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Ariel’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ariel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ariel Meadow Stallings
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David Sedaris, Jett Psaris, Elizabeth Lesser, Yumi Sakugawa, Steven Le
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February 2007
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"worst $6 i have ever spent in my mf life. reading this book was the equivalent to ripping out each individual hair follicle on my head.
i actually can't believe i avoided every spoiler on this book like the mf plague thinking this series was gonna be" Read more of this review » |
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| I'm conflicted on this 3 stars. This book annoyed the hell out of me! It's twice as long as it needed to be and agonizingly redundant (Shannon is described as tiny literally hundreds of times. She also "whispers" and "croaks" over and over again). Th ...more | |
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Massively bored with this book. Not only was it WAY too long, and so repetitive. The characters were very shallowly written. I felt the entire time I was reading it, "Why am I wasting my time when I literally just don't care." I've n" Read more of this review » |
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"Oof can only go up from here on my 2025 reading journey🥴"
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| Hmm. This book is well written and compelling in a rubbery necky "how low will she go" way, but I'm not sure I can say I enjoyed it. Most characters in the book are unhappy and/or unlikable, and the few that aren't are treated either with contempt (G ...more | |
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| Aww. What a sweet cozy lil read. I had some initial concerns about how cartoonishly bad the bad guy bureaucrats were... but then we got into the characters out on the island and it was sweet and easy and a nice light lil read. | |
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| Dragged, and I almost didn't finish it. Reading the acknowledgments, it sounds like this book went through the ringer before getting published, and I felt it as a reader. Cute concept, but turned into political/military coming of age tale that just w ...more | |
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| omg did this make me cryyyyyyyyy. If you're looking for a rollicking pace or unpredictable twists, look elsewhere... but if you want heartfelt cozy Puget sound vibes, this is the book for you. ...more | |
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| Aww, this one was just what I wanted which was a cozy cute distraction. Great inclusivity, and I loved that the protagonist was bi/pansexual, without it being an issue. | |
“Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.”
― Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
― Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
“Make peace with the fact that there will be those who bitch no matter what you do. You might as well do what makes you happy, so at least when you hear the bitching, you'll know that the event they're griping about was exactly the one you wanted.”
― Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
― Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
“In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.”
― Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
― Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
“Every time I read a management or self-help book, I find myself saying, “That’s fine, but that wasn’t really the hard thing about the situation.â€� The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal. The hard thing isn’t hiring great people. The hard thing is when those “great peopleâ€� develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t setting up an organizational chart. The hard thing is getting people to communicate within the organization that you just designed. The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare.”
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
“Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans—I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment,”
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
“If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.”
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
“I am not suggesting that everything bad that happens to us is sent directly by a knowing hand—cooked up specially for our personal development. Nor do I mean that by using the stuff of life as grist for the mill you will learn what you need to learn and move on into a problem-free world. And I also don’t recommend courting drama and disaster so that you can be broken open to the truth. A catastrophe is not a sign that God has singled you out for greatness. What I do mean is that you can use anything—everything—as a wake-up call; you can find a treasure trove of information about yourself and the world in the big trials and the little annoyances of daily life. If you turn around and face yourself in times of loss and pain, you will be given the key to a more truthful—and therefore a more joyful—life.”
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
― Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
