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

Yearbook

This book is funny as shit…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5, fiction) 

I just love the way Rebecca Serle tells a story!
This is the story of the decisions we make and how they shape our lives, a story of love and loss and connection, and of mothers and daughters.

Lauren has known her entire li
The results are in for our 2026 Romance Novel March Madness!

At the end of 2025, I polled BR&B readers on their favorite books of the year. I took the top 60 romance responses, sprinkled in some newer releases, and voilà…. those bo
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, mystery)
Mabel lives on a quiet street, and if you asked any of her neighbors, she’s your typical 80-year-old woman. She’s a little crabby, a bit in everyone’s business, and she appreciates a cup of tea. No one would s

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