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✨ Step inside THE SECOND CHANCE CINEMA
📚 Nostalgic magical realism for Nora Ephron ❤️ers
⬇️ Buy the paperback @atriabooks 📍Denver

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The most important question we asked at The Blue Book Festival: what sound does a book make when you turn the pages?

We needed to know. Scientifically. Definitively. From the people who would know best.
And honestly? Every single answer was correct.

There is something about the sound of pages turning that is completely impossible to describe and immediately understood by everyone who loves books. It is its own little language. A whole feeling in a single sound.

Thank you to every author and vendor who humored us and gave it their very best shot. You are our kind of people!

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O Filme das Nossas Vidas é o romance de estreia da autora @writtenbythea e é uma obra original que combina de forma curiosa o estilo de romance contemporâneo com um toque mágico de fantasia surpreendente.

🎬 A obra acompanha Ellie e Drake, um casal prestes a casar-se que numa noite descobre acidentalmente um cinema misterioso que projeta as suas memórias do passado, revelando segredos escondidos que colocam em risco o futuro da relação.

📽️ Gostámos da premissa de realismo mágico em que a autora constrói um drama íntimo sobre as escolhas que fazemos e os segredos que guardamos, em que a ida ao cinema de Ellie e Drake transforma-se num espelho desconfortável dos seus passados em que o ecrã torna-se um elemento de tensão constante.

🎞️ Apesar da obra tocar em feridas e segredos, o tom da escrita nunca se torna pesado ou violento e mantém a aura de um cozy romance, focado na cura, no perdão e no amadurecimento dos dois protagonistas através da capacidade de expor a sua vulnerabilidade e aceitar a sua bagagem emocional!

🎟️ Considerámos que é uma leitura ideal para quem gosta de histórias focadas nas dinâmicas psicológicas dos personagens com um toque de magia discreta que serve para guiar a narrativa, onde a ação dá lugar a diálogos e reflexões sobre o amor verdadeiro que é capaz de aceitar as imperfeições, traumas e segredos.

📕 Obrigada @singulareditora pela oferta deste exemplar que foi uma boa leitura

💭 Ficaste com curiosidade em entrar nesta sala de cinema? Conta-nos tudo nos comentários!

@read.withh.us @places__books

#book #booklover #reading #books #cinema

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The lovely @writtenbythea visited our bus on Saturday and we were so excited to meet her in person! Her novel #thesecondchancecinema was one we heard about at #fallcon last year and we knew we had to read it! It also ended up being one of our first books for bookclub! A couple is about to get married and they stumble upon a decadent theatre that only plays memories from their past. It brings up the question…”Can you truly love someone if you only allow them to see the edited version of your past?” If you love magical realism, romance and second chances check out The Second Chance Cinema! #theaweiss #localauthor #mobilebookstore

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The Blue Book Festival was a love letter to our Denver literary community. And my heart is so full.

To everyone who showed up, celebrated our incredible speakers @blackforager and @thebloggess , supported our local authors and independent bookstores, and spent Saturday celebrating the magic of books: thank you.

We watched local authors sell out of books, saw crowds show up all day long, and were reminded of just how special this literary community really is.

This was never just about bringing incredible authors to Denver. It was about bringing readers, writers, booksellers, and book lovers together. And Denver, you showed up in a big way.

To our authors, speakers, volunteers, partners, sponsors, and everyone who helped make this dream a reality: thank you for believing in it.

Our first Blue Book Festival was everything I hoped it would be and more. And I have a feeling we’re just getting started.

With a very full heart,

Paige

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Leitura Conjunta 🤍📖

Vamos iniciar hoje a nossa primeira leitura conjunta do livro da @writtenbythea e estamos muito entusiasmadas para entrar neste cinema e conhecer a história de Ellie e Drake que promete emocionar ✨

Muito obrigada @singular pela oferta deste exemplar 📖

@read.withh.us @places__books

#books #read #booklover #romance #book

💭 Já leste? Conta-nos tudo nos comentários sem spoliers!

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h a p p y s u n d a y ! ☕📚
a slow day at home with coffee, cozy pajamas, and my current reads.

📖 I’m 70% through The Knave and the Moon, savoring the dragon stories in The Treshing Day and loving the whimsical vibes of The Second Chance Cinema. I also tried the online treshing challenge, and I keep getting roasted, maybe the dragon rider life is not for me. 🔥💀

📺 I’ve been watching and loving the Netflix shows Lizzie Borden and East of Eden. 🍿

How’s your weekend? What’s your reading? What are you watching?

Wishing you a warm, cozy day.🤎

#cozyday #currentlyreading #currentlywatching #coffeeandbooks #sweaterweather

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There is this scene in La La Land when the characters view a possible life together, and this book had the same feeling. I think other details were hinting at the movie and, as it is one of my favourites, I absolutely adored the atmosphere.

Thea Weiss captured so well the nuances of relationships, how they evolve with time and how one moment doesn’t define a person. Drake and Ellie weren’t perfect, no one is, and their human shortcomings made this book so fascinating.

Memories were the key to the story. We hold on to objects and events without always having the correct version or all the information. There is a sense of security in the unchanging past that comes with the pain of something we can never get back but that isn’t truly lost. I loved how this book made me think of the memories I’ve made, the ones I can’t let go of as well as the ones I’m working on in order to move on with my life.

Thank you @writtenbythea for taking me on this journey and for me sending this copy of your gorgeous book! I’ve cherished it, wrote a memory in its pages, taken it with me to discover Newcastle upon Tyne (my new home!) and will be handing it over to a loved one soon who will do the same!

#thesecondchancecinema #theaweiss #booksonmemory

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Our adventure club had a blast @good.practice.denver! Community and low stakes art. Bonus getting to meet the owner, Kachine, and knowing that our amazing evening was because she was brave enough to follow her dream!

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Happy 1st official day of Fall!! Here are some recommendations for cozy books to enjoy this fall. 📚 I wanted to share a wide variety of genres, because I know that so many people are mood readers (like me).

I don't know where you live, but by me it definitely doesn't feel like fall yet and I'm not sure when it will. But, I'm not going to let that stop me from reading cozy stories, snuggling under fluffy blankets (with my AC still blaring) and drinking fall flavored drinks!

💬 Does it feel like fall where you live? Let me know in the comments! 🩷

#fallbookrecs #cozybooks #moodreader #bookstagram #readersofìnstagram

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September book haul, and this one’s got a story behind almost every title.

Book of the Month picks (had to wait forever for these but I think it will be worth the wait!):

The Second Chance Cinema — Thea Weiss. An engaged couple stumbles on a magical theater that plays back their own memories, and has to decide if revisiting the past changes their future together.

The Unknown — Riley Sager. Five women vanished from a remote island a century ago, and now a film crew shooting a movie about it is on that same island. Sager’s tenth thriller and apparently his most twisty yet.

The Wretched Divine — Adalyn Grace. Adult fantasy debut, angels vs. demons, a knight caught between two soulbonds. Dark, aching, and everyone’s already obsessed with one particular demon.

And then the chaos round:

The Witches of Cambridge — Alice Hoffman. Sold out on Book of the Month while I was mid-update on my card, so I made the trip to Barnes & Noble for this one, except it turned out to be on the shelf before its official release and couldn’t be sold yet. They put a copy on hold for me until they can ring it up.

One Dark Window — Rachel Gillig. Refused to leave empty-handed, so the cashier recommended this one instead, and honestly I trust a bookseller’s gut pick more than most algorithms.

Started the month chasing one book and ended up walking out with a whole haul instead. No regrets

Read any of these yet?

#SeptemberHaul #BookHaul #BookOfTheMonth #Bookstagram #TBR

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It’s Blue Monday, and I have quite the stack.
Maybe next time I’ll try to hit the ceiling.

New week, new book. I’m starting Mad Mabel today. What are you reading?

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#bookstagram #bluemonday #bookstack #bluebooks #readersgonnaread

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So grateful to have received this copy of The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss (@writtenbythea) 🎞️💙 Thea recently posted a video where she asked people to share a memory in the comments, and it brought me great comfort to share a memory about my great aunt who passed away recently🕊️

Thea then selected me from the comments to send her book to— and I’m so grateful and excited to read it🥹

The Second Chance Cinema centers around a magical movie theater that allows an engaged couple to relive past memories — challenging what they know about themselves and each other ✨🦋

Thank you, Thea!
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#books #memories #thesecondchancecinema #theaweiss

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