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"Take what you need and carry it with you the rest of the day."

Romanticize Your Life is a guided 365 journal seeking to help readers find tiny sparks of joy in their day to day lives. Through fun illustrations and a very regency-esque narration style, this book encourages you to fall in love with your own life by making small changes to your daily routine.

This is such a fun and creative book! I really enjoyed the stylization of this one, as it's very Bridgerton-esque in its delivery and has lovely Victorian illustrations through the book. My personal favorite is how each day has an intent word, i.e. whimsy or self-care, that describes the daily challenge. The daily challenges/snippets range too, from language lessons, to floriography, to recipes, keeping the reading engaging and interesting. For fun, I flipped to my birthday (May 14th) and really enjoyed the prompt of, "How can you tap into a little more courage and expand your life today?" which would be a great journal prompt or just a question to muse through the day.

It's not calendar locked, and I think it would be a great gift before the new year begins to help a friend or family member make lasting positive changes in their life! My only reasoning behind giving it a rating of 4 stars is that some entries are vastly shorter than others, which might be a positive to some readers or negative to others.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Celebrate for providing me a copy of this book for an honest review.

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When I heard about the book "Romanticize Your Life" I was absolutely intrigued!
As a hopeful romantic I love all kinds of romance! No matter if it's books or movies or my life. (Yeah, as a long time single I'm still waiting for THE ONE but that's another story. LOL)

Sometimes life is really funny with all kinds of strange battles you've to deal with. It's not always that easy to see the good things in it... but other times it's wonderful to live the life you have.
But everyone knows these ups and downs right?!

"Romanticize Your Life" is a really cute book full of advices and tasks and interesting history facts from different themes for the whole year. Every day you can find something new that inspires you, makes you think or just leaves you happy.

This one would be a great gift for a very good friend you want to support.

Thanks a lot to Harper Celebrate for this ARC via NetGalley.
This is my honest review in my own words.

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I definitely came away wanting and finding myself romanticizing my life a little bit more after reading this book. While calling it “romanticizing your life” a lot of the ideas in this book were more focused on self-care activities and I really enjoyed that. Each day of the month is a different task or idea to think about, and I found myself notating some fantastic suggestions to implement immediately. While this book starts in January (a 365 day activity book), I feel like you can pick this up anytime and start on that day and still feel like you have romanticized your life just a bit more by the end of that month. 4.5/5

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I’ve always been intrigued with the phrase “romanticize your life” and wondered what exactly it entailed, and it is truly a brilliant concept. How often do we get caught up in the ho-hum tasks of every day life? Is there a way to turn the mundane into marvelous? Well, yes…actually, there is. This book is set up as a type of daily planner from January 1st to December 31st, and each day you get a snippet of advice or encouragement that ranges from things like organizing your fridge to spreading kindness in various ways. I really love how the author was able to come up with 365 different ways to “romanticize” your life, and I also enjoyed the added quotes from some of my favorite authors. The pastel colored pages and illustrations in the book are vintage and easy on the eyes, especially old eyes like mine, and I would gladly recommend this book to everyone.

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Such a fun little book about embracing the moments and finding the joy in small things and self care at its finest. I just finished it and will read it again for inspiration for my daily life.

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Honestly, this was such a poor copy I wasn’t able to give it a fair review. A cleaner PDF needs to be uploaded.

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Romanticize your life would be an incredible gift for someone that is "go, go, go" and needs to stop and smell the roses sometimes. Almost like a daily devotional, each day gives you a prompt to try something that will better y0ur life in some small way.

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A very fun 365 day activity book that would show you how to take steps to romanticizing your life and finding joy in the little everyday activities! This was a seriously cute book and the activities and prompts were thoughtful and easy to follow. The book really does help you to see how you can romanticize your everyday daily life and it's a simply and fun activity book!

*Thanks Netgalley and Harper Celebrate for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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