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Aug 25Liked by Kaia Preus

Oh Kaia, thank you so, so much for these incredibly kind words! I am so touched. You are the very, very best, my friend!!! 🩵🩵🩵

Also - your teacher’s advice to go into a book knowing nothing about it just blew my mind. I’m so excited to do this.

Another beautiful newsletter! (Starting The Boyfriend tonight!)

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Paula, the pleasure is all mine!! As will be the pleasures of any and all who read Paula Eats!

Omg yay!! Please tell me how this reading experiment goes for you. I want to know if you like it!

START The Boyfriend NOW. (Then watch opening new doors!!!)

Hugs hugs hugs to you, friend!! No, YOU’RE the very best!

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Okay my son and I love the garbage trucks picking up trash videos so I will definitely be looking up the day-in-the-life vids. Once we found a video of someone just walking from room to room (no explanation) in a modest-sized home and we've been looking for it or something similar ever since.

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Aug 25·edited Aug 25Author

That sounds like a fascinating video. YouTube is really a wealth of strange treasures. Yes, check out the day in the life videos! Soothing and exciting, both!

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Aug 24Liked by Kaia Preus

I adored The English Understand Wool! And the concept of that entire picture book series from New Directions. This one is probably my favorite of the ones I've read, but I really do love a book you can read in one sitting, and the covers of all of them are gorgeous.

I liked The Vulnerables okay but I loved her other book The Friend much more-- I think you'd really like that one too, there's a really sweet human/dog connection.

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I am aching to read more from the New Directions series! I typically love just about everything I read that they put out. I am glad to hear a recommendation for The Friend—I’m sure I’ll love it, but I’m also afraid that the dog/human connection will tear my heart out.

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Aug 24Liked by Kaia Preus

I found The Friend more heartwarming than heartacheing, if that helps!

And I agree-- N.D. almost always hits with the weird little books they put out. I own another one from the picture book series: "In The Act" by Rachel Ingalls. I'm happy to loan it to you if it sounds up your alley!

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Okay, that does help me a lot!! I will check out the Ingalls—thank you for the recommendation! I always love to know what you’re reading.

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Aug 23Liked by Kaia Preus

I LOVED The Vulnerables!! And I was also so worried to start reading it bc of the pandemic timeline— I was happy and surprised that connection, rather than isolation, was its heart.

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So well said!! It was really a wonderful little treasure.

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