Casey Peabody. 31, waitress, trying to make it as a writer. Her mother suddenly passed away and her heart got broken. Living in Cambridge in 1997, Casey is trying to make enough to pay rent and finish her novel while she figures out what her life is supposed to look like. Transitional periods are messy and personally harrowing, and also oddly freeing at times. This is a portrait of an artist. And it is beautiful.
An Island off the coast of Ireland, recently purchased and renovated, is the setting for an elite wedding. The guests arrive, boating across the choppy sea. A storm is in the air. This is supposed to be the happiest weekend of their lives, but it is anything but. As the weekend progresses, guests reveal more about their pasts. Everyone is connected, and no one has forgotten what's happened. The wedding is perfectly planned, not a thing could go wrong. Until someone dies, that is.
A miracle happened this April: Jacob started watching Grey’s Anatomy with me. Why is this a miracle? Because it literally just happened. After a long day and thirty minutes of scrolling through the same old Netflix suggestions, Jacob said words I never thought I’d hear: “Do you just want to watch Grey’s Anatomy?”
January Andrews and Augustus Everett are college rivals and novelists who happen to find themselves living right next to each other in beach houses on Lake Michigan. Both of their lives are falling apart. Both are suffering through that miserable ailment known as writer’s block (read with a tone of disgust). Gus writes literary fiction and January writes romance. They make a bet that they’ll trade genres for the summer and end with two complete novels. Whoever can sell their novel first is declared the winner. “Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.”
The Vacationers follows the Post family during their two-week stay in Mallorca, Spain. Surrounded by the beautiful mountains and the clear blue sea, what could possibly go wrong with a family on an island? Turns out a lot. Each family member is struggling with something: money, relationships, infidelity, adulthood, family. Straub follows each character as they navigate their feelings and problems on the island.
I've been craving blueberries recently. Maybe it's my taste buds attempt at preserving summer. Maybe I'm not internally ready for the shift to pumpkin spice and apple crisp. Whatever the reason, I truly believe that nothing shouts Mid-August Sunday quite like Blueberry Buttermilk Donuts. These are SO easy to make because they're baked donuts. It's…
Just a few weeks ago I had all the time in the world to write. I patiently awaited the words to form; my notebook was ready when they rolled around to say hi. I didn’t need a space for the words; I lived in them, with them. The days revolved around them. Just a few…
Why haven’t you written a short story yet? What are you waiting for? These two questions have often arisen in my brain waves during the summer months of the pandemic. I’m quick to counter them with excuses: I’m scared, I don’t have good ideas, I prefer to write nonfiction. The biggest excuse: I’m waiting for…
Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip cookies were the cookies I never knew I needed until I sat down and made the recipe for them. "The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies" is a big claim to make, but I'm making it with these cookies. I created this recipe early in 2020, and I'm finally getting around to sharing…
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