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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I cry ( ) The first book I finished reading in February was Happy Place by Emily Henry. I liked it, but not as much as Book Lovers. I read about half of Happy Place in August and put it to the side because September was starting, and I was no longer in the mood for a “Summer” book. I felt sure that I would go back to it eventually. We had a few warm days near the end of January, and I decided it was a good time to finish that hot pink book. The bright pink cover is what made me buy the hardcover of this book, and the joy it brings on my shelf is unquantifiable. follow me about books | Blog | Bookstagram (Instagram)
"Happy Place" is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible. What differentiates "Happy Place" from a standard love story is how much it’s a love-in-the-time-of-covid story, though inexplicably, neither covid nor the pandemic is referenced explicitly... [her] dedicated readers know what to expect: wit, charm and heart, satisfying to the last page. A wistfully nostalgic look at endings, beginnings, and loving the people who will always have your back. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up six months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they'll all have together in this place. They can't stand to break their friends' hearts, and so they'll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It's a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week...in front of those who know you best?"-- No library descriptions found. |
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