I know! Don’t laugh! I confess I really need a pep talk from time to time or else I don’t feel motivated work on my personal projects. And this book offered exactly what I needed. It does have a bit of spiritual advice and some cheesy parts (I prefer to skip these parts!), but it also had the kind of advice I was looking for. Jen Sincero talks about the reasons we come up with excuses. And the kind of excuses that we might not notice we are making when working on personal projects. I think most of the things I learned from this book can be summarized in a couple of paragraphs, but what I liked the most was the pep talk anyway. I listened to it in audiobook format so it was like having a friend telling me I’m awesome (and giving me one or two tips)! Haha.

I got this book from my friend Hana (from Hana Book Review). She sent it to me because she loved it and thought I might enjoy it too (thanks a lot, Hana!) I don’t read a lot of adult romance or women’s fiction (unless they’re classics / recommended to me), but I gave it a chance because Hana and I usually like the same books! And I had fun! The story follows Paula, a woman who discovers her husband has been cheating on her. Since she feels (obviously) betrayed, Paula decides to make her husband fall back in love with her, so she can leave HIM. And since we humans are fans of petty revenge… well, I found it interesting! I wasn’t really a fan of any of the characters since they’re all so vain and/or self-centered, but it was a nice way to change things up a little. It felt like watching a really long episode of a T.V. series (a drama, of course). Also, the narrator was really funny sometimes and there were some unexpected plot twists! I would say this is a perfect book to buy at the airport.

Under the Tuscan Sun