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The shivery, hopeful, heart-pounding certainty that something good was about to happen? It was like starting a new book, with countless pages left to turn.
BY THE BOOK by Amanda Sellet ★★★
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Read in 2023:
The shivery, hopeful, heart-pounding certainty that something good was about to happen? It was like starting a new book, with countless pages left to turn.
BY THE BOOK by Amanda Sellet ★★★
Title: By the Book
Author: Amanda Sellet
Series or standalone: standalone
Publication year: 2020
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary
Blurb: As a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, especially by impressionable young women...so when a girl at her new high school nearly succumbs to the wiles of a notorious cad, Mary starts compiling the Scoundrel Survival Guide - a rundown of literary types to be avoided at all costs. Unfortunately, Mary is better at dishing out advice than taking it, and the number one bad boy on her list is terribly debonair. As her best intentions go up in flames, Mary discovers that life doesn't follow the same rules as fiction. If she wants a happy ending IRL, she'll have to write it herself.
By the Book #OutOfContext
Sometimes I pretend my life is happening inside a book. I'm the main character and there's a narrator following me around describing everything.
Amanda Sellet, By the Book
By the Book by Amanda Sellet
Say it again for the people in the back, Mary!
Got this at work today...so will take it home with me during my summer vacation...
“Who needed the obvious charms of June when you could have the burnished richness of Autumn?”- By the Book by Amanda Sellet p. 181
"And then the girl with the locker next to mine asked if I had gum. Which I didn’t, but it was exciting to think that I looked like the kind of person who might."
- By the Book by Amanda Sellet
Why do I find this so relatable