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CHAPTER 9 - This is better than what I remember of Book 1. It's worth losing sleep over. Hopefully, I'm done before bedtime.

Page 40 of 316 Episode 69B Full Circle (Bonus Scene) 💍 DAKOTA - This isn't as good as the last 2 books but it's sill on a roll. I feel like many of the storylines are taking unnecessary breaks. I also don't understand why Joel couldn't just use his money to find his SIL so his FIL could go to Greece in peace.

Page 32 of 326 CHAPTER 4 - I don't know why it's not listed as such this is definitely a series. It has everything you need to be a series ¹same town, ²same characters, ³same club, ³continues where the previous book stopped, and has updates.

Chapter Fourteen - I thought I had found the new awesome series but now I don't like these people or their town.

Page 119 of 356/442 Chapter Six - I thought this was supposed to be a contemporary romance, first it's given off cozy mystery vibes and now it's become a romantic suspense. The second wife is annoying it's like she doesn't know how to read the room or recognize boundaries. Anyway, so far this is one of the good ones.

[Chapter] 18 Re-create the Attachment Village - This second half of the book is the meat and potatoes of this story. I should be taking notes but it takes so much energy out of you just grasping and digesting the concepts so I'm not going to.

[Chapter] 16 Discipline That Does Not Divide - I'm going to have to update the notes because these nuggets were too good.

Chapter 16 🌼 Poppy 1959-1960 Florence - I like this great-aunt; she has a lot of spunk.

Page 32 of 378 Chapter 6 🌼 Emilia - MC is a major pushover, ugh!

[Chapter] 10 A Legacy of Aggression - This is just too much. I'm going to have to take a break and reorganize my reading plan because these kids are stressing me out and I'm only reading about them. This makes you want to homeschool.

Abby August 2003 - I read The Summer Cottage in July 2021 and it was "okay" but it wasn't like this. I don’t know if it was the change of topic (affair vs grief and war, or just my maturity, but this is a far superior novel, according to my memory.

Part Seven Hollyhocks - 🥲 This is going to be 5 stars. Not much is happening plot-wise but so much is happening heart-wise, just a beauty story about family, flowers, and life between neighbors.

Page 122 of 324 Episode 18 Ruby in the Sky with Diamonds 💎 RUBY - This is pretty interesting, there are a few tropes I'm rolling my eyes at but it has my attention.

Page 42 of 407 Iris May 2003 - This isn't my usual genre and it's a bit slower than most, but somehow it's refreshing. I'm only stopping because it's nearly 2 AM and my neck needs a break This book is beautiful but too heavy to hold in bed.

Part Three Stuck in Immaturity: How Peer Orientation Stunts Healthy Development - We are getting down to the nitty-gritty and solution portion of the book, but I've gotten burn out on note taking, it was hindering my reading progress.

34:34 Chapter 4 - Kim Roby? If you are going to endorse another author you should use their publishing name so people know who to look up. This was turning into an everything wrong with story. Ain't nobody in love with Curtis Black or Ben Affleck! I'm supposed to be shunning mediocre and okay books this year, but I have a weakness for train wrecks. After my shows I'll see. * I did notice several bad reviews so I hop

Chapter Nine - I thought the Barney thing was very cringe, and then she keeps bringing it up. He keeps mentioning he stole her dig, so it's repetitive and annoying. I went from not caring for either character to disliking the MCs. It's going to be a long night I'm at a crossroads, to finish or abandon?

Forty-Two - I tried really hard but I ended up reading 2 chapters ahead anyway. I want to know when was the last time this author went to a car dealership because that story was bogus. I think my guess about the reveal may be correct.

Page 56 of 340/355 Chapter Four - I was hoping to love this based on the cover but so far it's not my thing. I think it's kind of like Romancing the Stone and I fell asleep during that movie, I was a kid, not sure what the issue is for this one. It's kinda cheesy and ridiculous like everyone is oblivious but the main characters. I'm going to read some non-fiction and come back to this later.

7:53:18 Part 3 Chapter 43 Roads End Plantation, Spring 1877 - My son has abandoned this story so I'm on my own today. There was a bit of a lull, but it's picking up again.

Page 109 of 394 Chapter 10 - This story is about 8 people and 2 cameramen on an isolated Scottish island for a year to film a show that's like a cross between Survivor and Naked & Afraid. We know early on that they aren't going to pick up after a year and the situation becomes violent and now we have to go through what happened. If you are familiar with the production of these shows you know from cast members that