Hahah-this felt like a very familiar Friday morning! Are you open to reading sad but beautiful, sweeping, generational family drama books on vacation? I LOVED Hello, Beautiful by Anne Napolitano. Or on the nonfiction side, Mary Louise Kelly’s memoir, It.Goes.So.Fast., about her son’s last year if high school has some beautiful reflections on writing, career, motherhood...and also made me cry. I don’t have any lighthearted recs 🤣 But it seems like everyone loves Happy Place, the new Emily Henry book! (I’m hoping to be off the library waitlist by Halloween.) Have a great vacation!!
Hello, Beautiful has been on my list for awhile so thanks for the reminder. I can't remember if I have this on my library holds but I'm about to check! I'm on the waitlist for Happy Place but I'm pretty sure there are 300 people ahead of me 😜 So I look forward to reading that around Halloween with you! ha. Thanks for the memoir rec, too, looking that up!
For your beach read...have you read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld yet? It's good! I don't like romances or rom-coms but I'd call this a "thinking woman's chick lit" haha.
I might be the only person who didn't love that book because you are the third person to recommend it after I read it 🤣 The premise was right up my alley but I found the main character super unlikeable and the banter lacking. Have you read Thank You For Listening?
I didn't enjoy Romantic Comedy either. I agree about the banter and I truly just didn't give one fig about the main characters 😅 And all the Covid stuff at the end was a curveball & too much for me!
TYFL has the kind of magnetic, clever and witty banter I like in a rom book. I think that's the other reason I couldn't get into romantic comedy — the actual exchanges between them were so blah.
Hahah the emails were a love/hate thing for my book club. I loved them! The first third of the book was rough for me because of all the tedious SNL details. But once the emails hit, I had a lot of fun.
Books I loved for vacation reads: Jessie Q Sutano's Four Auntie's series, The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, and, interestingly, Trevor Noah's memoir Born a Crime.
NO scent, and it's completely clear. It glides on like a makeup primer. No joke I have been using supergoop for probably close to 5 years now and I am just as obsessed with it now as I was the day I found it!
Oh this was wonderful and just what my brain could handle of Day 5 of summer vacation. And ooooh - so many new products and special things to look into!
Your working mom/camp shout out literally made me LOL. The struggle is real. I refused to leave for vacation a few hours earlier because I had shelled out so much money for this one camp and darn it my kids were gonna enjoy every bit of it! 🤣
Thanks for these recs!! I would LOVE to buy TP at Costco but our house is small and we have NO storage (apparently homes built in 1950 have not heard of the hall closet?). We even have a one car garage ... if I come home with 80 rolls of TP I have nowhere to put it 🤣
I can very much relate to frequently running out of toilet paper and forgetting basically everything. I don’t know if they have Who Gives A Crap in the US, but they are a game changer. They deliver a massive box of toilet rolls to your door. And it’s all wrapped in paper and gives money to sanitation in developing companies blah blah but the best bit is it is dropped off super fast and you can put it on subscription.
This week I had my parents visiting and I realized too little too late that we had ZERO rolls of TP so you are not alone. I loved all your summer recs! Going to try the serum, texture spray, and wide leg pants 😘
Living an hour from town has forced me to not forget about TP. But I've learned the hard way! ;) I just found out today that the author of "Nora Goes Off Script" has a new book out and I cannot wait to read it!
I as well also cannot figure out to adult. 🙋🏻♀️ My husband and I just had a conversation today about how as kids we thought our parents had it all figured out and now that we’re the parents, we know they were just making it up as they go like we are now. I forgot two whole zoom meeting in a row last week so clearly I’m winning right now.
Cereal always tastes better at night! This I believe. Love reading your link roundups — like texts from a friend! Happy summer. The bottom half of my newsletter always holds my latest recs for what I’m cooking/loving/reading/listening to, and my latest one has some good ones for summer! You can check it out here. https://kathryndave.substack.com/p/kicking-the-bucket
Hahah-this felt like a very familiar Friday morning! Are you open to reading sad but beautiful, sweeping, generational family drama books on vacation? I LOVED Hello, Beautiful by Anne Napolitano. Or on the nonfiction side, Mary Louise Kelly’s memoir, It.Goes.So.Fast., about her son’s last year if high school has some beautiful reflections on writing, career, motherhood...and also made me cry. I don’t have any lighthearted recs 🤣 But it seems like everyone loves Happy Place, the new Emily Henry book! (I’m hoping to be off the library waitlist by Halloween.) Have a great vacation!!
Hello, Beautiful has been on my list for awhile so thanks for the reminder. I can't remember if I have this on my library holds but I'm about to check! I'm on the waitlist for Happy Place but I'm pretty sure there are 300 people ahead of me 😜 So I look forward to reading that around Halloween with you! ha. Thanks for the memoir rec, too, looking that up!
Hello Beautiful was one of my top reads so far this year!
That book sounds good!
For your beach read...have you read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld yet? It's good! I don't like romances or rom-coms but I'd call this a "thinking woman's chick lit" haha.
I might be the only person who didn't love that book because you are the third person to recommend it after I read it 🤣 The premise was right up my alley but I found the main character super unlikeable and the banter lacking. Have you read Thank You For Listening?
I didn't enjoy Romantic Comedy either. I agree about the banter and I truly just didn't give one fig about the main characters 😅 And all the Covid stuff at the end was a curveball & too much for me!
She was SUPER unlikeable! But I liked Noah and in my head he was John Mayer, haha. Never heard of Thank You for Listening--I'll look it up!
TYFL has the kind of magnetic, clever and witty banter I like in a rom book. I think that's the other reason I couldn't get into romantic comedy — the actual exchanges between them were so blah.
Having said that — reading is subjective and you do you 🤣 But I really liked Thank You For Listening!
I'll give it a try!
I am so glad you said this!!!! I picked it up Romantic Comedy this week thinking I would love it and had to stop at the emails. 😬😬😬
Hahah the emails were a love/hate thing for my book club. I loved them! The first third of the book was rough for me because of all the tedious SNL details. But once the emails hit, I had a lot of fun.
Books I loved for vacation reads: Jessie Q Sutano's Four Auntie's series, The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, and, interestingly, Trevor Noah's memoir Born a Crime.
Ooooh thank you!
Does the invisible sunscreen smell like sunscreen? I just bought some cetaphil and it smells like sunscreen 🙈
NO scent, and it's completely clear. It glides on like a makeup primer. No joke I have been using supergoop for probably close to 5 years now and I am just as obsessed with it now as I was the day I found it!
Oh man now you got me teary eyed once I read your piece and the line "middle school is going to be great" 🤍
Oh this was wonderful and just what my brain could handle of Day 5 of summer vacation. And ooooh - so many new products and special things to look into!
Your working mom/camp shout out literally made me LOL. The struggle is real. I refused to leave for vacation a few hours earlier because I had shelled out so much money for this one camp and darn it my kids were gonna enjoy every bit of it! 🤣
Girl, I GET THAT.
I think you’d love this book as a beach read!
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Ooooh thank you for the recs!!
Costco for TP! Buying it in bulk helps me keep up with it.
A lady’s guide to fortune hunting
The magnificent lives of Marjorie Post
Any of Katherine Centers books.
Have all been good reads lately!
Thanks for these recs!! I would LOVE to buy TP at Costco but our house is small and we have NO storage (apparently homes built in 1950 have not heard of the hall closet?). We even have a one car garage ... if I come home with 80 rolls of TP I have nowhere to put it 🤣
I can very much relate to frequently running out of toilet paper and forgetting basically everything. I don’t know if they have Who Gives A Crap in the US, but they are a game changer. They deliver a massive box of toilet rolls to your door. And it’s all wrapped in paper and gives money to sanitation in developing companies blah blah but the best bit is it is dropped off super fast and you can put it on subscription.
You are the second person to mention this to me! I am looking it up!! What a great idea (and a great name 🤣)
So glad a mom I admire so much also goes to the store many times a week. I can never remember everything in one trip 🤣
Do you think it’s wrong to get your book in every format? (Asking for a friend who already owns it on kindle AND print lol.)
Thanks for the links!!!!
It's almost funny how often I go and how much I STILL FORGET. 🫠 Thanks for buying Create Anyway, Jess!! ❤️
This week I had my parents visiting and I realized too little too late that we had ZERO rolls of TP so you are not alone. I loved all your summer recs! Going to try the serum, texture spray, and wide leg pants 😘
Living an hour from town has forced me to not forget about TP. But I've learned the hard way! ;) I just found out today that the author of "Nora Goes Off Script" has a new book out and I cannot wait to read it!
I am #26 in the library queue!
I’m #23 but they only have one copy. So... I will probably have to use an Audible credit!
I as well also cannot figure out to adult. 🙋🏻♀️ My husband and I just had a conversation today about how as kids we thought our parents had it all figured out and now that we’re the parents, we know they were just making it up as they go like we are now. I forgot two whole zoom meeting in a row last week so clearly I’m winning right now.
Cereal always tastes better at night! This I believe. Love reading your link roundups — like texts from a friend! Happy summer. The bottom half of my newsletter always holds my latest recs for what I’m cooking/loving/reading/listening to, and my latest one has some good ones for summer! You can check it out here. https://kathryndave.substack.com/p/kicking-the-bucket
To those, I’d add:
-this cocktail for summer nights or poolside https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/530/army-and-navy (orgeat was my discovery of summer 2022!)
-this incredibly flattering tank for $8!! https://www.target.com/p/women-39-s-ribbed-tank-top-a-new-day-8482-olive-s/-/A-82488867?ref=tgt_adv_xsp&AFID=google&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000086349400&CPNG=PLA_Women%2BShopping_Traffic_Local_Traffic%7CWomen_Ecomm_AA&adgroup=SC_Women_Local&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9060223&targetid=pla-896010377188&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfaIudvQO5t1zSLFNtJHu8rPK&gclid=CjwKCAjwkLCkBhA9EiwAka9QRhKZuimInAP1kJrOwaUUV3oB1W3sZMUV2vKow8AT_FPQ7rBPnbNNGxoCD_kQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
-Sorrow and Bliss for a beach read that’s both funny and achingly relatable. Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel: Mason, Meg: 9780063049598: Amazon.com: Books
Nora Goes off Script is a easy breezy summer rom com. It hits all the right notes with enough twists that it feels fresh and satisfying.