Augustus beach read6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the perfect cupcake of a book for reading when it’s hard to do much but scroll, cry, and open a bottle of wine earlier and earlier every day. I am in fact very much not a beach person and still enjoyed the setting. This book is the perfect read for our current times, if it doesn’t make you too upset to picture being at the beach. After years of proclaiming how I found them dull, vapid, cheesy, and unfeminist, I guess I was just reading the wrong ones! I also think there has been a recent crop of really well-written, modern, actually funny romance novels that has been swaying my opinion. Review: Do I…like romance novels? Because it seems like I might. ![]() Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. ![]() Synopsis: Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. ![]()
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