From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...
Welcome to the first of the very long months filled with rain! For June, National Bookstore invited Korean-American bestselling author and the very fabulous Jenny Han for a book signing here in Manila! Photo from Kate of The Bookaholic Blurbs You know I never seem to get enough sleep a day before a book signing. For this one, I was running on (more or less) 5 hours of sleep but that didn't prevent me from enjoying the day! I wasn't able to check out the line outside the mall, but the news was fans started lining up as early as 11pm the previous day (Friday). How crazy awesome is that? Jenny treated the first 30 fans in line to a cup of hot chocolate! And then she arrived. Jenny was all smiles when she walked in wearing that lovely jade dress and started saying hi to everyone! I sat there, starstruck. I never get used to seeing authors of books I've read sitting there in front of me, just a few feet away. Before the Q&A started, I had time to talk and bond with friends a...
