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05/18/2026

04/26/2026

This book has been getting so much buzz. I love a deep dive into psychology, neuroplasticity and the power of the human mind. Loved it. So much of our life is shaped by how we see what we see, not necessarily the world as it is. Read that sentence again. The first time I came across that, it literally made my mind explode…in a good way!

A bit of a departure from my usual fiction reviews but this one really landed (I real a lot of non fiction too I just don’t share reviews often). I’d never read before but Beyond Belief came highly recommended and I can see why… it’s an instant New York Times Bestseller and it deserves every bit of it.
The core idea is deceptively simple: what if the real obstacle isn’t your effort, your discipline or your circumstances….but what you believe is possible? Eyal argues that our beliefs aren’t facts. They’re tools. And most of us never question them, even when they’re the very things holding us back. Once you understand how they work, you can set aside the ones that aren’t serving you and replace them with better ones. It sounds straightforward but the way he breaks it down, backed by neuroscience and psychology research, is so practical and clear.
What really resonated with me is this…so much of our life is shaped by how we see what we see, not necessarily the world as it is. Our beliefs filter our perception. Shift them, and options that were previously invisible come into view. I think about this in my own work ALL the time. The stories we tell ourselves about what we’re capable of, what we deserve, what’s available to us….those stories shape everything. And the beautiful thing is, your limits aren’t fixed. They’re learned. And what’s learned can be relearned.
A really useful, grounded read about breaking limiting patterns, staying steady under pressure and expanding what you think is possible for your life. Highly recommend for anyone feeling stuck or ready for a shift.
indistractable

04/26/2026

We meet Lila Pereira, two years old in Detroit, 1960, when her father has her mother Zelda committed to an asylum. She never sees her mother again. Three decades later? Lila has clawed her way to the top of American media as the executive editor of The Washington Globe. Brilliant. Blonde. Unstoppable. And entirely, unapologetically uninterested in mothering her own daughters.
YIKES. And also…. fascinating.
Because here’s the thing… Lila doesn’t pretend. She doesn’t perform maternal warmth she doesn’t feel. She loves her career. Her generous husband Joe handles the daughters. He doesn’t mind…. until he does.
But it’s Grace, the youngest, who fascinated me. Grace who wished her mother would show up to PTA meetings instead of White House correspondents’ dinners. Grace who grows up resenting Lila so deeply that her entire life ends up shaped by that anger; even her career as a reporter, even the bestselling book she eventually writes about her mother. The more she resists Lila, the more Lila molds her. Oooof.
And then there’s Zelda. The grandmother. The ghost. Did she really die in that asylum? What happened to her?
What I kept turning over long after I closed the book: we never really know what drives the most driven people. We see the brilliance, the blonde hair, the corner office…. but the engine underneath? The thing that made them run? Often buried so deep that even they can’t name it.
A sprawling, generational, sharp-as-a-blade portrait of family, ambition, and the lies we tell to become who we think we’re meant to be. I loved it.

LiteraryFiction FamilySaga

04/21/2026

I am a big fan. Loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back. So naturally I had to get to this one. And it did not disappoint. Heads up….SPOILER ALERT!

We meet Emma, who falls madly in love with her high school sweetheart Jesse. Best friends turned lovers, the kind of love that feels inevitable. They get married young and life is beautiful….until Jesse’s plane goes missing and he’s presumed dead. Emma is devastated. The grief is all consuming. But eventually, slowly, painfully, she starts to rebuild. She meets Sam. And Sam is wonderful in a completely different way. He meets her at a different point in her life, a different stage, a different version of herself. She’s no longer the wide eyed girl who fell for Jesse. She’s a woman who has survived the worst thing imaginable and is learning to love again. You root for them. You really do.
And then. Jesse comes back. Alive.
I mean. What do you even do with that? Emma had grieved for this man. Truly, deeply grieved. She had mourned her marriage and buried that chapter of her life and built something new. And now here he is, standing in front of her, and she has to make an impossible choice between two men she loves — but for completely different reasons, at completely different times in her life. Oooof. Reid does such a brilliant job of making you root for both of them. You understand both love stories completely and that’s what makes it so heartbreaking. Neither choice is wrong. Neither love is less real. A gut wrenching, beautiful read about love, loss and the person you become when the life you planned falls apart.

04/17/2026

Sweet sixteen. ❤️

03/29/2026

I loved LWriters & Lovers. Casey, the struggling writer trying to write a book while bussing tables and navigating grief and love? I was rooting for her from page one. So when Heart the Lover came out I grabbed it immediately. And wow. This one surprised me.
We meet our narrator Jordan in the fall of her senior year of college when she’s drawn into the world of two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class, Sam and Yash. Best friends, living off campus, full of intellectual fire and rapid banter. They nickname her Jordan and suddenly her world cracks wide open. But here’s the thing….she meets Sam first. And Sam is charming enough but tbh he never really seemed that into her which at times was hard to watch. You know when you can just tell someone isn’t fully there? That.
And then there’s Yash. Oooof. The connection between Jordan and Yash felt so real, so authentic, so true. The kind of love that doesn’t need to perform itself. But timing and circumstance and the mess of youth pull them apart in the most heartbreaking way. Jordan moves on with her life, carrying with her a secret. Yash never really got over her. Never really moved past her. Decades pass.
When the past comes crashing back into Jordan’s present….it’s bittersweet in the way only Lily King can write. And the detail that got me? By the end, we learn that everyone around Yash knew who Jordan was. He never stopped talking about her. He never let her go. Gosh. King writes about desire, friendship and first love with such wit and emotional precision. This is a deeply moving, quietly devastating love story and I couldn’t put it down.

03/21/2026

Next! It’s been a turbulent time with everything going on in the world so the best way for me to take care of myself….is more books! I’ve read so many great ones already this year.

Oh this was FUN. We meet Jolene, an admin at Supershops Inc. who wants nothing more than to do her job, maintain her boundaries and be left alone. Her coworkers? Irritating. Debatable competence. Completely incapable of respecting said boundaries. So what does Jolene do? She vents her real thoughts in petty little postscripts at the end of her work emails….then changes the text colour to white so nobody can see them. I mean. WHAT. A disaster waiting to happen right? Of course one of them gets exposed and now she’s in sensitivity training led by Cliff, the suspiciously friendly HR guy, and under rigorous email restrictions. The cringe was real.

But THEN. An IT mix-up accidentally gives her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs. She knows she should report it. But who could resist? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realises this might just be the key to saving her job. So begins Jolene’s messy, chaotic, deeply entertaining plan to make herself indispensable.

Here’s what I loved about this book though, underneath all the office comedy and the laugh out loud moments, there’s a real loneliness to Jolene. She’s prickly and guarded and a little hard to love at first but she grew on me so much. You start to understand why she keeps people at arm’s length and you find yourself quietly rooting for her to let someone in. The slow burn with Cliff is sweet and unexpected and honestly exactly what she needed. A hilarious, surprisingly tender read about the people we spend most of our waking hours with and the walls we build to survive them. Loved it.

03/20/2026

This was such an interesting read. We meet Flora, sweet, devoted Flora, who has spent years making herself smaller to make room for everyone else. Her charming, good looking husband Julian. Her wildly successful best friend Margot. Flora is the one holding it all together, quietly, reliably, without fuss….as women so often do.
Then one day she discovers Julian’s supposedly “lost” wedding ring and with it, a web of lies and deceit that threatens to unravel everything. YIKES. The thing is, Flora isn’t sure she wants to burn it all down. She’s made so many sacrifices to keep her family intact and the idea of blowing that up is terrifying. But here’s what I loved about this book, it asks the question so many women are afraid to ask themselves: what happens when you stop shrinking? When you stop apologizing for taking up space? Flora might just discover there was more room for her than she ever thought possible.
also wrote The Nest which I loved so I grabbed this one straight away. She writes about marriage, friendship, motherhood and ambition with such sharp observation and warmth. The dynamics between the characters feel so real you’d swear you’ve met these people. A really lovely, thought provoking read about the cost of keeping up appearances and the quiet courage it takes to finally choose yourself.