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History with a dash of mystery that holds a mirror up to life in 1906 San Francisco as it actually was. The Phoenix Crown is a page turner with richly drawn characters. And it's another great example of how powerful adding another lens on history can be. …
Happy New Year! It's time to talk Most Anticipated Reads for 2024. I gotta tell ya, it was tough narrowing it down this year and there are a few obvious big releases this year that aren't on the list. Not because I'm not excited for them, but because I wanted to make space for books…
Shauna Robinson's debut, Must Love Books, tackles the dilemma of balancing personal fulfillment, career stability, and paying your rent.
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Sometimes the dream of working in publishing looks difference once you're on the inside. In Must Love Books, Nora is 5 years into…
Christina Lauren’s first foray into women’s fiction is as swoonworthy as any of their romances
Review copy provided by Gallery Books
When I sat down to write this review of Christina Lauren’s Love and Other Words, all I could think of was the scene in The Notebook when Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams get…
If You’ve Been Missing Rom-coms at the Movies, You’ve Got to Read Jasmine Guillory’s The Wedding Date
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The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory’s debut novel is absolutely delightful. Alexa and Drew meet cute and get stuck temporarily in a hotel elevator in San Francisco. Luckily, she’s armed with…
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5 stars
In The Marriage Pact, a therapist and his musician-turned-lawyer wife find themselves invited to join a secretive, exclusive community dedicated to ensuring a successful marriage that lasts forever. By any means necessary.
Set against a backdrop of San Francisco Bay Area affluence,…
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Birthday. Booze. Boys. Tragedy. Revenge. Mid-life Crises. Comeuppance. Robyn Harding's The Party exposes when what *looks* perfect is terribly, terribly flawed.
3.5 stars
The Party opens on the day of Hannah Sanders’ 16th birthday, diving right into establishing the family dynamic. Dad Jeff is a…
It may be April, but this month's cookbook deals say there's still time to hunker down with bread and booze. On the romance side, there's a double deal for rom-com lovers with two Christina Lauren books on sale. Our April book deal picks on Kindle:
Bourbon: the Rise, Fall and Rebirth of an American Whiskey
Once and…
Waffles don’t show up too often here, despite the blog being called DailyWaffle. Around our house, they get inhaled before they can be captured with anything other than iPhone. So this is big, and if we’re going big, we’re not bringing your average Sunday morning waffles. These are Blue Bottle liege waffles – the ones…
Two days after being back from SF, I’m finally hungry again. When you’re trying to pack food experiences into a compressed amount of time, you’re never hungry for 3 meals, let alone afternoon snacks. But I persevered. California delivered a gorgeous week of sunshine, practically a heatwave for early October. Ahhh, vitamin D. And not only that, this past weekend happened to coincide with Fleet Week, the America’s Cup, a post-season Giants game, and a Niners game. But let's start with an appetizer, shall we? The Ferry Building ended up being a home away from home of sorts, since it was so close to the hotel.
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