#Katherine Center

[acotars]

Read in 2023:

When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel. I want to take you places and show you things. I want to memorize you—to learn you like a song. And that nightgown, and the way you get so cranky when I leave my stuff all over the place, and the way you tie your hair back in that crazy bun. You make me laugh every single day—and nobody makes me laugh. I feel like I’ve been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I’m just … found.

THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center ★★★★★

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[bangbangwhoa]

Books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 044

What You Wish For by Katherine Center

“I’m not happy because it comes easily to me. I bite and scratch and claw my way toward happiness every day.”

#2024 reads #books #what you wish for #katherine center #booklr #lit edit

[lillyli-74]

I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light.

~Katherine Center

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[rellasnowheenim]

Katherine Center, from Hello Stranger

#words #quotes #on yearning #love as the center of everything #this tenderness #love and longing come hand in hand #books #romance #on love #katherine center #hello stranger

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

Last September I read the book ‘Happiness for Beginners’ by Katherine Center. I vaguely recall enjoying it (I get through so many books, it is kind of hard to remember them all unless I really love it). Anyway, they made it into a movie starring Ellie Kemper. It’s on Netflix and it’s BAD. The writing is stilted and clunky. The dialogue does not flow at all, it doesn’t sound remotely natural. The story didn’t really work like it did in the book either. It was just kind of a disaster.

One other thing I had a big problem with was the amount of wardrobe changes every character had. The characters are on a several week backpacking trip. A key thing with backpacking is one bringing the essentials to keep down on weight. There is no way they’d all bring so many clothes.

My recommendation… skip the movie. The book is a nice easy summer read.

#happiness for beginners #movie #Netflix #Katherine center

[hndwrttn]

well she's here! and a day early!

#hndwrttn book blogging #katherine center #hello stranger #books

[15billionyears]

What I'm watching (2023 Edition) || Happiness for Beginners (2023)

#felicidade para principiantes #happiness for beginners #watching #watching23 #Vicky Wight #Ellie Kemper #Luke Grimes #netflix #Katherine Center

[averwonders]

To truly love another person is to accept that the work of loving them is worth the pain of losing them. And that's it. That's all.

Owen Sharma, The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) dir. Mike Flanagan

Our Dining Table by Mita Ori

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Henri J.M. Nouwen

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The Wind Rises (2013) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Love Run (Intro) by The Amazing Devil

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Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center

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Quora

From The Japanese (The Triumph of Achilles, 1985) by Louise Glück

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John Green [Vlog Comment & Tumblr post]

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Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton

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starpeace & serialghost

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"It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all."

#web weavings #parallels #intertextuality #on love #on grief #on choosing love #choosing love despite #love is worth it #love and grief #I'm back with another weave!!! #web weaving #theme: love #i live so i love #the haunting of bly manor #our dining table #henri jm nouwen #the amazing devil #katherine center #john green #louise glück #glennon doyle #mita ori #quora questions #mike flanagan #love love love #the wind rises #hayao miyazaki #quotes #typography #words

[mydarlinginej]

read my full review of hello stranger by katherine center here.

Love isn’t blind, it’s just little blurry.

Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition—the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features. Imagine trying to read a book upside down and in another language. This is Sadie’s new reality with every face she sees.

But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls into—love? Lust? A temporary obsession to distract from the real problems in her life?—with not one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.

If only her life were a little more in focus, Sadie might be able to find her way. But perceiving anything clearly right now seems impossible. Even though there are things we can only find when we aren’t looking. And there are people who show up when we least expect them. And there are always, always other ways of seeing.

my review:

A bit of a backwards experience, but I requested this book without having read anything by this author and then went and read another book by her (The Bodyguard). I unexpectedly had a lot of fun with that book, so I was excited to read this one! Hello Stranger was such a fun, cute romance that I couldn’t put down.

Sadie Montgomery is a portrait artist and just found out that she placed as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition. When she goes out to celebrate, she’s almost run over by a car—but saved by a Good Samaritan at the last moment. During her recovery, the doctors tell her that they discovered something in her brain that she’d need surgery for, which she reluctantly agrees to. Unfortunately, afterwards she acquires prosopagnosia—face blindness— that may or may not be temporary. As she struggles with what this means for her career, she meets her cute vet yet can’t stop running into her annoying neighbor, Joe.

This book was just a lot of fun! I appreciate this author’s ability to make her characters a little quirky (which I mean in a good way! like how female leads always are in rom-com movies). Sadie has a lot of funny inner monologues while also getting quite emotional about her grief over her deceased mother and her bad relationship with her emotionally unavailable father.

read my full review here.

#hello stranger #katherine center #reviews #book reviews #booklr #mine #link #q

[bribliography]

books read in 2023

— the bodyguard. by katherine center. ★ ★ ★ ★

“You can't make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world. You can be the love you wish you had. That's the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”

goodreads review | books read in 2022

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[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2022 📖 no. 144

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

“Maybe love isn't a judgment you render - but a chance you take. Maybe it's something you choose to do over and over. For yourself and everyone else.”

#books #2022 reads #the bodyguard #katherine center #booklr #lit edit

[inlovewithquotes]

I guess who you are always seems normal to you because you don't know what it feels like to be anyone else.

-Happiness For Beginners

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #life quotes #being who you are #katherine center #happiness for beginners

[riley1cannon]

Have you ever wondered what would happen if While You Were Sleeping and Miss Congeniality had a baby?

Yeah, okay, neither have I. I know the answer, though, and it is this book that I am officially stupid in love with:

I suck at reviews but... If you’re looking for a romcom novel packed with feels, that will leave you in a happy puddle, grab this one. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder where has this book been all my life? (Okay, maybe that’s just me.)

#the bodyguard (a novel) #katherine center #romantic comedy #books

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

Clever, colorful, and creative, Hello Stranger is the sort of romcom that both nourishes the soul and gives readers insight into something real and afflicting. This book highlights the medical curve balls life sometimes throws our way, the obstacles that we must traverse in order to learn how to cope with the new normal after a significant health change, temporary or not though it might be, and how to accept help from others when we need it.

The premise is a unique one where the main character, Sadie Montgomery, suffers from a condition called "acquired apperceptive prosopagnosia" or face blindness, which she acquires after having a minor surgery to repair a blood vessel in her brain. The kicker is that she's an artist. A portrait artist looking for her big break, to be more precise.

To complicate matters, she's just landed a spot as a finalist in a portrait competition where the grand prize is $10,000, and that means she needs to create a new painting from scratch within the next six weeks.

However, seeing as she's temporarily unable to see human faces, how will she paint? How will she create a portrait for the contest? And more importantly than that, how will she make sense of the world around her, differentiating between the people she already knows or those she will meet while this condition persists?

As Sadie confronts all of these new obstacles, she is going to need help. A lot of it. Which just so happens to be something she hates asking for, making her resistant to a fault.

Luckily, there are two men about to come into her life - one, a veterinarian named Oliver; the other, a neighbor named Joe (like Joe Shmoe, get it? Because she can't see his face? I'm still giggling over the punny perfection of his name choice) - who will each offer her something she needs. And who, as the story unfolds, will prove to our heroine that "appearances can be deceiving" in more ways than she can possibly imagine.

While I thought some of the family drama could have been resolved better, particularly between Sadie and her evil stepsister, I really liked this one. It was humorous and unique. Full of hope and joy, which I think we could all use more of right now. More than anything, though, I appreciated being along for the ride as Sadie learned to cope with not being able to recognize faces, and how she grew in her art as well as in her relationships.

Definitely one you should add to your 2023 tbr's, y'all!

I'm so grateful to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for granting me early access to this ARC.

4/5 stars

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[theresalikesbooks]

Book Review | The Bodyguard

Title: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center Genres: contemporary , romance Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (Jul. 19th, 2022) Summary She’s got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got…

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[kizzmeistah]

This was such a fun read! 😊

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