My goal this year was a triple cannonball. I seemed to have exceeded that. “He was met by a collective shriek as the brides parted like biblical waves around him.” A few others have reviewed The Ship of Brides here, but in case you’ve missed it, here’s a plot summary. At the end of World War II, hundreds of women in Australia had married British servicemen and then ended up separated from them during the course of the war. In 1946, these women took airplanes and […]
“You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
Jojo writes in the introduction to this one that she never really intended to write a sequel to Me Before You, but the fans demanded one so here it is. I’m not sure that Me Before You really needed a sequel, but I’m glad she provided one — even if it’s not quite as good as the first (when are they ever, really?). “You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every […]
“Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
Like my sister warned me — get your tissues ready for this one. “All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine. You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.” Louisa Clark has been sort of muddling through life — she’s dated the same guy for 7 years without it really […]
This one adds up! (hyuck hyuck)
This was probably one of the most romcom-y books that Jojo Moyes has written (or that I’ve read, anyway) and I will admit I loved every sweet minute of it. “The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or… basically, sometimes you just have to keep […]