My goal this year was to read 60 books. So far, as of October, I’ve read 64. I try to read a range of different styles, authors, and genres, moving between lighthearted romance to gut-wrenching horror to outrageous nonfiction, and everything in between.

Not all of these books were published…

Rachel’s last semester at the University of Michigan would have been easy if not for the news that reached her six weeks before her final exams.

It wasn’t a phone call — the phone lines were still down from the most recent blizzard to hit Paradise, she guessed. Instead, a…

I saw her drive right by me into the parking structure of the Botanic Garden as I was picking a hangnail. We made eye contact for a minute and then she looked away, and I couldn’t help thinking she wasn’t as cute in person as in her pictures. …

Recently, I found myself trudging through a book I really didn’t enjoy. Normally, I wouldn’t hesitate to put it down, take it off my Goodreads TBR list, and move on to the next book. Unfortunately, this particular piece was a book club pick, so I felt bound to finish it.

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Okay, so I go to meet this girl on a Monday night, of all nights — not sure why she picked that — and it’s gray and drizzling outside. If that wasn’t bad enough, my last job went long, and combined with Atlanta traffic, that makes me late to the…

“So what are we doing?”

Sean giggled. “You’ll just have to wait and see!”

“But, like…you need to give me the address so I can meet you there.”

“Oh. Right.”

My date with Sean started out very unusually. We’d met on Tinder earlier that week, and I’d immediately been drawn…

Ethan didn’t seem strange in his Tinder profile — not that that counted for much, but still. …