{"id":23557,"date":"2025-12-20T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23557"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:42:09","slug":"book-64-of-52-great-big-beautiful-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/book-64-of-52-great-big-beautiful-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 64 (of 52) – Great Big Beautiful Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry<\/p><\/div>\n

Alice thinks she has it made, having tracked down the long-missing former tabloid princess from one of the most storied families of the 20th Century and pitched her on writing her version of her family’s scandalous past.\u00a0 Instead, she finds herself in competition with Hayden, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Purdue alum who was invited down to the remote Georgia island to pitch the job as well.\u00a0 While they both work on their separate pitches, they fall in love, knowing that this job could jeopardize their personal relationship.\u00a0 And when Alice finds out the big secret that the heiress has been hiding, it does just that.<\/p>\n

For the third year in a row, the Goodreads Choice winner for Favorite Romance has found its way onto my Kindle.\u00a0 Emily Henry’s latest, Great Big Beautiful Life<\/em>, isn’t your traditional romance novel, or at least not what I believe a traditional romance novel to be.\u00a0 Its story shares some DNA with Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo<\/em><\/a>, where an aging protagonist looks back at her life story through her own lens while ostensibly working with a young author.\u00a0 This is now the third entry from Henry that I have enjoyed, so I may need to consider looking into more of her back catalog going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice thinks she has it made, having tracked down the long-missing former tabloid princess from one of the most storied families of the 20th Century and pitched her on writing her version of her family’s scandalous past.\u00a0 Instead, she finds herself in competition with Hayden, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Purdue alum who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[289,10821,9295,12211,2889,10028,10777],"class_list":["post-23557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-boiler-up","tag-emily-henry","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-great-big-beautiful-life","tag-kindle","tag-taylor-jenkins-reid","tag-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23559,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557\/revisions\/23559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}