Not Like The Movies & Instructions For Dancing

The Island Library Podcast

In this podcast episode, we discuss books: Not Like The Movies by Kerry Winfrey and Instructions For Dancing by Nicola Yoon.
Not Like The Movies:
What happens when your life is a rom-com...but you don't even believe in true love?
Chloe Sanderson is an optimist, and not because her life is easy. As the sole caregiver for her father, who has early-onset Alzheimer's, she's pretty much responsible for everything. She has no time—or interest—in getting swept up in some dazzling romance. Not like her best friend Annie, who literally wrote a rom-com that's about to premiere in theatres across America...and happens to be inspired by Chloe and Nick Velez, Chloe's cute but no-nonsense boss. But unlike the romance Annie has written for them, Chloe isn't so sure her own story will end in a Happily Ever After.
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Instructions For Dancing:
Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance Studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything--including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he's only just met.
Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk?

As always, will either of these books make it onto the shelf? Or will it split the sand for these two hosts?
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