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**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
Most are newcomers to the scenic, rolling countryside of central Texas whose charms they romanticize, even as the troubles they hoped to leave behind persist. Twelve stories highlight “the book’s recurring theme of desire—for freedom, for clarity, for autonomy, and for personal fulfillment … When women are alone, unencumbered and unbeholden to anyone, they engage in intense internal reflection and show reverence for nature—and during these scenes, Hale’s language is luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews).

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Allure of Julian Lefray (The Allure, #1) in Books

Sep 6, 2019

I liked this. It was fun, it was sweet, it was hot in places. It was a quick easy read for me but I wasn't 100% into the story.

It was nice following Josephine's journey from relatively unknown fashion blogger moving from small town Texas to the Big Apple in the hopes of finding her dream job. Little did she expect to find love along the way.

Julian was pretty cool, too, though I didn't feel we got to know him as well as we did Jo.

Lorena was my type of girl (minus the drugs of course), she was fun, told it how it was and didn't particularly care who she upset in doing so and was very into her fashion designing by the end.

I'm not that into fashion but it was nice to see Josephine's journey unfold.

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David McK (3816 KP) rated Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage - Season One in TV

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Running from 2007 to 2019, The Big Bang Theory (TBBT) was an American sitcom that focused - initially - on a group of Scientist Friends in Pasadena.

From them, the character of Sheldon Cooper was probably the breakout star.

So much so, that he got his own spin-off in the sitcom 'Young Sheldon', which started airing towards the end of TBBT.

From that, Sheldon's older brother Georgie Cooper had perhaps the best storyline towards the end of its own run.

A storyline that is picked up in this, with Georgie married to Mandy (10 years his senior) and struggling to raise his young family in late 80s, early 90s Texas,

Like Young Sheldon before it, I never found it as laugh-out-loud funny as TBBT - amusing, yes, but not laugh out loud.

I'll still watch more of it.