Review: Every Note Played

Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Review: Eat, Pray, Love

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Review: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Review: Silver Borne

Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Review: Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness by Vivek H. Murthy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Good book, very anecdotal, lots of stories...

Talks about how COVID right now is changing us and the social needs that we have as humans.

It's made me more empathetic and understanding to people that suffer from loneliness and the lack of human social connection. Connection is so important to our lives, health, and wellbeing.

I feel like I read a lot and it's interesting but I didn't take any notes lol

Loneliness kills...



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Review: Pretty Things

Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Wow I really binged this book haha it's pretty long and I finished it in almost under 24hr XD

It was good! Twists and turns and exciting and wanting to figure out more and more and wondering where it's going to go.

I feel like summing up this book would give too much away haha but basically it's about a smart manipulative con artist girl who wants to get revenge con on this entitled, rich, self obsessed girl she knew back in highschool because of what her family did to her.

I like how a book showed the Instagram influencer lifestyle and internal and external POV of it.

I liked how well the narrative switched from Nina's POV to Vanessa's point of view in the chapters.

The ending was good but I was expecting it the whole time. I think I've rad so many novels at this point it's difficult to really shock me haha but I still enjoyed the whole journey! Ashley/Nina and Vanessa are great characters. Nina is introverted, caring, self aware, manipulative, smart, witty and Vanessa is beautiful, rich, healthy, very Instagram savvy, but pretty dull minded.

I feel like this would make for a better movie than book. Reason in spoiler below.

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- I totally called it that Nina's mother and Benny were conning her, saw it from a mile away. I always knew Lachlan's accident was going to be fake. I knew her mom was conning Nina since she started conning men from work and really only seems to care about herself.
- I feel like Vanessa was overthe top sometimes with her dumb innocent perspective on things
- It was a bit much that they murdered Lachlan in the end
- I feel like this would make for a better movie than book. At the end where Nina goes again Vanessa to get a more natural real reaction out of her, it'd be more interesting in film because the watcher wouldn't know if they were for or against eachother now, but in the book you can tell Nina is still on Vanessa's side.
- It was kinda out of character that Vanessa took charge at the end with conning Lachlan
- I wanted a better ending with Nina and Benny, it felt unfinished. Like Benny turned out to be slower and dumber and more medicated so Nina was uninterested? Was she ever in love with him? Are they just going to be friends then? idk... I felt like Nina should have gotten him off of all the medication and turned out that he was fine to begin and his family just felt like they needed to take some form of action with him to change him but there was actually nothing wrong with him, and they lived happily ever after :P (hide spoiler)]

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Review: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Review: Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by 50 Cent
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow how 50 Cent surprised me with this book! It's a great book! Lots to learn and admire Curtis for and I have a new found respect for him.

He's giving a lot of life advice - hustle, be fearless, know your true friends, portraying yourself as you don't really want it or need it demeanor actually works with life work romance, learn from your losses, don't be entitled, and read a lot!

It's sad how other people treated him when he became successful, people acting entitled and seeing him for just money instead of a relationship. Especially his own son who he wanted to hep and work with but was too lazy and entitled to do anything. To the people he considered friends that back-stabbed him. To the reuniting of long lost friendships that he was disappointed in because all they wanted was a piece of the pie. It seems like a lonely life being rich and famous but there still are good people at the top.

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