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Okay, I had a pretty good reading month, actually, and statistically, if I look at my story graph results, this makes a lot of sense.

January and February are typically good reading months for me. I sometimes wonder if that's because these are months when Jordan is pretty busy with work and with his job.

And so he's not always home in the evenings, which gives me more reading time, less TV time, and more reading time.

I also wonder if it's just the nature of hibernation and of winter that these months are typically pretty good reading months for me.

I did not have a ton of maybe five star reads this month, but I liked most, if not all, of what I read, and I can't wait to tell you about it.

So the first book I finished, my first book of 2023, was Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, and I had high expectations for this book.

I love Curtis Sittenfeld. She is the author of the book's Rotem, eligible, prep American wife. I've read them all. I've loved them all.

This one is not my favorite by her. Now, maybe you're like me, and now I have just broken your heart because you were really looking forward to this book.

And so I would like to say it is an enjoyable book, like I think it's fast. I read it very quickly. I think I was really expecting.

So Curtis Sittenfeld does a really good job in my mind of taking a subject that you think you are familiar with and then kind of turning it on its head.

So Rotem, of course, is the fictional story of Hillary.

Rotem Clinton, if perhaps she had not met and married Bill, eligible is the retelling, modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice.

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