WoW #282: He Must Like You by Danielle Younge-Ullman

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He Must Like You
by Danielle Younge-Ullman

July 14, 2020
336 pages

Goodreads      Indigo

Goodreads Summary:

An authentic, angry, and surprisingly funny and romantic novel about sexual harassment, from award-winning author Danielle Younge-Ullman.

Libby's having a rough senior year. Her older brother absconded with his college money and is bartending on a Greek island. Her dad just told her she's got to pay for college herself, and he's evicting her when she graduates so he can Airbnb her room. A drunken hook-up with her coworker Kyle has left her upset and confused. So when Perry Ackerman, serial harasser and the most handsy customer at The Goat where she waitresses, pushes her over the edge, she can hardly be blamed for dumping a pitcher of sangria on his head. Unfortunately, Perry is a local industry hero, the restaurant's most important customer, and Libby's mom's boss. Now Libby has to navigate the fallout of her outburst, find an apartment, and deal with her increasing rage at the guys who've screwed up her life--and her increasing crush on the one guy who truly gets her. As timely as it is timeless, He Must Like You is a story about consent, rage, and revenge, and the potential we all have to be better people.

This sounds like a book everyone needs to read.

What are you guys waiting on this week?

The Entangled Blog Tour: Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance by Danielle Younge-Ullman and Awakening by Shannon Duffy

Hi everyone! Today, I'm very excited to be able to participate in The Entangled Blog Tour! I had the opportunity to ask the two authors one question so here's my little Q&A with Danielle and Shannon!!

In Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance, Lola does some healing in a rehab facility and in Awakening, Desiree finds rest in the Dreamscape - Is there a place like that for you too? Where do you think, is a universal place for someone to find peace and quiet?

If I can get to a quiet lake, that does it for me. My parents have a cottage on a small lake in Muskoka and just the sight of the lake soothes me. Even thinking about it soothes me! And when I’m there, I find I can get quiet inside—like the Quiet Place they’re always telling Lola about in rehab!

As much as I want to believe chocolate is the solution for everything, I think the real universal healer/calmer is nature. It could be a lake, the ocean, a forest…whatever helps you disconnect from our every day insanity. There are studies about how nature sounds like birds chirping can calm the nervous system, so it’s scientific as well as anecdotal.

 

I want to say, also, that you don’t have to be an official “nature person”—ie someone who camps and canoes and hikes, et cetera, to benefit from nature. I am a city girl and a homebody, and admittedly wimpy about bugs and not keen on seeing too much wildlife up close. (Not excited to see a bear, in other words.) Sometimes I have to push my self to get outside and just breathe the air, but once I do it’s so worth it.

 

There’s definitely that place for me and it’s the beach. I spend a lot of time in Florida, and on most days, I walk the beach. I love the sounds of nature, the soft rolling waves, and the sandpipers and other wild life frolicking on the sand while the  sun warms my skin. It’s so peaceful and it’s really my happy place where I can just be.

I think for each person it can be different though. Everyone finds their own solitude or happy place in their own way and that’s cool. It’s what makes us unique. I will say that I definitely wish I had a Dreamscape machine. I have trouble falling asleep a lot, so it would be sooo awesome to be gently lulled to sleep with the promise of only pleasant dreams.

Those sound like perfect places to relax and just read! Thank you Danielle and Shannon for answering my question today~ Continue on to read my reviews :D

 

Review: Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance by Danielle Younge-Ullman

 

Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance
by Danielle Younge-Ullman

May 5, 2015

304 pages

Goodreads  Indigo

Goodreads Summary:

Lola Carlyle is lonely, out of sorts, and in for a boring summer. So when her best friend, Sydney, calls to rave about her stay at a posh Malibu rehab and reveals that the love of Lola’s life, Wade Miller, is being admitted, she knows what she has to do.Never mind that her worst addiction is decaf cappuccino; Lola is going to rehab.

Lola arrives at Sunrise Rehab intent solely on finding Wade, saving him from himself, and—naturally—making him fall in love with her…only to discover she’s actually expected to be an addict. And get treatment. And talk about her issues with her parents, and with herself. Plus she has insane roommates, and an irritatingly attractive mentor, Adam, who’s determined to thwart her at every turn.

Oh, and Sydney? She’s gone.

Turns out, once her pride, her defenses, and her best friend are stripped away, Lola realizes she’s actually got a lot to overcome…if she can open her heart long enough to let it happen.

Stacking the Shelves #33

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews that lets us share what we've added to our shelves.

I'm super excited for all the review books I received this week! Thank you Raincoast Books~ :D

The Truth About Us by Janet Gurtler

Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance by Danielle Younge-Ullman

There was this whole incident on Twitter a few weeks ago involving the author of this book. I don't want to say anything more just that I will be reading this book since I requested it and the story sounds like something I'll enjoy. Thanks so much to the publisher for kindly sending me a copy!

Kissing Ted Callahan (And Other Guys) by Amy Spalding

What did you add to your shelves this week?