#second first impressions

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I love your tortoiseshell eyes.

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“I’m starting to notice that he always checks to see if I laugh at his jokes.”

Sally Thorne

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✍🏻 İKİNCİ İLK İZLENİMLER ~ SALLY THORNE

🏘️ İkinci İlk İzlenimler YİNE müthiş eğlendiğim bir Sally Thorne kitabı oldu. Providence Huzur Villaları'ndayız. Burası zengin yaşlılar için huzurevi gibi bir yer. Sadece herkesin kendi villası var; dediğim gibi ZENGİN YAŞLILAR İÇİN. 💸Kitap Fiyatı: ₺21 (09/11/2021 - KitapYurdu)💸 🌻Kitap yorumunun devamı için başlığa tıklayın!

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This week I’m reviewing Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne 🐢

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Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

Distraction (n): an extreme agitation of the mind or emotions. Ruthie Midona has worked the front desk at the Providence Luxury Retirement Villa for six years, dedicating her entire adult life to caring for the Villa’s residents, maintaining the property (with an assist from DIY YouTube tutorials), and guarding the endangered tortoises that live in the Villa’s gardens. Somewhere along the way, she’s forgotten that she’s young and beautiful, and that there’s a world outside of work—until she meets the son of the property developer who just acquired the retirement center. Teddy Prescott has spent the last few years partying, sleeping in late, tattooing himself when bored, and generally not taking life too seriously—something his father, who dreams of grooming Teddy into his successor, can’t understand. When Teddy needs a place to crash, his father seizes the chance to get him to grow up. He’ll let Teddy stay in one of the on-site cottages at the retirement home, but only if he works to earn his keep. Teddy agrees—he can change a few lightbulbs and clip some hedges, no sweat. But Ruthie has plans for Teddy too. Her two wealthiest and most eccentric residents have just placed an ad (yet another!) seeking a new personal assistant to torment. The women are ninety-year-old, four-foot-tall menaces, and not one of their assistants has lasted a full week. Offering up Teddy seems like a surefire way to get rid of the tall, handsome, unnerving man who won’t stop getting under her skin. Ruthie doesn’t count on the fact that in Teddy Prescott, the Biddies may have finally met their match. He’ll pick up Chanel gowns from the dry cleaner and cut Big Macs into bite-sized bits. He’ll do repairs around the property, make the residents laugh, and charm the entire villa. He might even remind Ruthie what it’s like to be young and fun again. But when she finds out Teddy’s father’s only fixing up the retirement home to sell it, putting everything she cares about in jeopardy, she’s left wondering if Teddy’s magic was all just a façade.

Pınar Deniz as Ruthie Midona Can Yaman as Teddy Prescott

#second first impressions #sally thorne #shi's fancasts #shivangi's reading adventures #book meme #pınar deniz #can yaman #listen the way i was unable to see anyone but Can as Teddy thanks to the constant references to his gorgeous hair #and i thought of pınar because i've been watching vatanim sensin and her character is so annoying but she is so pretty??? #so i'll always be here wishing i could get that among other things #but yes this book had me crying a lot towards the end for some reason

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2022 in books

It’s been a good year in books. More waves of covid = more time spent inside reading, away from crowds of people so silver linings and all that.

Happily, I’ve also been lucky enough to have lived with and befriended fellow keen bean readers and we’ve swapped our lil paperback collections back and forth. One of my top 5 favourite feelings has got to be watching someone you know read a book you love. Up there too is chatting with a friend about a book they’ve lent you as you read it for the first time. Chef’s kiss experiences.

This year, I elected to read almost entirely for pleasure. I switched jobs two times and worked on getting into a consistent fitness routine of going to the gym 3 times a week so was not looking for anything else challenging or intellectually stimulating to do in my free time. Unfortunately, Canberra does not have very good libraries so I didn't have access to a huge variety of options. But, the library of friends came through with the goods.

Without further ado, a list of my 2022 in books in chronological order that I read them.

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet

Quite an interesting and thought-provoking exploration of race and the extent to we are able to choose who we become. Two mixed-race twins growing up in 1950s America experience very different parallel realities as one chooses to capitalise on her lighter skin colour to pass as white. Raised questions of material comfort versus cultural integrity have no clear answers but makes for compelling food for thought.

How We Love by Clementine Ford

This book is slight departure from Clementine Ford's usual stuff-- more tender and vulnerable. Each chapter is about one of the loves in her life and it's as much a letter to a past and future selves as it is an ode to non-romantic love. I also went to her ‘Secular Love Sermon’ aka How We Love book tour show in November of this year which was maybe the best event I went to this year. Here’s to love as bearing witness to life and telling stories always.

The Dry by Jane Harper

Before this year, I hadn't read any of Jane Harper's books. This year I read them all. Goes to show how addictive and effective they are as crime thrillers. The story unfolds and weaves together to reach such a satisfying conclusion. I can't really say too much without spoiling it but Jane Harper has a wonderful way of characterising the Australian bush landscape as a focal point in her novels.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne

Incredibly unmemorable. It was pleasant but I can't remember a single thing on reflection.

The Survivors by Jane Harper

Not one of my favourite Jane Harper novels, but as always a great page-turning read.

After I Do by Taylor Jenkin Reid

An interesting exploration of love after marriage and the reality of the highs and lows that starts after most romance stories end. As can be clearly seen from the other books by the same author I kept picking up after this one, I really relished this unconventional premise.

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkin Reid

I picked this up because the cover was kind of pretty and I was on a lunch-break walk to Civic Library and this was the best pleasant surprise. Something about this novel reminded me of getting deliciously absorbed into a book during school holidays — falling asleep reading and then reading again first thing in the morning. I have a big soft spot for self-made underdog stories and eldest/only daughter protagonists.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkin Reid

Absolutely devoured this story of old-school glamour, love, and disappointment. Nice and neat tie-in with the narrator/journalist’s own modern day sub-plot.

Entire ACOTAR series by Sarah J Maas.

Faerie smut that fits in just about every trope of men written by a woman for the female gaze in a good way. Very fun.

Love Stories by Trent Dalton

Touchingly earnest, Trent Dalton shows us that in hard times, sometimes the best thing to go is to choose to go soft. To choose to show and share the hurt and highs of loving and being loved that are the only things that'll matter in the end. This got me through a chaotic and draining month I worked in family law. I cried a lot.

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Again, a lesser favourite but good fun nonetheless.

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

This one is up there, so good I reread it a week ago. The perfectly placed red herrings, the family tension, and small-town grudges and secrets. 10/10 times. I particularly enjoyed how men's mental health, loneliness, and isolation were prevalent themes. Jane Harper also sprinkles easter eggs throughout her Faulk novels which subtly intertwine the characters from her books which is fun to spot.

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

There was a lot of online hype about this book, and the author is behind a twitter account I used to follow called 'SoSadToday' (yeah, I know bahaha). But the rather triggering portrayal of disordered eating and punitive calorie counting made this one a pretty stressful read. There was also zero sense of closure at the end, only confusion.

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

A very sweet and delightful rom-com read for those of us who are sometimes sick of the overly predictable cookie-cutter romance novel. The protagonist is very relatable and is all in all a refreshing palate cleanser to the saccharine netflix christmas holiday movie tropes.

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

Absent of any particularly astute life advice at least in any productive sense but deeply comforting that the era of being in your twenties is as chaotic as it is character-building and all of it is normal.

The No Show by Beth O'Leary

Slightly over-complicated plot-twist but props for originality and side-plot which I may or may not have become more invested in than the main plot by the end.

Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

A fun, quirky, alternative rom-com read with colourful characters and the evergreen message that it's more than ok to be a cosy offbeat weirdo as long as enjoy it.

No Matter Our Wreckage by Gemma Carey

Written by a now-Canberran dwelling lady academic researcher, this book reflexively documents   her own childhood sexual assault and abuse. Which is to say things get very real and very dark at points. But, Gemma Carey refuses to let her story go untold and that courage glues together what is an otherwise tragic and deeply personal patchwork of recollections and tribulations.

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Honestly, I can't say I'm a big Sally Rooney fan but sometimes you are having a mid time and simply want to escape into someone else's even mid-er time this hits. I can't explain it any other way.

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

I tried to listen to the audiobook of this story and didn't make it very far but when I found a copy of the paperback, I got through it quite readily. Cosy as all Beth O'Leary novels are, if the obstacle-boyfriend can be a bit characterised as a bit obviously shit.

November 9th Colleen Hoover

If you miss the days of scoffing down random wattpad stories as a tween, this is perfect.

Love and Virtue by Diana Reid

I spent on year studying at the University of Sydney in 2017 and used to always wonder what went on behind the hedges of the overpriced colleges where presumably people with very rich parents lived. This book is almost definitely a very accurate window into the answer. Having studied law and arts at Usyd herself, the

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Wtf!? Truly I was relentlessly gazumped and then bamboozled. No sense can be made of this one, it's beyond sense.

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

I've just finished this book, it might be my last read of 2022. A very sweet and escapist read (mostly for me, as a mathematically and scientifically challenged legal professional lmao). Though I will say I enjoyed Ali Hazelwood's other novel The Love Hypothesis a smidge more.

Whew, that was quite a test for my memory. Any outstandingly great or shitty reads for you in 2022? KEEN TO DISCUSS as always.

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𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚗𝚘 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚊 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚗 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚎. 𝚖𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚕 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 🥹🖤

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Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

Read time: 4 Days Rating: 4/5

The quote: He's a beautiful black cat, dropping feathers and ivy leavers on my doormat. He's given me nothing bad kindness, friendship, and the diamond sparkles in his tortoiseshell eyes. In my tiny universe, he's showered me in riches. — Ruthie Midona

Second First Impressions had me hooked incredibly early. Driven by characters rather than plot it needed strong characters and it has that. 25-year-old Ruthie Midona is the protagonist and the narrator of the book. The daughter of a Reverend (though she has lost god), she is the epitome of the good girl, trying to make the world a better place especially for the residents of Providence Retirement Villa. The books male lead is 27-year-old Theodore 'Teddy' Prescott. Teddy is the near bastard son of the new owners of Providence Retirement Villa, viewed as a bit of a wild child and useless he has essentially been stashed with Ruthie until he can get back on his feet. Let me just say omg Teddy is a whole thing, f*** me he's hot. Long (like hair porn long) black hair, covered in tattoos and when we meet him he's on a motorbike. I was totally gone in about two paragraphs. Then there is the slightly damaged person shielded by a dazzling personality. Honestly, the blurb doesn't do either of them justice. Particularly Teddy, and Teddy alone could sell books. This book has a relatively small cast the only other characters that play a major role are Mel and the Parloni's. 22-year-old Melanie Sasaki, Ruthie's temporary assistant who quickly becomes a friend and tries to help her with her non-existent love life. Renata and Agatha 'Aggie' Parloni are residents, Renata is loud in clothing and attitude, Aggie is more reserved. Renata is a bit of a meddler and a fashionista. She helps Mel with Ruthie's style. And is protective of Ruthie seeing her as something of a pseudo-granddaughter, warning Teddy off her unless he intends on following through.

Ruthie is an interesting character. I think she is written to be relatable to a specific type of reader. Ruthie views herself as enjoying where she is and comfortable. Others have seen her as stuck in a rut. She is competent, friendly, dresses a bit like a granny. She has her routines and sticks to them religiously, to the point where breaking from them or excessive bending will cause her to have severe anxiety. I honestly relate to her and I don't think I'll be the only one. Her relationship with Teddy is complex as it needs to be. He looks like a wild child, she is inexperienced. It's one of those cases where only she can see the diamond in the rough, even he can't see it. They are both resisting their obvious attraction and chemistry. When it snaps it is a sight to behold. This definitely feels like a book for those let's say bookish people who like Ruthie are happy with life as is, the status quo. It's about with terms with who you are or finding out who you want that to be. Developing self-confidence, friendships, mental health, perception and trust are all explored. I do want to mention that religion and something akin to family abuse both play important roles in this book, the abuse if you personally consider it that is purely psychological. Other than that there is one highly problematic element. Renata's treatment of the Parloni boys (it makes sense in context) is highly amusing in a book but would be highly problematic in reality.

Second First Impressions has a first strange timescale. There is very little indication as to the passage of time. But I think it's over 8 weeks, with some decent time jumps. That said this is an enjoyable ride. It's fun there are so many amusing moments and the moments of pure intensity is are written to perfection. There are a few moments where Mel is definitely speaking for the reader. Renata is much the same. But they speak for different parts for the reader. One speaks for our romantic hearts, that part of us that reads and knows these romance novels and knows what a leading woman is made of (she can handle whatever the world will throw at her). The other speaks for practicality, the one that lives in the real world and knows that fiction and reality can't be treated the same. The ending is a brilliant choice, both in the last chapter and in the epilogue. They have such different tones. The epilogue in particular hits so hard. That it hit that hard is a good sign it means I got emotionally involved, I don't even know when I got that involved. I did appreciate the choice to include the letter Mel is using to shop the method as a book, it's so adorable and suits her.

The last line of the blurb for my edition of Second First Impressions is "An unputdownable story from the bestselling Australian author of The Hating Game.". Never have I found an unputdownable written on a blurb to be so accurate, this writing readable and the story so so readable, I just wanted to know what was going to happen next. I picked this up because it was all over Goodreads for a while there, rating well and liked by those I follow. I honestly didn't know what I was getting into, the blurb appealed to me. I've never read Sally Thorn before so I didn't know how amusing her writing was. I take notes when I read this one had by far the most for a 330ish page book without a huge cast or complex lore.

This is what lead to this review having a long comment dump.

Renata fires up. "We agreed that when we were rich and old" "That was fifty-five years ago," Aggie cuts in. "You've gotten your revenge on the male species." — I adore these two okay. Can you imagine waiting 50+ years to get your revenge? And damn these two deserve it. Aggie deserves the world.

"I don't know you" "I feel like I've known you forever." — This is kinda repeated later when Ruthie says she'd know Teddy's tattoo designs anywhere. Their lines are so sweet and this is when they are still refusing to admit their spark. (Ruthie & Teddy)

Every time he was bored, he added another daisy for his sister. The girl in me want to sigh that's so sweet. The woman in me wants to know exactly how many other females are indelibly marked all over him. If he has a big heart somewhere with a name on it, I'm going to be pissed off. — One me too on the girl/woman thing, look I love tattoos. Two Teddy's tattoos for his sisters and the one along the same lines for himself are gorgeous. (Ruthie)

"My next Good Samaritan came through. This really nice lady found it at the Laundromat. It's always ladies. Dudes are garbage." — I really like the Good Samaritan conversations. He never budges on the dudes are garbage either. And full respect to that. (Teddy)

"It's not too late to create a routine. Self-care as an adult is really important." — This to Teddy. And also just generally good life advice. (Ruthie)

"Learn to take a compliment. Appreciate yourself. You're sublime." — This message is kinda spread a lot. Teddy is trying to lift up the reader as much as he is Ruthie and I adore it. (Teddy)

"Teddy, you're so pretty it's crazy." [...] "You're so pretty I need to buy a pencil sharpener." — I may or may not have swooned a little at this point. And in context, it's even better. (Ruthie & Teddy)

All I know is, another in life feels that bad when I'm eating carbs and fat. Everything will work out, because of cheese. — Amen to that Ruthie, amen to that. (Ruthie)

Teddy and TJ are the cutest thing. TJ is a turtle that Teddy injures then attempts to heal. Teddy creative soul that he is rewrites Wonderwall to Wondershell in his honour.

The whole section on name meanings and zodiac alignments. Employer and God's Gift. Virgo and Leo. Maiden and Lion. I really.

All the references to Saint Ruthie are lovely. That last one is beautiful.

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Giving "I want to juice your head like a lemon" vibes

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Speedrun/Time travel AU masterlist

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Book Review - Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

I was excited to read this book. I had just finished reading a pretty heavy world war2 novel and this one looked cute and fun. I had also heard really great things about her other book the hating game. However after getting 35% percent through it I have decided to stop reading. the premiss itself wasn't that bad but the dialog and inner monologue of the characters, oh my god it was awful. So bad to point I couldn't read it anymore. I still want to read the hating game as its gotten good reviews but idk it I should waste my time and money if it will be like this. 🤷🏼‍♀️

#book review #book blog #didn't finish the book #maybe this is to harsh but #second first impressions #sally thorne #the hating game

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Ruthie Midona 🐢

Second First Impressions”

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DOCTOR WHO | The Three Doctors

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An unbothered queen has entered, and subsequently left.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen qing #wen ning #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #In the audio drama she quite literally opens the door and then leaves after seeing them without breaking conversation. #It is both so impressive and deeply funny to me. #I imagine her just literally pivoting in one foot and walking right out. #She came home after a long day at work and in 0.5 seconds went “I would rather go back to the office than deal with this right now”. #Besides tickling me to near tears - this scene is also a great introduction to Wen Qing - her first instinct is to protect! #She lives by the code of 'I don't care who you are - if you need help I will lend it.' a true doctor and professional. #Sure she is *mad* that Wen Ning puts himself (and her to a lesser extent) at risk by helping 'the enemy' but she gives in quick. #I love Wen Qing a lot - she is such an unsung hero in this story. #Sorry that her first appearance on this blog was...what it was. I'll let your curiosity take you down that path...

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I've been having a hard time with art this past month (difference in ambition vs skill etcetc) so while struggling with a project I was wishing for something simple to draw, and then (because i'm always thinking about the locked tomb i guess) I was thinking about how funny the discrepancy is between everyone's first impression of the ninth and what's actually going on inside gideon's head. also the whole thing with harrow somehow having more rizz (3 girlfriends!) than gideon. so i made this for my own amusement:

#at the end of the day first impression and second impression are both still true of the characters #my art #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb