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The Thirty-One Books of January

Because I am a person who derives energy and motivation from inventing goals and assigning them to myself as homework, January is a month in which I tend to be wildly energetic. Everyone else is lying in bed huddled up against the cold as they try to recover from the holiday season, while I charge around like the Energizer Bunny doing so many tasks it gives my mother a headache to hear about1 and being really, truly, genuinely annoying to my friends. But they have to deal with it because they know that the next time they want to make…

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Just So Much Fake Dating: A Romance Novels Round-Up

Happy Monday, friends! The Ex Talk, Rachel Solomon Here’s a twist on fake dating I’ve never seen before: Fake exes. In order to save their small public radio station, Shay Goldstein has to team up with the pretentious hotshot at her work, a man named Dominic Yun who’s beloved of their sexist boss and can’t stop talking about his master’s degree in journalism. They’ll be working on a podcast called The Ex Talk, where two exes discuss the world of relationships and dating, as well as their own unsuccessful relationship. Except Dominic and Shay have never dated; they’ve barely even…

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Epidemiology and Elevators: A Romance Novels Round-Up

Among the many things wrong with 2017 as a year is the fact that I hardly read any romance novels during it. What happened? I do not know! Either my brain just forgot romance novels were a thing, or else I was having such an amazing reading year that I didn’t have time to pause and spend some time doing comfort reads. Either way, NO MORE. In 2018 I am going to get back to reading my romance novels, because I love them and they are a blessing in my life. Here is a small round-up of some of the…

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