrook has come to life — but something’s off. It’s not just the character but the fanfic version of the character Ivy wrote. He’s literally made for Ivy, yet it doesn’t take too long for Ivy to realize he may not be exactly what she wants.

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Mini Review: In the Orbit of You

Posted on by Sara B.

**CW: Contains themes of child abuse and trauma.

This book is ~sweet~. Like sipping lemonade out on the front porch kind of sweet. In the Orbit of You had me from the very beginning, when we meet young Nova and Sam playing in the dirt by their connected fence. The queen and king of Snailopolis, as they call it. (Freaking adorable.) They’re torn apart, however, when Sam is taken away from his abusive home to live with his uncle. Snailopolis and its royalty become a distant memory. Until Nova and Sam meet again in their final years of high school.

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Mini Review: Breathing Underwater

Posted on by Sara B.

Breathing Underwater‘s gorgeous cover was calling me like a siren — I mean, look at that thing. 😍 But it was the synopsis that really got me. The book, by Abbey Lee Nash, centers on teen competitive swimmer Tess during the summer she’s diagnosed with epilepsy. As she grapples with this news, everything she’s ever dreamed of and planned for her life is screeched to a halt. How can she swim when she’s constantly at risk of having a seizure? But then, how can she not swim, when that’s all she’s ever known?

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Review: The Getaway List

Posted on by Sara B.

Nothing like a good summer read in the winter time. 😎 The Getaway List is the latest YA novel by Emma Lord (author of the adorable Tweet Cute), as well as the latest book I’ve snuggled up to with hot cocoa this season. The fun vacation vibes of the story is a nice escape, as it follows protagonist Riley fresh out of her high school graduation and desperate for some change. Like, now.

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Double Feature: You and Me at the End of the World & The Half-Life of Love

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Y’all, I might have found a new author to add to my “Read Everything They Ever Write” list. Brianna Bourne came in with her debut YA novel You and Me at the End of the World in 2021, and later with The Half-Life of Love this past March — two contemporary romances sprinkled with the right amount of fantasy. I love discovering realistic stories and characters that seem like they’re touched with just a liiiittle bit of magic. Enough to make you want to believe in it.

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Saying goodbye to a Friend.

Posted on by Sara B.
(Image: Friends)

Here’s the thing about celebrity deaths — it’s okay for them to hurt. People get a lot of shit for crying over the loss of a beloved celebrity or public figure, because they didn’t personally know them, and it’s not deserved. I obviously didn’t know Friends actor Matthew Perry. I only knew the Matthew Perry I watched onscreen or, more recently, read about in his memoir. But when I first saw the news of his passing, it hit me like I lost a close friend.

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