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Thank you @Eggs & @Texreader for the #WondrousWednesday tags! 🤗🤗

1. My job & especially developing others gives me purpose! 💜

2. Reading, good food, family, animals, nature, being outside & seeing everyone‘s #5JoysFriday posts each week! 💛

3. These 4 were my August favorites—I can‘t pick just one! 📚📚📚📚

Anyone who wants to join in, consider yourself tagged! 🤗

#ReadAway2024

Finished earlier in the week, this was my second #Roll100 book (#28) finished for August. Katherine Center writes rom coms that dig a little deeper. I really enjoyed the story & the use of face blindness (Prosopagnosia) & learning more about it. Many times I wanted to shake Sadie, our MC for her choices about communication & accepting help, but at the end I was rooting for her & liked watching her grow. A quick & enjoyable read. 💙

#AboutABook

My August #Roll100 picks

#28 Hello Stranger (ebook)
#29 Black Sheep (Aardvark)
#14 Any BOTM (I‘m choosing Bear as it‘s our #CampList24 pick for the second half of August so I‘ll get it read!)

Although I‘ve only managed to read 2 books from my rolls the last few months, #Roll100 helps me finish some of my books #FromTBRList 📚💛📚

Just a fun little romance. The interesting bit is that the main character has face blindness, which was super interesting to learn about. Great narration on audio.

Low pick on this one. The MC annoyed me because she could not accept ANY help. And if she was just honest, there would have been no heartache… but it‘s a romance so there has to be conflict.

Her stepsister was absolutely the worst. This was an interesting story and set up with face blindness.

Sweetest smartest story❣️

“Light matters just as much as darkness. Play matters as much as work, and kindness matters as much as cruelty, and hope matters as much as despair. More so, even. Because tragedy is a given, but joy is a choice.”

#RomCom
#LuckyInLove

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Isn‘t it lucky when we‘re drawn to people who can teach us things that we need to learn?” Read this in a day. Different and fun 💕

What an interesting plot! I cannot imagine what Sadie was going through, especially given her specific talent. I loathed Parker, but that was the point and it was made well. When I need a pick me up book, I turn to Katharine Center and she never disappoints. Book #10 in 2024

One of my top favorites from 2023
🩷💐💛🌺💜🌸🩵

#Bouquet

#LuckyInLove

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Couldn‘t choose one favorite for November!
#12booksof2023

#August ‘s favorite has to be this one! I loved it - loved the audio, loved the storyline, which was not saccharine sweet romance. I laughed, I cried…it was just so good! #12BooksOf2023

✨ august ✨

hello stranger was my only five-star read in august last year, so it was my favorite.

#12booksof2023

#12Booksof2023 #July

“Seeing the world differently helps you see things not just that other people can‘t—but that you yourself never could if you weren‘t so lucky. It lets you make your own rules. Color outside your own lines. Allow yourself another way of seeing.”
Enjoyable rom-com, with a happy ending. The miscommunication trope was a bit much, but overall a good story.

#NovelNovember Started and finished. Hopefully, this is the breakthrough, and my reading slump is over. I enjoyed this even though I saw the ending coming. Sadie's family story was able to keep me checked in because I wasn't sure how that would play out.

Delightful! When struggling artist Sadie acquires face blindness after brain surgery, she must learn to navigate the world in a different way. She also learns to see the world in a different way…kindness is the way to go is the message here! And of course, there‘s a sweet romance too!

#bookspinbingo - free space

It's been a while since I enjoyed a book from start to finish. This one I loved. The characters, the story, the writing. And a little surprise in the end that was fun. Heartfelt. Honest. Truly adorable. #romance #littensloveromance

Miscommunication trope done a bit differently. Still predictable.

Paraphrasing the words of the MC: why can't people talk to each other?

#UnpopularOpinion
#MoreMehThanYeah

This book was delightful. It was so wonderful listening to Sadie change, not just the way she saw the world, but how she felt about it. In the author's afterward and acknowledgements, I'm not sure if she uses the word kindness, but that was the overall message this book gave me. I give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 6 stars out of 5.

Such an amazing story - “all the feels“ book. Completely captivating and heartwarming. Brilliant author‘s note!

Absolutely one of my top 5 authors... love pretty much everything she writes!

I really wanted to finish this stack of books this month and gave a couple books too little attention, but some reads were unforgettable. Tagged my fav!

5* = Loved It, want to shout out loud about this book! I do/will own/keep a physical copy. A+
4*= I liked it, would love to discuss. Solid B
3*=Meh, no need to discuss. Avg C
2*=Nope D
1*=DNF F

Thanks for the tag🥰

1* Hello Stranger 🛼🩷🌺🌟🐶💛🥰

2*Characters!! The heroine is loveable and guileless !

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

10 of #14Books14Weeks ...
Katherine Center does it again! Sadie Montgomery has a lot going on in her life, and on the day she gets the news that she'll have a chance to compete with the elite in her field, she feels like she's finally getting somewhere. But the somewhere she ends up is in the hospital diagnosed with cavernoma and brain surgery becomes urgent. Sadie is happy to put off the surgery until after (cont in comments)...

I read piles of romance and rate them a A- often enough, but I‘m typically too critical of details to go higher. However, I thought this story was adorable and couldn‘t wait for Sadie to see what the reader knew was right there in front of her.

Every book she writes is my new favorite!

Great premise! Clever and charming, this is the story of portrait artist Sadie who is discovered to have a small brain bleed and has it removed. But there are some complications involving perception and face recognition that alter her life perspective…

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick
#RushAThon Day 19 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

4/5 ⭐

I really liked it. A great story about life obstacles and forgiveness.

Currently reading 💙❤️

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Misty is giving away this book.

Post this pic and tell us what your favorite book has been this summer. Tag friends and Misty.

See her original post for more info.

Favorite book so far is Hello Stranger.

@BookwormAHN @swishandflick @wanderinglynn

#LitsyLove

I nearly sobbed at times listening to this one, as Sadie navigates life with a condition that begins suddenly. It‘s sweet, reflective, humorous, with some dashes of romance. I loved listening to Sadie‘s growth and her journey to acceptance in a variety of things in her life.

While I enjoyed The Bodyguard just a smidge more, I absolutely loved this one. So good! #52BookClub23 #TitleStartingWithTheLetterH

Up next on audio! 🎧

I 💙 Katherine Center!

#bookspinbingo

I enjoyed so many books in July, but this one has stayed with me. Center is an auto read author for me anyway but I loved how she wrote about face blindness.

#Movie2BookRecs @TheSpineView
Movie: The Vow

Center is an auto buy author. Her books tend to be easy to read and laugh out loud funny rom coms. I liked the ending.

Taking advantage of the early morning quiet to finish this one.

Love Katherine Center and this book was great. I love that Lauren Billings (1/2 of Christina Lauren) saw that she was writing about face blindness & reached out to offer any info she could as a neuroscientist. #AuthorLove
#BookSpinBingo #ISpyBingo

You guys, you‘ve got to read this book. I‘ve laughed a lot while reading this late last night until 4:47 am this morning. I just couldn‘t put it down. I actually like it better than her debut novel, Things You Save From the Fire. I just want to say more but I don‘t want to spoil it. How many of you guys read it so far?

Katherine Center art Schuyler Books in West Bloomfield, Michigan. She's so chatty and lovely!

Didn‘t mean to get pup, Cat Stevens, nose in there but it‘s fitting.

Loved this book, quick read, and a very charming narrator. 4⭐️ #botm

You guys.

I loved this story about a portrait artist who suffers a traumatic brain injury and loses her ability to see faces.

Imagine how this affects her career as well as her daily interactions.

Katherine Center did a great job describing what face blindness must be like.

I loved the love story and also the family dynamics.

I teared up a couple of times when Sadie recalls her mother who was also a portrait artist.

So good 💕

💗💗💗💗 Very sweet story!

Great “Summer Read” sometimes it‘s nice to read a quick well written love & learning story. I look forward to reading the authors next book —Things you save in a fire—sometime this year.

**Update - we have a winner!

So I won this from a Goodreads giveaway (which I never win), so I already bought a copy from #botm. And I‘m trying really hard to not have multiples of the same book (which I‘m somehow failing at).

So, I‘ll give this away to one lucky litten! If I have multiple people interested, I‘ll pick a name.

*US only please (I don‘t know how to send international).

#litsylove

This book was so good!! Read in a day and a half. After 30 pages I felt like I had known Sadie all my life. And Joe, well everyone should have a Joe in their lives. Some of the insights in this book were handled spectacularly. 5⭐️

#LitsyLoveReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My #BOTM came yesterday! Yahoo! Love book mail! ❤️📭❤️📘❤️📚❤️📭❤️

#botmhaul

What I love about KC‘s books is that her characters are so real, and so flawed but at the same time so very appealing. Sadie suffers a life changing setback and has to learn how to ask for help and live her life in an emotionally honest way. All while trying to accomplish a major life goal and falling in love with two very different men. #botm

My #BOTM haul! Arrived yesterday and I‘m diving in today. 📚