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Meredith and I are very excited about the lineup of books we have for this spring and into summer for our little book club! We’ve been lucky enough to find some genuinely great gems and we can’t wait to share them with you all. It’s hard to believe it’s March, but then I feel like I say that for every current month. Welcome to our Just My Type book club!Writers out there know, writing book #2 (or the dreaded ‘sophomore novel’) is no easy feat!! Falon Ballard started off with Lease on Love, a sweet story we reviewed a while back ...
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