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Cheers- Smart Shopping

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Welcome to the Cheers shopping app. The Cheers shopping app lets you shop millions of products and...

Trout Fisherman Magazine: The world of fly fishing

Magazines & Newspapers and Lifestyle

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Trout Fisherman is the magazine that helps you hone your fly fishing skills. Perfect for those...

Miniature Needle Painting Embroidery

Trish Burr

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Trish has always been fascinated by miniature art and for years has had a yen to try and embroider...

Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice

Vikram Patel, Martin J. Prince, Alex Cohen and Harry Minas

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Global health is an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health...

Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry

Margaret M. Chin

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Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found...

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Jan 12, 2021

The Girl He Used to Know

Tracey Garvis Graves | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

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This review and more can be found at my blog
https://aromancereadersreviews.blogspot.com
A Romance Reader's Reviews

I'll admit I bought this as a spur of the moment thing from one of my favourite bargain book shops The Works. I've never read anything by this author though I do have her book, "On the Island", to read on my Kindle - and have done for several years now.

This book switches between 1991 and 2001 with almost every chapter after Annika meets her college love for the first time in years, bringing back memories of their time together and making her want to reconnect with him. They meet for coffee and decide to reconnect as friends, going out to dinner later on in the week. Things slowly progress between them and they try again.

The last few chapters of the book take place around September 2001. I honestly had no idea where the author was going with this until the news channel Annika was watching started talking about "a plane crashing into the North Tower" and I'll admit a little shiver went through me.

I'm assuming Annika has some sort of Autism because she has a lot of the same traits as Rikki - from - that I read a little while ago. Doesn't like certain clothing because of how it feels, hates loud sounds, doesn't know how to interact with people very well...etc. In fact this was discussed further on in the book and she is on the Autism spectrum.

I guess people are a bit cruel to those they don't get or understand but I really like how Jonathan always seemed to know what to say and do to ease Annika's anxieties when they were out together. He didn't mind putting his own wants aside to help Annika cope better in situations. They were perfect for each other in that.

I just found the story a little slow and not much seemed to happen in it really. The jumping between months seemed to miss out a lot of their growing relationship and I always feel a little cheated when that happens. I like to read it all.