Read my ★★★★ review of Fiona Baker's "The Beachside Inn," read as part of my deep dive this month into the romance genre to better help out my freelance clients. This one's a "clean" "small-town" romance, basically the book version of a Hallmark Channel movie, with all the pluses and minuses that term promises and threatens. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5290886043

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Oh Elin, the writer of love,
What a gathering you've wove!
Your Hilderbabes all came,
In their cold island's name
With happy hearts and cozy gloves.

#elinhilderbrand #nantucket #hilderbabes #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/books/elin-hilderbrand-bucket-list-weekend.html

#TFW it's announced on p18 of #ElinHilderbrand's new novel that a famous hotel reviewer has never given a 5-star rating in his life, and you wonder if maybe, just MAYBE, the hotel our novel is set in just might possibly become that first 5-star review by the end of act three

I WILL HAVE NO BADMOUTHING OF MY LOVE FOR "QUEEN OF THE SUMMER BEACH READ" #ELINHILDERBRAND, THANK YOU VERY MUCH