Beach Read

It's a fun light read.

Speaking of fun light reads, I'm also reading Beach Read by Emily Henry.

I'm about to go to the beach and, That's why I'm getting on a plane.

So I feel like like suddenly I'm picking up aside from interview with the vampire.

Suddenly I'm picking up all of these like summary beach reads because like I'm trying to get into that headspace.

So I've read, I think, pretty much every Emily Henry book except for this one.

So I'm trying to just like finish it up.

And I'm sorry in advance.

And that is Beach Read.

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excited go okay the original synopsis january andrews is a romance author who's lost her spark for writing love stories after a loss she escapes to a beachside town only to discover that her literary rival augustus everett an author who writes capital l literature is researching a former cult nearby for his next book one fateful evening they agree to a bet he will attempt to write a romantic story if she agrees to pursue something more literary yes we love

Um, and it had been recommended to me a couple of times.

Um, and I just finished Beach Read by Emily Henry because I just felt like getting a little depressed 'cause that, that [laughs] it ends on a happy way, a happy note, but it's, you know, one of, one of her more depressing ones.

Um, and then I'm very much looking forward to, I'm a Sarah J. Maas girlie, I will say.

I'm very much looking forward to the next ACOTAR that's coming out in a couple month or a couple weeks, so.

I'm very interested in this conversation about, like, how we quantify the amount of books [chuckles] we read, rate, review, like, mile-long TBRs, and just in recent years, kind of a shift I felt in how reading has bec- has kind of overlapped with productivity in ways that, like, stresses me out a little bit.

But first, this week we have such a fun episode with Katie from Beach Reads and Bubbly, who I know so many of you follow.

Even if you don't, even if you're, like, not a huge reader, I still think it's a really fun and interesting convo, um, like, about the current culture of reading, about the stigmas around women's interests, about, uh, tropes, about adaptations, about, like, so many different fun things.

I could have talked to her endlessly.

And if you aren't aware of Katie, she is the founder of Beach Reads and Bubbly, and she's one of the most trusted voices for book recommendations on the inter-internet, I think.

She has, I think, over 300 Beach Reads and Bubbly book clubs all over the world that meet and gather based off of her recommendations, and it's built this massive community.

And I'm just a big believer in book clubs as an infrastructural necessity for women and moms and adult female friendship.

W- You, however, you know, related to the actual book the clubs are, we, we need to organize around our pleasure, around our leisure, and I think that she just has a great account with really consistent, reliable taste, and she's also very fair and ethical to the author and, and the writers.

Talk to me about People Skills.

So People Skills, my, my pitch to the publisher when I was pitching it was, uh, The Devil Wears Prada meets Emily Henry's Beach Read.

So it's about Charlotte, who was a book editor.

You know, she had this great life.

We have two adaptations on the list.

We have Every Year After and Beach Read, which, yes, hasn't come out yet, but there has already been a bunch of discourse on it.

Then we just have BookTok discourse in general, as a whole.

Is it good? Is it bad? You'll find out.