Catherine Newman takes the everyday—sand between toes, jokes about menopause, aging parents—and transforms it into something vivid.
A richly earned four stars for anyone who wants a novel that feels like a hug, a fortune cookie, and a pastel Parisian sunrise all at once.
This is a story about timing, courage, messy truths, and the healing that comes when you finally let yourself want something wholeheartedly.
Michael Moss has written a book that is urgent without hysteria, scientific without sterility, and political without partisanship.
This book takes the fantastical concept of a time loop and turns it into something deeply human.
It meets us where we are—messy, uncertain, hopeful—and gives us language, insight, and permission to do better.
It’s not flawless—but it’s compelling and well-worth your time, whether you’re a beauty-industry geek or just curious about the pink-packaged powerhouse.
It honours pain without drowning in it, creates space for hope without glossing over truth, and anchors itself in both place and metaphor.
One True Loves takes a romance, shakes it until the glitter falls away, and shows you love in its full, messy, transformative glory.
It does more than tell one man’s life—it holds up a mirror to a society chasing a story, and asks what is broken when the story expects you to perform.