monicalaurette's reviews
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What a cute little bit of extra scenes for Bee & Nolan.

This book threw me for a bit. I liked it, but sometimes the characters did things that just felt so odd to me that I think it took some of my enjoyment. Also the way it was an open ending and left too much to the imagination. Like, was he going to buy a ticket or just live with the uncertainty?

The Shakespeare aspect to the book was interesting because I don't know his works that well, so trying to understand what they are saying some of the time was difficult to me.

so very selfishly i hate the storyline with 008 in it so I don't want to read this, the writing that I did get through was great...but I can't do her

Such a cute story that slowly feels like a self help book but not in a bad way.

While I agree that systems need to change, I felt there was not as many solutions as the book thought it was giving, also it said in the beginning that it wouldn't focus too much on higher education and I felt like that's all it focused on for social systems. Either way there was some good information and research in the book

What a fun book to read in November of 2024. It went over how the current system of higher education both works and needs to be updated for all students (traditional or non, online or on campus). It also touched a lot on the ways that being poor and/or non-white affects your journey in higher education in such a short book. I felt that it was really a nice touch that Paul was both honest with his journey and included that he was touched by privilege along the way. Almost want to see what an updated version of this book would read like.

I read this book within three hours and then went to see the movie right after. And I'll just put her that while I didn't cry while reading the book I sure did cry a few times while watching the movie.

First picked up this book from a little free library because it sounded cool, and only after learned of the adaptation. It's such a fun book following Roz and I think a great one for literally any age to read. Now I'm going to head to my local library and see if they have the next two in the series to read because I MUST have them.

I love a good vampire book, and I love a good book with a plus size woman (whether she is learning to love herself, already loves herself, or hates herself). This book had both of those elements so it made it a good book to start.

The fact she starts right away as a vampire and it's not a change made partway through the book was a fun way to change the genre of vampire stories a bit. I liked the way vampires worked, their world and laws, and the way slayers were also made. While it was very like 'oh of course it works that way' it was also refreshing for it to work that way instead of it being a really intense book.

Lily learning to love her body, learning that her constant self-hatred harms her friend, and that her friend really understands Lily's mind was a nice touch to me. I am also still fighting a bit with loving myself but for the most part I am in love with myself. That part of the story felt real to me with my own struggles and relationships with other people in life

like the mother-daughter relationship regarding food and size

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Really the only thing I didn't like about this book was how many pop-culture or name-brand references there were. I get why Twilight was mentioned so much, but everything else made me like cringe. Why can't we just have 'I looked at my phone' instead of 'I looked at my IPHONE' because like why does it matter what phone she has? That and the fact that there was a lot of talking to the reader (sort of breaking the fourth wall) when it's not supposed to be that type of book in my opinion made my enjoyment go down a little.

also Lily saying "holy dick boogers"...like girl are you 25 or a middle-school aged boy?