If you wanted to write an homage to Nora Ephron's beloved film When Harry Met Sally, where would you begin? Emily Henry sticks to a college meeting between two people with different perspectives, lives, and goals, from the same town in Ohio. (Henry lives in Cincinnati.) Despite their differences, they begin to take vacations together, slowly and reluctantly falling love. As Poppy gets her dream job working for a travel magazine, these vacations become more elaborate in upscale destinations. A graduate student and then a teacher, Alex gets a free ride, which he "pays for" in emotional, platonic investment. The novel details ten years of trips, interspersed with Poppy's present-day trip, designed to undo the damage to their friendship two years previously. I'm not a fan of jumbly timelines in a novel (or life!), but the effort to read in the order Henry wanted me to paid off. Henry has several novels, all good for romantic escapism. Like Nora.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
Here's some library-themed music to get you in the mood.
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