![]() I wanted to love this book the same way that I wanted to love Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and in some ways, I did love The Kiss Quotient. They agree to work together, each hiding secrets that the other is afraid to admit they already know about– and don’t mind at all. Except Michael, her escort, quickly learns that Stella’s problem isn’t that she’s bad at sex– she just needs a partner who will be considerate of her autism. ![]() So she hires a male escort to help hone her skills before she approaches a coworker who she thinks might be a good match. ![]() ![]() When her parents start making comments about grandchildren and suggesting help finding her dates, Stella decides to take matters into her own hands before they get too carried away. She’s rich, and up for a new promotion– but her love life is lacking. Bonus: the hero is mixed-race.Ībout the book: Stella Lane is a phenomenal econometrician– which means she analyses what people buy, and creates algorithms to help sales companies suggest future purchases to their consumers. ![]() The draw: the heroine of the story is a woman with autism, in a gender-swapped Pretty Woman love story. In the meantime, I borrowed a copy of another BOTM selection, Helen Hoang’s new adult romance novel, The Kiss Quotient. So my actual Book of the Month Club selection this month was Michael Rutger’s The Anomaly, but it’s set in the Grand Canyon, which I’m visiting later this summer so I’m putting that on hold for now. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But he never wonders about the authenticity of her sadness, which sucks her down and takes over everything. Sometimes his narrator wonders if Em is putting on the manic phase a bit, emphasizing her craziness for dramatic effect. But Pinto is also superb when talking about the highs and lows of bipolar disorder, which Em has. These conversations, dashing back and forth between topics, form the spine of the book. “No, silly, I’m talking about The Sound of Music.“ Freud was in the navy?” I asked, confused. Not that I’m racist, but why would they have a navy when they’re landlocked?” He must have been odd, even for an Austrian. “But that’s what Freud says every boy wants to do to his mother. “Ick,” I said when Oedipus wandered off, his eyes bleeding and his future uncertain, escorted by his daughter who was also his sister. Though the book is occasionally disorganized, as Pinto jumps around in time from his childhood to his adulthood to his teen years and back again, what shines is the dialogue, which conveys everything about its characters. ![]() Hat tip to Shannon for the recommendation! Through conversations with his mother, Em, about how she met his father and the course of her mental illness, we see the toll that Em’s illness has taken on her and on her family. Em and the Big Hoom (affiliate links: Amazon, B&N, Book Depository) is a son’s story of his manic depressive mother and his family’s life with her. Oh how I love a book that can speak unhysterically about the hysterical awfulness of living with a severe mental illness. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the drive to the airport, Maelyn miserably wishes that she could find out what would make her happy…and suddenly, she’s back on the plane to the cabin, pre-Christmas, about to live the whole week over again. ![]() ![]() But then, on the last day of their vacation, Theo and Andrew’s parents announce that they’re selling the cabin. The only thing that’s going perfectly in her life is the lovely Park City cabin where her family, Theo and Andrew’s family, and her parents’ other college friends get together every Christmas. Maelyn’s spent years waiting for Andrew to notice her as more than a friend, but now she knows she’s screwed things up for good by kissing his brother. At the age of 26, she’s living with her mom and stepdad, she’s stuck in a dead-end job, and, perhaps most important, she just had an eggnog-filled holiday hookup with Theo Hollis, her family friend and the brother of her unrequited lifelong crush, Andrew Hollis. Things aren’t going as planned for Maelyn Jones. A Christmas wish leads to a Christmas nightmare when one woman gets stuck reliving the holiday season, Groundhog Day style. ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed the human drama, the love and hurt, the scheming for revenge, rivalries and loyalties in the Forbidden City. ![]() ![]() I did not know about the legend that forms the basis of this story but that did not matter. Her inner thoughts and descriptions are fascinating and enable the plot turns and her interactions, particularly with Nurhan and the Emperor, to come off as convincing. I was immediately taken with the writing style, often in short staccato to move the plot along quickly and easily able to instil the sense of drama, urgency and an intimacy with our protagonist.Īlthough she is often naïve, Hidligh’s narrating voice avoids the trap of stagnating in the role of a passive victim. I must say that the author did a splendid job at describing the surroundings, giving us just enough detail to smell the fragrance but not overloading us with pages and pages filled with the results of showy background research. I picked this book to review because of its unusual setting: the China of 1760. “The Emperor conquers a Muslim country to the west of his empire and summons a local woman from his new dominion to come to the Forbidden City as his concubine… Hidligh is kidnapped by a woman scarred by the conquest who offers her a deal: become the Emperor’s concubine, living a life of luxury. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1173x1600px Picsart Cb Edit Background Png - Picsart Cb Edit Background HD phone wallpaper.1120x1600px Editing Png Editing Background, Cb Edit Background, Editing Png, PicsArt HD phone wallpaper.IPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad iPad, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Mini 4, 9.7" iPad Pro: 2048x1536, 1536x2048Įdit cb edits chinese new year 2023 PicsArt chinese Nature Editing Background instagram highlight cover instagram highlight covers black instagram Cover Chinese Pattern naruto edits picsart editing uchiha IPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Plus: 1284x2778 IPhone Xs Max, iPhone 11 Pro Max: 1242x2688 IPhone X, iPhone Xs, iPhone 11 Pro: 1125x2436 IPhone 6 plus, iPhone 6s plus, iPhone 7 plus, iPhone 8 plus: 1242x2208 ![]() IPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8: 750x1334 IPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone SE: 640x1136 IPhone: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS: 320x480 ![]() |