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The Authenticity Project: The feel-good novel you need right now

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Monica also leaves the notebook in a bar for someone else to find and continue what Julian has started. The story starts with Monica, a café owner, finding a small green note book titled The Authenticity Project with the date.

My favorite parts were reading the personal entries, penned in the notebook, and shared without worry about who might read their words when the book is next found. Not only does this story show the reality of humanity, it shows the ripple effect that each person can have on each other.Eventually, the tone darkens and the story narrows to focus on Jude as the pain of his past cuts deep into his carefully constructed life. I quickly grew attached to many of them and even characters I didn’t particularly like at first grew on me as I got to know them. I read it together with two of my friends, Amanda and Monika, a even though not either of us ended up liking it, we still enjoyed our conversations a jokes, so for that reason, I am very glad we read it. Julian Jessop was described by Wikipedia as a portrait painter who had enjoyed a flurry of notoriety in the sixties and seventies.

Secondary characters, including an interracial gay couple, appear with their own nuanced parts in the story.I would definitely recommend this if you love Nick Spalding or Andi Osho, but if you thought this was going to be a heart wrenching, dark look into the inner workings of a human mind and life, you might want to give it a swerve.

It also made me wonder what would happen if someone has started “the authenticity project” in real life. Monica watched the blue dot on Google Maps move slowly along the Fulham Road toward Chelsea Studios.

When I did finally emerge from my cocoon, about five years later, neighbors had moved, friends had given up, my agent had written me off, and that's when I realized I had become unnoticeable. A little disconcerting when you're trying to discuss the various merits of a blueberry muffin versus millionaire's shortbread.

Though the story starts slowly, it definitely picks up, even offering an unexpected and solid twist ending. Imagine you are walking down a deserted path and you come upon a bench and there is a journal left behind. In fact all the characters bring something wonderful to this story that I dreaded getting nearer to the end as I was enjoying their company so much. Other characters include Monica, a germophobe neurotic mess; Hazard, an alcoholic with a stupid name; Alice, a yummy-mummy insta-star; and two gay couples who play such a minor part it’s obvious they’ve been thrown in so Pooley could check off her ‘must have for diversity’ list.

It’s now common knowledge that one of the best tools to tackle the climate crisis is to plant trees. Having read and loved The People On Platform 5 by the author, I knew I had to read this book also and it didn’t disappoint. She re-creates in magical detail the lives of Alaska's homesteaders in both of the state's seasons (they really only have two) and is just as specific and authentic in her depiction of the spiritual wounds of post-Vietnam America. Mary worked long hours as a midwife, and I crossed the country, painting the portraits of people who thought themselves worth recording for posterity.

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