One Day

Very well written and the dialog is witty and sharp. It is not some chick lit novel where everything is predictable. The premise kept me reading until the end. Around the end I just kept thinking, “Well, this must be the end” over and over again. The ending dragged on and (I won't give away any spoilers) disappointed me. I felt like the author was pulling for some sort of heartbreaking ending but it was lack luster for me.

i think having watched the movie (many years ago) has spoiled it, which honestly has never happened to me while reading or watching something. I guess I was just not really enjoying the reading and I guess I was anticipating it a lot, more than I was expecting.
I think I enjoyed the main characters but there was something off in the story I don't know what exactly I just wanted it to be over. I guess the overall idea of having 1 day of their lives displayed to us was really clever and I enjoyed that as I had enjoyed while watching the movie but the in depth of each character didn't really captivate me enough or like the movie had. I think I just liked the movie better overall.

A novel that is getting a lot of buzz these days as it is being made into a movie. Our main characters, our contemporary Harry and Sally if you will, meet in college and continue to bump into one another as the years pass. Dexter, our Harry, spends way too much time pursuing drugs and women for my taste, and Emma, our Sally, falls into writing and fame and fortune way too easily for my belief system to accept, but, other than these flaws, it's a nice little read.

One Day is a light-hearted, slow-burn romance. I've personally never read a romance book before so I do recommend this as a starter since it's not over-done.

You truly grow to feel like the two main characters are friends of your own. The book is snapshots of their lives broken up into portions (early 20s, mid 20s, late 20s, so on). I honestly love the way it's structured as it feels like you're growing up alongside the characters. The further you read the more you realize you need to show more compassion for yourself - that despite mistakes everything will all work out in the end. It makes you feel less alone because even when the characters felt alone, we know they never truly were. As someone in my 20s it made me feel less lost because you grow to learn that at any age we're still learning and figuring things out. I enjoy how One Day provokes reflection and introspection: I found myself thinking about chapters of my life and wondering how little decisions affected me greatly, as they do with the characters. Overall it's a fun, comforting read that I'd say is like a coming-of-age story (because you never really stop coming of age, do you?).

This book hadn't been on my radar at all but it came up as a suggestion when playing around with ChatGPT when I asked for books similar to the movie The Girl in the Cafe. It also fit in for a reading challenge prompt for a book suggested by a random generator, so I picked it up right away.    Dex and Emma spent a day together in 1988. They never left each other's minds. That date becomes the focal point of decades of love, loss, mistakes, successes, and growing up.    I was hooked at the very start of the book but my interest fizzled out quickly. I didn't connect to the characters at all which made for a less enjoyable reading experience. Took away some great quotes though, so I'm glad I stuck with it. 

Welp, okay then...


Like what the hell do I do now. I knew it was gonna end sad but I thought they would just break up again, but...what the fuck is up with car crashes in these tear jerking novels. And how am I supposed to recover?!? You expect me to just move onto my next book?!? My next books include a book on conservative business of America, one of the first feminist novels, and a book that includes knotting. I can't just move onto those like I'm fine, cause bro, truly what the fuck