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The Village Cafe in the Loire by Gillian Harvey: A Book Review

In 2023, The Juggle Research of Bloom UK revealed a widespread mental health impact on working women. An overwhelming majority (93%) of women in the sector feel their mental health is suffering due to work-life imbalance. Over 40% (43%) are experiencing clinical burnout symptoms, a serious consequence of chronic work stress.

The Village Cafe in the Loire: Escape to France is a feel-good and romantic novel. Becky, the main character of the novel, was forced to go on leave for a month because of possible burnout. Stress took a toll on her when she threw a laptop at her intern, that's why she was signed off. She knew what to do, get rid of the source of stress, the cafe in France that her great aunt left her. If she wouldn’t take care of this right away, she would not only lose her dream apartment but also her dream job.

The book explores the true meaning of success in this modern world. It successfully shown one of the

Project Hail Mary

Didn't expect Project Hail Mary to git his hard.

I thought it would just be a smart sci-fi read.

But somewhere between the isolation and the impossible stakes...

It stopped feeling like a space story and became about connection and redemption.

I highly, highly recommend Project Hail Mary.

This ended up being my favorite sci-fi book. ❤️

Amaze, amaze, amaze! 🥰

Right Thing, Right Here

Perhaps tens of thousands of books have been written about it, thousands of movies have been made about it, and hundreds of museums have been built to showcase its brutality. War destroys lives in many forms. The magnitude of its devastation ranges from large-scale catastrophe to the most basic of human beings—identity. War can annihilate a nation and even obliterate one's personhood.

B.A. Shapiro, author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger, painted how war affects people in every area of their lives in the book The Muralist. The spotlight is on an artist who fought for her family, for the country, and for herself. But her passion against war opened the gates of hell and threw her into oblivion.

Day 1

Hello, fellow book lovers!

Today is the first day of reading The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro. It’s a thriller that's related to art. I’m not really an artsy person, but at the same time, I am kind of interested in the combination of suspense and art. I think this book will give me a different kind of experience, so I’m looking forward to it.