This month, we read In Five Years by Rebecca Serle. We both absolutely loved this book and read it in under 24 hours. Before diving into the book, we do our usual quarantine catch up. We are both healthy, staying busy, and Tyrion (Grace's cat) seems to have developed a newfound love for Zoom calls.

This book is about best friends, Dannie and Bella. Dannie is a little bit uptight and is one of those women who always has a plan and knows exactly what she wants. Meanwhile, Bella is a bit more flighty and romantic. On the night that Dannie gets engaged to her long-time boyfriend, David, she has an extremely vivid dream of where her life will be in 5 years. She's in a different apartment, with a different (and sexy) man. We then see how the next five years play out and what happens. Dannie is jilted when she meets Bella's new boyfriend Greg - it's the man from her dream! Bella falls ill and a series of other events happen to turn Dannie's life upside down. She ends up exactly where the dream predicted - discovering that fate is most certainly real. This book will make you cry - but the good kind! This is our favorite book from 2020 - we hope you love it as much as we did!

Cathartic Cry Reading Recs:

• Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
• Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara
• The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith

Obsessions:

• Equilibria Extra Strength CBD Drops
• Airfryer

Instagram:

• @stanleytucci

Books:

• Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
• The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

May Book Club:

• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks

Sponsors:

• The Last Guest House by Megan Miranda: Purchase the paperback from independent bookstores through bookshop.org or any ebook retailer.

Podcast to Check Out!

• Get Thanks Just Bought it Podcast

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