28 Summers | 
so-soThe little Greek chorus at the beginning of each chapter helped to keep me in time. And I liked that there wasn't a spotlight on every weekend. I enjoyed getting little vignettes from the various characters, dipping in & out of their lives and seeing how they had grown & changed (particularly Ursula & Leland!) But I hate this was framed around an affair and I hate Jake for carrying on an affair for YEARS, even before he was married.
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Tagged a favorite beach read. I truly do enjoy beach reads of all kind in summer. 🏖️ I bought a fun chair to ferry in my car and pull over at random water as I please this summer. Weird, I know. I pass a lovely Lake Michigan beach when I pick up my daughter from school. I‘m maximizing 🤣
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2. In August @KLyn1 and I are headed to DC for the national book festival!
3. Potluck at work today - nachos! Lol
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pickI raced after school to buy pansies and get home to finish this book. It felt like summer today (21°C) so perfect to finish this book. I love Elin Hilderbrand, I want to live in a cottage in Nantucket. This book was bittersweet and a lot sad
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“He could turn himself inside out and show her his wounds, and it would be okay.” The story of Mallory and Jake and their romantic date one weekend each summer for 28 years…
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pickBittersweet doesn‘t even come close to describing this book. Bring tissues. Perfect summer read!
pick"And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you‘re young because you aren‘t old enough to know any better."
A very good book with all the right elements. The best way to describe my thoughts on this is to quote another reviewer that stated "I liked the book, but I didn't like how it made me feel." I couldn't say it better than that. My stomach hurts. ?
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pickMallory is her own woman and she chooses to not get married. She has her Labor Day weekend each year with Jake and that suits her life fine. Liked this read and I loved that each year we get to read the list of things that took place or people who we were all talking about. Same time next year gets a reboot in a book!:)
pickWhat a phenomenal way to storytell! Great beach read! I need to plan a trip to Nantucket soon.
pickTypical Elin Hilderbrand novel that was tugging on my heartstrings all the way through. Mallory and Jake have a “same time next year” pact and this beautifully written story had me turning pages so fast…simply a wonderful read ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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pickOh man another crying ending but I loved this book. TW for sexual assault but it is only a brief bit near the end (I skipped over those few pages and could still keep up with the plot). Great beach read, even if you're not at the beach.
pickI‘m hesitantly giving this a low pick. I have very mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it was a compelling listen & I devoured it pretty quickly. So in that sense it‘s a good book. But I have some pretty serious issues with the main characters that infuriated me and especially made me want to smack Jake upside the head. A lot of their decisions make zero sense but if you can overlook that it‘s still a decent book. Just frustrating. 😤 3.5⭐️
pickI liked the concept of the story and how each chapter opened with pop culture tidbits from the year that was taking place. I think I feel sorry for Mallory, the main character, who basically gave up the rest of the year for the 3 day Labor Day weekend when Jake would make his annual trip to see her. She loved her cottage on Nantucket and her son Link, but it seems like a lonely life to live all those years just waiting for 3 days.
pickElin Hildebrand has a knack for helping me understand and root for characters that make some pretty bad choices - and sometimes repeatedly for 28 years. I‘ve read enough of her books now that I feel I know the people of Nantucket and they are my slightly dysfunctional friends. If I‘d show up there surely I‘d have my pick of guest rooms from which to stay for a season. What!? These people are fictional - damn!
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so-soAnother so so, 28 summers, Mallory and her brothers best friend meet once a year on Labor Day and both have a different life the rest of the year,it was just a lot I didn‘t get how that all worked, I liked Mallory as a person but the concept and all that happened in between there visit just didn‘t keep my interest, I wanted more for her, and then the end ugh
bailedThis was just not my type of characters or setting. I couldnt connect with the story or characters.
bailedNOPE. A summer romance based around 28 years of cheating and stupidity. Yay for some liberal politics, but super weird that she basically includes the Kavanaugh hearing with some barely changed details. (Cavendish…really)? It felt so contrived, and I‘m usually a sucker for liberal leaning characters. Felt like a long drawn out ad campaign for Nantucket restaurants and stores. This book brought to you by the Nantucket Office of Tourism. 🙄
so-soI should‘ve known, based on the Same Time, Next Year premise, that this would be a miss. I didn‘t care for the characters and their decisions were stupid. There was no reason Jake & Mallory couldn‘t have been together after they first met, when he wasn‘t married. Mallory settled for half a life, fooling herself into believing theirs was an epic love story. I wasn‘t emotionally invested enough in the story or the characters to cry at the end.
so-soI didn‘t like any of the characters.🤦🏾♀️ The choices they made and scenarios weren‘t for me.
pickI just love Elin Hilderbrand‘s stories!!! I read a lot of dark, creepy or heavy books and she‘s always a great author to read in between. This story made me sad throughout for a lot of reasons but not in a tears way but instead a what if way. I wasn‘t ready for it to end the way that it did. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I fell short in #20in4 but finished this book and made lots of progress with two others. Enjoyed this book although it is a sad book on a couple of levels. I like the setting. Wonder what it would be like to live on an island.
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I'm not sure how it is possible to love one book so much! This was my first book by Elin Hinderbrand and it will not be my last.
This book reminds me of the quote "you are always one choice away from a different life" and I can't help but wonder if Mallory had made one specific different choice, how would it have all turned out?
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pickBook 2 for 2021.
All the feels w this book! I wish I could write the captivating and charming review it deserves, but I just don‘t have the words. #jakeandmalloryforever
so-soThis passed the time, but I kept waiting for something to happen and it just never did. #BookspinBingo
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Another great Elin Hilderbrand book.
I guess I can say she became my favorite author of 2020.
When one of your co-workers gives you a book to read makes Monday a little bit better.
I‘m already in love with this book and I‘m only 64 pages in. Another non-mystery for me, what‘s up w that!?
pickJust spent the last few hours finishing this epic book. It really is about 28 Labor Day weekends of Jake and Mallory. In between...there is life. We get to know some interesting characters like Leland, Mallory‘s totally self-absorbed ladder climbing friend, Cooper, her oft married brother, and others. Great story, interesting reading about the highlights in culture and politics from 1998-2018.
pickI‘m not sure words can express how much I ended up loving this story and how pleasantly surprised I was!!
For twenty-eight summers, Mallory and Jake had a secret love affair in which they always returned to Nantucket over Labor Day weekend to be together, despite having moved on with their individual lives.
I particularly enjoyed how the author explained what was going on in the world at the turn of each year.
Without a doubt, a solid story!
I made it six hours into this, but I‘m not feeling what is looking like an unrequited love story at Christmas. I just don‘t feel positive about it, and this holiday is stressful enough. When I think about picking it up again, I want to cry. That sounds like a hibernation to me! Maybe this summer...
Today is Opposite Day! I‘m listening to fiction and reading nonfiction in print, and it‘s usually the reverse for me. It‘s 66 degrees F out, which is waaayyy too warm for winter!! And the fiction, 28 Summers, takes place mostly in the opposite season. Things are getting crazy here! 🤪🤪
Waiting for students to log in, starting a new book, and enjoying my view.
I know it's not summer anymore, but I'm still enjoying this one. Drinking a chai latte and pretending it's iced and I'm on the beach with my toes in the sand. Do you read books out of season?
I‘m not sure why I‘m enjoying this so much because I‘m angry with almost all the characters. 😆
Charlie would prefer to do something else please.
pickStayed up too late finishing this. Good book but the ending was anticlimactic. Enjoyable beach read!
