Showing posts with label The Dinner List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Dinner List. Show all posts

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Book Spotlight Giveaway! The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle


I have sooooo many books! The Book Spotlight Giveaway feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. This feature is a way for my to cull my collection and to give someone else the opportunity to enjoy these treasures.

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I recently read and reviewed The Dinner List and I have a copy to give away. Read my thoughts here. I know you're going to love it, like I did. 

Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!

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The Dinner List

The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published September 11th 2018 by Flatiron Books

For fans of Me Before You and One Day comes a wondrous novel of first love, loss, and the dinner of a lifetime.

When Sabrina Nielsen arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also her favorite professor from college, her father, her ex-fiance, Tobias, and Audrey Hepburn.

At one point or another, we’ve all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we’d like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These are the questions Sabrina contends with in Rebecca Serle’s utterly captivating novel, The Dinner List, a story imbued with the same delightful magical realism as Sliding Doors, and The Rosie Project.

As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there’s a reason these six people have been gathered together, and as Rebecca Serle masterfully traces Sabrina’s love affair with Tobias and her coming of age in New York City, The Dinner List grapples with the definition of romance, the expectations of love, and how we navigate our way through it to happiness. Oh, and of course, wisdom from Audrey Hepburn. 

Delicious but never indulgent, sweet with just the right amount of bitter, The Dinner List is a modern romance for our times. Bon appetit. 


About the author

Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives between New York and Los Angeles. Serle most recently co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her young adult series Famous in Love, now on Freeform. She loves Nancy Meyers films, bathrobes, and giving unsolicited advice on love. She can be found on twitter: @RebeccaASerle ~ Goodreads

Connect with Rebecca


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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Release Day! The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle ~ My Thoughts #TheDinnerList #FlatironBooks

Happy Release Day!

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The Dinner List

The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
Print and ebook, 288 pages
Published September 11th 2018 by Flatiron Books

For fans of Me Before You and One Day comes a wondrous novel of first love, loss, and the dinner of a lifetime.

When Sabrina Nielsen arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also her favorite professor from college, her father, her ex-fiance, Tobias, and Audrey Hepburn.

At one point or another, we’ve all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we’d like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These are the questions Sabrina contends with in Rebecca Serle’s utterly captivating novel, The Dinner List, a story imbued with the same delightful magical realism as Sliding Doors, and The Rosie Project.

As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there’s a reason these six people have been gathered together, and as Rebecca Serle masterfully traces Sabrina’s love affair with Tobias and her coming of age in New York City, The Dinner List grapples with the definition of romance, the expectations of love, and how we navigate our way through it to happiness. Oh, and of course, wisdom from Audrey Hepburn. 

Delicious but never indulgent, sweet with just the right amount of bitter, The Dinner List is a modern romance for our times. Bon appetit. 


(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)

First line—"'We've been waiting for an hour.' That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday party but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed."

I really didn't know what to expect when I started this book. I didn't know much about the book and Rebecca Serle was a new-to-me author. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. Haven't we all seen or been asked the question—'If you could invite 5 people to a dinner party, living or dead, who would they be?'

Well, we get dropped right into Sabrina's dinner party and as the night goes on we learn so much about her life, her loves, and her disappointments. The Dinner List was a very enjoyable escape, filled with great characters—such wise people seated around the table—helping Sabrina navigate through her past and her future on her 30th birthday. 

This was a quick, very satisfying read for me, one that made me stop and think about the 5 people I would invite to dinner. (That just may be a topic for another post some day.) Now that Rebecca is no longer a new-to-me author, I'll be checking out some of her other books. 

I received a copy of The Dinner List from Flatiron Books via The Girlfriend in exchange for my honest review. 

Congratulations Rebecca
on the release today of
The Dinner List!

About the author

Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives between New York and Los Angeles. Serle most recently co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her young adult series Famous in Love, now on Freeform. She loves Nancy Meyers films, bathrobes, and giving unsolicited advice on love. She can be found on twitter: @RebeccaASerle ~ Goodreads


Connect with Rebecca


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Monday, September 10, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? September 10, 2018


It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

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The World Breaks Everyone
by Lauren Clark
I love this author!

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Chaos in Death (In Death #33.5)
by J.D. Robb
(audio-book)
I just love this series and the narrator is so good!

What I recently finished

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The Dinner List
by Rebecca Serle 
My thoughts will be posted tomorrow.
Pub date 9/11

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Lies
by T.M. Logan
My thoughts will be posted tomorrow.
Pub date 9/11

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What Happens at Midnight
by Laura Chapman
(audio-book)
Read my thoughts here. I read this previously and the audio-book was just as good! 

What I am going to read next

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Everything, Everything
by Nicola Yoon
Something off of my personal TBR pile.

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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