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Leigh Stein's avatar

Team Kas

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Forever

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Steven Lewis's avatar

IT'S A LOVE STORY and this reflection brought me to this wonderful poem by Frank O'Hara. (Don't ask me to explain ....)

Having A Coke With You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne

or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona

partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian

partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt

partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches

partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary

it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still

as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it

in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth

between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint

you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them

I look

at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world

except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick

which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together for the first time

and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism

just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or

at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me

and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them

when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank

or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully

as the horse

it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience

which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m telling you about it

--Frank O'Hara

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Steve that just made me tear up. So so beautiful. May we all know that kind of love

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Smart Romance by Rena Rani's avatar

This is beautiful. It so captures the quiet intensity Annabel brings to Dan and Jane’s love. I’ll be diving deeper into her work in two weeks, and this makes me even more excited to do so.

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

So beautiful.

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Denise Tarbox's avatar

I loved meeting you at Lovestruck Books in Cambridge, MA. You are as funny and heartwarming as your books. I am not at all surprised to see you on the NYT bestseller list. Your writing is that good. My mom is only a spry 84, but she is enjoying my signed edition of "It's a Love Story" right now.

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Denise, I love that! Hope your mom keeps at it. Vitamin R for romance

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Mary K. Stasch's avatar

I am so glad I found you...even though I am 80. I love your books. I have already purchased your new one but waiting to finish the one I had started before on vacation. I love knowing I have it sitting on my nightstand waiting for me.

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

That makes me so happy. Thank you!

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Melanie Sweeney's avatar

I am so thrilled for you that you made the list, even though I too don’t need anyone else to validate how wonderful your books are — and this one is — for me to know it! Huge congrats!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Thank you Melanie!!

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Meg Dallas Edwards's avatar

Your news genuinely makes me happy. I just love the happiness. Maybe I can dream too. I will dream too.

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Do it Meg!

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Beth Lisogorsky's avatar

Come to Lovestruck Books in Cambridge, MA!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

i was just there last week! They put on such a wonderful event, can't wait to go back

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Beth Lisogorsky's avatar

I am so sorry I missed you! Your books are wonderful and romances heartwarming. You are the real deal.

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

🙏🙏🙏

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Marcia Francois's avatar

Big big congratulations! And happy birthday to Kas!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Thank you!

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Maren's avatar

Happy Birthday to Kas! 105 is AMAZING! And congratulations to you on NYT Bestsellers List!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Thank you!

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Debora Zamacona's avatar

Nyah. My momentary joy was worth it!

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Darien Gee's avatar

Congrats, this is such wonderful news!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Thank you!

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Annissa Armstrong's avatar

I am thrilled for you and IT’S A LOVE STORY is my favorite book by you!! Wyatt is still my book boyfriend but IT’S A LOVE STORY has a very special place in my heart as does June 4, 2025!!!! 🥂

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Thank you Annissa!!

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Alycia's avatar

Congratulations, NYT bestseller!! Love, love, loveddd It’s A Love Story and had such a good time see you last Friday at The Ripped Bodice with Becca ❤️

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Thank you! And what a fun night that was

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Ashlee Gadd's avatar

Oh my gosh. Kas ❤️ Congratulations! As a long-time fan, I am elated on your behalf. I hope you make it out to California sometime! We’d love to have a book signing in Sacramento!!!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

Oh thank you! And i am always up for California, i hope that works out next summer

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Julie Gerstenblatt's avatar

My grandma lived to be 100 and a half, and she and I shared books. She would have loved all of yours as much as I do. Congrats again on making the list!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

I remember this about your grandma, amazing! Enjoy those great genes!

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Emma Olive's avatar

Congratulations!!! Love your books so much, and the more people that read IALS, the more people I have to rave about it with. Also happy birthday to Kas - I fully agree that love stories are the secret to longevity!

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Annabel Monaghan's avatar

I hope so - we'll live forever. And thank you!

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