Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! Today, for our first blog post of 2025, I wanted to discuss a book I finished on the second day of the new year: Meet Cute Diary! For some context, I decided to read this book because I had read a book by Emery Lee last year… Continue reading Meet Cute Diary: How I dodged Second Lead Syndrome
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