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Published June 25, 2021 at 2:36 PM CDT Listen • 24:32 / Dive into a good beach read this summer with recommendations from two local librarians, Jen Ohzourk and Jennifer Alexander. What makes a good summer read? For St. Louis Public Library regional branch manager Jen Ohzourk, it’s a book that is captivating, escapist, and easy to put down and pick back up again later perhaps after a swim or bike ride. On Friday’s St. Louis on the Air, Ohzourk and St. Louis County Library Collection Development Specialist Jennifer Alexander shared their favorite beach reads. JEN OHZOURK S PICKS: “Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake” by Alexis J. Hall (2021) “If you like watching The Great British Baking Show and wonder about the real lives of contestants, this quick-paced, fun romance is for you! Single mum Rosaline is competing each week and also falling for another contestant, Alain. However, fellow baker Harry may be just t ....
Emotional abuse, bi-phobia, gaslighting, sexual assault Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake is a fun rom-com in which a single mom enters a baking contest (a fictional version of The Great British Bake Off) and finds true love. The question is not “will she find true love” but “with whom will she find it?” Readers should expect to be very hungry while reading this book, as well as by turns amused, infuriated, and delighted. They should also expect to be really moved as this funny book does not flinch from some serious and painful topics. Our story begins with a missed train. Rosaline is the daughter of two very high-achieving parents who put enormous pressure on her to become a doctor. However, she dropped out of college to raise her daughter Amelie and now works in a stationary shop and struggles financially. Her ex-girlfriend, Lauren, is still her best friend and biggest cheerleader. Rosaline applies to be a contestant on Bake Expectations in hopes of landing a h ....
Jamie Ducharme (Holt) When Ducharmeâs 2019 Time article on Juul came out, it was pretty tough to walk around New York without seeing the vape device. I was excited when I found out that article was to grow into a book, and the story Ducharme offers is a bizarre, somewhat frightening page-turner (and is set to become a docuseries, to boot). âCarliann Rittman, reviews editor The Atmospherians (Atria) A woman named Sasha Marcus is harassed and canceled by menâs rights activists after speaking her mind in response to an internet troll in McElroyâs engrossing novel. Sasha then accepts a new gig helping her failed actor friend start a cult designed for men to purge themselves of toxic masculinity. McElroyâs conceit works on multiple levels, with incisive satire, earnest explorations of male identity, and a gripping plot. ....
Boyfriend Material) does it again with this scrumptious, quietly subversive rom-com set against a Great British Bake Offâstyle reality TV show. Bisexual 27-year-old Rosaline Palmer, single mother to a precocious eight-year-old, goes on Bake Expectations in a desperate attempt to turn her life around. On the way to the first filming, she winds up stranded with fellow contestant Alain Pope, an archly charming architect. Alain is everything Rosaline thinks she should want, and to impress him she tells him a heap of lies about her life. Itâs a classic rom-com setup, but Hall upends expectations: the deception is swiftly and realistically revealed, and even as Rosaline enters a relationship with Alain, she finds herself bonding with contestant Harry Dobson. Harry, a gentle giant electrician whom Rosaline initially writes off as a âcockney fuckboy,â soon proves his quiet decency and subtle sense of humor. Hall balances the adorable love story and witty narr ....