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11… Moments of New Self-Awareness After Getting Engaged

If you're wanting an engagement story, this is about as close to it as you're going to get not directly from my mouth to your ears until I write the fairytale novel that seems to be my life now. What a love story this is. I can't believe I'm lucky enough to be living it with the most extraordinary woman I've ever met.

Fiction

Finding Christmas Diversity in Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

Christmas stories are not known for their diversity. I finally found one in Jasmine Guillory’s Royal Holiday. One of my favorite contemporary Christmas novels, and probably my favorite rom-com ever.

Books, Fiction

Mutts and Mistletoe by Natalie Cox

There's dogs, love, personal injury, English countryside, mystery, hunky men with accents, and Christmas, what else do you need in a satisfying Christmas tale, or should I say tail? The bit with the white van is everything my nightmares are made of. I’m not kidding. It’s my greatest fear as a dog mom. There could literally be nothing worse in my life.

Books, Fiction

Crazy Rich Asians – Book and Movie

I loved watching the movie last night, and I power read through the book on Monday. I love seeing POC represented in the media. Also Asian men are hot.