abbi waxman the bookish life of nina hill

Ridge’s deafness doesn’t impede their relationship or their music. She finds out after the fact that Ridge already has a long-distance girlfriend, Maggie-and that he's deaf. The two begin a songwriting partnership that grows into something more once Sydney dumps Hunter and decides to crash with Ridge and his two roommates while she gets back on her feet.

While music student Sydney is watching her neighbor Ridge play guitar on his balcony across the courtyard, Ridge is watching Sydney’s boyfriend, Hunter, secretly make out with her best friend on her balcony.

Hoover is a master at writing scenes from dual perspectives. Sydney and Ridge make beautiful music together in a love triangle written by Hoover ( Losing Hope, 2013, etc.), with a link to a digital soundtrack by American Idol contestant Griffin Peterson. Waxman has created a thoroughly engaging character in this bookish, contemplative, set-in-her-ways woman. If you roll your eyes at people who make daily schedules, you’ll love Nina Hill, too. If you love writing plans and sticking to them, you’ll love Nina Hill. Waxman ( Other People's Houses, 2018, etc.) skillfully shows Nina's changing mindset in the hilarious schedules, complete with meal plans and shopping lists, she makes each day. She of course grows and opens her life to new experiences-her new family and, maybe, the trivia guy. She has a spark, an imagination, and a sense of humor that make you want to sit with her and observe people over a cappuccino and pastry.while making wisecracks. He’s too showy for Nina, and besides, he knows all the sports category answers, so she pegs him as a nonreader, a big turnoff. Who cares what her father might have left her? No thanks! And then another intrusion appears in the form of a handsome man, captain of a rival trivia team. At the lawyer’s office, she meets the rest of the family, her half-aunts, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, some welcoming and others decidedly not. Turns out he was wealthy, and he's left her something in his will. Her static, well-regulated life is turned upside down when a lawyer contacts her with news about her father, though her mother had always claimed not to know who he was. After working in the bookstore, she goes home to her cat, Phil, where she reads and bones up for her next trivia contest.

Nina likes “pinning things down,” being prepared in advance, and making a daily schedule. Introverted Nina Hill, the only child of a single mother, is pulled-both kicking and screaming and passive-aggressively resisting-into a new family and a new relationship.

Abbi waxman the bookish life of nina hill