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Three New Yorkers who need to face their futures and deal with their pasts if they are ever going to move forward with their lives and relationships. Are they able to forgive? Are the ready to be brave? Lots of moneyed white privilege but for me it never overshadowed the emotions of the characters. Absolutely made me want to roam around Manhattan again too. #booked2021 #authorsfirstnamestartswithaborc

A night of reading, and binge watching The Office 👍🏼

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Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

11.3.18 This book was such a fun, light, and heartfelt read. I felt very invested to the main characters and found myself relating to them as their stories progressed. I had a hard time putting it down and fell in love with it! 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

11.1.18 And just like that, it‘s November. This year has flown by! Starting the month with a lighter read, The Ramblers, a novel that delves into the lives of three lost souls trying to find their own way in this crazy world. “Rambling through the emotional chaos of their lives, this trio learns to let go of the past, to make room for the future and the uncertainty and promise that it holds”. #bookshark #booksparks

Early morning reading - thanks @MicheleinPhilly 😽 I don‘t know how this book escaped my radar...

This book weaves together the stories of 3 thirty-something rich, successful New Yorkers- Clio, Smith, and Tate. The book revolves mostly around Clio, who leads bird-watching tours in Central Park, perhaps spotting an #eagle at times 😜, which is where she meets and falls in love with her older, richer, “Mr. Big” type boyfriend. If you enjoy reading about self-involved rich kids this book is for you!
#abbainaugust

Day 5 | #readingresolutions

I don‘t see nearly enough love for this #underratedbook.

Regarding the accumulation of these stacks in my temporary living situation, I 💯 #blameitonlitsy 🤦🏻‍♀️
#readingresolutions

#ARRRBooks #WhatAWayToLive #PiratesLife

I have about as much chance looking through my new book sale stack as I do cutting this guy's nails.

we're back with our staff pick Sunday! Today's pick is from editorial assistant, Carolyn, who chose THE RAMBLERS

I read this book when I first moved to New York and started working for William Morrow, so it has a special place in my heart! Aidan manages to capture both the loneliness and magic of New York.

Up next?

A solid read. I really enjoyed each character, their story, and the way their lives all come together. I loved the timing - everything takes place during the week of Thanksgiving.

The Ramblers is, in essence, a Bildungsroman of three New Yorkers...in their mid-thirties. Imagine a foul-mouthed, painful novelization of the TV show, Friends without the humor. I loved the personality of one of the three main narrators, but was so incensed by the immaturity of the other two that I ended up skimming about half of the book. There is astute description throughout, but overall, I didn't love it.

I'm loving only parts of this book; I really hate the POV of two out of three main characters. 😕 But hey! I'm reading and crafting and wonderfully alone—the INFJ's paradise! Cheers to evening reading for my fellow U.S. east coasters. 🍸🍸

"There will most certainly be a next time, and a next time, and a time after that. This is who she is. This is who she's wired to be. It's not a matter of having a perfectly arranged closet or talking to a life coach...of ingesting copious amounts of Rumi and kale and green tea. She's spent years doing her own research and she's still left with the question that's plagued her since she was a girl, since she knew enough to ask. Am I okay?"

My current read is The Ramblers, set in New York over a Thanksgiving weekend. It's beautifully written, addictive to read and just magical like most NYC novels. Although I've never been to New York, I find the youthful, fresh and fast-paced life there very alluring. And of course, there's the sense of led happening, depressed or dreamy. Somehow this book is pushing all that to the front, and making it even more gorgeous with its focus on birds.🤓

November book group pick. Thanksgiving is the best.

The Ramblers swept me up in the bustle of city life with its genuinely flawed characters and their surprising stories. It‘s a book composed of ordinary moments and choices—of family, friendship, love, loss, jealousy, hope—and speaks beautifully of feeling lost. Well-written, character-driven, reflective, The Ramblers is a good choice for the fan of contemporary fiction. (I received a free copy of this book. All opinions expressed are my own.)

Two fabulous books now available in paperback. My current fave: THE RAMBLERS, an absorbing novel of three friends in NYC struggling to find themselves, years after college. If you like Emma Straub or Cynthia d'aprix Sweeney, you'll love this book! ❤️

Who-hoo! Picked up a fabulous stack of holds today! #LibraryHaul 📚📚📚📚📚📚

Enjoyed this book very much. I appreciated that it intro the characters early without making it too complicated. I found myself excited to keep reading to get to the next person. Good quick read.

Trying to decide what to read...

A perfect New York book for a perfect New York day! The Ramblers is an absorbing novel about three friends struggling to find themselves. There is also some bird watching!

One Thanksgiving week in the life of three thirty-four-year-old Yale grads who live in NYC and grapple with love, loss, and existential angst. Yes, it's white, moneyed privilege, and yes, the dialogue is sometimes clunky, but it's still interesting and worthwhile. I enjoyed the ornithology, the book talk, the little snippets of "texts" from magazines and applications, and the fact the characters actually did seem to mature.

Why the Poets House in NYC is not the Poets' House: "some things must never be possessed but shared." ?

How can you resist a character whose mom taught her "to revere books"? I just love these lines: the girls "knew how important it was to read everything, to stay flush with exquisite words, to have poetic sentences in the ear at all times" (119). #booklove

#currentlyreading and thoroughly enjoying this novel 🤓

4.5/5 ⭐️ There is real charm in these characters and I loved the level-headedness with lots of thoughtful and insightful revelations in life and love and forgiveness. This felt like taking and releasing a deep breath or sitting and talking with good friends about life and love.

Good book! It was a solid 4-stars, but the last chapter was so beautiful, I wanted to give it 5-stars for that alone!

"You will be a mother one day, and see what it's like to crack open with hope and worry and desire and pain and most of all love. But it's not simple. It's hellos and goodbyes, nevers and forevers, and go away and come back, please come back, forgive me."

Reading this based on a recommendation that I've already forgotten who to attribute it to (there are too many book pushers in my life!). Liking it so far, though! Love that New York City is a character in and of itself.

Time to get back to my ginormous library stack. I've heard good things about this one.

I wanted so badly to absolutely love this book. The beginning was slow, but once the characters were developed, it became a lovely story. The characters are all broken in some way and the book tells their journeys to becoming whole.

Finally getting a chance to start this beautiful book. I adore NYC and books that are set in the city.

Saturday morning -- coming to the end of this beautiful story. Loved getting to know three distinct people and how their lives intersect during one fall week in New York City!