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Strangers
✮✮✮✮✮, Memoir, Nonfiction Repy White 3/11/26 ✮✮✮✮✮, Memoir, Nonfiction Repy White 3/11/26

Strangers

This book was hard not to finish in one sitting…

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Dinner for Vampires
✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 4/20/25 ✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 4/20/25

Dinner for Vampires

What a wild ride…

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The Third Gilmore Girl
✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 11/27/24 ✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 11/27/24

The Third Gilmore Girl

I learned so much about Kelly Bishop…

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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 11/26/24 ✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 11/26/24

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

This book was an utter delight…

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A Bit Much
✮✮✮✮✮, Poetry Repy White 11/25/24 ✮✮✮✮✮, Poetry Repy White 11/25/24

A Bit Much

Aren’t all BR&B gals considered at some point in our lives…

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The Many Lives of Mama Love
✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 8/19/23 ✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 8/19/23

The Many Lives of Mama Love

I wouldn’t classify this memoir as a beach read, but man, am I glad I read it…

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The Daddy Diaries
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction, Autobiography Repy White 6/8/23 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction, Autobiography Repy White 6/8/23

The Daddy Diaries

I had a lot of fun reading this dishy diary…

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Open Book
✮✮✮✮, Autobiography, Memoir Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮✮, Autobiography, Memoir Repy White 6/8/22

Open Book

I don’t know what I was expecting with this book, but this exceeded every expectation…

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Everything I Know About Love
✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 6/8/22

Everything I Know About Love

Dolly’s writing was so fun to read…

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Tiny Beautiful Things
✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22

Tiny Beautiful Things

Dear Sugar, 
I love you…

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Yearbook
✮✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 6/4/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Memoir Repy White 6/4/22

Yearbook

This book is funny as shit…

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The Wreckage of My Presence
✮✮✮✮✮, Autobiography Repy White 6/2/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Autobiography Repy White 6/2/22

The Wreckage of My Presence

To me, this was 5 stars simply because I laughed my way through this…

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Going There
✮✮✮✮✮, Autobiography Repy White 5/27/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Autobiography Repy White 5/27/22

Going There

I cannot separate my rating of this book from my rating of Katie…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romance)
This book was funny and cute and exactly what the doctor ordered! A non-cheesy rom-com packed with lots of feelings set in the book world!

We meet Ciara Sheridan when she’s stuck with a serious case of writer’s b
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romantasy) 
Shield of Sparrows Book #2 (trilogy)
WHEW, this book was a whirlwind! Just as many BR&B readers had cautioned, this is a slow burn romantasy, slow burn not in the romantic sense but in the world-building sense. You hav
⭐️⭐️💫(2.5/5, romance)
I so badly wanted to love this, but it was just not for me!

I can totally do a more heavy and emotional romance (see my review for The Best Worst Thing!).

I am fine with a story that’s less of a big romance and more of
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance)

This romance really took me by surprise! Great banter, deeply emotional, and well written. A romance that feels very real. Not a rom-com, definitely a “rom-dram”.

Our leading woman, Nicole Speyer, has been struggl
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(5/5, fiction)

I was just totally gobsmacked by this book! Brilliant, biting, and impossible to look away from. This is not a light and fluffy read! It had me running the full gamut of emotion. Rage & stress were the emotional frontrun

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