Emily Kaufman

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I am happy to admit that I was at the perfect age to read, digest, and fall in love with "The Fault in Our Stars." Yes, I ugly cried, almost as hard as I did with the fateful wedding scene in "Jane Eyre." It's notoriously hard to make me cry with a book. And for a long time, I hadn't found a book that has me fighting back serious tears until I picked up this book and read it in two days. Two days! I haven't speed-read a book since high school. I can say that I am now at the perfect age to read, digest, and fall in love with "Beach Read." Now, you're going to be confused and a little, "Oh God, I made a mistake" when you first start reading. However, the narrator reassures you that this is her personality and nothing's going to change that. And it's wonderful and it's honest, so brutally honest. It's a portrait of a broken woman harboring serious damage and reeling from the loss of not only her father, but her view of the entire world. If you loved "The Rosie Project," you'll soar through this. Serious kudos to Emily Henry! I can't wait to read more of her work. Is it too much to ask for a sequel? 🥺

Beach Read

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It's one of those films that you won't have an immediate reaction to. You'll stand up from your seat, throw out your trash, drive home and lay in bed thinking about what you just watched. It's so open and raw that it is divisive, but in a good way. It's laying bare what society, even to this day, is doing to those with any form of mental illness: shunning, taunting, leaving them behind. While it's not necessarily meant to be a metaphor, it inevitably has become one and I genuinely believe the criticism is unwarranted. Joaquin Phoenix is at his finest; he's almost unrecognizable from his "Walk the Line" days. Criticize it for being a Scorsese-wannabe film, but I think that's what makes it so unarguably unique: Phillips took films that forced America to look mental illness in the eye and opened it up to a universe that has been so pristine until now, that being the comic book universe. It's one hell of a film and one I will gladly watch over and over.

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