#rebecca serle

[aseaofquotes]

Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

#Rebecca Serle #In Five Years #love #future

[melodysbookhaven]

“One of life’s most important challenges is determining what to hold on to and what to let go of. Do not be fooled into believing that you do not know which is which. Follow the feeling, follow it all the way home.”

Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

#rebecca serle #one Italian summer #bookblr #bookish #book quotes #books #quotes #bookstagram #booktok #book tumblr #reading #book club #book lover #bibliophile #bookworm #book worm #readers of tumblr #booklr #book community

[delusionalheart]

You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.

-Rebecca Serle

#rebecca serle #dark academia #light aesthetic #love quotes #words #artists on tumblr #dark academism #spilled words #words words words #light academia #aesthetic #lovers #love quote tumblr #book quotes #life quotes #love #dark acamedia #wordpress #spilled writing #spilled thoughts #spilled poetry #books & libraries #literature

[shaps]

"You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't It's the only thing that does not need to become at all It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future."

Rebecca Serle | In Five Years

#Rebecca serle #in five years #light academia #dark academia #sunlight #aesthetic #fall #September #September vibes #dark academia vibes #dark acadamia aesthetic #bookblr #books and reading #booksbooksbooks #book aesthetic #coffee #iced coffee #coffee aesthetic #autumn

[psychopat-ka]

"Na świecie istnieją miliony rzeczy mogących nas unicestwić; w ułamku sekundy wymazać życie, które z takim wysiłkiem staramy się podtrzymywać. Wszystko kręci się wokół tego, by nie umrzeć. Jemy, śpimy, oglądamy się w prawo i lewo, zanim przejdziemy przez ulicę. Każdy drobiazg ma nas uchronić przed czymś, co i tak nas dopadnie. Jeśli się nad tym zastanowić, to bez sensu. Największy dowcip świata. Całe nasze życie jest zorganizowane wokół tego, żeby przedwcześnie nie odejść z tego świata, a jednocześnie doskonale wiemy, że to jedyna rzecz, której nie unikniemy."

~Rebecca Serle

#cytat z książki #cytaty #zycie #smierc #ulotność #nieuniknione #swiat #rebecca serle

[mr-awesome-balls]

The 10 Novels I Read on May (+1 bonus cuz it's that good)

Just wanted to say that @thedollymaker and @hippo141 are angels and this post is for you guys! Hope y’all find it useful <3 

I’ll be rating and ranking the novels I’ve read from best to worst. Most (more like all) are romance novels which are also popular on BookTok. Writing the tl’dr non-spoiler ver here with more in-depth review on an upcoming post (bc tumblr deleted my half completed in-depth review and it’s nearing 1 am rn so yeah):

1. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren - 5.1/5 🌟

I have to admit I read this on June 2022, and have read 4 more books since too but I just HAD to put this here because it's that good.

It tells the story of 2 best friends (who are almost soulmate-like imo) who have recently met again after years of losing contact. They had a falling out, but when they met everything just falls so perfectly. And we find out what happened in the past. It had the craziest twist (that i kinda knew was coming but oh my lord let me tell you that I BAWLED). BIG hurt/comfort theme. It reminds me of a warm hug and just - of Home. Home's embrace/warmth if you will.

2. It Ends With Us by Collen Hoover - 5/5 🌟

Girl meets the perfect Boy, but maybe there’s something more than meets the eye. Major page turner, this books makes me feel so much and at the same time left me feeling empty. I learnt valuable real life lessons from this book and you won’t regret picking this up. Hurt/Comfort piece. Also also, read the Author’s Note after ending the novel cuz it provided much needed clarity/resolution/peace.

3. All Your Perfects by Colleen Hover - 5/5 🌟

If you’ve read it ends with us and it left you feeling “it could’ve worked” ((not gonna spoil more but if you know, you know)), then boy is this the perfect one for you. It tells a story of this couple’s journey of overcoming terrible stuff ((think It’s Quiet Uptown, Hamilton)). And also, Best. Coho. Male. Lead. Ever. ((Graham my man, UGH)) So so Romantic.

4. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - 5/5 🌟

THIS IS THE CUTEST ROM-COM, way more lighthearted than the previous 2. Fake dating, ball of sunshine x broody/grumpy trope, age gap. It’s so cute and the banter is so amazing. I recommend.

5. Funny You Should Ask by Elisse Sussman - 4.6/5 🌟

This novel to me feels comforting. It’s a slow burn but in a comfortable sense? Journalist and Movie star had an unforgettable weekend that left much needed resolution. A decade later, they met again but both changed and grew for better or for worse. Sometimes, stories don’t have to be dramatic. And this novel feels genuine in a sense - a genuine adoration.

6. Verity by Colleen Hoover - 4.5/5 🌟

Murder-mystery, very suspenseful, very exciting, but leaves you mind fucked. Like after ending this, I was just like what the fuuuuck. This novels fucks with your head like ngl. Best opening scene. Young writer was tasked to finish another successful writer’s novel series after she is left incapacitated. But she found a manuscript that perhaps reveals so many terrible truths, or is it?

7. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover - 4.1/5 🌟

This book is spicy, hot and romantic. It’s cute. Started a bit slow but it has quite a strong ending. Friends with benefits to lovers. Brother’s best friend. Pining. The my life is too much of a mess to love again trope. ((read this before november 9 for cameos)) 

8. November 9 by Colleen Hoover - 4/5 🌟

This book is fun and exciting. Boy and girl meets once a year, over a span of 5 (or 6?) years as their relationship grow. It’s endearing, how Ben (main guy) just encourages Fallon (the MC) to love herself more. 

9. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle - 3.7/5 🌟

This perfectionistic, planning and success obsessed lawyer saw a vision 5 years into the future to find her planned life so different than it is now. I’d say that this book is not what you think it is. Imo this is not a romance novel, but more on friendship and learning to letting go. Life happens, it still goes on.

10. Confess by Colleen Hoover - 3.3/5 🌟

To love is to sacrifice is the essence of this book. It’s about 2 people who is sacrificing so much to love the people they love. But maybe, they need to learn to value themselves - to not discount themselves too much. And in finding that in each other. 

11. Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood - 3.2/5 🌟

Environmental engineer inherited a house from her mentor. But what said mentor forgot to mention was that half of the ownership of the house belonged to her nephew (who’s this lawyer at this BP-esque unethical capitalistic giga corporation). Enemies to friends to lovers. The stuck under one roof (thus the title) and the oh my god they were roommates trope. It’s short, it’s cute, it’s sweet.

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Just wanted to say that Colleen Hoover is an amazing writer and reading it ends with you got me out of my reading slump. TikTok is a great place to find recommendations <3 Technically I read like 10 books in 2 weeks and it’s more books I’ve read in the past like what, decade? ((well maybe but like i’ve probably poured those energy into fanfics which could easily quadruple the number but eh)). What I’m trying to say is that this is fun, reading is amazing hahaha.

I’m planning on reading unhoneymooners, hopeless, maybe someday and some other more soon but let’s seee, feel free to drop recs on my askbox~

**EDIT** Ok y'all, Imma do a quick update on the ranks because I read 1 wonderful book that just OOFT.

#novel #book #book tumblr #colleen hoover #ali hazelwood #rebecca serle #elise sussman #book review #it ends with us #all your perfects #the love hypothesis #funny you should ask #verity #ugly love #november 9 #in five year #confess #under one roof

[princessofbookaholics]

currently reading and loving 📃

#books #booklr #book #reading #read #bookworm #reads #bookaholic #bookaddict #expiration dates #rebecca serle #currently reading

[dance-in-my-storm]

“Wasn’t the hardest part of heartbreak the unpredictability? How you could feel the most connected to a person in one moment - like being in a teardrop together, the world a watercolor outside - and like strangers in the next?”

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

#personal #relationships #love #life #quotes #quote #book #books #book quotations #bookquote #book quote #booknerd #books and reading #book quotes #Rebecca serle #expiration dates #heartbreak #sad #break up #hurt #novel

[paigeypaige19]

You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.

In Five Years, Rebecca Serle

#In Five Years #Rebecca Serle #book quotes #lit quotes #life quotes #quotes #love quotes #future #relationships #love #present

[mercerislandbooks]

Book Notes: Expiration Dates

Sometimes you pick up a book on a whim and feel, almost against your will, pulled into the plot. Unable to extricate yourself because each chapter expertly leads you into the next until you’re in so deep you have to find out what happens. Such was my experience with Rebecca Serle’s forthcoming book, Expiration Dates.

Daphne Bell’s romantic relationships have all been bound by one thing: a piece of paper that appears before or in the initial moments of meeting a man telling her how long they’ll be together. So far, the papers have never been wrong. And then one day, on her way out to the door to a blind date set up by a friend, Daphne gets a paper with no expiration date. Just the name of the man she’s going to meet — Jake. Suddenly Daphne has all the time in the world to explore a relationship with Jake, and all the confidence of believing she’s guaranteed a lifetime with this person. But as things move along with Jake, Daphne wonders how much knowing you're meant to be with someone impacts truly wanting to be with them.

Rebecca Serle does an excellent job with the slow reveal, and she uses first person, which isn’t something I encounter too often in adult fiction. To begin with I experienced Daphne as a person with abundant self-confidence yet detached and without much personal passion. But the further I got into the book and the more Daphne revealed about herself, I began to appreciate how her life had shaped her. I kept turning down pages for lines I loved for their authenticity, until, by the end, it was all just so real and vulnerable I could have turned down every page. Expiration Dates is not a conventional romance by any means, but the pleasure of it comes from both the intricacy of the construction (which would lend itself to rereading) and the deceptively straightforward prose. This would be the perfect book to buddy read with a friend because there’s so much to discuss.

Expiration Dates comes out March 19th, so put in your preorder now and have a great book to look forward to!

— Lori

#island books #lori robinson #rebecca serle #expiration dates

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

"History, memory is by definition fiction. Once an event is no longer present, but remembered, it is narrative. And we can choose the narratives we tell—about our own lives, our own stories, our own relationships. We can choose the chapters we give meaning."

#one italian summer #bookedit #litedit #books #literature #chaptersnet #booksocietynet #storyseekers #novelsnet #litsociety #booknet #fictiondaily #fictionnet #my edit #rebecca serle

[nat-reviews-books]

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

This book was ok. It wasn't my favorite but I didn't hate it. The mother-daughter relationship throughout the book was very weird, and I'm not a fan of media where a partner cheats and hides it, but the book was great in the traveling portions. As a person who loves traveling and loves food, the descriptions of food and the joy of seeing and doing new things really spoke to me. This had some stuff I really liked and some that I really didn't.

#books #reviews #book review #one italian summer #rebecca serle

[melodysbookhaven]

“There is more to life than just continuing to do what we know. What got you here won’t get you there.”

Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

#rebecca serle #one Italian summer #bookblr #bookish #book quotes #books #quotes #bookstagram #booktok #book tumblr #reading #book club #book lover #bibliophile #bookworm #book worm #readers of tumblr #booklr #book community

[inlovewithquotes]

No one ever died from having too much information. It's the misunderstandings that are the problem.

-When You Were Mine

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #life quotes #rebecca serle #when you were mine

[lavenderhayes]

"'Look at all the colors,' she said. 'It's like the sky is on fire. Burning up the whole day. Nature has so much power if we just pay attention." - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

#sunset #quotes #nature #books #reading #booklover #book lover #bookworm #sky #clouds #writing #sundown #evening #colors #beauty #beautiful #italian #summer #Rebecca serle

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: One Italian Summer

Author: Rebecca Serle

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, magical realism, travel

Blurb: When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers, and now, when Katy needs her the most, she’s gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone...but as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother’s spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and, of course, delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life...and then Carol appears in the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn’t understand what is happening, or how - all she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman before her. She is not exactly who Katy imagined she might be, however, and soon, Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue.

#one italian summer #rebecca serle #standalone #2022 #fiction #romance #contemporary #magical realism #travel