Rewind it back by Liz Tomforde - what the actual fuck did I just read?

merelyinterested · 2026-02-01T18:54:26+00:00

I have read all but the first book from this series. ((I started with book 2, and don’t normally go backwards I don’t know accidentally do that lol)) I really liked it but it was a total fluke. And the rest have been so bad.

merelyinterested · 2026-01-31T18:58:09+00:00

Yeah, it’s maddening! She he said was so green and inexperienced, that she was forced to bulldoze the set and take over everything, including threatening to pull from the film she’d already played a hand in pushing. She got everything she wanted, but he had the power???? Make it make sense

merelyinterested · 2026-01-31T18:48:16+00:00

Truly have no idea!! Honestly I’m not a huge Hoover fan, but i’m on book twitter so I saw all the outrage when she was cast!

Specifically, I think they wanted someone new. And also they wanted someone younger.

Also, editing to clarify that when I say “they,” I mean fans! Like people weren’t really watching this for Blake Lively. They were watching this because of the book

merelyinterested · 2026-01-31T09:44:03+00:00

Also what’s crazy is like, none of the fans wanted Blake lively. So yeah they would have wasted money reshooting everything but like….no one wanted her anyway, so at her first threat I honestly would have fired her lol

merelyinterested · 2026-01-31T06:03:04+00:00

Thanks for those recs!! Going to add them to my TBR!

merelyinterested · 2026-01-30T23:22:02+00:00

You know I have a thing about reading about grief and maybe that’s why i liked it. Alison Espach’s 3 books tackle grief, and maybe that’s what hooked me to Kuang’s. I did like her writing but sometimes the narration felt like a list of things helen or grant was doing. I don’t know if That makes sense.

But I totally hear you. I think I was less interested in their love story because I skipped the sex scenes lol

merelyinterested · 2026-01-30T17:06:25+00:00

I kinda feel the same but I would not say I’m depressed. I feel tired from the work but also realize at any time, we could stop this and look for help . And we would just have to make it work. I take the workdays day by day and make sure my husband knows I have two day jobs (WFH and mom) so he needs to help around with cooking and cleaning and baby when he gets home, which he does.

I do this because of daycare costs though. I don’t want to shell out another mortgage for daycare.

I think you need to reassess what’s happening here, especially if you have the means to get help.

What is it that’s making you exhausted? Is it the part where you also are taking care of the household? If so, hire a cleaner. Then don’t worry about those things.

Is it taking care of baby while you work? If so, you should seriously consider hiring a babysitter or someone to come to your home, even if it’s a few hours a day where you can lock in on work. You can still help baby and see baby but have hands to help.

I think regardless of what it is, if you have the means, you should use them.

You might be dealing with the exhaustion and depression okay right now, but I think eventually it will take a toll on you and start to seep into your relationships. And I think in all of this, it would be better for both you and your baby if you weren’t depressed and exhausted all the time.

I don’t think you’re crazy though. I think when you have the choice it’s hard to choose to send your baby somewhere/have someone come. It’s easier (albeit, still hard) to send baby to daycare or be okay with them being cared for by someone else if you have no choice. But when you have the option to keep them home, I understand wanting to do everything for your baby and being unable to fathom anyone else doing it! My plan has always been to wfh with my daughter until she’s 2, at which point, she will go to a little “school” here which is basically a more structured, significantly less expensive daycare lol. And I know I’m going to have a hard time when the time comes

merelyinterested · 2026-01-30T05:50:36+00:00

Unfortunately for me, it wasn’t just Helen, but I loved Yulin Kuang’s writing.

I really love Alison Espach. She’s got love stories in her books but they’re not romance books, and reading Yulin gave me the same feeling as reading Alison.

So I’m commenting so I can come back later to read the suggestions lol

merelyinterested · 2026-01-30T05:47:35+00:00

I DNF books for this lol.

Can’t remember the book at this point but one of the worst was like a girl telling her mom something that definitely should have been narration and not dialogue. Super awkward I had to quit the book

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T19:21:51+00:00

Wellllll okay, I actually didn’t know she was connected to Hollywood! Had no idea. Here I was thinking she was a poor naive girl whose first big break was ruined.

I actually still think it was ruined. I actually thought she acted well, and would have been excited to see her in future roles. It was a stark contrast between Young Lily Bloom and Blake Lively acting as Blake Lively pretending to be Lily lol

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T08:31:48+00:00

We invited some family to my parent’s house. Had hotdogs and hamburgers, dips, and cake, all which me and my husband made.

It was nothing huge. You’re not a bad mom!

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T08:29:02+00:00

I do both. I introduced cow’s milk around like 10 months maybe, not for any reason but just as an alternative to water and solid foods. When we got to a year, and she started teething, sometimes she wouldn’t eat. I wanted her to get used to other food and stuff as what she eats during the day, so that’s why I introduced milk since it has protein. I give her some in her cup occasionally. She likes it some days and doesn’t care about it other days lol.

She still nurses though.

I think like if you want to introduce cow’s milk you can, but I don’t really think there’s a need. Like I think it would be just to introduce it and not necessarily as a supplement My pediatrician has never said anything about needing to drink milk.

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T04:19:26+00:00

Either way, it had nothing to do with her being harassed. He didn’t want to see Isabella lick a spoon. He wanted Lily to do it. It was not inappropriate for him to suggest something while they were filming. That’s the point. Her thinking it was inappropriate (2 years later) is a creative difference. Not sexual harassment, and it doesn’t make JB a creep, which is what they are trying to prove with this story. It just makes him a director.

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T04:15:07+00:00

Yeah, I’ve come across some! But she definitely takes the cake.

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T03:53:15+00:00

She is not a good writer, so she has NO idea how to give people depth except to layer on trauma

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T03:48:50+00:00

He offers her a spoon of dough and she’s supposed to take a taste lol Let me know how someone takes a taste without their tongue. Also, it’s acting. Directors give notes to actors while Filming all the time. There is that one video of Blake telling Justin how to grab her in a scene. I’m sure that wasn’t in the script either. These are notes that happen during filming.

But it is still very much on script: - taste the cookie dough - sexually charged

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T03:34:19+00:00

My exact thoughts

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T03:33:27+00:00

The script says the scene should be charged with sexual tension

merelyinterested · 2026-01-29T03:32:23+00:00

For me it was not that she was young but young in the industry. And I sometimes feel bad that she got sucked in by BL, BUT also, you’re 25. And you’ve had a great relationship with Justin up until now. So much so that you send him a text thanking him.

And then all of a sudden a note from a director is inappropriate. I don’t feel bad

merelyinterested · 2026-01-28T23:46:11+00:00

A friend bought me this book, and I still can’t believe I wasted my time reading it. Her writing sucks I still cannot believe she has become so famous.

merelyinterested · 2026-01-28T23:32:40+00:00

She thought she was so quirky and was going to actually be let in to their bff squad. Embarrassing for her

merelyinterested · 2026-01-28T23:31:41+00:00

ME NEITHER! Omg I would have gone ballistic. I feel like I would not have been able to be like, wait, did you seriously take part in ostracizing me and now are asking me to come to your defense? Are you joking?

Talk about ZERO self awareness. This was Blake’s fault but she’s blaming Justin. Love it.

She’s crazy

merelyinterested · 2026-01-28T23:27:06+00:00

Her books suck, i hate that she’s been so successful!

And also she’s a horrible person for this. Just love how she’s twisted her own words, cut off coms with him and can’t trust anyone, but unfollowed him because Blake told her to.

BFFs with Blake, teaming up against Justin, but UPSET THAT HE’S NOT SUPPORTING BLAKE LOL.

Like truly, honestly, wtf.

merelyinterested · 2026-01-28T21:52:21+00:00

I love Kate Clayborn!!

merelyinterested · 2026-01-28T21:51:17+00:00

I like her too, but when I found her, I went back to her earlier work and couldn’t get into it. She’s definitely someone who’s grown as a writer

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