When I Should Be Studying

Reasons For Reading This Book: I read this book alongside the members of the  The Readheads Podcast Book Club . The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren was the selection for August 2024. I read and reviewed this book around that time. I have read a Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren in 2021. I rated it 3 stars. Unfortunately I did not write a review of it for the blog. I know that this author duo write a lot of books that readers love, so I was excited to read another one of their books.  Content of This Book: A struggling artist, raised by her single-father makes a deal with a fellow college student to get married for the perk of subsidized housing. Liam 'West' Weston is one of four heirs to Weston Foods conglomerate. Even though he has no interest in taking on a position at the company, he is interested in the inheritance from his grandfather. After graduation the two went their separate ways. Three years later Anna and Liam are pulled back into each others' lives...

Reasons For Reading This Book: I read Real Americans by Rachel Khong in participated with  The Readheads Podcast Book Club . At the time of reading this book I had also been reading similar books about similar topics so I was interested to get a different perspective and one that was more modern than the others I had been reading. When I first put this book on hold at the library I read the description, but by the time I was able to check it out I had forgotten what the description said so I went into to blind and with no expectations. Content of This Book: At the turn of the twenty first century two-year-old Lily Chen is living in New York City and working as an unpaid intern at a fancy media company. While at a company party she meets Matthew. They are complete opposites. He is  easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. In opposition Lily is flat-broke, raised in Tampa, and the only child of scient...

Reasons For Reading This Book: While visiting my sister-in-law, who is also a reader, I was telling her about Looking For Jane by Heather Marshall and she recommended The Alice Network by Kate Quinn . She had a copy so when I visited a couple weeks later and was ready to start a new book, I borrowed her copy. When she was telling me about the book she told me it was about a female spy network during the war. Other than that I had not idea what else the book was about. Content of This Book: Its 1947 Charlie St. Clair is a  pregnant, unmarried, American college student living in the  chaotic aftermath of World War II. Due to her situation her parents have threatened to throw her out of their proper family. Charlie is desperately hoping that her cousin Rose is still alive after disappearing in Nazi-occupied France during the war. Her parent's plan is to send her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, while there Charlie breaks free and heads to London, o...