Michele's Monday Picks #17

Angela is so generous to let me pop in with a new little series, Michele’s Monday Picks!  I’m not a blogger or bookstagrammer, but I love getting excited about new releases with the rest of you.  Here I’ll be sharing new books I’m really looking forward to!

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Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

By Helen Ellis

Expected publication date: June 13, 2023

From Goodreads:

New York Times bestselling author Helen Ellis ("As original as she is hilarious." -People magazine) unleashes a boisterous, bawdy, and unabashedly romantic new collection of essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.

Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis's New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade that a peeping Tom left a sticky note asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge where all the parties happen: A game called "What's in the box?" makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piece jigsaw of a beheaded priest, and guests don blindfolds for a raucous bridal shower. When the pandemic shuts down the city, the Coral Lounge becomes a place of refuge, where Helen and her husband binge-watch Joan Collins's Dynasty, dote on two spoiled cats, and where Helen discovers that even twenty years into marriage, her husband still makes her heart pitter patter. In these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays Helen Ellis paints a portrait of true romance for our times.

I listened to Helen’s Southern Lady Code and really enjoyed it – I think this audio will be really fun!

Do you think you’ll be picking this one up?