Yours Truly
Abby Jimenez, 2023
An anxious ER doctor, a new colleague, and the letters that turn a wary workplace into something safer.
Feels like tenderness, hope and humor. About love, identity and family.
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Being loved not despite the damage, but including it.
We’re all a little broken, Briana. We are a mosaic. We’re made up of all those we’ve met and all the things we’ve been through. There are parts of us that are colorful and dark and jagged and beautiful. And I love every piece of you. Even the ones you wish didn’t exist. Abby Jimenez.Abby Jimenez owns Nadia Cakes, a Minnesota bakery that appeared on Food Network's Cupcake Wars, before becoming a New York Times bestselling novelist.
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- What is Yours Truly like?
- Feels like tenderness, hope and humor. About love, identity and family.
- What should I read after Yours Truly?
- If you liked Yours Truly, try Great Big Beautiful Life (Emily Henry), It Starts with Us (Colleen Hoover) and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin).
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The compliment that sounds like an insult until it isn’t.
I think you live in a world that’s more interesting than the one most people live in,” he says, and just as my heart starts to sink with disappointment, with a kind of loneliness, he adds, “and I wish I could live in it too.” I feel myself beaming. “I’ll take you sometime.” “I’d like that,” he says.
Great Big Beautiful Life · Emily Henry
How to hold a love that ended without filing it under failure.
Maybe the idea of love ending being a negative thing is simply a matter of perspective. Because to me, the idea that a love came to an end means that, at some point, there was love that existed. And there was a time in my life, before you, when I was completely untouched by it.
It Starts with Us · Colleen Hoover
How to say your life is in books without saying it.
The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry · Gabrielle Zevin
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