I loved "The Light We Lost"(5 stars for me) so when I saw that Jill Santopolo had another novel being released, I had to request a copy!! Nina is extremely close to her father who is dying and she knows that soon she will be expected to leave her job and take over the family business. The word count of George R. R. Martin’s five-volume A Song of Ice and Fire series is 1,770,000. The series is incomplete, so there could still be more words on the way! That’s about the length of Stephen King’s It (445,134) times four (1,781,736). A Game of Thrones

More Than Words generously provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.** My biggest issue with this book was that I felt nothing. This was a book that relied on a connection to the characters and I sadly never felt one. The chapters where Nina is grieving were really well done. I felt Nina's pain. It was really the one time in the novel where I felt the story and connection.Nina's actions made little to no sense to me. One minute she wants nothing to do with the corporation and the next minute she's some kind of corporate wiz who exactly how to fix everything. One minute she needs time to figure herself out and 4 hours later she's in love. She was all over the place. When her father dies, it feels as her world has been torn out from under her, so it makes sense she should lean on Tim and be with him, just as her father always wanted. And she loves Tim, so it makes sense, right? Not only was she going to lose her father, she was going to lose the life she'd imagined for herself. The future she'd expected would be hers." I was the biggest fan of Santopolo’s The Light We Lost, it was a story which had me thinking about it for days after and Santopolo’s world building was majestically done. So, when I first heard about More than Words, I dived right in, going into books with the least amount of impressions works wonders for me, as I like being surprised by the different elements a book may bring. And whilst I loved Santopolo’s writing once again with this story; it really was beautifully done, I felt that More than Words wasn’t able to leave a big of an impact as The Light we Lost did. Don’t get me wrong I did enjoy this book, I liked following Nina on her journey of who she was, with the way her life had been going, things were already expected of her; to take over her father’s firm and she was in a secure relationship with her boyfriend Tim. But then with her father passing away and revelations coming from all over the place, things really weren’t as they seemed, what did Nina really want to do with her life? I liked how Santopolo allowed Nina to really explore her options, yes at times there were difficult decisions to make, but if Nina really wasn’t happy with something then she really shouldn’t have to settle. Despite there being several bumps along the way, I was happy with the character that emerged in Nina at the end of this story. Nina Gregory has everything. She's a Manhattan heiress who grew up knowing that one day she'd be running the luxurious Gregory hotels that have been in her family for generations. She's had the perfect upbringing--the best of everything and has been taught by her father that their legacy and the reputation they present to the world as a Gregory is what matters most. Even now, although she's working as a speechwriter for the very handsome mayoral candidate Rafael O’Connor-Ruiz until she takes over the Gregory Corporation, the rest of her life seems to be going just the way her dad has it mapped: she's dating Tim, her childhood best friend, and son of her father’s best friend and the company's CEO, and Tim (and everyone else) knows they'll get married and have kids one day who will carry on the Gregory legacy while he takes over his dad's position in the company. Everything seems just perfect.

I honestly was not able to connect with Nina at all for some reason – with all the “struggles” she goes through, I know I’m supposed to sympathize with her or whatnot but I actually didn’t feel anything, even during the supposed “emotional” scenes where I’m expected to feel for her. Perhaps it’s the way the character was written, but she just felt very one-dimensional to me, almost like her character was merely “going through the motions” with everything instead of being a character that comes alive with heart and soul. So we dread to think how many people would be able to get through these monsters of prose; these titans of text. We list below the ten longest, most epic novels ever created. But when that day arrives, she realizes that she has been living her life to please her father instead of to please herself, and she learns a few things that may free her from taking the path her father has chosen for her. Love triangles are nothing new, but this one is done well. So many times I’m clearly rooting hard for one person to “get the girl” in these types of stories, but here I genuinely liked both men in Nina’s life which made me feel for her (and them) as she struggled to chose one of them. There was quite a bit of drama here as Nina navigates life after her fathers death, which was also fun as it broke up the romancey parts. Everything remains light and superficial, there are no real stakes in the plot, and I have no interest in the characters at all. Actually, I was about to DNF this while I was going too far. Fortunately, Santopolo writes engrossingly. No matter the plot, she always manages to keep me interested in the story. She just has a talent for writing readable yet compelling stories.

6. Min Kamp/My Struggle

More Than Words Can Say” is the second novel in the “Patchwork Family” series, which was released in the year 2019. Abby is railroaded by the city council. It means that she will need a man’s name to be on the deed to her bakery, and one that she can control. Not Zacharias, the stoic lumberman that seems to exude a silent confidence. Overall though, I could still recommend this for readers who enjoy love triangles and blush worthy bedroom scenes!

She heard her father’s voice in her mind: You’re smarter than that. And she was. But sometimes it wasn’t about intelligence. Not when the heart got involved. Her father never seemed to understand that. Or maybe he did. All too well." Nina is a woman whose life has always come naturally, her relationship with her father, college, work and Tim, her best friend since childhood and now, her boyfriend. Working as a speechwriter for a Mayoral Candidate, she loves her job. Someday soon however, she’ll be running the family company - sooner than she thinks as it turns out when tragedy befalls her dad, leaving her life in a spiral. Matters of the heart are often irrational, so prepare yourself. There's no getting around the love triangle here. I have to hand it to Santopolo, she succeeds in delivering two very easy to adore men. I truly felt for Nina—how could she choose knowing heartbreak was inevitable in any scenario? My hope, Tim or Rafael would do something, anything really, to change my opinion, making the right choice evident. And, while I can’t say that happened per se, ultimately, I think Nina ended up where she was meant to. The ending is best described as predictable or cookie-cutter, but sweet nonetheless. Who knows, maybe Santopolo wanted to save her readers from all of the ugly crying this time around. Either way, in my mind, the story demanded a conclusion with a tad more bite. This program is grounded in extensive research that shows what helps young autistic children learn best. For more information on the research behind More Than Words, see our Research Summary. Ongoing support Published in the 1950s and released in five volumes, this historical novel, originally written in Tamil, tells the story of Arulmozhivarman, one of the kings of the Chola Dynasty, which ruled in the 10th and 11th centuries. It took Krishnamurthy three years and six months to write - it would probably take us about the same time to read it (not withstanding having to learn a new language).There is a cutdown version of this book called "You Make The Difference In Helping Your Child Learn" by H. Ayala Manolson which covers the same ground more succinctly. Unless you find reading textbooks relaxing, or have a long solo train ride coming up, I recommend reading that one instead. Thank you to Edelweiss, Penguin Publishing Group - G.P. Putnam’s Sons and Jill Santopolo for an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Now we’ll move along to look at this list of 177 word counts of popular novels. Books that are 500,000+ words long I felt Nina's angst as she is losing her father but her other decisions were met by little resistance, with the other characters being much more agreeable than I think they would be, in these situations, losing a bit of authenticity to me. Arno Schmidt, along with Hans Wollschläger, was tasked with translating the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German and, in the course of this, he decided to write a novel - about the problems of translating the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German. Well, they do say it’s always best to write about what you know.

Four brothers and four straws. Just a single bride. Despite Travis not being the gallant youth that Meredith used to dream about, she is determined to stand by his side against the enemy that is threatening both of them. Is love ever going to be hers? Or is Travis going to always see her just as a short straw bride? Santopolo's writing is captivating. Regardless of the story, her writing always keeps me invested. She just has a way of making her stories accessible yet gripping.This was a good read about love, loss, and politics. I think parts of it might have annoyed me more, but I read it at a good time. Nina honestly came across as self-centered at moments, but she was certainly going through a lot, trying to find herself in the wake of her father's death. With her family legacy, she was under a lot of pressure. The book did a good job of capturing grief and loss. I also really liked Rafael--he was a character I could root for. The story seemed to meander a little and could be heartbreaking, but it was a book centered around death, after all. Mindfulness has a range of meanings as it"has become a trend word conveying a diversity of understandings dependent on context" (Crane, 2017, p. 586). Each lesson can be done in five to ten minutes a day. This Charlotte Mason inspired workbook offers four lessons per week and can be accomplished in 36 weeks. The insta-love. Oh how instant it was. Nina literally breaks up with her fiancé and falls face first into her boss 4 hours later. WTF?! The total word count of J.K. Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series is 1,084,625. That’s like reading David Foster Wallaces’s Infinite Jest (488,940) twice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone