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Book: Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
Author: M.J. Wassmer
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Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #4 (A book that starts with the letter Z) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #8 (A three-syllable word in the title).

Dan Foster – an underachiever with chronically low self-esteem, is finally taking a vacation with his girlfriend Mara.

Everything is going great until the sun explodes, and the world is plunged into darkness. 

Book: The Seven Sisters
Author: Lucinda Riley
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #3 (A book you meant to read in 2025) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #28 (from a series at least eight books long).

Maia D’Apliese has just lost her adoptive father, Pa Salt. She and her five sisters (all adopted) reunite at their family home, and each of them are given a clue as to where they came from.

Maia’s clue takes her across the Atlantic to Brazil.

Book: 84, Charing Cross Road
Author: Helene Hanff
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #47 (A book told entirely through letters) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #49 (from the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System).

An epistolary memoir consisting of letters exchanged between Helene Hanff and Frank Doel of Marks & Co booksellers, 84 Charing Cross Road is a beautiful story of a platonic friendship built on a love of books, which spills out into other areas of their lives. 

Book: Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #9 (a book with a type-c character) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #44 (literary device: personification).

Imagine waking up alone in a strange room, with no memory of who you are or where you are. Piece by piece it starts to come back.

You are alone, you are on a spaceship, your name is Ryland Grace, and you’re humanity’s last hope. 

Book: Before I Forget
Author: Tory Henwood Hoen
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2

Completed this for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #2 (a kangaroo word on the cover).

Cricket Campbell is in a rut of sorts. 

She has been floating aimlessly from one thing to another, most recently an assistant at a gimmicky wellness company.

Things change when her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis becomes a real and looming threat. 

Book: The Eights
Author: Joanna Miller
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟 3/4

Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #33 (a book about college) and the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge Prompt #51 (includes a map).

In 1920, Oxford is admitting female students for the first time.

Dora was never supposed to be here – but after she loses her fiancé and brother, she decides to take their places.