Life’s Too Short
Abby Jimenez, 2021
A rom-com about a woman with a bucket list, a cautious lawyer, and the question of how much future anyone can promise.
Feels like wonder and hope. About morality and freedom.
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A life philosophy delivered as a list of permissions.
Don’t ever forget the things I taught you. Life’s too short, Adrian. It is too fucking short. Eat the cake, take the vacation, dance in the rain. And don’t do anything that’s going to break your heart. I’m just sorry that in this case, that thing was me. Abby Jimenez.Abby Jimenez founded Nadia Cakes, a bakery that won Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, before she became a romance novelist.
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Questions readers ask
- What is Life’s Too Short like?
- Feels like wonder and hope. About morality and freedom.
- What should I read after Life’s Too Short?
- If you liked Life’s Too Short, try Good Omens (Terry Pratchett), The House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J. Klune) and Legends & Lattes (Travis Baldree).
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A demon's professional failing is liking the people he's meant to ruin.
He rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon. Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.
Good Omens · Terry Pratchett
The difference between the posters on the wall and the laughter behind the door.
He was about to leave through the front door when he paused at a bright burst of laughter coming from the kitchen. Against his better judgment, he tiptoed toward the sound. He passed by posters nailed to the walls, the same messages that hung in all the DICOMY-sanctioned orphanages he’d been to. They showed smiling children below such legends as WE’RE HAPPIEST WHEN WE LISTEN TO THOSE IN CHARGE and A QUIET CHILD IS A HEALTHY CHILD and WHO NEEDS MAGIC WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR IMAGINATION?
The House in the Cerulean Sea · T.J. Klune
What contentment smells like when it catches you off guard.
The combined aromas of hot cinnamon, ground coffee, and sweet cardamom intoxicated her, and as she brewed and smiled and served and chatted, a deep contentment welled up. It was a glowing warmth she’d never experienced before, and she liked it. She liked it a great deal.
Legends & Lattes · Travis Baldree
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