“You have to get out there and seize life with both hands, Nono,’ he used to say when he closed the pages and kissed her goodnight. ‘After all, no one writes books about characters who sit around waiting for life to happen to them.”
― Freya Sampson, The Busybody Book Club
cozy mystery
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The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson
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It’s Elementary by Elise Bryant
“You just looks so young!”
….I barely belong here at these school events, single and Black, so every time I hear this, it’s like they’re confirming that, too. It makes me want to roll out my whole resume to justify my place, Like, I have a master’s degree from UCLA, lady! I was eight month’s pregnant with Pearl at the ceremony, but still! I’m grown, just like you! I use Sensodyne, and I have enough white hairs that I can’t keep casually plucking them without looking like a “before” in one of those women’s hair loss Instagram ads I keep getting, and I am pretty sure my back hurts more than it doesn’t hurt now, and I’m wearing Old Navy Pixie pants. There is nothing more grown than Old Navy Pixie pants!”
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― Elise Bryant, It’s Elementary