Why ever did we meet

I also liked how this book had this mystery to it about what happened between them and why they were no longer on speaking terms, it kept me flipping pages wanting to know what happened between them. I highlighted and underlined so many parts that made me smile and made me giddy. View all 7 comments. Sep 17, Abby Jimenez rated it it was amazing. Have you ever read a book that makes you wish you could unread it, forget everything, and read it again for the first time?

My book hangover from this one is going to kill me. I'm so sad it's over. I loved it SO much. I want to listen to the audiobook and find a signed copy and watch every Zoom appearance the author goes on to talk about the book because it made my heart soooooooo ridiculously happy. The story is told in Poppy's POV and it bounces from present day to flashbacks of her yearly summ Have you ever read a book that makes you wish you could unread it, forget everything, and read it again for the first time?

The story is told in Poppy's POV and it bounces from present day to flashbacks of her yearly summer vacations with her best friend Alex, starting twelve years ago. Each flashback brings you closer to present day, building the friendship in a delicious, almost maddening slow burn, opposites attract, friends to lovers romance. Let's talk about the main character, Poppy.

I love her. I love her in a I-could-keep-reading-books-about-you-for-the-rest-of-your-fictional-life kind of way. There could be a series that just follows Poppy as she grows old and I'd buy every single one and save them in my memory shoebox. She's got this sharp, unapologetic wit to her that's the perfect juxtaposition to the reserved, almost demur Alex. Don't get me wrong, Alex is hilarious in his own right, matching her tit for tat.

But it's a humor that he withholds only for his back and forth with Poppy, so you really do feel like you're getting the true "naked" as Poppy would say Alex, in her company. They have this unmistakable, unique chemistry and their dialogue is FIRE. Honestly, this book had some of the best dialogue I've read in a looooong time. I was cracking up at some of the stuff these two said and thought. And also, one bed. One friggin bed. Witty banter, sexual tension, one bed—all my favorite things in the same book???

Emily Henry must keep writing. We must protect her at all costs so she can keep giving us new books. This was absolutely my favorite read of the year, and probably one of my favorite books of all time. Jul 19, Ayman rated it really liked it. View 2 comments. Full review later.

View all 9 comments. Mar 01, Anne Bogel rated it it was amazing. The pair of opposites once shared a ride home from college and their witty banter ignited a decade-long friendship. Now free-spirit Poppy lives in NYC, working as a travel writer for a posh magazine. Strait-laced Alex lives in their small Ohio hometown, longing to start a family and live that picket-fence lifestyle. I can't wait to talk to author Emily Henry on June 22!

I love to hear the stories behind the books I love, and these author talks are always a highlight of my month. Heads up for one open door scene. Apr 20, Christy rated it it was amazing Shelves: five-stars. I think I might have just read my favorite book of the year. Emily Henry wrote one of my favorite books of , 'Beach Read', so I was a bit nervous about going into this one. I mean, what are the odds that she could do it again?

Well, she did. I loved this just as much as 'Beach Read'. Poppy and Alex meet their freshman year of college and become the most unlikely of friends. These two couldn't be more different. Alex is straight-laced, has plans to finish college, move home and eventually marry and start a family. Poppy is a bit of a free spirit, and wants to spend her years traveling the world.

When they find out they're from the same town in Ohio and drive home together for summer break, they plan a trip together. This summer trip turns into an annual thing and every year, no matter where they are in their lives, they take this trip together. This book is told in the present, but also goes back to many of those trips. These two have such a connection, but the problem is, no matter how much these two care for each other, they both want a different things. Things that aren't necessarily easy to compromise on.

What I loved about this book most is that as different as Poppy and Alex were, they both felt so relatable to me in different ways. Poppy was such a fun character and I loved watching her grow and find out what she wanted from her life. And Alex I couldn't have loved these two and their journey more.

And fun but random fact I live in a town called Fairfield, 35 minutes north of Cincinnati and the next town north of me is Lindenwald. Put those two together and you get 'Linfield' Emily Henry writes some of the best romances out there. She is solidifying herself as one of my favorite authors with each new book she writes.

The People We Meet on Vacation is such a special book. It's a story of friendship, family, love, and finding yourself and what you really want out of life.

It was swoony, made me smile, and made me feel so much. I loved it to pieces and can't recommend it enough! Feb 14, Robin rated it it was amazing Shelves: arcs , love , romances-i-love. Despite the fact that they have completely different personalities, both Poppy and Henry have been best friends since college. Every year, the two embark on the time honored tradition of their friendship, a vacation to the destination of their choosing.

Until Poppy hatches a plan for one last vacation, one that just might let her reconcile her feelings and put her entire future on the line. Emily Henry has done it again folks, and if you thought Beach Read was good, just wait until you get your hands on this one.

People We Meet on Vacation is the Love Rosie inspired romance of my dreams; one that tore at my heartstrings while simultaneously making me crave a vacation getaway. Where do I even begin with a book that made me laugh, cry, swear, and feel giddy, all in under a few hours.

This book really is the whole package. What with its effortless humor emblematic of the romantic comedy, and its mutual pining that made me want to bash my head into the wall on more than one occasion. There really isn't anything more I could possibly want with this.

Most of this story takes place a little over a ten year time period, with chapters alternating between past and present timelines.

A stylistic choice that certainly made for some excellent angst and character development. In fact, the entire focus on these significant moments through the lens of the varying vacation destinations was so interesting to me. The author utilized it in such a way as to make a commentary on the unknowability of the future and the struggle for human connection. The idea that you don't have to search the entire end of the earth to find either being central to the book's message.

This is absolutely one of those books that I wish I could read all over again for the first time. A feeling that only grew stronger with every passing page.

While I may not be able to plan a vacation getaway at the moment, I can safely say that this is shaping up to be one of the best romances of Look out world. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this arc in exchange for an honest review Trigger warnings: panic attacks mentioned , grief, death of a loved one, alcohol consumption Be sure to visit Bantering Books to read all my latest reviews. I wrote the last one mostly for me. Emily Henry, that is.

I liked it, somewhat, but my feelings toward it were relatively lukewarm and unenthusiastic. Or maybe she did, and the real problem was that the story had a mind of its own and got away from her. It fell flat. But it appears Henry has since settled her war.

And to me, her dedication beneath the front cover of her follow-up novel, People We Meet on Vacation , means this — Henry is no longer at odds with her talent. She is ready to write the stories she was born to write. The stories we want her to write. And with People We Meet on Vacation , she does exactly this.

Her heartfelt story of best friends turned maybe-lovers, Poppy and Alex, is warm, delightfully funny, steamy, and masterfully crafted. I loved nearly everything about it. The romantic chemistry between the two friends is HOT. Off the charts. The personality resemblance is truly uncanny once you see it.

Henry still has an exasperating tendency, though, to overly romanticize her male leads. She lays it on super thick. I mean, poor Alex, his mouth must hurt something awful. All it seems to do is twist and turn and curve into small sexy smiles and Sad Puppy Faces.

His facial-contortion skills are really something to behold. But this time around, her writing quirks are less irritating. Not as bothersome. Maybe even a little endearing. Bantering Books Instagram Twitter Facebook View all 86 comments.

Aug 25, Regina rated it it was amazing. Do you believe in love after first sight? Her previous book, Beach Read, was like sand in my shorts.

Not all that enjoyable. The romance trope at play here is friends-to-lovers, since readers follow the relationship of platonic Do you believe in love after first sight? The romance trope at play here is friends-to-lovers, since readers follow the relationship of platonic besties Alex and Poppy as they take annual summer vacations together for 10 years.

And they were Millennials. With passports. And Tinder. Should they? To buy into stories like this, you have to believe that people can be friends for long periods of time without acting on underlying romantic urges. Emily Henry successfully throws roadblock after roadblock on the way to Steamville, so despite my initial skepticism I did actually understand how Alex and Poppy could exist, albeit uncomfortably, in the friend zone.

Apparently she does speak my love language after all. View all 76 comments. May 15, EmBibliophile rated it it was amazing Shelves: 5-stars. People we meet on vacation gave me early 20s romcom movies vibes and I was loving it!!!

I just need to say that I never thought I would fall in love with a man who wear khakis, but here we are. I would die for Alex. Poppy was such a fun complex character. I want to set with her and talk for hours. I feel like I just understand her.

I connected to these two so deeply. I love them both so much and they wer People we meet on vacation gave me early 20s romcom movies vibes and I was loving it!!! I love them both so much and they were just so cute together. I was feeling like please let me be your friend and take me to all those trips with you. How so much of love is about who you are with someone. I had so much fun reading their dialogue. Also, the books just flowed so easily. Emily Henry writing is flawless.

I loved all those vacation trips they took and how all these places were described. I feel like I was smiling the whole time I was reading, I laughed out loud at times, and yes I teared up a little bit! I guess I was feeling things?? This book made me feel nostalgic. For what?? View all 37 comments. I was literally forcing myself to continue because of the hype, but now I just can't do it anymore.

I am already reaching halfway mark but I could not care with the main characters at all. I am disappointed of this outcome because friends to lovers is my favourite trope and I really loved Beach Read. I try to finish this one someday. Jun 22, Meredith rated it really liked it Shelves: netgalley , gifted-from-publisher. Their disdain for one another soon turns to like, and the two develop a deep and lasting friendship that spans over 10 years.

Will they choose love, or is the risk of ruining their friendship too great? Modeled as a modern retelling of When Harry Met Sally , it is obvious how things will play out. The narrative switches back and forth between the present and past vacations. You use meet when you are talking of present or future events.

A few words about usage of these sentences. Both are correct. The future perfect tense is used to indicate a future event that has a definitive end date. The future perfect is a verb tense used for actions that will be completed before some other point in the future.

The parade will have ended by the time Chester gets out of bed. Get is the present tense form of the verb. Got is the past tense form as well as one of the two alternatives for the past participle. The other alternative for the past participle is gotten, which is generally preferred in the United States.

Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Essay Did meet or did met? Ben Davis May 4, Did meet or did met? If I do not practice a third day, the world notices it. Instead we are going to be looking deeply into each moment with full acceptance and not trying to force ourselves to be different from how we are right now. In your meditation practice and in your daily life, can you be in touch, not only with the changing content and intensity of your thoughts and feelings, but also with the vast unwavering reservoir of awareness itself, residing below the surface of your mind?

The lake can teach this, remind us of the lake within ourselves. Through it all, the mountain just sits, experiencing change in each moment, constantly changing, yet always just being itself. It remains still as the seasons flow into one another and as the weather changes moment by moment and day by day, calmness abiding all change… - Jon Kabat-Zinn -.

These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now.

Until now. When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it. You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe.

The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage to others. You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day - unless you're too busy - then you should sit for an hour.

Conversations begin with a question. Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing. If you think of your body as a musical instrument, the body scan is a way of tuning it. If you think of it as a universe, the body scan is a way to come to know it. If you think of your body as a house, the body scan is a way to throw open all the windows and doors and let the fresh air of awareness sweep it clean.

The range of what we think and do Is limited by what we fail to notice And because we fail to notice There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing to notice Shapes our thoughts and deeds. Laing -. The practice of meditation is not really about establishing inner stillness The moments of stillness are one of meditation's byproducts, not the practice itself. If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis de Sales -. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. You can have compassion for yourself - which is not self-pity. As simple, and difficult, as that! To listen is to lean in softly With a willingness to be changed By what we hear. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader.

Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice. Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Cummings -. For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes.

To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction. This is not an answering machine. This is a questioning machine. You think you understand one. You think you understand two, because one and one make two.

But, you must also understand "and". I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become. We ourselves cannot put any magic spell on this world. The world is its own magic. There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality. Most of the calls we receive and ignore are Our lives are measured out The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements.

We're called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we're convinced we don't have the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of right. These are the fire drills for our bigger calls. When I do not know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you. Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous.

If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes. Hillel the sage, who was asked to relate the whole of Torah while standing on one foot: "Do not do to others that which is hateful to you. All the rest is commentary. Now go study. The saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life. Today like every other day We wake up empty and scared. Don't open the door of your study And begin reading.

Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do There are hundreds of way to kneel And kiss the earth. Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? But if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye. When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that's love. Between these two my life turns. We are not troubled by things, but by the opinions we have about things.

Stand still. The trees before you and the bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is a place called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may come back again saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. The forest knows Where you are.

You must let it find you. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers.

Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, most of which never happened - anonymous sometimes attributed to Mark Twain -. We see things not as they are, but as we are. Tomlinson -. The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. Ram Dass tells of a student who went to a Zen master. Not a dead Zen master. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire.

And now, I am dying And suddenly realize I forgot to live. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods? Our bodies know they belong, It's our minds that make our lives so homeless.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.