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I realized that I can count to ten with numbers in titles from my stacks, so go big or go home. 🏆These are with from my read pile (1, 2,3 = the tagged book, 4, 6, 8 & 10) or my #TBR stacks (5, 7 & 9)

This wasn‘t bad, but I definitely hoped it would be better. The main character clearly has undiagnosed generalized anxiety disorder, and having the book told from her perspective was a bit draining. It flashed back and forth between the past and present, but not as cohesively as it could have. And up until around the 80% mark, it just felt like a humdrum story about dysfunctional families. But the ending picked up and got a bit more interesting.

1️⃣ Last night I was putting DVD‘s away and a shelf collapsed burying me in a movie avalanche. 🤦🏻‍♀️
2️⃣ Tea and a (don‘t judge me) chocolate pop tart. 🙈
3️⃣ Disappointingly, kinda dull. 😕
4️⃣ A back massager that my hubs uses.
5️⃣ 5‘ 4” too tall for the petite section, too short for regular pants to look good. 🤷🏻‍♀️

#HumpDayPost @MinDea

Doing some #AudioCrafting or #AudioPainting today. These planters are going to take me a few days. 🎨

I‘m starting this audiobook this morning. I can‘t resist books set on the New England coast.

I thought this one looked interesting, and it‘s on sale with an Audible deal! Couldn‘t pass it up. 😉
#BookSale #KindleSale #AudibleSale

Ginger is only 13 when a tragedy strikes her excentrenic family vacationing on Martha's Vineyard. The event affected all her siblings in various ways. One sister left the other spends her days engrossed in her family. Ginger has become an intense worrier and it's pushing her daughter Julia away. Told in alternating chapters from present day back to that summer Ginger must come to terms with the past.

My current TBR 📚❤️💯😍

Surprisingly good for a #kindlefirst pick (although I have no idea which month). Not sure if a sequel is planned but i definitely found myself wanting more after the ending.

Ahhh! I hate it when all my library holds come in when I‘m in the middle of a book I‘m enjoying. Here‘s the push to finish in the next couple days so I can dig in to the next two.

Does anyone else struggle with starting a new book after finishing one? I find that I usually have to restart it at least once if I didn‘t get far in enough in because I forget that I‘m reading about new characters, settings, and plots. It doesn‘t help that the last book I read was long and took me a couple weeks to finally get through 😕. (Preschooler has FINALLY discovered legos in the background)

Listened to this on audible and enjoyed it...

I never had a sister, although I always wanted one. I do, however, have a lot of sister related books. #bookswithsisters #booksacrossoceans

I thought this book was good! It was a really interesting story about family relationships and independence. It definitely kept my interest and I really liked the characters. It was a book that just flowed together well between last and present and came together nicely in the end.

I loved these characters, particularly Glory. Great read!

Some among us need more time and space to become ourself. One of the hardest lessons love teaches us is the necessity of letting go. We all deal with life's tragedies in our own way, our essence being formed in those most difficult moments. This book explores family bonds, eccentricities and muddled memories in the aftermath of tragedy. 🌟🌟🌟🌟⭐

Day10 #AprilBookShowers #siblings I realized after I pulled these sibling-centered books from my Goodreads *read* stack that with the exception of The Nest, the rest feature sisters. There are varying degrees of function & dysfunction (& some crazy pants) here, but there are strong sibling/sisterly bonds within the pages. I went mostly with more recent reads, but I just had to include my favorite bookish siblings-the Bennets of P&P (& Eligible.)😀

I got this book for free several months ago and just decided, on a whim, to read it. I really liked it, but I do have a thing for "Beach Books" so I knew I would.

Spent a quiet Friday night finishing this book. It was a slow burner at the start, but I grew to really care about the three sisters (quirks and all). I liked that their relationships with each other and the people around them were realistically messy and complicated. I also loved the twist at the end. An interesting, emotional, and compelling read about how an already extremely dysfunctional family manages to survive a terrible tragedy.

Lunch time reading.

Everyone else is saying January was an awesome reading month for them, and here I am with my measly five books! Mostly bc of 900+ page David Copperfield and also due to taking care of my husband after his surgery. Crappy reading month for me! Grateful that I did squeeze in my one nonfiction for the month. Glad to be done with January and already know that February will be much better. #readjanuary @RealLifeReading

This was my #kindlefirst pick for December. It's a pretty typical dysfunctional family drama, but I was sucked in. It was quite sad at times. The story of a sad family who harbored a big secret. I enjoyed it. It's nice to focus on someone else's drama during these sad winter months. My S book for #LitsyAtoZ @BookishMarginalia

That moment when the two books you are reading simultaneously cross paths. My current audiobook is Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and I'm at the part where Scott is writing The Great Gatsby. ❤

#readjanuary #bookandsnack Lately my favorite snack while reading is dark chocolate. These are the two things that help me through the depressing winter months the most. I really think the dark chocolate helps my mood. I just have one square a day. At least 70%. @RealLifeReading

Everyone loves to read about a family more messed up than their own! This book has plenty of family drama as the chapters alternate between the Tangle family in the 1960s and focusing on the sisters in present day. Family oddities and secrets fill the pages after a tragedy occurs during a summer on Martha's Vineyard.
It's between a pick & a so-so because I would've enjoyed more character development.

"It was odd how often this happened, Ginger and Mimi retaining different slivers of family memory. It was almost as if the recollections had been split down the middle and doled out: you get this, I get that, so no one would be privy to it all."
This is so true! None of my siblings seem to remember events/people the same. Everyone has their own unique memories.

Finally starting December's Amazon Prime book pick 📚

An emotional read that left me with a tangle of happy and sad when it ended.

Plenty of secrets, drama, tragedy, & angst for the Tangle family in this well-told novel, a look at how our families & the experiences that we share with them can shape us in different ways for all of our life. Paired with homemade Tangy Lemon Sorbet for my blog book tour review. (link to full review & recipe??) "Why do you always make lemons out of lemonade?" Mimi to worrywart Ginger. (I say make lemonade sorbet from lemons instead!) ?????

"Far as she could tell, the amount of unhappiness in the house remained unchanged. It was just distributed differently." The Tangle family in this book is aptly named-they are quite a tangled bunch. Finishing it up over a leftover soup lunch, trying to unravel all of the secrets & drama. Still not sure what my food pairing will be for tomorrow's review post. Maybe comfort food for all the angst! ??

My free December Prime Reading pick

I found this book to be a really captivating look at a family shaped by their painful past. Though they were all changed by past events, they all reacted in completely different ways. Even their memories of things that happened when they were young were vastly different,. The day of the original tragedy is remembered vividly and uniquely by each sister. Ultimately this is a story of love, loss, family and healing that I really enjoyed.

I was burned out from writing catch-up reviews yesterday & spent New Years Eve at home nursing a cough, hiding from my neighbor's' backyard NYE party, comforting Max w/every loud firecracker bang, & watching old movies. This is my first book of 2017, started this morning for a Tuesday book tour blog review. Not sure yet what the official book-inspired dish will be but here it's paired w/my breakfast of English muffin w/strawberry jam & tea. 📚🍴

#TuesdayTBR So I'm going to try to finish up The Guineveres to go back to the library tomorrow, I'm reading Sisters, One, Two, Three for review, Seinfeldia is a library e-book I'm 1/2-way through, & finally I'm finishing up the Bakery Shop Mystery Series (foodie cozies) before reading the 5th book-Fudge & Jury-for review. Slightly ambitious for the week but some quick reads in this stack. Sadly Hag Seed goes back to the library unread yet again.🙁

Family secrets...the exploration of the motives for keeping them and the repercussions of having them. As the story unfolds, and the secrets are revealed, I found it quite easy to keep reading. Do I think the reasons were valid? Not really; but I came away with an understanding of why Glory perpetuated a culture of lies in her family. This is definitely a book in which I didn't particularly like the main characters, but I did find them believable.

Amazon Prime allows me to get a free kindle book for December. Any suggestions? Any kindle owners read any of these? thanks ♡

My pick this month for #kindlefirst

Looks interesting!